[Deptheads] Final attendance numbers

[Strategicon Department Heads]

I'm sure that entered into it -- there was no way this show to drive in, attend the con, and get a room. I'm sure this affected some of our attendees as we traditionally have a lot of people that don't make the decision to attend the con until the last minute. Would not shock me it were at least 50 people.

While we will not have the badge wall for Gamex, we fully expect to sell out the block. The good thing is we do not expect the Hilton and the surrounding hotels to be as impacted as they were at Orccon.

Eric

> On Feb 24, 2018, at 2:29 PM, Strategicon Department Heads <deptheads at strategicon.net> wrote:
> 
> Message From: Jason DuVall  nekojin at gmail.com
> We probably lost another group - perhaps another 50-100 - from their procrastination and inability to get hotel rooms, since the other events made the hotels fill up quickly. I know for a fact that there are some people who will not come if they can't get the hotel room. I've talked to a few of them, over the years. 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 10:56 AM, Strategicon Department Heads <deptheads at strategicon.net> wrote:
> Message From: Eric Aldrich  ealdrich at mac.com
> 2410 -- below our low projection (just barely) and establishing a new low for my projection system. Still the largest show we've run by 80.
> 
> That said, this really isn't a big surprise nor disappointment. We expected to force more people to pre reg this time due to the badge wall. That clearly happened -- if you assume that this moved about 50 people to pre reg that normally wouldn't (just over 5 percent), the numbers are pretty much spot on. Also, the flu hit us pretty hard -- no way to know but it probably cost us over 50 people, including GMs. Our at the door was less than Gamex last year and below Orccon 2016 and 2017 (above 2015 and before) but as noted before, our pre reg numbers were the highest ever by a considerable margin.
> 
> I want to thank everyone for a job well done.
> 
> Time to get working on the next one.
> 
> More later.
> 
> Eric
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