Just one week ago, I got the idea of putting out a special early-evening publication during the four days of G2E 2016, entitled “From the Floor.” I knew (well, I was fairly sure) that I had enough team members to pull it off, but neither they nor I had any real idea what we were taking on.
Looking back over the last four days I could not have been more pleased with the results. We were able to present five-to-seven exclusive and interesting G2E stories per day, plus lots of photos. Over 10,000 good gaming folks (at G2E and beyond) opened and hopefully found our efforts to be worthwhile. Perhaps I shouldn’t admit it, but I enjoyed walking around the floor just to hear the compliments.
While one can think up wild-ass ideas alone, it is impossible to pull them off without a lot of help.
Thanks to my associate publisher Cory Roberts, who kept the entire operation together (including taking some wonderful photographs) despite the more-than-occasional screaming of his boss. This week Global Gaming Business magazine named Cory one of the “Forty under Forty”; that is a small sign of the recognition he deserves for his work at CDC Gaming.
Thanks to the CDC on-site team: Aaron Stanley, Nick Sortal, Mike Heuer, John L. Smith, Mitch Broughton, David Schwartz, Tige Henson, and Bob Dancer – who all jumped aboard and developed an esprit de corp that was unbelievable.
Thanks to editors Ken Adams and John Broughton for their unique but vital contributions from afar.
Thanks to Howard Stutz and Chris Sieroty for their continual moral support.
Thanks to AGA team members Steve Doty, Andy Ortale, Allie Barth and Melanie Rothrich for information, photos, video (almost always asked for at the last minute) and most important moral support. While there are many reasons to laud Geoff Freeman it is the team he has assembled that is first on my list.
And a special thanks, and I mean a real special thanks, to Natalie Mounier and the others at Kirvin Doak Communications for the best Press Relations and Press Room management I have ever dealt with. Superlatives like “always on top of it”, “tremendously helpful”, and “supremely efficient” give some sense of my appreciation.
I cannot wait until G2E 2017!
