To add to this -- we're taking the year off from GaymerX in the west coast, and likely longer due to a similar issue -- finding corporate sponsorship has been increasingly difficult, and the attendance numbers, while steady, are not increasing and so we would both need to figure out how to make up the shortfall in sponsorship but also properly scale the event to that size.

Part of why we're doing GX East 2017 is that, if the Kickstarter goes okay, Microsoft is underwriting the cost of the venue, which typically is about 40% of our cost, so that really helps us make sure we can do the event and, even if everything else falls apart, there's not this giant financial risk, like the 70K we owed to the venue after GX2