So, who actually got a Gen Con hotel?
This lottery system’s a drag, but smaller cons can step up to fill the niche.
When I worked at io9, we would have three meetings just for the San Diego Comic-Con housing lottery. The first would get the entire Gizmodo news desk to sign up for the lottery and mark their calendars. The second was so that everyone knew what hotels were the closest, and explaining how to manage the incredibly finicky system in order to get as many chances at the lottery as possible. The third meeting was a rundown of who would be going, when, and where in the city they would be staying. It was a production, and there was never any guarantee that we would get decent hotels, even with a 10-15 person team working together to stand in a digital queue for a hotel booking.
When Gen Con’s housing lottery date popped up in my inbox and I was the only member of the Rascal team to have received a press pass, I knew I was fucked.
