Out of Game Events and Gatherings

To make Fan Fests more exciting I propose that an additional section be added called the Unique Ship Contest. The ship contest would be an extra event that would cost $50.00 to enter. The ship give away would been done through several venues such as raffles, playing 21 with the winner receiving a ship, Smack-A-Dev where CCP Dev's hide in a box and pop their head through holes and then get whacked with a spongy...basically just like Whack-A-Mole .

You would get five chances to win one of the custom ships at each venue. You might not win any and you might will all five.

Other ideas would be to get the fans involved in local activities like Item Quest which would be similar to that show where the hotties, women that is, go to different locations around the world completing tasks to advance to the next round.

Teams would pay to enter the Item Quest and would have to complete a leg of the Quest everyday. Everyday they are awarded items such as ships, gear, ISK, AUR, etc. for completing each task. If a team does not complete a task then they only get a marginal amount of in-game items.

At the end of the quest the 1st and 2nd place teams with the most completed tasks in the least amount of time would compete against each other to see who wins the secret bonus prize.

The Item Quest would cost an additional $100 per entrant where the entrants nor their family or friends would be able to compete in the other venues.

The events would be a good way to enter Elite Status into the EvE - Online environment instead of just going to a Fan Fest and saying

"Hey."

"Hey."