A Survey, of sorts

[sraun]

For reasons inspired (very tangentially) by my last post, I have a question about convention huckster/dealer rooms - badged or not badged?

In the last ten years, I've been to one con that consistently badges, and all the other cons I've been to do not. So, I want to accumulate some data. Please give me the following data:

Con Name
Con Type/Description - examples include (but are not limited to!) SF/F, Anime, Gaming, media, fan-run, commercial
Approximate Attendance
Badged or Not Badged

I already have:

Minicon, SF/F, fan-run, ~600, Not Badged
Marscon, SF/F, gaming, media? fan-run, ~800, Not Badged
Convergence, media, SF/F, fan-run, ~2500, Badged

Any other information I have is over three years old, and I want current information.

Comments

[magda-vogelsang.livejournal.com]

I've not been in a few years, but the local SF/Fantasy cons I've been to in SE Michigan (i.e. Conclave, Confusion, Contraption) have been fan run and the dealers rooms have been badged, though how closely they check depends on who's at the door, and I've occasionally gotten in without a badge while wearing a costume (having left the badge on the shirt I'd changed out of).