<div dir="ltr">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. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 10:56 AM, Strategicon Department Heads <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:deptheads@strategicon.net" target="_blank">deptheads@strategicon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Message From: Eric Aldrich <a href="mailto:ealdrich@mac.com">ealdrich@mac.com</a><br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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I want to thank everyone for a job well done.<br>
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Time to get working on the next one.<br>
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More later.<br>
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Eric<br>
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