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EF14 - Will there be overflow?

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Shay (Wolly):
As I see it, EF is Europe's biggest Con and therefore caters to most of the European Furs that do not have the money, time or means to get to Anthrocon or other US cons. That also, almost automatically, means that there will be a lot of people coming over to Ringberg, Suhl.

Since EF13 was a success (don't deny it!^^) it is only logical that people will expect EF14 to be even better. That is psychological and has been seen in so many other areas of humankind.

To that extent, EF will keep growing and I do believe it is not the idea of the Staff to compete with other Cons.. if they would, they would hold the con on the same, or close to it, date. And like Cheetah said, you can use the positive things others cons have done and strengthen the fun and success of your own con. This does not necessarily mean that it is copying for the sake of being better, but ensuring those that attend that they will have tons of fun.

I hope to be able to attend some US Cons in the future, or other European Cons should they appear and see what those are like. EF13 was my first con and my first time suiting and I simply loved the free atmosphere and the kindness of both the attendees and the staff.

ysegrim:

--- Quote from: Shay (Wolly) on 27.09.2007, 12:05:31 ---As I see it, EF is Europe's biggest Con and therefore caters to most of the European Furs that do not have the money, time or means to get to Anthrocon or other US cons.
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Sorry to correct you, but EF also caters to many of the European Furs that do have the money, time and means to get to US cons. It even caters to some of the US Furs with money, time and means :) Cons are not necessarily mutually exclusive, you can go to any combination of EF, AC, FC, MMC, CF, ... provided you have enough money, time and means for each of them (these, on the other hand, seem to be mutually exclusive, *sigh*)

Recherei:

--- Quote from: Shazomei on 27.09.2007, 04:18:26 ---
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The question I'm asking myself is how much like Anthrocon is Eurofurence trying to be? Only you can answer that really. :) The thing is, the more the capacity grows, the higher the costs for attendance (ergo, for the attendees) will be. If the only purpose for Eurofurence is to rival Anthrocon for capacity, Anthrocon would surely win hands down because of corporate culture in American. American corporate culture surely encourages them to have hotels that would supercede the capacity of any that Germany could supply. Therefore, if I didn't think I was going to Eurofurence to also embrace German culture, I wouldn't see the point in going. :)

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That's our Uncle Kage, ambassador for the Great American Corporate Culture!
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SouthPaw:

--- Quote from: Shay (Wolly) on 27.09.2007, 12:05:31 ---As I see it, EF is Europe's biggest Con and therefore caters to most of the European Furs that do not have the money, time or means to get to Anthrocon or other US cons. That also, almost automatically, means that there will be a lot of people coming over to Ringberg, Suhl.
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Another point is that EF is the "local" con for most folks in Europe. Hence why 273 (47%) were from Germany and 104 (18%) from the UK.

As for why the US came third in terms of number of attendees (39, or 7%), it's quite simple...EF kicks more arse than their entire country. ;)

Cheers,

Southie

CodeCat:
Then again, once Confuzzled kicks off you might see more continentals going there too, which would alleviate EF somewhat (provided they don't go to both). I've thought of going to Confuzzled too.

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