![]() ![]() Instead, it was reportedly due to insufficient financial and technical support to allow the organizers to give attendees the expo they deserve, especially with exhibitors and sponsors simply not being able to support two cities, in the Cape Town and traditional Joburg event, in one year. However, the FanCon clash certainly wasn’t helping matters. ![]() Now it has to be noted that the official reasons for the cancellation given by the rAge Cape Town organizers had nothing to do with the clash of dates with FanCon 2017. If they had just taken a better date they wouldn’t have needed to backtrack on their event.” I’m maybe making excuses for them, but there might have been that. But a little bit of homework, with all the fan issues, they could have just changed the dates quickly, they would have still gotten everybody back.” M: “It was really an unnecessary situation. They might have felt ‘We’re gaming, we’re not going to step on their toes’. There might just be a disconnect how things happen or they don’t know the size of the show or what it’s about in a sense. Work with what’s out there.Īnd maybe there’s a disconnect with being from Joburg. But you have to respect the fans in the sense that if there’s something on, look at the calendar. We back these shows because we are part of this industry. Just do it at a different date and we are there. Even our staff related to Reader’s Den would actually have been at Rage Cape Town if we could have.” Nizar: “Look we love rAge as a show. We did say that ‘If you do that there would be a problem, as attendees, exhibitors and fans and it was completely unnecessary’. So the thing is they did know that we had a venue booked which we couldn’t change and they went ahead anyway. And then in January they announced it publicly. So we said we can’t, we’ve signed for the venue and it’s cast in stone already. And then some time after that, some representative from rAge called us to ask ‘We’re also thinking of that date, so is there anyway you can move it?’. I think it was the end of July last year. Firstly, we did announce our date for Fancon very very early. ![]() Mahdi: “There is really just two or three things regarding this rAge thing. However, I still had to ask Nizar and Mahdi what their thoughts on clash of dates were as many fans were a but befuddled by the decision. The point, as contentious as it was, would soon become a moot one though as rAge Cape Town 2017 was summarily cancelled not too long thereafter. Both fans and exhibitors seemingly expressed some distress at now essentially having to choose between two different events. That would mean that the Saturday and Sunday of rAge Cape Town would overlap with the first two days of FanCon. Things didn’t get off to a good start though when rAge suddenly announced earlier in the year that 2017’s Cape Town event would happen from Friday 28 April to Sunday 30 April. That being said, I and many others were really looking forward to seeing whether the organizers could get over their teething troubles and produce a better follow-up event this year. However, the result was a bit of a disappointing affair that was a pale reflection of the annual Gauteng event. To recap: After years of us Capetonians begging and pleading for the immensely popular rAge gaming expo to move camp from Johannesburg down south to us, that finally happened last year. But outside of convention logistics and features though, there was one topic that was undoubtedly the elephant in the room during our chat which needed to be addressed: rAge Cape Town. We’ve already heard from FanCon organizers Nizar and Mahdi Abrahams, all about how Cape Town’s very own first comic book convention came to be, what you can expect from it and even how they will be handling cosplay at this year’s event. ![]()
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