Rocky Mountain Fur Con
DenFur shatters first year con record at over 2,000 attendees
Posted by Sonious on Tue 28 Aug 2018 - 18:06The fandom continues to show strong growth on the last weekend of August 2018. A weekend in which 5 furry conventions took place: Fur Affinity: United, Eurofurence, Camp Feral!, Indyfurcon, and DenFur. Of them the inaugural gathering in the state of Colorado has turned heads as it had shattered the first year attendance record of a furry convention at 2,086.
The first year attendance record was previously held by FurryPinas, a convention in the Philippines at 1,542 attendees, which acquired it just this last May making this year a strong startup for furry gatherings in general. Other conventions also had solid growth in attendance rates. Fur Affinity: United showing its first growth since their move out of the state of New Jersey. The number breakdowns for last weekend's cons can be seen below:
|
Convention |
2017 Attendance |
2018 Attendance |
% Increase |
Charity |
|
Camp Feral! |
220 |
[Unknown] |
[Unknown] |
[Unknown] |
|
DenFur |
N/A |
2,086 |
N/A |
$15,000 |
|
Eurofurence |
2,804 |
2,908 |
3.7% |
$47,945.07 |
|
FurAffinity:United |
515 |
528 |
2.5% |
$2,869 |
|
IndyFurCon |
1,214 |
1,412 |
16.3% |
$17,616.79 |
|
TOTAL |
4,753 |
6,934 + [Feral] |
45.88%+ |
$83,430.86 |
Update 6/29: Story indicated previous record holder was Biggest Little Fur Con, was corrected to be FurryPinas. -Cirrus credited for correction.