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<blockquote data-quote="coz" data-source="post: 7722708" data-attributes="member: 6631">Um, if they're limited to 60k people why did they report a unique attendance two years ago of 65k? What about when the NRA had their con in the ICC that had greater than 80k unique attendees? There were definitely more people there this year than last year and they reported 61k unique attendance for 2016. It was literally impossible to cross the ICC from the gaming rooms across from the dealer's hall to get to the smoking area at the front of the building on Saturday, and let's not even talk about the mens room situation - there are often lines in the mens room at GenCon, but nowhere near as bad as they were this year especially on Saturday. I believe they may have capped 4-day badges at 60-70k, but likely sold 5k single day badges each day on top of that. Not to mention, that if there really was a hard cap of only 60k allowed by law you would not have seen basically every publisher looking for GMs in trade for a 4-day badge even as late as early last week.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="coz, post: 7722708, member: 6631"] Um, if they're limited to 60k people why did they report a unique attendance two years ago of 65k? What about when the NRA had their con in the ICC that had greater than 80k unique attendees? There were definitely more people there this year than last year and they reported 61k unique attendance for 2016. It was literally impossible to cross the ICC from the gaming rooms across from the dealer's hall to get to the smoking area at the front of the building on Saturday, and let's not even talk about the mens room situation - there are often lines in the mens room at GenCon, but nowhere near as bad as they were this year especially on Saturday. I believe they may have capped 4-day badges at 60-70k, but likely sold 5k single day badges each day on top of that. Not to mention, that if there really was a hard cap of only 60k allowed by law you would not have seen basically every publisher looking for GMs in trade for a 4-day badge even as late as early last week. [/QUOTE]

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