April 2025 Event Information
Hello, ACO Community! Katie here with another blog - today’s topic? Our April full weekend event - A Whole New World. Ticket sales and pre-registration are live, so read on to learn more about event logistics, tickets, what to expect, and more! With this event, Alliance LARP Colorado also achieves its 6th logistics period - a major milestone marking our little chapter finally gaining voting rights in the wider Alliance LARP Network. A big thank you to everyone who helped us get here - we can’t wait for another amazing season.
First, let’s talk about dates and times. As a friendly reminder, this event will take place from April 18 to April 20, up at Girl Scouts Camp Sky High Ranch - more on the site later. Tickets are already on sale, and preregistration, with the myriad of benefits it provides, will be available until Midnight, April 11 - one week before the event. That means you’ve still got over two weeks to get that prereg in, but don’t delay! That date will sneak up on you. For this event, staff assisting with setup will be welcome onsite at 3pm, and ALL other players will be welcome at 5pm. We’ll run opening announcements at 9, followed by a target lay on at 9:30. Game will continue from there until 10am Sunday morning, when we will lay off and have closing announcements! We have a hard offsite time of noon at this site, so expect lighter content Sunday as the team packs up NPC camp and ensures we can fully vacate in a timely manner. If you tend to need more time post-game to clear your cabin or tent, please keep this in mind and start packing up early.
Since Sky High Ranch (SHR) is a new site for us, I’m going to do a little bit of a deep dive about it next. SHR is located at 30924 N State Highway 67, Woodland Park, CO, 80863. Anticipate driving times of approximately an hour from central Colorado Springs, and up to two hours from central Denver - if you’re driving in from up north, make sure your car is gassed up before you head out! Our Coordinator, Seth, advises avoiding route 67 through Sedalia - heading south by way of 285 or looping through Colorado Springs proper are both safer drives; particularly at night. Our sources indicate that at least Verizon phones get service on-site, so there should be no issues making emergency calls out on your personal device or that of another player or staff member in a pinch.
With the current count of open cabins on site (some areas are still closed out for the winter), we are expecting to have around 85 bunks available for players to sleep on in heated cabins with electric outlets! With our expected attendance this month, we expect this will be more than enough for everyone to take a bunk with room to spare. We will be staying in the Lucky Circle and Greenwood cabin areas - We will not be assigning cabins in advance, though cabins will be marked as either NPC or PC lodging if they are available to stay in. Please do not store food at your cabins to avoid pests. There should be toilets scattered around the site, but the main modern bathhouse is located close to the main tavern hall. The camp site has ample space for a tavern (which is where you will come to check in), a separate monster camp, and various other spaces scattered throughout the site. RVs are NOT allowed on-property and all roads are dirt, so make sure your car is up to the task. You will be able to park your vehicle near the cabins to unload before moving to the main parking area marked on the map attached to this blog.
Finally, meals! Meal plan tickets including 5 meals over the weekend with vegetarian/kosher(ish - we aren’t in a kosher certified kitchen) options for every meal are available to purchase as an add-on for your event ticket. I will be publishing another promo later this week with all relevant menu information! If you do not wish to participate in the meal plan, please make sure you’re bringing enough proper food for yourself - players are welcome to store food coolers at the tavern. Kitchen access will be limited to our staff tavern team, but players are welcome to use the provided microwave in the dining area or bring their own air fryer or similar. Bringing any ignition devices is dependent on current burn bans in the area, so please do your homework before packing one.
Next up, ticket pricing! We’re happy to announce that we’ve been able to maintain the same weekend event prices from last year - with one small improvement! As a refresher, standard no-casting tickets are $120, a limited number of tickets with a 4 hour casting shift are available for $90, and NPC/Staff tickets are $20. All of these prices will be further discounted by $10 until preregistration closes. Meal plan tickets will cost $30. The last pricing note - and the area where we were able to cut costs - was with our Annual membership! Thanks to a more competitive insurance rate from the presidents, we were able to cut it down from $30 to $10 per year per person! As a reminder, players are required to pay for this membership after they have attended three EVER (not annual) ACO events. This small fee goes entirely towards paying for our site insurance, with any leftovers being used to improve the game. Like all other tickets, sales, or donations, we want to remind you that your money will NEVER go into the board’s pockets. We are fully dedicated to ensuring your contributions to the community go towards one thing - improving the community and the game we love.
The last topic for today’s blog is a reminder about the benefits of preregistration. As a reminder, preregistration gets you a ten dollar discount on your ticket! If that weren’t enough, there are other important reasons to preregister - when the prereg window closes, meal tickets go off sale, logistics will not be able to guarantee filling your GS and DS spend requests, and perhaps more importantly, it creates more last minute work for an already very busy team… so get those registrations in ASAP, and we’ll see you soon!
That’s all for today’s blog! Keep in touch on discord at https://discord.gg/alliancelarpco, and I’ll be back soon with another post all about the event meal card!
See you in the Shattered Realms,
Katie B
