Kumoricon

Convention Events and Programming => Anime, Manga, and Japanese Media and Culture => Topic started by: Ayasima_Vexic on August 18, 2004, 03:13:24 pm

Title: Sakuracon....was it in Oregon? I thought the Kum. was the fi
Post by: Ayasima_Vexic on August 18, 2004, 03:13:24 pm

Sakuracon....was it in Oregon? I thought the Kum. was the first eva con here...in ghetto state usa...

Title: Sakuracon....was it in Oregon? I thought the Kum. was the fi
Post by: TundraFlame on August 18, 2004, 03:52:21 pm

Kumoricon is the first in Oregon. Sakuracon is located in the Tacoma/Seattle area in Washington.

Title: Sakuracon....was it in Oregon? I thought the Kum. was the fi
Post by: omniwarrior on August 18, 2004, 06:09:31 pm

sakuracon http://www.sakuracon.org/ This convention is 5 times the size of Kumoricon.

Title: Sakuracon....was it in Oregon? I thought the Kum. was the fi
Post by: TomtheFanboy on August 21, 2004, 02:44:43 am

Sakuracon is also quite a few years older!
Kumoricon is growing at what seems to be the same rate.

The scheme is that Sakuracon will continue to be the MAJOR con and Kumoricon will be the smaller more personable convention that the Sakuracon people come to to relax.

As much as I think Kumoricon should succeed, I think that it's better that way. It's Portland and Oregon style.

Title: Sakuracon....was it in Oregon? I thought the Kum. was the fi
Post by: princessfrodo on August 21, 2004, 02:28:43 pm

Umm, actually, if Kumori Con grows at the same scale that it is currently, Sakura Con will become the smaller Con.  There is no place in Washington that is better for the Con than where it is now, so it's going to get stuck at the 4000 size. ^.^

There are decent convention centers in Portland that say otherwise for Kumori Con. ^.^

Title: Sakuracon....was it in Oregon? I thought the Kum. was the fi
Post by: SailorNaboo on August 21, 2004, 03:52:11 pm

Quote from: "omniwarrior"

sakuracon http://www.sakuracon.org/ This convention is 5 times the size of Kumoricon.

If you look year by year, we're doing pretty good

Sakura Year 1, 313  people
Sakura year 2, 553  people
Sakura Year 3, 866  people
Sakura Year 4, 1519 people
Sakura Year 5, 2328 people

Kumoricon Year 1, aprox 500 people (in a town of 1/4 million rather than Seattle sized!
Kumoricon Year 2, we will have a prereg total of about 500, and expect the total number of attendees to be between 800 and 1200 people.

I'd say we are very much on track to becoming a second major convention in the area!  Many of us are involved in both and kind of consider ourselves "sister conventions" even though no official agreement exists.