Video Game Event Management
Since Jet Set Studio was established, we have connected gamers and corporate visibility within GatheringofGamers.com, while also offering professional video game event management all around the country.
Are you looking for convention, VIP party, or conference booth ideas? Let Jet Set Studio bring you the magnetizing excitement of video game tournaments at your upcoming event. We offer a friendly, experienced, and professional service that gives your organization an exciting element that will drive serious traffic and unique visibility to your organization!
Maybe bringing the Jet Set Studio team to manage your entire event doesn’t fit in your organization’s budget? We also offer video game event consulting. Through efficient communication, design capabilities, and technical insight, Jet Set Studio will use our experience to successfully bring video gaming to your event, no matter where you are or what your budget is.
A free consultation will determine whether it’s best for us to manage your video game event or consult how to have the most success on your own, so contact us! We’ll chat through the details and develop a detailed proposal to outline your event.
Below are just few video game events we’ve professionally managed…
In 2007, we hosted monthly video game events that lead up our first major event in early 2008. The Inaugural Gathering of Gamers IMAX Tournament was hosted at The Science Center of Iowa. This was a huge success and allowed gamers to participate in four different game divisions in a massive IMAX theater!
At Microsoft Tech-Ed 2008, we traveled to Orlando, Florida and worked with Brocade, who was a Platinum Sponsor for the event and is an industry leader in data networking solutions. We planned and managed an exciting video gaming element for Brocade and truly helped maximize their conference booth ideas with great exposure at the big event.
Since 2008, we’ve worked with Children and Families of Iowa, to provide the entire video gaming experience for around 16,000 visitors each year, at their annual convention called Kidsfest. Each year, Jet Set Studio brings a new gaming element such as big screen Guitar Hero, Mario Kart Wii, Super Mario Bros., and Kinect Sports. This work within our community, gives kids and their families a fun place to experience a wide variety of console video games.
Working with Boston’s Pizza Restaurant, we developed tournaments that were hosted on location and gave away some exciting prizes during each event. While we continue to conceptualize more video game tournaments for this very large restaurant chain, the March Madness tournament and Guitar Hero tournaments were great successes.
The most amazing event we helped conceptualize, was an evening in New York City’s Times Square, as Massive Inc. hired us to manage a client networking event that was highlighted by a “battle of the bands” Guitar Hero World Tour tournament. Massive Inc. offers in-game advertising solutions for large game development companies and is a full subsidiary of Microsoft, so it was awesome to work with the best. Big prizes were awarded and this truly was, a night out in the Big Apple.
Research In Motion, better known as BlackBerry, connected with our company for their 7th Annual VIP Reception at IBM Lotusphere 2009. They were looking for an interactive element to separate their event and it was a pleasure working with such an experienced company to offer a fun and entertaining video gaming element at this event in Disney World. This was an example of a case where the client initially wanted a small gaming area to enhance the event, but after working with our team, decided to have the gaming element front and center.
Microsoft has always been an ally, so having the opportunity to help manage a small VIP gathering at Gartner PCC 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland was a treat. With an older demographic, we brought a retro flavored gaming event to the attendees, who enjoyed old school arcade titles such as Pacman, Galaga, and other classic video games throughout the evening.
With so much experience bringing people together with the magnetism of video games, Jet Set Studio established The Iowa Pro Gaming Challenge in 2010. Utilizing our corporate and community connections, we were able to organize numerous sponsors and a video game tournament in less than three months. With the immediate success of this initial event, the second annual even is already announced. With a dedicated website for this regional event, check out www.TIPGC.com for more information,event photos, sponsorship opportunities, and tournament registration.
Jet Set Studio traveled to Michigan for Gamer For Giving 2010. This annual video game event supports the non-profit organization, called Gamers Outreach Foundation. Along with general event management assistance, we brought our high quality gaming equipment to enhance the tournament and are planning to attend this event each year.
Another big regional event called Focus Fire, concluded our video game event management work for 2010. Once again, we brought our gaming equipment to use at this tournament event and not only help manage the event, but connected Focus Fire with a major sponsor and sat in the commentary booth for their live stream.
The 2nd Annual Iowa Pro Gaming Challenge, hosted in Des Moines on 3.19.2011, was amazing. More than 45 teams competed in 4v4 Halo: Reach and 4v4 Call of Duty: Black Ops, for $7,500+ in cash and prizes. 400+ attendees represented more than 15 different states, while the most exciting number was the 134,000+ viewers we saw on the live stream channel! 14 tournament sponsors allowed us to go big, and #TIPGC 2011 set a new standard for our video game event management.
Jet Set Studio was proud to be a part of Combo Breaker 2011. BEN attended this video game tournament in Minnesota to professionally commentate the live stream. This live stream took the Focus Fire channel on Justin.TV from 134,000 (which was the amazing view count from TIPGC 2011) to a staggering 836,000 viewers during this two day event!
This was the second year Jet Set Studio attended the Michigan event to help manage this neat tournament that supports such a great cause. We once again connected with our affiliates, Focus Fire, who brought the noise with more gaming stations and a professional live stream.
Jet Set Studio mixed it up at Central Michigan University for the second year in a row. Leadership Safari 2K11 was yet another great video game event for incoming CMU freshman! With 16+ gaming stations, attendees enjoyed 4v4 Call of Duty: Black Ops, 2v2 Halo: Reach, NCAA Football 12, Super Street Fighter 4, Rockband, Dance Central on Kinect, NBA Jam, and more!
As the 3rd annual event and now largest video game tournament in Iowa, this will be a defining moment for Jet Set Studio. Watch as #TIPGC 2012 sets attendance, prizing, and livestream records this March 17-18, 2012.
We’ve also worked with many other organizations to consult on how video games can enhance marketing objectives, while offering gamers a chance to come together and compete in their favorite video games. It’s great to see people come out to events and develop lasting friendships from our live gaming events, then stay in touch through our video game community at GatheringofGamers.com.
If you’re organization is looking for a conference booth idea and would like to use the magnetism of video games to increase your overall visibility before, during, and after your event…Contact Us today!
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