In-between the two is Cap Classic Pittsburgh, a youth baseball tournament. They're still booked (or were as of Wednesday) and indeed they still have an event listed in May. A few weeks ago, their Twitter account retweeted someone questioning the wisdom of cancelling events in June. Now they're talking about their cherished memories of the 2019 season.
Anthrocon itself has, of course, not been canceled - but it hasposted an addendum to its refund policy (as of March 25) offering options of donation to the con, deferral to 2021, a full refund, or a refund minus processing fees. If they do cancel, and no option is selected within two weeks of AC's announcement, registration will be automatically deferred. (As a special case, those who deferred from 2019 may also defer to 2021.)
I don't think this has received wide attention yet as it was not tweeted on AC's feed; I'd be curious to know if those already registered got an email. Given this, I suspect a lot of people will eventually be using it.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette notes the comments of VisitPittsburgh's interim president and CEO, who says that, while only one June event has been cancelled in June, they expect more to be in due course.
The event in question appears to be the Nation Retail Federation PROTECT loss-prevention conference - curiously, they scooped the event's own website and Twitter feed - which is roughly a third of Anthrocon's size, and held a week and a half ahead of it.
In-between the two is Cap Classic Pittsburgh, a youth baseball tournament. They're still booked (or were as of Wednesday) and indeed they still have an event listed in May. A few weeks ago, their Twitter account retweeted someone questioning the wisdom of cancelling events in June. Now they're talking about their cherished memories of the 2019 season.
Anthrocon itself has, of course, not been canceled - but it has posted an addendum to its refund policy (as of March 25) offering options of donation to the con, deferral to 2021, a full refund, or a refund minus processing fees. If they do cancel, and no option is selected within two weeks of AC's announcement, registration will be automatically deferred. (As a special case, those who deferred from 2019 may also defer to 2021.)
I don't think this has received wide attention yet as it was not tweeted on AC's feed; I'd be curious to know if those already registered got an email. Given this, I suspect a lot of people will eventually be using it.