Last week Vancouver speed dating company, Rendezvous Club (RClub for short, www.rclub.ca) held their 4th Annual 100 Dates in 100 Minutes event at Caprice Nightclub.
This is where Rendezvous Club goes all out and has 100 speed dates in one night. No simple task, I assure you. This was the third event of RClub’s that I’ve been to, the second being their previous Flirt Fest (their next one is around the corner! Want to go? Read til the bottom for details).
All in all, the event was very well organized and went smoothly, without a hitch, which explains why Rendezvous Club is Vancouver’s top speed dating company. Here’s a recap of how the night went for us.
I brought 11 guys to the event. We all met at Blenz at Granville and Nelson to hang out (see men’s group post) and socialize before the event. When we got to Caprice, the venue was already nicely setup and half the speed daters where already there.
Everyone immediately broke off and started chatting to the beautiful people there, of which there were many, and after some opening remarks from The Beat 94.5′s Holly Conway, we started.
The way the event was set up, people were put into one of three age groups (which were 18-27 years, 28-34 years, and 35-40 years old), each of which had 33 couples in them. Each “couple” was given 3 minutes to date, after which the guy would move over to the next girl and another date would begin.
There was a long break in the middle of the event and by the time the event wrapped up, it was already 11:30pm and most people booked it out of there as they had to work the next morning.
Results: What Did We Think?
Most of the guys I know who attended received between zero to 3 matches. Given how women screen men at speed dating, even getting 1 match is still very good:
An except from a University of Chicago paper on Speed Dating writes:
Striking gender differentials in proposal behaviour are observed in the data. As emerged in many previous psychological studies [Trivers 1972], women are much choosier than men. On average, women choose 2.6 men and see 45 percent of their proposals matched, while men propose to 5 women and their proposals are matched in only 20 percent of the cases. About 36 percent of men and 11 percent of women do not get any proposal.
(from Can Anyone Be “The” One? Evidence on Mate Selection from Speed Dating by Belot & Francesconi, October 2006).
(I do have several studies on speed dating, which I’ll write about in a future post probably).
If women are choosier, then what are the keys to success?
I think today, men just have to be their cool, normal, interesting selves. I did hear from Holly that there were a lot of boring guys and a few weird ones. I was amazed that some guys were still trying to uses Pick Up Artist lines/game as well that night (how many times do I have to tell you guys being a PUA doesn’t work? Future blog post for sure.).
I did ask some of the guys what they thought, and here is what one of them had to say:
In the end, how did *I* do? That’s for me to know, haa. But I will share that the only girl I remember that night was Holly (no offense to my other matches, it’s not too terribly a surprise is it?), a fellow Sagittarian who gave me her phone number at the end. We’ve already made plans for the weekend and she wants to play some game she calls ‘mount’ or something; I’m really looking forward to seeing her, I like her a lot.
All in all, bravo and good job to Chris and Rendezvous Club Vancouver Speed Dating.
PS: RClub’s next Flirt Fest is around the corner, on May 28th! Want to attend (I think the group already wants to go)? If so, then email me ASAP or contact them directly via their website at www.rclub.ca.
Best,
Ronald Lee
www.manmeetswoman.com
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