What does your camp do for interaction?

[Sherome1010]

Hello Friends,

This will be my first burn and I have learned so much from everyone on here. I wanted to go to burning man so bad and believed I could; So I researched my ass off, joined a camp, and yay I got my husband and I both tickets. Glad that’s out of the way, but sadly our camp, Juicy Camp, did not get placed. We are appealing it and being told that we are not interactive enough. Monday through Thursday we gift yoga classes from 10-11 and smoothies with fresh fruit from 11-4. Does anyone have any ideas on how we could be more interactive so hopefully we can get placed? Thanks in advance for your wonderful ideas.

[Ratty]

There's more to it than that. There are too many camps. Not enough open camping space. How many people are in Juicy Camp? How big is the footprint they asked for? If we were doing those events in our camp of 5 people we would get placed. Our footprint is 50 by 50. We request one WAP from placement. It's relative. It's probably too late to 'up your game' by adding more activities.

Correction. Now that I reread your post. We wouldn't get placed with that tiny bit of interaction. Run far from that camp. Get your money back and camp alone.

[zorro sings]

It may also not be a case of interactivity but uniqueness. There are probably 25 camps throughout BRC who are doing some sort of Yoga and half again giving out smoothies or something similar.

[Sherome1010]

We are a camp of 90 people asking for 200 x 200ft. I forgot to add that we have a huge sound system (I’m not into techno so it’s meh to me), but I was thinking about adding a huge coloring project for burners to add to and some board games or poker. Also we thought about upping our hours. Our camp lead says this is our sixth year gifting at the burn under Juicy Camp. I have researched enough to know about the 150 camps that didn’t get placed.

[Ratty]

Thats all nice but i wont do yoga. I wont stand in line for a smoothy and those other ideas are not going to keep me from walking on by. No offense intended. The placement letters said everyone should, 'up their game'. Competion is stiff. Next year will be even harder to get placed. Although, without the dgs tickets a lot of camps will disband.

[zorro sings]

We are a camp of 90 people asking for 200 x 200ft. I forgot to add that we have a huge sound system (I’m not into techno so it’s meh to me), but I was thinking about adding a huge coloring project for burners to add to and some board games or poker. Also we thought about upping our hours. Our camp lead says this is our sixth year gifting at the burn under Juicy Camp. I have researched enough to know about the 150 camps that didn’t get placed.

Let me get this straight. This is your first time in a 90 member camp which has been placed five times previous and YOU are coming up with new ideas and research? Come join us ! We know how rare this sort of initiative is. We just got placed with more depth than we planned for so room for two more.

[LowePro]

It's all relative to how many people and how much space you requested. 90 people and 200 x 200 is very big, so Camp Juicy would need to have a LOT of interactivity to justify that. Yoga and smoothies and sound system was not enough, apparently. For a camp of 10 to 15 people at 50x50 feet, that might be a perfect amount of interactivity.
At year 6, there may be some backstory or previous drama with the camp too, who knows... the placers consider past performance and ability to deliver, etc.
Look at your camp diagram--how much of that 200x200 space is used for interactivity VS your campmates' tents and RVs? At least half should be public interactivity space (that's my unofficial rule, not Placement's). Camp sites are really tight this year--so in your appeal you could reduce your headcount number and space requested while simultaneously upping the interactivity.