I've been to this convention center before and they usually host professional things- trade shows/expos and stuff like that. I don't think they've ever held a nerd con before so the assessment that the hotel mgmt "did not know what they were getting into" is probably pretty accurate.
I don't know what it was that they considered a breach of contract. but, the fact that they were so vague about it makes me think it was a more complicated issue than "Dashcon didn't cough up the money soon enough."
Anybody whose hotel room was being funded by the con was also in danger of being kicked out. Which isn't cool, I don't care how much you hate tumblr or dashcon or the superwholocks or whatever. People paid to go to this con, some traveled far, and were understandably upset at the danger of it being closed.
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I've been to this convention center before and they usually host professional things- trade shows/expos and stuff like that. I don't think they've ever held a nerd con before so the assessment that the hotel mgmt "did not know what they were getting into" is probably pretty accurate.
I don't know what it was that they considered a breach of contract. but, the fact that they were so vague about it makes me think it was a more complicated issue than "Dashcon didn't cough up the money soon enough."
Anybody whose hotel room was being funded by the con was also in danger of being kicked out. Which isn't cool, I don't care how much you hate tumblr or dashcon or the superwholocks or whatever. People paid to go to this con, some traveled far, and were understandably upset at the danger of it being closed.
That's pretty much all I know of it.