Re: Origins Game Con

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Allan Goodall stated:

> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:03:00 -0700, Sean Bayan Schoonmaker
> <s_schoon@pacbell.net> wrote:
> 
[Origins and GenCon stuff]
> 
> That having been said, I thought GenCon was the largest game con in
the world
> with 25,000 attendees last year. (That number is odd: I was there for
4 days
> so I was 4 people. If you think this is dishonest, ALL multi-day
events do it
> this way, including things like the Toronto Molson Indy and the
Olympics.)
> Spiel -- the huge board game convention in Germany -- however, had
well over
> 100,000 attendees. 

Hmmm, is *that* how they do it! Well, I think that as one of the
organizers of GZG-ECC, I can say we don't inflate our numbers so!
How many people (seperate individuals) who showed up over the course
of the weekend is how many we had total.  :-)  I'm sure GZG-WCC does
the same. I certainly never considered it any other way (so gullible
me, I believed that the 25,000 or so at GenCon were all individuals,
not multiple counts of attendees)

Mk

(and as far as Andy's dance at the Safehouse being on the web