{"id":197,"date":"2014-08-20T06:02:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T18:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=197"},"modified":"2015-01-24T14:25:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T01:25:56","slug":"and-now-some-news-from-indianapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"And Now, Some News From Indianapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>rather than just blasting out the whole email, which was &#8230; long &#8230; , here are the highlights<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gen Con Attributes Record-Breaking 2014 Numbers to Growing Partnership between Gamers and Indianapolis Community<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>INDIANAPOLIS (August 19, 2014)<br \/>\nGen Con 2014, completed August 14-17 at the Indiana Convention Center, experienced another year of record attendance numbers and unprecedented growth. For the fourth consecutive year, Gen Con grew by more than 10%. This year, reaching more than 14% year-over-year growth with a weekend turnstile attendance of 184,699 and unique attendance of 56,614. This number surpasses 2013\u2019s previous record of 49,530 unique attendees. Since 2009, Gen Con\u2019s annual attendance has more than doubled.<\/p>\n<p>Due to Gen Con\u2019s expansion throughout the Indiana Convention Center, the show also featured record numbers of exhibitors (370+) and events (14,000+).<br \/>\nGen Con 2015 will return to Indianapolis July 30 &#8211; August 2, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><em>56,614 unique attendees.<br \/>\nNo wonder the housing sold out so fast, and led to so much complaint &#038; so many calls for the convention to move, usually to Las Vegas.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s a whole lotta nerds.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>On a less numberical note, my Gen Con attending friends in the USA appear to have enjoyed themselves, and are hopefully emerging from the depths of the post-con doldrums, where, no matter how exciting your work is, you&#8217;d rather be gaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rather than just blasting out the whole email, which was &#8230; long &#8230; , here are the highlights Gen Con Attributes Record-Breaking 2014 Numbers to Growing Partnership between Gamers and Indianapolis Community INDIANAPOLIS (August 19, 2014) Gen Con 2014, completed August 14-17 at the Indiana Convention Center, experienced another year of record attendance numbers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday-2014"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3O6N9-3b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}