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Attendance at a convention does not mean any Wings event will be well attended if at all. Convention size to me has been irrelevant. I've had 16 players at Council, attendance 300, and 6 players at Cold Wars, attendance 1500. (years ago one Cold Wars game had no one sign up) I've found by continually running Wings at conventions (other than Origins) the following has grown. Origins has an attendance to die for. There are enough regulars to put on every game but then the casual pilots surge in to fill the games for wonderful levels of participation. At Huzzah in Maine I started with 1-2 players and 5 years later draw 6-10 per game.
A couple of thoughts...the work it takes to put on a game does not change if it is a Major or Minor con. Why should running 1 game at a named Major convention out-weigh running 5-6 games at a Minor convention?
The work to make/track/award gongs for events probably eclipse the effort to run some games at events! We need a gong for the gong creators/trackers!
I will run games, gong or not. It is for the love of the game, not the gong that we do this.
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