Chairman of Anime Matsuri congratulating Vic on kamehacon success.
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I'm going to run my theory of what I think happened over KC and the events of the weekend.
So, if they had any sense, KC would've had someone, wearing a KC public atendee badge "drop by" and probably hang out and chat with Rial et al at Doc's Comics and Games and do the rough headcount. We also know Nick has at least one certified KC insider within the con's organisational structure with a direct line.
In comparison, KC could closely monitor and headcount vic's line up on the 4th floor in which he probably got the best gig spot for it.
Monica's event was 75-90 people throughout the day. Or about $4500 before the con takes its cut.
Vic in comparison. Had a line stood at an easy 100 people for a staggering 9hrs 40mins for two days solid.
They had to close this line
at least three times a day due to it becoming a fire hazard for the convention centre.
Rough Kiwi Estimates put the earnings at a staggering $45-50,000 before the con takes its cut.
Now, given a rough cut, Vic probably took home somewhere between $30-40,0000 and earned the con an additional $15k+
by his sheer presence.
I dunno about you, but either the con owner themselves, or the treasurer looked at the con owner and told them to hurl Rial and her boo hoo crew as hard under the bus as humanly possible, and released the
three hours of text messages of them harassing, and otherwise bullying them into trying to get vic kicked from the con itself to BHBH.
In fact, after the stress and misery they were put through I think they'd be furious that Rial and her little boo hoo crew had tried to cost their bottom line anywhere between $15-20k in extra profit for the con.
That even easier slam dunk would be a very
very good reason to delay filing for a couple of days at least.