Atleast let's start a thread with right use of verbs (suck is a verb, not a noun) Give me the name of a hotel in NY, which can offer a rate of 89 per night, and has a ballroom that can house 1500 people. Fact is, there is none in NYC except in Manhattan (Queens, Brooklyn and Bronx don't have any). Manhattan is toooo expensive. Closest was Newark, although I don't know if the organizers knew it was a ghetto neighbourhood. I know the location sucked, and that's why I think lotsa folks didn't come on DJ nights (I thought cultural and concert were sold out if I am not wrong). As for sports and complains that you didn't go bcoz of transportation, I was in Arizona and Colorado and both time we had to go on our own. Never had been a minivan provided for sports viewers (If I am not wrong, the organizers did provide the minivan the first day, don't know what happened after that). When people who come to convention like this, don't pay to register, how else can you even the cost of high tech audio/visuals, artists cost, without raising the price of ticket. Jeez people, have some appreciation. I wish ANA would come forward and defend themselves. But then again, they don't have time to listen to whiny youngsters such as you folks.