camaker
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing
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- May 8, 2015
The question is are they going to do kessell again? They kinda had to do something this year because of the number of people who signed up for SWDS wanting to get Kessell while waiting for word on SWLS and those registrations were locked in before they cancelled SWLS. So making Kessell half virtual was a good compromise.
However that will not be the case in 2019. Keeping a star wars virtual is a good idea for marketing and money but does continuing to do Kessell as half virtual/half physical make sense? Guess we'll have to wait and see what gets announced. I got the first 2 Kessell medals. Didn't bother this year because I'm not a big virtual race runner and it didn't have the same draw without the C2C component and even though kessell is one of the very best RD medals I had two of them. If they bring it back, I'll debate again doing it but not sure if I would.
I just wonder if they will bring it back since they don't need to this year since people will sign up for SWDS knowing what the situation is (regardless of what it is).
I would be very surprised if they didn't do the Kessel Run again. There are very few costs for them associated with the virtual run and given that SWDS hasn't been selling out, anything they can do to encourage more people to come out for it will likely be pursued. It doesn't really matter if it makes sense from a running or challenge set up point of view. The only thing that matters is if it makes sense from a money making point of view and it looks like an easy revenue stream for them to maintain with minimal effort.