FurWAG 2015

Friday, Nov. 20, 2015 - 5:36 p.m.

I have a bunch of concerns about the decision-making process regarding a specific aspect of FurWAG 2015.

I counted less than fifty people in the official FurWAG fursuit parade picture. According to the numbers reported by Pete and Nathan at the closing ceremony, there were a total of 154 paid attendees.

If this math is accurate, then what we're talking about here is less than one third of the attendees who were wearing fursuits for any portion of this event.

However, for the duration of the weekend, the temperature at the venue was kept excessively cold so that those forty someodd fursuiters would not be uncomfortable when suited up.

I was far too cold every time I went into a function room to see a panel. Every panelist I saw had to wear a coat in order to sit up on stage and not shiver. If somebody could please explain how this is fair and reasonable to the panelists -- who are donating their time to the convention but who were forced to sit in a cold room for the length of the panel -- and to the non-fursuiters who paid for a full membership and who were also compelled to sit in a cold room if they wanted to see a panel, then I'm willing to listen.

The hotel was told repeatedly that their function spaces were kept too cold for most of the people attending FurWAG.

But nobody on the hotel staff seemed to be listening to the non-fursuiters.

If I *were* a fursuiter, I'd consider it my *own personal responsibility* to keep myself cool -- not make the entire venue too cold like it was at FurWAG 2015. There are cooling vests and various acoutrements that a suiter can now wear to insure that they don't parboil during their time in their suit. It's *not* the responsibility of the venue to keep them cool. And there's a Headless Lounge, which up until now -- meaning for the first thirty years of furry fandom -- has been absolutely sufficient.

My specific questions are:

- How did the concom fiigure that making the majority of the paid attendees uncomfortable would be a reasonable and correct course of action?

- Why was this okay?

- How did the concom come to this conclusion?

- What discussions took place that resulted in the extremely cold air at FurWAG 2015?

- Why was the comfort of the majority of panelists and paying guests discarded in favor of less than one third of the attendees?

I'm hoping to find answers before the next event.

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