And I'm in no way competing with anyone else. I wasn't competing for leadership at the meetup group but I won't sit back and wait for the leader to get some initiative. You did the same thing. If you procrastinate someone will jump in your spot. We have a myspace account for SCA and a ton of people joined, but only very few came here. When you get a set day/days for the meetings in Greenville, I'll post it on the myspace account. I may have someone on the outskirts of Anderson, about an hour from here, that may be interested in the Greenville meetings. I'll drop him a line tonight. He only cruises myspace.

Come on ppl
Ppl need to stop being shy and making up excuses and just come to the meetups ppl, there's no reason for you guyz to be afraid to come. Its lots of fun and you get to meet some cool and interesting ppl in da process who like anime just as much if not more than you do, cuz i know dat I'LL be at da next meetup for sure, pending work dat is, but even when i get off work, just like da new years eve party, i still went straight to da meetup. so come on ppl, grow some ballz and use em, and dont be scared to have a little fun :D

Video Game Cavern is located on Wade Hampton Boulevard, not Woodruff Road! They also have a website: http://videogamecavern.com/ "Haven Games" was somehow connected with "Let The Games Begin". Both of which were extremely popular back at the height of the Pokemon: TCG craze. Both stores closed overnight. Never have confirmed the reasoning behind it, but heard a rumor that one person owend both places, and that he had taken ill or something to that nature. I never actually went to Haven Games, but Let The Games Begin was a full featured card and RP gaming store that also offered rooms for RP gaming and had a LAN party PC area. The place always appeared to be packed during evenings and weekends. When it closed it it really was quite a shock as no warning was given. The only place I know of that is even remotely similar is a comic book store on Woodruff Road named Borderlands. It's located in the same shopping strip as "Wilson's 5c - $1" and "Earshot". They mostly sell comic books and table top games, but have a fairly large table top gaming area. Their only anime connection I've seen is that they carry a very small selection of manga. I'm like most of the people you've delt with, or rather haven't, lol. I have no metalic paycheck consuming leach of my own, nor the card required to pilot one. And quite frankly, I see no point in ever bothering to own one. Car "ownership" was already an inconsiderable expense for me before this insane gasoline pricing came into play, now it would just be just financial suicide. All that aside, I probably qualify as one of those shy people. One of those people you just happen to see in a GameStop or somewhere and never give a second thought about. Partially invisible, partially would rather not be seen. Prefer shopping during the off time periods on the absolute slowest days for buisness as a means of evading the possibility for encounters with other shoppers. And yes, I'm on a first name basis with the GameStop employees at the stores I frequent, but then, they are practically the only people I ever talk to. Not really anti-social, just an active evader of socialistic activity. My co-workers tend to "socialize" during their lunch breaks, but giving a care about who just got dumped by their girlfriend or the current happening in WoW (World of Warcraft). I find that checking the contents of dumpsters of certain other nearby buisnesses to be a far more enjoyable way to spend my lunch hour than forcing myself to pretend to remotely care that your old girlfiend who dumped you is now seeing someone else or that your albino orc mage just hit level 50 in the game your paying $15 a month to play. Uh-oh, I think I was ranting... seems there was a point I was trying to get at, but I forgot what it was. :?

Does the Greenville group have any meetups coming up in July?

Not that I'm aware of. They are having a few issues right now in securing a meeting place.

we where also having attendance issues, 15-20 people would say they would show up, only 2-4 actually would

You live! ^_^

meetups?
yes, this is my first post and I have been trying to follow along with these different threads here and there about when and where. My wife son and I live all the way down on lake greenwood. straingely where we live is an hour and some change from everywhere cola grnville and spartanburg. Now we do not really know anyone within this group and we kinda stumpled upon it. we would love to attend something. we can even bring food and or drink. we just need a time and place to attend. our best schedule is sat afternoon-evening and sunday days. best contact is yowwahsus@yahoo.com thanks

The Spartanburg group is having a meeting the evening of the 16th.