How Many Conventions Did You Attend in the Last 12 Months?

[Micah Sweet]

1. Went to Gencon this year for the first time.

 

[Deset Gled]

I figured the graph would be U-shaped...I figured there would be lots of people who don't go to conventions, and lots of vendors who go to several conventions, but not very many people in between.

It seems I was mistaken.

The people who do it for a living may spend less of their free time on message boards talking about it. The ones I do professionally have absolutely nothing to do with gaming.

 

[Parmandur]

I figured the graph would be U-shaped...I figured there would be lots of people who don't go to conventions, and lots of vendors who go to several conventions, but not very many people in between.

It seems I was mistaken.

It does make sense with the knowledge that most gamers don't go to conventions. Might be a more diverse result with a differentiation between "0 (this past 1e months)" and "I've never been to a gaming convention"...

 

[CleverNickName]

It does make sense with the knowledge that most gamers don't go to conventions. Might be a more diverse result with a differentiation between "0 (this past 1e months)" and "I've never been to a gaming convention"...

Well, to be fair, I am asking about all conventions, not just gaming cons.

 

[Parmandur]

The people who do it for a living may spend less of their free time on message boards talking about it. The ones I do professionally have absolutely nothing to do with gaming.

Almost the opposite: based on what I have heard about the demographics of tabletop gamers, these results still skew towards overrepresentijg conventions attendance.

 

[Mad_Jack]

Unfortunately, I haven't been to a con of any sort in the last five years or so...

I used to do the national Rocky Horror Picture Show conventions, and there's probably still pics of me performing at one of the cons floating around on the net somewhere.
I'm massively pissed that I wasn't able to attend the 50th Anniversary convention this year, especially since it was my former home cast in RI that was hosting it. But Life decided to Life all over that idea...

 

[Thomas Shey]

I haven't been to a con in many years now, and its been a very long time since I went to them regularly.

 

[Clint_L]

This is a huge sore spot as my best friend and I were FINALLY all booked for Gen Con, which has been on our list for more than forty years.We had an awesome hotel, Critical Role tickets, the works. And then a certain person decided to make the US a very unwelcoming destination for Canadians, so we decided to cancel and I wound up eating some of the cost. Went to Portugal instead, though, but no conventions. Lovely country, however.

Edit: GenCon aside, I suspect Portugal has the edge over Indianapolis by most tourist metrics, so I should count my blessings.

 

[Morrus]

Two, both for work--Dragonmeet and UK Games Expo. Oh, and Airecon as a punter. Three!

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Two: Adepticon and NOVA.

Edit: Not counting the four I did for my day job, which has nothing to do with gaming.