Con Alert!
Someone on the ORAC message board liked to a Craigslist posting calling for volunteers for an anime convention for Sonicon, a Sonic the Hedgehog/ anime/hedgehog fancier convention.
In guest terms, I see none of the usual suspects that turn up at A-Kon or Animefest. Their voice actors seem to be relatively minor people in the fandom. I don't know how to rate their music guests, but I suspect all the Japanese acts are relatively obscure and this is the first time they have played in the States. So they have no real draw for the standard Otaku crowd.
Second is the hotel, I went there for the first Webcomics Expo and it was tiny. There is no way we could host Fencon at that hotel, and if by some miracle they get something close to 300-400 people they will be packed to the gills.
The issue that dooms them is advertising, it's two months away and it appears nobody has heard of this show. If not one in the 14,000 or so members of A-kon's message board have not heard of your show, then 90% of the local fandom probably will never hear of this event.
Worse yet, a week later is Yulecon. It's the November holiday relaxacon that's been around for a few years, so more likely everyone will be headed out there.
This just looks like a lot of bad planning and pipe dreaming on the organizer's part. The fact that a first year event is even thinking in terms of 1000 people at that show (that's the assumption I'm getting off their main page) is the kind of insane logic that gives us failures like UncommonCon, Fedcon USA and Twicon
So I'm calling this one yellow, with a tinge of orange. I expect the organizers are destined to take a bath on this show.
I might try and make the show, I've never actually witnessed an EpicFailCon in progress.
In guest terms, I see none of the usual suspects that turn up at A-Kon or Animefest. Their voice actors seem to be relatively minor people in the fandom. I don't know how to rate their music guests, but I suspect all the Japanese acts are relatively obscure and this is the first time they have played in the States. So they have no real draw for the standard Otaku crowd.
Second is the hotel, I went there for the first Webcomics Expo and it was tiny. There is no way we could host Fencon at that hotel, and if by some miracle they get something close to 300-400 people they will be packed to the gills.
The issue that dooms them is advertising, it's two months away and it appears nobody has heard of this show. If not one in the 14,000 or so members of A-kon's message board have not heard of your show, then 90% of the local fandom probably will never hear of this event.
Worse yet, a week later is Yulecon. It's the November holiday relaxacon that's been around for a few years, so more likely everyone will be headed out there.
This just looks like a lot of bad planning and pipe dreaming on the organizer's part. The fact that a first year event is even thinking in terms of 1000 people at that show (that's the assumption I'm getting off their main page) is the kind of insane logic that gives us failures like UncommonCon, Fedcon USA and Twicon
So I'm calling this one yellow, with a tinge of orange. I expect the organizers are destined to take a bath on this show.
I might try and make the show, I've never actually witnessed an EpicFailCon in progress.