Kollision Con: uh oh
Jan. 28th, 2011 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_archfiendCan't any anime con in Chicago not called Anime Central get an even break?
From the web site's front - and apparently only - page:
Since closing ceremonies of the first ever Kollision Con, we have been searching high and low for a new location.
At this moment Kollision has it's sights set, and is in talks with perspective venues!
When we have news to announce, it will go up right here first!
Uh huh. Sure it will.
There have been several attempts to start up - and maintain - an Chicago-based anime convention competing with Acen in the past. Reactor (2003-7. 2009) ultimately fell apart because of reasons that I can't publicly go into here. Anime Sound and Vision was a one-shot (other than a smaller event they held in March 2005) that apparently wasn't intended as such. The same goes for KazeCon, which tried to relocate to Milwaukee (now home of - what else? Anime Milwaukee) and failed. Fan Service never got off the ground in the first place.
Now, the wisdom of scheduling a convention on the same weekend as local SF stalwart Windycon (and held at the Hyatt Regency Woodfield - Windy's old location for over 15 years, for crying out loud) last year seems more than a bit questionable (in both timing and locale) to me. Still, I don't understand why Acen - a convention practically bursting at the seams with attendees and which has the highest hotel rates for any annual fan-run convention in the Chicago area - is still paramount when they've had so many problems in the past. The DDoS attack that effectively destroyed its on-site registration process (and caused thousands of people, including me, to stand in line for over 6 hours) a few years ago was an prime indicator of this, but Acen still thrives - and increases in size every year - while its competition just turns into dust. Go figure.
From the web site's front - and apparently only - page:
Since closing ceremonies of the first ever Kollision Con, we have been searching high and low for a new location.
At this moment Kollision has it's sights set, and is in talks with perspective venues!
When we have news to announce, it will go up right here first!
Uh huh. Sure it will.
There have been several attempts to start up - and maintain - an Chicago-based anime convention competing with Acen in the past. Reactor (2003-7. 2009) ultimately fell apart because of reasons that I can't publicly go into here. Anime Sound and Vision was a one-shot (other than a smaller event they held in March 2005) that apparently wasn't intended as such. The same goes for KazeCon, which tried to relocate to Milwaukee (now home of - what else? Anime Milwaukee) and failed. Fan Service never got off the ground in the first place.
Now, the wisdom of scheduling a convention on the same weekend as local SF stalwart Windycon (and held at the Hyatt Regency Woodfield - Windy's old location for over 15 years, for crying out loud) last year seems more than a bit questionable (in both timing and locale) to me. Still, I don't understand why Acen - a convention practically bursting at the seams with attendees and which has the highest hotel rates for any annual fan-run convention in the Chicago area - is still paramount when they've had so many problems in the past. The DDoS attack that effectively destroyed its on-site registration process (and caused thousands of people, including me, to stand in line for over 6 hours) a few years ago was an prime indicator of this, but Acen still thrives - and increases in size every year - while its competition just turns into dust. Go figure.
