Dragon Con 2019

• 5 Days: August 29 – September 2
• 33 Years
• 85,000 people this year ¹
• 110,000 Dollars raised for charity: American heart Association ¹
• 10,000 Units of blood and blood products donated (consistently ranked as the largest convention-based blood drive) ¹
• 2,231 Official events ²
• 32 Fan tracks ³
• 328 Vendors ⁴
• 5 Host hotels
• 8 Total buildings ⁵
• 1 New cult (that I know of) ^8,9

My Dragon Con 2019

• 22 Official events ⁶
• 12 Different Tracks ⁷
• 3 Full Cosplays
• 2 Casual Cosplays
• 3 Blended Mochas (from Great American Cookies)
• 7 RumChatta creamers
• 3 Servings of alcoholic ice cream
• 2 Items on my list I didn’t bring and regretted not having
• 4 People asked for photos
• 3 New t-shirts
• 1 Photo of Jon the Deliverer

Footnotes

1. Dragon Con Press Release
2. Dragon Con App
3. Counted on Tracks – Dragon Con 2019-09-05
4. Counted on the App (I won’t swear to this number – after re-counting the ‘a’s 5 times to get the same number twice (30), I decided I didn’t care that much)
5. Counting the 5 host hotels, 2 America’s Marts and 200 Peachtree
6. 1+6+7+6+2 = 22
7. Main Programming, Writer’s Track, High Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Literature, Fantasy Literature, Military Sci-fi Media, ApocalypseRising, Alternate and Historical Fiction, American Sci-fi and Fantasy Media, Sci-fi Literature, Animation
8. Cult of Jon Facebook group
9. Article about Cult of Jon