Originally Posted by RawAlex

When a show reaches a level of success, individual companies, rather than just trying to maintain that success push the envelope. Always the "biggest" or "baddest" or "wildest" parties ever.

The reality is that many of those events stop attracting the people that made them good, and are replaced with freeloaders, beermasters, and so on. In Vegas, i has gotten to a point where locals not at all in the business buy badges to Internext just to go to the parties and oogle pornstars and webgirls up close.

IMHO, Phoenix is close, but hopefully won't tip because of limited accommodations which make it harder for the freeloaders to hang out.

Good luck to those attending.