what makes Swancon different from Ghengiscon, Waicon and Supernova? (If we don't differentiate ourselves, they'll eat our lunch! We can't compete on size or cost.)
Genghiscon is smaller and targeted at gaming. It's the only one of these cons to do so. Both Swancon and Waicon have Gaming sections, but that's not "in the name of the con".
Waicon is new. It's run by an extremely similar organisation (volunteers). HOW can you not compete on size or cost??? I REALLY don't understand that. 2 years ago they took a MASSIVE risk moving to the convention centre - it could have made the organisation (and a lot more than that) go bankrupt. It worked, but only just covered costs despite a huge increase in people coming (mainly through word-of-mouth advertising). The year after that (ie this year) there was nearly DOUBLE the attendance mainly because of the success of the '07 con in the new venue. The first Waicon about 5 years ago had around 100 people and they now have over 3000 running with almost identical budget constraints that swancon has.
Supanova is a National thing run by a *company* that are PAID to run these kinds of events. They are mainly interested in money - it's why they run the event. It's not "run by fans, for fans" unlike the other two you've mentioned. Yeah, it kinda covers the same area, but not really. It's not REALLY a SF&F con, but more a ...generic TV/Anime/Comics con...
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Genghiscon is smaller and targeted at gaming. It's the only one of these cons to do so. Both Swancon and Waicon have Gaming sections, but that's not "in the name of the con".
Waicon is new. It's run by an extremely similar organisation (volunteers). HOW can you not compete on size or cost??? I REALLY don't understand that. 2 years ago they took a MASSIVE risk moving to the convention centre - it could have made the organisation (and a lot more than that) go bankrupt. It worked, but only just covered costs despite a huge increase in people coming (mainly through word-of-mouth advertising). The year after that (ie this year) there was nearly DOUBLE the attendance mainly because of the success of the '07 con in the new venue.
The first Waicon about 5 years ago had around 100 people and they now have over 3000 running with almost identical budget constraints that swancon has.
Supanova is a National thing run by a *company* that are PAID to run these kinds of events. They are mainly interested in money - it's why they run the event. It's not "run by fans, for fans" unlike the other two you've mentioned.
Yeah, it kinda covers the same area, but not really. It's not REALLY a SF&F con, but more a ...generic TV/Anime/Comics con...