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Absolutely amazing idea and would love love love to see it happen
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TwitchCon is an amazing event, with so many of us being basically colleagues with no office together, it's a fantastic way to meet. I also feel like the logistics of the event itself always get better and better. The panels were better, the diversity of voices was amazing to see and honestly even the food options at the venue were great.
However, Vegas was not so great. I had a panic attack while at the partner party due to the amount of people and overwhelm (the party itself was lovely, food drinks all great!) But I stepped outside and was just overwhelmed more.
Then it took me over 1.5 hours to get home from the venue due to canceled Ubers (not by me), traffic and just general wait times.
On Saturday I missed not 1 but 2 parties because I knew I couldn't get to the offsite event and then back to the Con in time for a panel and then after my panel I couldn't make it to the venue in time before the party was over.
I am a frequent con goer, and frequent panelist. I am usually really good about timing these things, leaving 1+ hours of buffer in between events to account for traffic, etc. Even so, I had to cancel offsite plans on Sunday because I knew I wouldn't be able to make them. But the only food outside of the con in a walkable distance was hotel dining.
Safety was a big issue around the city and hotels as well. My hotel was less than a mile away but I couldn't walk to the venue alone due to being cat called/my friend being cat called when she tried to walk by herself. Security from the convention center East Hall, came to my rescue but what if he didn't? And that was at 10 AM in the morning.
Safetly, costs and logistics make it really hard to want to go back to TC if it's in Vegas. Which is a shame because it was great having a venue as large and spread out as it was and a lot of the other logistics inside the con were lovely.