The answer: at bare minimum, 20,000-50,000. Ideally, twice that. Compared to the media cons, Worldcon is a rounding error. 101,000 people attended the Denver ComiCon this year. (Denver is the nation's 21st largest city.) That's an order of magnitude more people than attend Worldcon at its very best. This has to change, or "Worldcon" means essentially nothing.
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Date: 2015-09-04 01:21 am (UTC)