It sounds more like they wanted to focus on it being one big party and not necessarily a convention. There is a difference between the two, I know we like to call our big party's conventions, but conventions do have a business aspect to them as well.
The things with parties is that they get hard to sustain when they become massive, they are harder to control in the aspects of keeping the mob from becoming a bit more unruly. Or wrecking your car.
One could joke that it's more that there isn't anything ELSE to do in Michigan and that's the reason why the convention was so successful, but on a serious note it was probably the laid back nature of it all. There are many furs who go to conventions and it's just as much a job than it is a party. So typically I would recommend two cons. One for business, one for winging it.
Unless you're some ungodly prude such as myself who has fun while not doing those activities that are expected of a party.
When you start reaching the thousands though it starts to get trickier to run it as just a party con. That's why they were saying they couldn't sustain their original objective with these numbers. That and, as they said, they originally didn't plan to let it go past 5 years anyway.
I know Nik and 2 had some sort of falling out before 2 left for Cali, at least one can now brag that he had part of running a convention that grew successful instead of dying on arrival. You know, just to keep that fox and bird rivalry going (if they hadn't made amends after all these years that is).
It sounds more like they wanted to focus on it being one big party and not necessarily a convention. There is a difference between the two, I know we like to call our big party's conventions, but conventions do have a business aspect to them as well.
The things with parties is that they get hard to sustain when they become massive, they are harder to control in the aspects of keeping the mob from becoming a bit more unruly. Or wrecking your car.
One could joke that it's more that there isn't anything ELSE to do in Michigan and that's the reason why the convention was so successful, but on a serious note it was probably the laid back nature of it all. There are many furs who go to conventions and it's just as much a job than it is a party. So typically I would recommend two cons. One for business, one for winging it.
Unless you're some ungodly prude such as myself who has fun while not doing those activities that are expected of a party.
When you start reaching the thousands though it starts to get trickier to run it as just a party con. That's why they were saying they couldn't sustain their original objective with these numbers. That and, as they said, they originally didn't plan to let it go past 5 years anyway.
I know Nik and 2 had some sort of falling out before 2 left for Cali, at least one can now brag that he had part of running a convention that grew successful instead of dying on arrival. You know, just to keep that fox and bird rivalry going (if they hadn't made amends after all these years that is).