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I just got an email that the date for 2019 has been changed to August 16-18 !!!No more conflict with Wondercon ;DAlso, mid month is waaay better for my group
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Dates confirmed. Same weekend as WonderCon (and C2E2 and Planet Comicon.)
I actually heard a different story for the original move from SF to Anaheim. The version I heard was that there was construction taking place at the Moscone Center around the dates Wondercon usually takes, and there were no other dates available, so Wondercon made a "temporary" move to Anaheim. But then they never came back. And the story I heard about them not coming back was that SF basically didn't want them or didn't consider losing that convention a big deal.But who knows, maybe CCI always wanted out of the Bay Area, and this was a convenient excuse.
Actually, it was a combination of the two.Moscone was under construction, so their dates were limited. They gave first choice of dates to 'priority' events, which were the ones that sold a lot of hotel rooms. WonderCon was mostly locals, and did not sell a lot of hotel rooms. Therefore, they got a late choice and there was nothing left.
“Nothing left” isn’t exactly correct. It came out that they did get an offer according to Glanzer himself — it just (obviously) wasn’t the one they wanted. Again, they’re not required to take anything they don’t want, but my issue had been that they publicly said that they got no offer in order to make people think they had no choice, until they were called out on it — I remember their official wording was something along the lines of “We were flabbergasted when the Moscone Center told us they could not accommodate us.” (Wording may not be exact, but I’m pretty sure “flabbergasted” was in there. :P)