booking - el paso chess nerds

so you're interested in booking the c😎😎lest group in town...wonderful choice

we will trade you (the venue) 160 of your dollars in exchange for us hosting a chess event at your location

we bring all the equipment (duh) and host the event (greet attendees, show newbies how our events work, etc etc)
we make a flyer send it to you ~2 weeks prior to the event (unless you prefer to make the flyer so it matches your branding)
we don't do guarantees on turnout, but just to give you a ballpark idea, our events usually average about 20 attendees

the $160 that we charge venues is for:

mainly our time, effort and gas monkey!!

sadly we cannot teleport to your venue or send a hologram to host in our place :( and gas is expensive and i drive a ~26mpg SUV!!! also making those event flyers takes a little while cause i like to make them extra cute to please the almighty social media algorithm

buying new chess equipment when needed

you can only imagine the HELL that the chess equipment goes through with a bunch of BOYS using it in dark bars weekly. ok i'm just being silly but those boards really do see spills sometimes and obviously i really do have to occasionally replace equipment

doing extra things for the chess nerds between events

getting some income from this whole chess thing allows me spend a lil time doing online things to keep the chess nerds engaged between events...mostly in the form of making chess memes and hosting online tournaments. one time i spent a few hundred dollars getting custom punch cards and custom mugs made. the mugs were the prize for finishing the punch card 🥊