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Re: Virgin Festival 3 at Dusk till Dawn June 28th are you in ?
« Reply #45 on: June 23, 2008, 14:01:36 PM »

Missed out on a seat in the live sat at DTD by 3 places.


Unlucky fella. You should come down anyway, they raffle a seat or two off and the side events are good. Plus the overall craic at these events is great, I didn"t qualify for Newcastle but went along anyway and had a ball.

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Re: Virgin Festival 3 at Dusk till Dawn June 28th are you in ?
« Reply #46 on: June 23, 2008, 14:20:09 PM »


I"m in. Qualified in the 25euro super sat. 54 entries, nine seats and I nabbed one. Well done to Dewi and Brendan too. I think I"ll blog this....was emotional!!


Bugger if my liver wasn"t shot it is now !!!


I"m in also... could someone contact the bar manager at DTD and make sure they get plenty of in??  8)
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Re: Virgin Festival 3 at Dusk till Dawn June 28th are you in ?
« Reply #47 on: June 23, 2008, 15:47:56 PM »
Not made the main event, but virgin are adding 50,000 air miles in to the usual DTD £50 freezeout on the saturday night, plus other side games also.

So, I"ll be there.  Good luck to all APATers who"ve qualified for the main event.

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Re: Virgin Festival 3 at Dusk till Dawn June 28th are you in ?
« Reply #48 on: June 23, 2008, 17:19:10 PM »

Not made the main event, but virgin are adding 50,000 air miles in to the usual DTD £50 freezeout on the saturday night, plus other side games also.

So, I"ll be there.  Good luck to all APATers who"ve qualified for the main event.


Hmmm, I"m having second thoughts about Virgin Airmiles. 50k miles is enough for a return flight to Vegas... that"s good. And so long as you"re flexible in your travel plans you will probably be able to get a free flight sometime close to when you really want to go.

But how about this then... on my return from Vegas in May, I enquired at the check-in about getting a Premium Economy upgrade using airmiles....

Me: "I would like to upgrade to Premium Economy using some of my airmiles."
Check-In dude: "Yes Sir, let me just check which fare you have."
Tap, tap, tap on keyboard...
Check-In dude: "Sorry Sir, you have an "x" class ticket, this is non-upgradeable, you need a "y" or better ticket."
Me: "I just booked online, I put in my dates, it gave me a price, I paid it... no one askes if you want "x" or "y" or whatever."
Check-In dude: "No, you have to request a flexible ticket."
Check-In dudess: (who has also been tapping a keyboard) "We do have one PE seat left, if you would like to pay £289 we can upgrade you."
Me: (looking at Check-In dude) "But, but you just told me my ticket was non-upgradeable??"
Check-In dude: "That"s right Sir, not with airmiles... however, you can pay for an upgrade."
Me: (whilst thinking, "GFY!!") "It"s OK, I"ll sit with the poor people, thankyou for your time... have a nice day now."

Now, on my return home I decide to see how much I can save by booking an upgradeable ticket... here is an example (current prices on VA website) -

14 - 22 Oct 2008
Economy Lowest: £591.60 + 2000 airmiles "x" class (£659 cash only)
Econony Flexible: £1679.60 "y" class (not available as "miles + money")
PE Lowest: £1358.60 "x" class

So if I want to be able to upgrade on the return leg, I need a flexible ("y" class) ticket... which will cost over £1000 more than the cheapest fare plus 10,000 airmiles... or for £300 less you can just book and go bothways PE!!!

Bargain.
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Re: Virgin Festival 3 at Dusk till Dawn June 28th are you in ?
« Reply #49 on: June 23, 2008, 22:38:08 PM »
Just thought i"d round up the fellow APATer"s who are going to the Virgin Poker festival so far, and what a bunch it is:

- Hammerite
- coprey
- Diablo
- BOINGBLITZ
- THE UK SHARK
- Swinebag22
- scouse3465
- GiMac
- jizzaman
- Bainn
- RionRodent

Well if there is anyone esle I have missed out please add your name...

See you guys in Nottingham  APAT FTW!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Virgin Festival 3 at Dusk till Dawn June 28th are you in ?
« Reply #50 on: June 24, 2008, 11:26:55 AM »
You can add

Dewi_cool
Ericstoner

to the list too as they qualified when i did. I reckon there is a load more who are APAT members, they just dont post on this forum

Cant wait for this!
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Re: Virgin Festival 3 at Dusk till Dawn June 28th are you in ?
« Reply #51 on: June 24, 2008, 11:33:11 AM »

Got myself a seat in the last chance saloon tonight. Watch out Nottingham GiMac is coming!!!!  8)


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Re: Virgin Festival 3 at Dusk till Dawn June 28th are you in ?
« Reply #52 on: June 24, 2008, 11:36:39 AM »
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Re: Virgin Festival 3 at Dusk till Dawn June 28th are you in ?
« Reply #53 on: June 24, 2008, 13:27:13 PM »
Will Virgin be providing biscuity treats this weekend ? ? ?
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Re: Virgin Festival 3 at Dusk till Dawn June 28th are you in ?
« Reply #54 on: June 24, 2008, 13:29:38 PM »

Will Virgin be providing biscuity treats this weekend ? ? ?


Anybody want to borrow my baseball bat this weekend ?  :D

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Re: Virgin Festival 3 at Dusk till Dawn June 28th are you in ?
« Reply #55 on: June 24, 2008, 13:30:36 PM »
Am gonna have my first attempt at qualifying tonight.
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Re: Virgin Festival 3 at Dusk till Dawn June 28th are you in ?
« Reply #56 on: June 24, 2008, 13:32:29 PM »


Will Virgin be providing biscuity treats this weekend ? ? ?


Anybody want to borrow my baseball bat this weekend ?  :D


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Re: Virgin Festival 3 at Dusk till Dawn June 28th are you in ?
« Reply #57 on: June 24, 2008, 13:34:47 PM »

Am gonna have my first attempt at qualifying tonight.


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Re: Virgin Festival 3 at Dusk till Dawn June 28th are you in ?
« Reply #58 on: June 24, 2008, 13:35:37 PM »


Will Virgin be providing biscuity treats this weekend ? ? ?


Anybody want to borrow my baseball bat this weekend ?  :D


Sheesh, serious question as to the level of hospitality that Virgin will be providing us.....
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Re: Virgin Festival 3 at Dusk till Dawn June 28th are you in ?
« Reply #59 on: June 24, 2008, 15:26:12 PM »

Indeed, as Kinboshi has said, I won a seat yesterday so see you there next weekend....



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