As of 2018-02-12_08-20-45 number of events: 1,501 featured events: 202 events with 572 of 1,650 seats available total_seats: 11,291, available_seats: 4,493
I should really plot this data because I'm not really seeing an exponential decay like one would expect...at least not a very "clean" one. As of 2018-02-13_09-39-36 number of events: 1,501 featured events: 202 events with 545 of 1,650 seats available total_seats: 11,291, available_seats: 4,373
As of 2018-02-14_09-13-49 number of events: 1,501 featured events: 202 events with 532 of 1,650 seats available total_seats: 11,291, available_seats: 4,334
As of 2018-02-15_10-46-18 number of events: 1,501 featured events: 202 events with 521 of 1,650 seats available total_seats: 11,291, available_seats: 4,283
As of 2018-02-16_09-24-01 number of events: 1,501 featured events: 202 events with 519 of 1,650 seats available total_seats: 11,291, available_seats: 4,278
As of 2018-02-17_11-36-49 number of events: 1,501 featured events: 202 events with 500 of 1,650 seats available total_seats: 11,271, available_seats: 4,181
Grab some data before the close of pre-registration. As of 2018-02-18_11-33-40 number of events: 1,501 featured events: 202 events with 492 of 1,650 seats available total_seats: 11,271, available_seats: 4,152
As of 2018-02-18_19-55-11 number of events: 1,501 featured events: 202 events with 486 of 1,650 seats available total_seats: 11,271, available_seats: 4,121
As of 2018-02-19_09-31-29 number of events: 1,503 featured events: 202 events with 479 of 1,657 seats available total_seats: 11,286, available_seats: 4,081
Hmmm, FE seats have "stabilized" since event pre-reg closing but RE are climbing. I guess folks are dropping out of events. As of 2018-02-21_09-35-39 number of events: 1,503 featured events: 202 events with 478 of 1,657 seats available total_seats: 11,291, available_seats: 4,103
I see a couple things happening. One GM seems to have cancelled all his events according to TTE schedule. The data now reflects these events with Sold count of zero making the seats (28 total) appear as open. I had been filtering out cancelled events using the "Is Scheduled" and "Sellable" fields, but those do not appear to be updated for this event yet. Also, it appears that you can continue registering for events again. At least, when I went to validate what I was seeing in the data, it gave me the option to add tickets for events that have availability. This is different than what I saw on Tuesday when the only events that gave this option were the seminar and social events that did not have a limit on number of tickets.
At a certain date before the con arrives, they shut down preregistration. This allows them to print the individual game tickets that are provided to players and GMs when they check in at the con. The organizers need a certain amount of lead time to get everything printed, so they have to cut off online event registration to prevent things shifting while they are in the middle of printing.
Huh...the number of seats in theory shouldn't be going down after event pre-registration is closed... As of 2018-02-22_08-28-42 number of events: 1,503 featured events: 202 events with 470 of 1,657 seats available total_seats: 11,291, available_seats: 4,077