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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Leohat" data-source="post: 1685212" data-attributes="member: 11542">As far as know, Dancy either started or took control of "Organized Play" which included the RPGA. The RPGA had been bringing a ton of people to Norwescon but also using up Con resources. About 3 years ago or so, there was a big huff and so Dancy and the RPGA started their own con on the weekend before norwestcon so as to draw off members.BUT that is not the main reason that Norwestcon remains just a regional con. That has to do with the Norwestcon internal politics. Among other things it would involve moving the con from SeaTac to downtown which for a number of years was impossible due the manager of the downtown hotel cluster hating anything to do with Sci-Fi/Fanasty. This is the reason that Seattle had to drop their WorldCon bid (which went to San Jose) Yes, Dancy was one the people that got involved with WotC very very early, like around 1993-1994 when Magic was just getting started. I remember them asking for people to invest $1000 in WotC at a Con in Spokane in 1993 (I think).I seem to remember reading that the sellout to Hasborg was a decision by Atkison to make a bundle of cash off Pokemon. There was also a rumor that Atkison or someone high up in WotC was getting a divorce and the private ownership nature of WotC was be counted as an asset and by selling to Hasborg changed it from being an asset.  I remember Dancy and crew giving a impressive demo of a nearly complete e-tools at Gen-Con 2001. Six months later at Norwestcon at the Organized Play Booth, I asked him about it and he went on and on about how great it was gonna be and that it was almost done blah blah blah. I have NO idea why the fark it took so damn long to get such a buggy piece of crap released.</blockquote>

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