Largest anime conventions of 2006
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Largest anime conventions of 2006
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Mr. SmartyPants wrote:I would assume the two largest are Anime-Expo and Otakon.
It was.
1. Anime Expo: 40,647 total, 32,930 paid
2. Otakon: estimated 32,902 total, 22,302 paid
3. A-Kon: 12,500 estimated paid
4. Anime North: 12,500 estimated total, 11,286 paid
5. Anime Central: 11,500 estimated total
6. FanimeCon: estimated 10,000 paid
7. Anime Weekend Atlanta: 8,949 paid
8. Anime Boston: 9,354 total, estimated 8,854 paid
9. Sakura-Con: 8,300 estimated total, 7,500 estimated paid
10. Katsucon: 6,400 estimated total, 5,664 paid
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mitsuki lover wrote:SO other than the ones in Atlanta and Boston where were the others held?
Anime Expo has been held in Anaheim, CA, but they are moving it to Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, CA for 2007
Otakon is held in Baltimore, MD
A-Kon is held in Dallas, TX
Anime North is held in Toronto, ON
Anime Central is held in Rosemont, IL
FanimeCon is held in San Jose, CA
Sakura-Con is held in Seattle, WA
Katsucon is held in Washington, DC
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Roy Mustang - Posts: 6022
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I went to #8. I was getting pretty claustrophobic with all of the people there, but that's nothing on the other cons! Too bad I didn't actually get to stay the whole time, though perhaps it's for the better. Anime cons have their high points, but also many low points just begging to lead people into sin.
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"Zeal without knowledge can lead to chaos." - Bob Rohm
"Why don't we love his truth as much as we seem to love his love?"- Cross Movement, in their song "Check us Out"
"Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig." Aleksander Solzhenitzen (so call me on it)
"Zeal without knowledge can lead to chaos." - Bob Rohm
"Why don't we love his truth as much as we seem to love his love?"- Cross Movement, in their song "Check us Out"
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Wingzero22 wrote:It was.
1. Anime Expo: 40,647 total, 32,930 paid
2. Otakon: estimated 32,902 total, 22,302 paid
3. A-Kon: 12,500 estimated paid
4. Anime North: 12,500 estimated total, 11,286 paid
5. Anime Central: 11,500 estimated total
6. FanimeCon: estimated 10,000 paid
7. Anime Weekend Atlanta: 8,949 paid
8. Anime Boston: 9,354 total, estimated 8,854 paid
9. Sakura-Con: 8,300 estimated total, 7,500 estimated paid
10. Katsucon: 6,400 estimated total, 5,664 paid
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Just curious, I know they got the paid numbers. That's obvious. But how did they tally the total? Does that include the staff? Or people sneaking in?
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Mr. SmartyPants - Posts: 12541
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Mr. SmartyPants wrote:Just curious, I know they got the paid numbers. That's obvious. But how did they tally the total? Does that include the staff? Or people sneaking in?
i was thinking the same thing. probably included the staff...
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"Sometimes we don't present the Gospel well enough for the non-elect to reject it."
- John MacArthur
"In the total expanse of the human life, there is not a single square inch of which Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine'."
- Abraham Kuyper
"God the great Creator of all things doth uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things, from the greatest even to the least, by His most wise and holy providence, according to His infallible foreknowledge and the free and immutable counsel of His own will, to the praise of the glory of His wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy."
- Westminister Confession of Faith (Chapter 5, Section 1)
"The wisdom of God has found a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God all the while upholding the righteousness of God!!"
- John Piper
"Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God!"
-John Piper
"The very One from Whom we need to be saved, is the One Who has saved us."
- R.C. Sproul
"All of Christian life is ceaseless worship of God the Father, through the mediatorship of God the Son, by the indwelling power of God the Spirit, doing what God commands in Scripture, not doing what God forbids in Scripture, in culturally contextualized ways, for the furtherance of the Gospel, when both gathered for adoration, and scattered for action, in joyous response to God's glorious grace."
- Mark Driscoll
"Believers do not pray with the view of informing God about things unknown to Him, or of exciting Him to do His duty, or of urging Him as though He were reluctant. On the contrary, they pray in order that they may arouse themselves to seek Him, that they may exercise their faith in meditating on His promises, that they may relieve themselves from their anxieties by pouring them into His bosom; in a word, that they may declare that from Him alone they hope and expect, both for themselves and for others, all good things."
- Martin Luther
"I have to tell you first that I am ready to die. I have put my affairs in order. Your supreme weapon is killing. My supreme weapon is dying, because when you kill me, people all over Romania will read my books and believe on the God that I preach - even more than they do now."
- Dr. Joseph Ton, the exiled Romanian pastor (quoted by James Montgomery Boice)
"The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin in it to condemn the whole world."
- John Bunyan
"If the Christian has lost sight of Calvary, that shows that he has lost his way."
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jon_jinn - Posts: 3261
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I know that for anime expo there are numerous ways to get in without paying to attend. These include, but are not limited to:
Industry invite: If you work in the anime, manga, or gaming industry it is possible to get a special "Industry" pass. It's free.
Staff: All staffers, be they volunteers or otherwise, get free passes.
Vendors: Vendors pay for booth space. They are given special "Vendor" passes.
I would venture to guess that the "Paid" only includes guests who obtained their passes the old fashioned way. With everyone else simply being considered part of the total.
*Shrugs* It is just a guess though. It's hard to imagine Staff alone being just under 8,000.
Industry invite: If you work in the anime, manga, or gaming industry it is possible to get a special "Industry" pass. It's free.
Staff: All staffers, be they volunteers or otherwise, get free passes.
Vendors: Vendors pay for booth space. They are given special "Vendor" passes.
I would venture to guess that the "Paid" only includes guests who obtained their passes the old fashioned way. With everyone else simply being considered part of the total.
*Shrugs* It is just a guess though. It's hard to imagine Staff alone being just under 8,000.
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Mr. SmartyPants wrote:Just curious, I know they got the paid numbers. That's obvious. But how did they tally the total? Does that include the staff? Or people sneaking in?
I was thinking that too and I was about to ask that question at AWA message board, but someone beat me to it.
The ones that say paid is really the total number of how many people and paid for passes to get in and the ones that bought passes by pre-register.
The other ones added the number of people paid to get in and then they added the staff, dealers, guests and the complimentary passes.
One of the Directors of AWA posted their total number people that came to the con in Dec and they said this,
8,949 people attended AWA this year. That is our official count, and may be quoted.
Our counting method is one count per paid person. Two and Three-day membership people count as 1 person, in other words.
We don't count staffers, dealers, convention guests, comp (free) passes, hotel staffers and vendors, or those of you who sneaked in without paying.
So, some conventions were counting everyone.
So, they count number of people that came, staffers, vandors, security, pizza delivery guy, the people that were standing outside in the parking lot that did nothing, the guy that was standing in the hall that was picking his nose and didn't know there was a con going on.
So, some cons used fuzzy math.
Wing hates fuzzy math! Its hard to get the hair out of pencil, when trying to do homework with fuzzy math.
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