Otakon 2011 – page 15
Don’t get me wrong, we appreciate people actually coming to see this thing (and a LOT of people did, we filled out a LOT of the main panel room) but seriously: IT WAS 9 AM SUNDAY MORNING! Don’t even pretend you guys got sleep the night before, we know you didn’t. IT’S NOT WORTH IT!
(By the way, Kurt’s doing this panel again at Dragoncon. I can’t afford to go, but any of you reading this who can should totally check it out!)
(Historical Notes: The scheduling of Awesomely Bad that year was all kinds of weird. I think they knew it drew too much of a crowd to be in one of the little panel rooms, but “real” guests obviously got first dibs on the larger rooms for their events. Thus, we somehow wound up in the BIGGEST room, way bigger than we actually needed, at the one time nobody else wanted. I think stuff like this is one of the reasons why Awesomely Bad wound up getting claimed by the AMV Theater as one of its feature events, which wound up stabilizing a lot of things for everybody.)
I was honestly amazed we filled up as much of that room as we did that morning. The AMV Theater wouldn’t come for a few more years, but I’ve been happy with it ever since.