Techman,
My sense is that this was an informally arranged GT as opposed to a formally arranged party with invitations and a website such as what was done in the past, and if anyone had bothered to read some of the past threads on GTs or the parties, you would figure out some of the well-established historical issues that have precluded attendance:
1. First and foremost, you don't expect attendance to soar at a downtown location on February 3 in the dead of Montreal winter.
2. If anyone wanted a larger contingent of American hobbyists to attend, the GT would have been held on President's Day weekend (which is next week). Not all of us can drop everything we are doing and come to Montreal on a moment's notice.
3. Even when invitations were sent as they were to the past HDLM parties (one of which I minimally helped SL organize), people responded and said they would come and then didn't, thereby lulling the organizer into the false belief that more would attend than actually did. Ask Stripper Lover about this. It's always fashionable to say "yes" when you are anonymous and unaccountable for a "no."
4. The Lurker Factor. Many locals have admitted that they came to past parties and either didn't know where everyone was (generally a bunch of crap unless you are a painfully shy person), or else they admitted being there and lurking on the sidelines. These are the posters who have never been seen or met by anyone, most of whom are likely locals that work in the public eye and wish to keep their identity private, but are nevertheless curious souls. Some others are just shy individuals who don't know anyone.
5. Communication Issues. At the past HDLM parties I went to, the majority of male hobbyists failed to interact with the attending SPs in a manner which encouraged future participation. A few - Special K and Doc Holliday for example - did. Most either kept to themselves, or in some instances, behaved very poorly and made complete asses of themselves.
6. If the attending SPs, whether agencies or indies, don't think they will be getting something out of this, they won't come. To be honest (and blunt), most of the people who have shown up for these GTs are guys who don't spend a whole lot of money on escorts. So what's in it for the SPs who come? Nothing unless they have someone like Martin telling them to go. And said directive will not be issued if he does not think he is getting something out of it (although I suppose he is by virtue of attendant free PR on this Board, even if some of the guys posting about his girls will never actually see them).
I can go on and on with further analysis of these longstanding issues which have all been discussed in prior threads, but I think you get the picture. This is why Celine's dinners worked and these GTs never did. Her dinners were by private invitation and acceptances were firm, and interpersonal communication in the settings in which these dinners were held was a lot easier. And the guys who came were grassroots hobbyists who actually spend a few bucks on escorts. Please note that I would not fault Candy, Orallover, Shijak or anyone else who tried (laudably) to organize past GTs because the above were always issues in the past, and always will be in the future. This is, quite simply, REALITY CHECK 101.
That being said, sorry I could not make it to this one to meet the XXXtase girls and everyone else who showed.
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