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Re:Caesars abruptly cancels contract with DEF CON by technick on Monday February 05, 2024 @03:41AM (#39258729)
I will need to dig up the archives from DC 27 when the deal with Caesars forum was officially announced, but if memory serves me correctly DT said it was a 5 or 10 year contract. So unless there was some verbaige in the contract that allows Caesars to cancel for any reason, they're going to be cutting DEFCON a check.
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Re:Caesars abruptly cancels contract with DEF CON by TeMPOraL on Monday February 05, 2024 @03:55AM (#39258841)
A 5-year contract starting at DC 27 would hold thru DC 31, so DC 32 fits the "not renewing" hypothesis.
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Re:Caesars abruptly cancels contract with DEF CON by ghaff on Monday February 05, 2024 @10:12AM (#39262014)
Who knows? But a more likely hypothesis is that the organizers were betting that they could come to terms on a renewal and at the end of the day they couldn't.
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Re:Caesars abruptly cancels contract with DEF CON by nebula8804 on Monday February 05, 2024 @10:54AM (#39262464)
There was some announcement at the closing talks last year of the same venue being booked for the next 2-3 cons I think.
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