Holy shit!

[dagibbs]

As some of you may know -- and others may not -- I'm going to be the fan guest of honor (GOH) for Confusion 2010 - I See By My Confusion. (Y'all should come, it's a great convention.) In doing up a bio for me, some questions came up and resulted in me going through my old badges. (I keep my convention badges as a sort of record of what cons I've been to. I may have lost a couple along the way, though.)

Cangames 3 in (I think) 1983 was my first convention -- it was a gaming convention, though,
so I don't count it in the SF convention records. (I have a 1984 Cangames badge, the Cangames 3 badge is older, I think it was the year immediately previous.)

Maplecon 7 in 1985 was my first SF convention.
Ad Astra VI in 1986 was my first out-of-town convention.

I have been to (at least) 137 SF conventions. By the numbers:
Ad Astra - 21
Confusion - 18
Conclave - 15
Con*Cept - 10
Worldcon - 8 (first was Chicon V in 1991)
Contradiction - 8
Contraption - 7
Arisia - 7
Maplecon - 6
Penguicon - 6
Bachanal - 5
Wilfcon - 5
Others, less than 5 each: 21. (Including, but not limited to: Lunacon, Pinekone, Disclave, Philcon, Marcon, Windycon, Apollocon, Rivercon, and Pseudo-Opuscon.)

In my busiest year, I attended 13 conventions.