Tuesday, August 13, 2002

GenCon Report -- 8:00 pm CST, Update by J.t.Qbe

One of the vendors at GenCon, Titan Games, just happens to be here in Battle Creek, Michigan (who'da guessed that something cool would be in this town?). This afternoon I went down to the store and talked to the owner to see how it was, since I couldn't get there this year.

He had an interesting comment on the move to Indianapolis: apparently the reason for GenCon's departure from Milwaukee is Milwaukee's extreme lack of hotel rooms for convention goers. When we lived in the area, we always noticed that during the summer it was impossible to get hotel rooms anywhere within 25 miles of the city. GenCon has never been able to host more than 30,000 attendees; the hope is that Indianapolis will be able to host more than 50K.

He also thought that Milwaukee, apparently aware of GenCon's departure, seemed eager to get all the cash it could from this year's attendees. Twenty bucks a day for parking? Come on, Milwaukee.

So what do you say, A.T.? Should we take a road trip to Indianapolis next summer?

A.T. Hun comments: Dunno. I've had some bad experiences with Indiana lately :)

News for 08/13/2002

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