Pros: Lots of gaming. A big room for board/card games, one for miniatures, and two for roleplay.

Great guests. Very accessible, too. I spent time talking weapons with Glen Cook, nuclear powered space drives with Stanton Friedman and Les Johnson. comics with John Jackson Miller, and alien sociology with C.J. Cherryh.

Costuming. Lots of hall costumes, and not just Stormtroopers or Vulcans. Of particular note were the nurse from Silent Hill, Sailor Mars, Silk Spectre I, Harley Quinn, and Poison Ivy. (Notice a theme going there?)

Hospitality Suite: Freaking huge, and fairly well stocked. Only complaint is that it was located in a separate building about 125 yards or so away from the hotel itself.

Music: The music acts this year were a folk/filk act named Wild Mercy, and the great Luke Ski. There was also a filksign which I missed due to going out to dinner with a friend on Friday night. (BTW, I really recommend Texas De Brazil. If the one in Baton Rouge is as good as the one in Memphis, it's worth the trip. Expensive, but so very worth it if you're a carnivore.)

Running jokes: Show the sheep some goddam respect before sending him to Room 302.

It Was A Dark And Stormy Night. Quotes are collected over the course of the weekend and a panel of writers are forced on Sunday to create a story using them, with the audience providing the main character and location.

Cons:
The hotel had a policy of no room parties and no booze in public except for the beer in the Hospitality Suite. I was reduced to carrying gin & tonic in a Sprite bottle.

The hotel's restaurant was shut down for the convention, except for awards banquet.

All in all, I'll be back next year.

I wonder if part of that issue is due to how CC's con-com changes every year? Not sure how MidsouthCon does it, but with LibertyCon you know Uncle Timmy will be the HMFIC, Brandy will be dealing with the hotel, and so on.