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castlemaid

Cold Front’s Stalker
Little sad i didn’t attend but at the same time i’m not buying a plane ticket to baltimore for a convention lul. What would have made it any better than the shit show of going to a convention with “friends” lul (Looking at you EQLA 2013 and you garbage huemanns that i went with)
Kaifloof
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
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Child of the Night
@Alex  
Thanks for the detailed answer, I appreciate it :) bit sad I never got to go to Bcon but there’s always HarmonyCon for me which is closer
Alex
Wallet After Summer Sale -

I can tell you the exact reason why they stopped. On the surface they said that it was because they wanted to go out on their terms, not dwindle out. But the fact is that there were a lot of people willing to continue the con going forward. However, there was one big problem in the way.  
Contracts.  
They signed a contract with the Baltimore convention center to host the convention for five years. That was in 2013. They renewed the contract for another five years in 2017 for another five years, so they were contractually obligated to run the convention at the Baltimore Convention Center until 2022.
 
The problem is that their attendance dwindled, they didn’t expect the show to end and they assumed (probably correctly) that attendance would drop even more after that. They were already at the point where they were just barely breaking even given the lowering attendance that they had, so they had two options on their hands.  
Continue to run the convention, get lower attendance numbers and end up going bankrupt or end the convention in 2019 and finish it off with a great big party.
 
If the contract wasn’t in place they would have moved to a smaller convention center but that just wasn’t an option for them. So they made the right decision to quit while they were still ahead.
 
 
Source: I’m a former convention owner myself and I know a lot of people who run these things. Whenever they make big decisions like this they talk to a lot of people for outside advice on how to handle it (better to work together after all). I don’t know if my input had that much of an effect but I get the feeling that pretty much everyone with convention experience was telling them the same thing.