PAX '05 Tops 9,000 In Attendance

Gamespot has word that this year's PAX convention saw more than 9,000 attendees. The runaway success of the Penny Arcade Expo has led them to make plans for an East Coast PAX sometime in 2008. From the article: "In fact, he said that expansion plans are afoot. Not only will the Bellevue convention change locations next year, Penny Arcade plans an East Coast version of PAX in 2008, specific location as yet undecided. 'Actually,' Khoo comments, 'most of our readers are on the East Coast.'"

Story instead of post?

[bradbeattie]

Shouldn't this just be a post in the other PAX article? Doesn't make sense for it to be a story of its own.

Re:Story instead of post?

[oringo]

dupes like these are harder to capture since Zonk could be approving the dupe story when the first story is already in-queue for publication

Re:Story instead of post?

[bradbeattie]

I guess an option would be to remove the dupe after it's detected.

Re:Story instead of post?

[Ratbert42]

I think he's shooting for the ultimate goal: a dupe right after the original.

Misleading summary

[Red Flayer]

I'm getting extremely bothered about the lack of accuracy in Slashdot article summaries.

Go ahead, mod me down. But editors should not just be approving articles they think are interesting or appropriate, they should be (gasp!) editing the summary copy.

FTA: "Khoo told us that this year's convention had 7,000 attendees as of the end of Saturday, and he expected total attendence to hit around 8,500 or 9,000."

From the summary: "Gamespot has word that this year's PAX convention saw more than 9,000 attendees"

One quick check of the article would have revealed the contradiction. It's not such a big deal with this article, but factual misrepresentation is totally irresponsible.

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[beowulfy]

is kind of telling isn't it. Is that some kind of new record?

East Coast seems under-conventioned

[Jtheletter]

I dunno, maybe I'm a bit too much of a shut-in geek and am missing something, but I live next to Cambridge in Boston and time and again I hear about super-con-this and mega-con-that-9! and get interested only to be shut down when I see it's in CA, or WA, or NV or some such. I'm sure that I'll be pelted with responses about how there are tons of cons in the NE, maybe a few of you could even provide some links to good sites that list em?

We have a few awesome ones, to be sure. The Boston Anime con was pretty

Re:East Coast seems under-conventioned

[Momoru]

That's because half the point of conventions is a chance for people to boondoggle and get a mini vacation somewhere. Let's just say a trip to Pittsburgh, Boston, or Richmond is not as much fun as Vegas or San Diego.

Re:East Coast seems under-conventioned

[brilinux]

I am taking a four year vacation to Pittsburgh, and am enjoying it quite a bit. Unfortunately, it costs $45000 a year...

Re:East Coast seems under-conventioned

[ABaumann]

Pshaw! But you guys get concerts! You see twice as many bands in CT, NY, PA then we do here in WA.

Re:East Coast seems under-conventioned

[Nova1313]

true.. Some bands even come back several times a year to different venue's I live by philly and there are lots of concerts. Few conventions. I got to go to the linux expo in new york 2 years ago however. That was fun!

Re:East Coast seems under-conventioned

[Blackwulf]

Everyone whined when E3 was in Atlanta for two years...

The East has Plenty of Conventions

[iridium_ionizer]

Back east there are plenty of conventions to follow. Put your fork here. Be introduced all proper-like. Don't get soup in yer beard.

It's out here in the West where we don't have many of yer all fancy conventions. The only one that I know of is that if yer gonna kill a man, kill 'im yerself. None of that new-fangled "hire your nephew Tony the Weasel to plug him."

Re:The East has Plenty of Conventions

[Jtheletter]

If I could mod in the same thread as I posted then you sir would get a +1 Funny, and a +10 Firefly Rules! For now you'll just have to accept me adding you to my friends list. [clicky]

Now if you'll excuse me I must set down my fork over... hea, and give my nephew a call to ixnay on the illkay.

Re:East Coast seems under-conventioned

[Doctor Tesla]

Perhaps it's a grass is always greener mentality, but the only big cons West Side are this (which is located in far off and remote Seattle), Anime Expo, and San Diego Comic Con. East Coast cons far outnumber the ones we have in both quality and quantity.

Re:East Coast seems under-conventioned

[Jtheletter]

East Coast cons far outnumber the ones we have in both quality and quantity.

I think it's more just a product of my ignorance of the con landscape than a grass-is-greener thing, for me anyway. Although another poster made the very true point that we get way way more bands around here.

Any chance you could elaborate for me on the outnumbering east coast cons that you mentioned? Someone else said Otakon, but other than that I got no suggestions.

Sounds like a plan

[dauthur]

East coast?! Why... I live there!

Count me in.