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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 5149731" data-attributes="member: 20741">I gather you never experienced the joy of registration for Gencon in the early to mid 90s  - let alone the 80s?GenCon remains an exceptional value and the Best Four  Days in Gaming. I'm not even sure that supposed trademark is even capable of registration as a trademark - because it really is MERELY descriptive of the event. It really is the best four days in gaming.Peter Adkinson would have to do engage in  exceptional Asshattery in order to persuade me to boycott Gencon. Even then, I'm not sure I might find it convenient to overlook such a transgression out of pure self-interest.I appreciate that your experience was frustrating. I find hotel registration to be FAR more frustrating, personally - but  - fair enough. Frustration in one part; frustration in another - doesn't reaslly matter, does it? It all adds up to stress and unhappiness concerning an event which is all about lack of stress, happiness, entertainment and tremendous excitement at the annual crown jewel of our hobby.For all that, later this year when it's Thursday, August 5, 2010 at about 9:53 a.m. and the Convention centre is packed with expectant gamers and the doors on the main Exhibit Hall to the Dealer Room about to open a few minutes from then - remember that buzz of excitement, expectation and boyish thrill you are almost certain to feel at that moment in time. Freeze frame that emotion - if you can. Then, upon reflection, with a boyish smile on your face, admit that you might have over-reacted just a little on your clarion call that we all boycott and forego that same moment in time, okay?  They do the best that they can and overall - their system does work. Perhpas not as well as we might all prefer - but it works, just the same.</blockquote>

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