The Indiana-based Gen Con updated its initial safety guidelines for the convention on August 6th, mandating masks for all attendees and exhibitors for the duration of the convention while indoors or in crowded outdoor spaces. (Photo by /mqpNn5kSVV- Mike Selinker SeptemTo see this content please enable targeting cookies. Gen Con friends: Eat in your hotel rooms, limit contact with fans to 5 minutes, quarantine when you get home. Too many folks in one place, no rope discipline, and no separated walkways. This is terrible crowd management in a pandemic. Several alarmed commenters pointed out how many passersby were grabbing the handrails on the escalator in the foreground on their way in. Titled “The Running of the Nerds, 2021 edition”, it shows typical behavior for bottlenecked crowds - everyone pressed as close to the front of the mass as possible, any semblance of keeping a six-foot distance forgotten. “Too many folks in one place, no rope discipline, and no separated walkways.”Ī video uploaded to the Fans of Gen Con Facebook group showed the same crowd as it flowed through the open doors. “This is terrible crowd management in a pandemic,” Selinker wrote. Much of the online buzz springs from a photo posted to Twitter by Lone Shark Games’ Mike Selinker (photo credit to Green Ronin Publishing president Chris Pramas), showing a crowd of attendees waiting outside the main exhibit hall in a disorganized - and in many places tightly packed - crowd. While reports from the show floor paint a sedated scene and general following of guidelines, the initial crowd gathered outside the doors of the main hall sparked concern and frustration from both attendees and those watching from their homes. Gen Con, the largest board game convention in the US, held its first day of events and exhibition on September 16th amid an ongoing global pandemic and rise in COVID-19 Delta variant cases.

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