(12.09.2020)Magic Twilight schrieb:  Man muss sogar online kaufen, da eine Convention schon vorher viel Geld braucht. Bei der GalaCon gibt es auch vor Ort Tickets (bspw. nur für den Ball).
Wahrscheinlich Ja.

Zitat:Ich war so frei, den Threadtitel dem aktuellen Ist-Zustand anzupassen, man siehe den Beitrag vom 13.12.2020. Wenn die EBC dann stattfindet, darf und soll der Titel gerne angepaßt werden, dann kann auch diese Mod-Info hier wieder entfernt werden - oder es wird dann ein neuer Thread erstellt. ~ Railway Dash, 18.12.20.

EuroBronyCon (via Facebook) schrieb:An Apology, Explanations and some Reflections on the EuroBronyCon

On behalf of the EuroBronyCon Organization Team, we want to thank everyone for your support and unwavering patience. We have fallen short of everyone's expectations, and for that we are sorry. We take full responsibility for how the past events have transpired, and how much time's been passing since then. It was a rocky road, and we have made mistakes.
Please, let us explain what happened and why the convention failed.

Back in mid 2018 when we were brainstorming the idea of planning the con, we were trying to take many things into consideration. Many locations were visited and surveyed until we decided to settle on the Colosseum XXI in Vienna. The location was paid on account with a down payment, and we worked on financial/budget plans, safety precautions, which guests (both community as well as show guests) to invite, what program, themes and so on. This all took place during late 2018, throughout the year of 2019 and until March 2020, with us advertising the EBC on other conventions and throughout online services like Facebook, Discord and Telegram, to name a few.

We were inexperienced in planning conventions, yet we were highly motivated to make the dream of the first Austrian MLP Convention a reality. Especially at the start of our journey of planning the EBC we were trying to create something new, and different. But our dreams and wishes were too much for the planning, having had to be scaled down or cleared from the agenda as time went on and the reality of organising such an event struck us. But throughout all of this, we were always looking out so that no guest would've come to any harm, be it financial or otherwise. We were determined and confident that the convention would take place, even if it would mean that we would suffer a huge private financial loss.

In the beginning of 2020, we were really stressed and invested a huge amount of time into the project because our deadlines were coming closer. We had meetings every week and we were setting up contracts for inviting guests. And then suddenly, when our stress and internal struggles were at a high point, COVID-19 hit the world. We didn't know what to do, we lost a lot of money and everything was on hold. We had to find a new date for the EBC and we came to an agreement with the location. But unfortunately, there was no end of COVID-19 in sight and we decided to wait to announce any new date until the risk of a sudden lockdown would be lower. Because of all of the uncertainty when and if the EBC was going to happen, we contacted our guests to refund all the tickets and our team had a financial loss, which had to be compensated with our private funds.

With all these problems in mind, with COVID-19, with financial and organisational problems within the team, we would have to restart. The team was slowly falling apart and the productivity was getting lower and lower. We would need a new team, starting a new convention and we would need to do so many things all over again. This setback put a large dent in the teams' motivation, and was also a painful reminder that we were too inexperienced to handle this project, given all these circumstances. Still, we would love to start something new at some point again but we will most likely go back to working on smaller projects in our local community at first, and slowly work our way back towards the dream of a true, international MLP convention. But for now, organising an event this size would be impossible, because there are not enough people left in the team who are willing to take such a risk and invest the needed amount of time and money into the project.

Once more, we want to apologise to everyone and thank all guests, volunteers and especially the artists and tailors/seamstresses for your support, encouragement and your belief in the EBC. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts! (You're awesome!)

Best regards,
EBC Team

IMPORTANT NOTE: Despite our efforts to get in contact with everyone, there is still a small amount of tickets that couldn't be refunded because of problems with the payment method and contact information. If you bought a ticket for EBC and still didn't receive a full refund please contact us via tickets@bronycon.eu

(22.02.2023)Leon schrieb:  Es wird voraussichtlich weiterhin kleinere lokale Meetups geben, aber vorerst ist keine größere Convention mehr in Planung.