Ok...fine...200 badges (at the most, for EVERY WINNER to get a free badge for EVERY contest at Otakon, I don't even know if they have that many winners, I was guessing a number...) will cost $10,000 to the con...
22,000 members is the sell out limit. 22,000 x $50 is $1, 100,000.
So don't give them out to everyone, do what I said in the beginning and give them to the first place winners or the top-rank winners. They used to give them to the video game tournament winners, but not this year. I don't care if they ask the dealers to sponsor winners by putting up part of the cost of the