Good afternoon, everybody. I'm Tom Vassel.

Hi there. I'm Eric Summerer and welcome to At The Table with Tom and Eric. It's a show about the people who play games.

And our guest at the table today is in charge of managing the Dice Tower Convention Library, as well as somebody who's directly responsible for getting this show on the digital airwaves.

I'm really excited to get to know her a little better. Everybody welcome Wendy. Hello, Wendy.

Hello. Thank you so much for having me on.

I feel like I should have played a clapping clip there. I've got it for myself.

No, no, no, that's that's now you've hang on. I have a pause somewhere.

That's when we set up with a pause signal.

The pause signal is done now. All right. Eric, I messed up the intro again.

It tends to happen and I'm ready to jump in whenever you decide to throw it to me. So it really is up to you. It's in your court.

I don't know. All right. All righty. Well, we just got back.

Wendy and I and the Dice Tower team here in the studios from Jencon, 2022.

Yes. Eric pointed out to me just announced that their attendance numbers were over 50,000.

And I believe that was correct.

What were the pre pandemic levels? According to I want to say we got up to 60 if not 65,000.

Jencon, 2019 was at around 70. Oh boy. I believe that wasn't the 50th anniversary. I think the 50th anniversary was 18.

I can't remember. 20 was online where they said they had 40,000, which is total made up because I saw those numbers and it wasn't 40,000.

Then in 2021, which I was at they said 35,000. So this was a quite a big jump as opposed to origins had a small bump up.

But then again, how do you count these numbers?

Yeah, I don't know. Do they? It's ticket sales. I imagine. But are they counting every day?

Because you have the 40 past the single days passes.

And I think if you buy a Saturday pass, you have to buy an Sunday pass. You don't buy them together. I think you buy them separate.

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