So the big pinball convention in town is still planning on going full tilt (sorry not sorry). I'd commented earlier, I think, that the financial realities for us personally means that the virtual machine I just "finished", we can't take it, and likely we can't afford to go at all even for a day, but there are other issues.
Part of what I'm seeing is a comment made from, I think Midwest Gaming Classic, who welcomed their state announcing a health-based lockdown that enabled them to cancel without having to basically shutter the convention for good. Even then, they had financial obligations they still couldn't discharge for being cancelled by their state. I'm expecting part of it is in play here with The Pinball Showdown, that they need to proceed as if it's going to happen because otherwise, they might as well close up shop because the penalties for cancellation will financially wreck them without having extenuating circumstances. As things have been going, I'm expecting that if there is relaxing of the lockdown, it won't include large conventions where hundreds to thousands of people are in the same enclosed space, and we aren't even getting into the unfortunate issue of massive communal hands-on with surfaces on games.
Part of what I'm seeing is a comment made from, I think Midwest Gaming Classic, who welcomed their state announcing a health-based lockdown that enabled them to cancel without having to basically shutter the convention for good. Even then, they had financial obligations they still couldn't discharge for being cancelled by their state. I'm expecting part of it is in play here with The Pinball Showdown, that they need to proceed as if it's going to happen because otherwise, they might as well close up shop because the penalties for cancellation will financially wreck them without having extenuating circumstances. As things have been going, I'm expecting that if there is relaxing of the lockdown, it won't include large conventions where hundreds to thousands of people are in the same enclosed space, and we aren't even getting into the unfortunate issue of massive communal hands-on with surfaces on games.
"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor