The parties at Affiliate Convention Denver 2009 were pretty outrageous.

The Parties:

Platinum 84; June 17, 9pm: I was about an hour late to the party.  The location was inconvenient but there were free buses running a loop from the Hyatt convention hotel to Platinum 84. Being late already, I took a cab.

I heard several first hand accounts that Marcia Brazil the highly publicized celebrity hostess immediately got drunk, was on stage naked making out with 2 strippers(even though she wasn’t paid to strip). She according to one unconfirmed report did something with the beer pong balls that was more likely to be seen in Bangkok.  She definitely dove across a beer pong table smashing full beer cups and making a huge mess. She was grabbing guys and kissing them full on the lips, poured beer over some guys head, and violated someone’s religion (don’t ask). In less than an hour, she got kicked out of her own party at a strip club. It had to be pretty bad.

I thought it’d be no big deal to be a fashionable 1 hour late to this thing, but regret that I missed out on the opportunity to get some pics of this craziness for you guys.

After I got to the party, it was packed full of mostly professionally behaved people with an open bar and full buffet of food and booze that never ran out.  There were incredible looking topless women everywhere. They called it a strip club, but they just stayed topless. None of them ever ’stripped’. Although I was much too interested in networking and meeting people in the industry to leer at the girls.

The Platinum 84 party was about as wonderfully tacky and sexist as you can imagine. If you like that sort of thing, then you certainly missed out on something.

The Alto; June 18 5:30pm: Heather Paulson of the Paulson Group threw a classy little gathering here where it was pretty upscale. It was early so everyone was sober and well behaved. I made a few connections and then received an invitation to dinner so ducked out at about 7pm or so. I don’t know how late this gathering lasted.

The Lure Lounge; June 18 9:30pm: Not a strip club right? Well, maybe you should decide. I was late due to my dinner with 3 network owners and the 202 guys.

I assured my wife this one was networking only. No naked girls. But to my surprise they had about 6-8 painted ladies running around with trays of shot glasses. Drinks were free for a short while, then you had to buy your drinks unless you knew someone who gave you a vip bracelet. I was up there pouring vodka straight into people’s mouths. I took a video of some local rapping duo that performed for about 30 minutes up there.  This party was packed full and pretty fun I have to admit. For you pervs there are a few more pics of the painted ladies in my photo gallery.

Unknown location: about midnight June 18

I was hanging out with some pretty awesome people. But in their interest I won’t name them here. We headed from the Lure Lounge on foot to some other club and one network owner smooth talked us all into the vip upstairs area with free redbull, drinks, and girls dancing on a platform. That place about finished me off and I stumbled into a cab about 1:30. I’m sorry, but for some reason I don’t remember the name of the place. There were maybe 10-20 conventioners that made their way over here. Bonus points in the comment section if you can name the place.

June 19, 5:30 pm, I can’t remember the name of this place either even though I didn’t drink anything on Friday. Really…. I gave my drink tickets away.

We went straight from the convention hall to this place. It had a large bar area upstairs and a couple tickets for free drinks. Some wings were laid out. A decent sized crowd showed up here. I stepped downstairs with a couple affiliates to have dinner. People were still their socializing until 11:30 when I left. I was homesick for my wife and kids. I’m sure I could have partied until 2 in the morning again. I drove home that night (about 220 miles) and got home at about 3am.

Parties I missed:

There were parties in hotel rooms every night until very unreasonable hours.

I know some folks went to the Diamond Cabaret strip club on both the 18th and 19th

On the 19th, there were people gathered at the top of the Hyatt having drinks.

Probably a lot more I don’t know about. I imagine there were several simultaneous gatherings at diverse locations every night.

Here’s a quick video walkthrough of the party at kind of a quiet moment: