I have a question for people who have been running events at gencon, particularly their first year doing so.
Last year I had two friends organize a Larp and ran it. When they drafted the Larp they set it up to generate enough player hours to cover both of their badges and gencon cut the event down to basically one badge between the two of them.
This year another friend submitted board game events for the first time with enough entries to cover the player hours for his badge, then only had less than half approved which would leave him quite short of the player hours to cover a badge.
Is this routine for first time GMs or were they just unlucky?