Well I enjoyed the two MFM’s and the MFF I’ve been to. It’s just a matter of dragging myself out there, and perhaps bringing a few friends from Purdue with me. We’ll see what happens. ^^

Does LAFF frequently have carpools out there? I think they didn’t but I don’t remember if it was a tradition or not.

my scarsam is hard to interpret on text. The comment was ment as a personal opinion of that perticular convention. I went back in the day and had fun but for me the cost is high and the crowedness tends to not be my favorite. It was not bashing the staff there or the people who go, I understand how hard it is to keep a con going afterall I have helped out a with MFF every year as far is filling in where gophers are gone or not enough.

I tend to vote with that slip of paper they give you at the voting station…they won’t take my feet.

I also want to laugh a bit at the fallout from the less thoughtful furs who are going to complain about the situation with the rooms.

Well, number one, it’s bad form to disparage a convention that I happen to enjoy and dedicate almost as many hours to help make happen as I do to for Midwest FurFest in my own journal.

That being said, I think that yes, Anthrocon is quite large. I don’t particularly see this as a bad thing; it’s a different experience. Some people enjoy that experience, others don’t, and that’s fine. For my part, I don’t want to go to Convention A, Convention B, and Convention C and expect my experiences to be identical at each convention. Likewise, if I enjoy A and C but not B, then that’s fine – I vote with my feet.

I also realize, however, that conventions are run by volunteers, people who spend an extraordinary number of hours to make sure that things run as well as possible. Even if I’m not going to go to a convention and even if I have no interest in ever attending a convention, I think it is important to respect the work and time that others have put into it and not speak ill of it.

Well, I highly recommend Anthrocon, but then I’m on staff there so I’m biased 🙂 It is a heck of a party, though!

You saw the problem and the proposed solutions. I think this was the most equitable solution possible that didn’t wind up penalizing the majority of the Anthrocon membership.

Would that it was how wonderful our attendees are 🙂 More likely it’s the fact that we’re approximately half the size of Anthrocon. As they say, Mo’ money, mo’ problems!

A few years ago, I seem to recall that we had something like 30 rooms canceled at the last minute. I imagine that goes up with attendance, and this year we have more of the hotel booked (and we pretty much have filled the Amerisuites), so I imagine it will be a larger problem. Now 30 rooms are pretty easy for a hotel to fill at the last minute with transients (i.e. non-con attendees), but 75 rooms, or maybe 100 rooms? That starts eating into the bottom line.

You just have more dedicated con-goers, I guess, or maybe a more mature demographic? I can’t judge, since we haven’t been to AC since 2000.