OK, so we did it, we re-opened our Monday nights at the Lounge tonight.
At the beginning of the night, I was terrified, because I wondered if we'd have any newbies. We had phoned tons of people we had numbers for, many of them unreliable, but we figured if we let a dozen or so boys know we were re-opening, we'd get at least a couple.
And 9 pm arrived, and no newbies. And 10pm, and still no newbies.
There was no shortage of our regular nude boys, they always liked to work on Mondays. Marcos, Latte, Rubin, and Mo all showed up.
And there was no shortage of customers, a healthy average group of guys wandered in.
But no newbies....
Mandy, never one to let people leave without entertainment, got our four regular guys to try out the new format that we are doing for the newbie nights. We decided that the guys would split the cash prize, and entertain the audience without doing a "competition" per se.
The format is interesting - what we do is this: We have set up one of the VIP areas with lights, a DVD player, a TV, a few DVD's of all sexual persuasions, some magazines, and placed a video camera on a tripod. Before the newbie starts the contest, he is left alone in the VIP booth for a few songs to "prepare" himself. Of course, the video camera is left running, so we can show our guests the "fluff" footage later.
When the newbie is announced, instead of going to the stage and "dancing", he goes to one of the boxes, right in the audience, fully hard, and fully naked, for one song.
Then he moves to the second box, and then the third box.
While he is on the boxes, the second contestant is fluffing himself in the VIP area, also on video.
Etc....
After all contestants have done the boxes, they are all called to the stage, again, fully nude, and this time they can dance if they want, they can sit and play with their cocks if they want, whatever, but it is the finale. Then the audience will decide the winner.
I think the format worked out fine with our regular guys, but still, there were no newbies, so I had to ponder things, and get realistic.
What I realized is this: I think we cannot possibly promise an amateur contest every Monday. The pressure is too unrealistic, sometimes we will not have amateurs. Sometimes we will have 1 amateur and a couple regular guys. Sometimes we will have a great contest.
But we will remain open on Mondays. Without the pressure of having a contest.
We realize that a lot of you enjoy the contest. Fuck, trust me, WE enjoy the contest more than you can imagine. And we will not give up our advertising and attempting to recruit for the contest. But know in advance, we are not always going to have a contest.
What we are providing on Monday is a cheaper night ($5 cover) with door prizes (DVD's and free VIP dances) and I'm sure we'll build our Monday clientele and I'm sure we'll always have at least 3 "nude boys" to entertain you in Mississauga.
The boys will have 2 days to work, which might help us get more boys, and as I said, when possible, we will have a contest.
Thanks to everyone who showed up tonight to support, and we'll see you this weekend or another time soon!
I will post a couple pix in the next couple posts.