Well now that the rooms at Pheasant Run are gone I took time to go over the list again and see who is new and who is returning from previous shows. (Thank God for Sort menus) Anyway this show has not followed the numbers very well in relation to other shows although not that far off it is a bit different possibly because we started early registration in November. To get to the point 59% of you are returning 41% of you are new (welcome) We sold the 200 rooms at Pigeon Forge last year and had 523 total people at the show including my family and guest speakers. This year we have to date 256 rooms taken. Projecting this out it will give us a total of 669 people (WOW) Now the other kicker Since this is in Chicago and as you may guess most of the people in Chicago do not need rooms. They accounted for 40 rooms at PF so that is why we did not get more rooms this year than last figuring that the 40 or 25% would be enough rooms based on past increases. So this mix is not reflected in the numbers At this point I think that 600-700 people is a reasonable guess. This more than doubles The Cleveland Show and we could be 30% larger than PF for the largest gain in percentage of a show other than the Cleveland VS Cincinnati show. Number of States remained the same we had no new States register. Califonia however is one of the top States so far with IL and Ohio tie for second. The East Coast usually a high attendance group is a distant 4th (come on guys) Surprising the South east (normally low in attendance) is ahead of PF registrations and is close to the Mid Atlantic group in attendance. Raffle car The Raffle car sales are above last years again part due to early ticket sales. We expect about 500 tickets to be sold and it will be listed in Hemmings. We sold 411 last time. The car will make its Debut this year in the St. Patricks Day Parade in Cincinnati and we hope to get it to Chicago, and New York before the show. This is a really good driving car and I have no problem driving it to both locations. Weird Stats 72% of people that have event Registered STILL do not have Hotel reservations. However the Hotel Registered guest are a bit better on Event Registration as 58%of them still have not event registered. We are looking pretty good at this point. It looks like this year since it is the 25th Anniversary we are going to give out trophies at the show vs Plaques. This is not definate but I am working on pricing. We are looking at new Pins for the show along with a special 25th anniversary Pin that will be for sale at the show. We are going to make 200 so first come first serve. Lots of new stuff to come Thanks You are making this the biggest and best show ever Remember this is your show Ken [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/