Update on Westercon

[lingster1]

Phoenix was hot! (Well, duh.) The Mission Palms Hotel in Tempe (site of a recent Nebula Conference) has a very lovely pool, and that helped even though the mercury was already soaring by 7 am. I didn't step off the hotel grounds between arrival Thursday morning and departure Sunday afternoon

Comments

[kevin_standlee]

The convention newsletter reported an attendance of more than 650, which is pretty consistent with Westercons of the past decade and I think larger than the previous Phoenix Westercon. We'll see if the next two Westercons, which will be returning to the convention's historical LA-Bay Area homeland, will be any larger.

[lingster1]

Hmm. It certainly didn't seem like 650 people. I wonder if they were counting no-shows? (My own daughter was one of those.) Even so, I remember the good old days of Westercons, when there were a thousand or more attending.

[kevin_standlee]

The words in the newsletter were "bodies on site." I do not know their counting methodology nor how they counted everything. I am merely retyping the words printed in the convention newsletter.

[lingster1]

My comments weren't mean't personally, Kevin. Please don't take them so. They were just observations.