Dave Gorman vs The Rest Of The World
Hello. You're probably here because you followed a link in my book Dave Gorman vs The Rest of the World. If not, you can find out more about it in the projects section of the website.
When I first asked people on twitter if they wanted to play a game I got way more tweets than I could count let alone read. If 300 people tweet you in quick succession it doesn't take long before most of them are shoved off the front page and it becomes pretty difficult to track who's said what and what you've already replied to and so on.
I think a couple of thousand people suggested games to me all in all... and I managed to meet up with 70 to 80 of them, and around 30 are mentioned in the book. I obviously couldn't meet up with 2000 of them.
When the book was published I put a page here explaining that the more specific your invitation was - ie - something with a time/place/details - then the more likely I was to reply. I'd already received hundreds of emails saying, "I'd like to play such-and-such-a-game with you some time, if you ever fancy it" which are all lovely... but also, all equivalent to one another. How do you possibly pick one email out of 500 when they all essentially say the same thing. I'd love to say yes to each and every one - or to be more accurate and less schmaltzy - there wasn't one that I wanted to say no to.
But time has moved on and since the book was published I've received over 3000 email invitations to play. And I've been able to accept about 15 of them. The free time that crops up on tour isn't exactly predictable so it makes making appointments nigh on impossible.
So rather than encouraging more people to email - with so little a chance of it leading to something - I think it's probably sensible to pull up the drawbridge a little.
Thanks to everyone that emailed with a suggestion or an invitation. There were just too many of you - with effectively equivalent offers - to be easily read and filtered. But they were all hugely appreciated.
Cheers,
Dave
