Birmingham 1995
BiCon 13 was held at the University of Central England in Birmingham on the 1st-3rd September 1995. It was organised by Jon, Kay, Lizzie, Jon, Steve, Kate and Judes. It was residential and 226 people attended.
Firsts
BiCon 13 was the first BiCon to speed up registration by using a computer database of registered participants on the registration desk. It was also the first to make a surplus in the thousands rather than hundreds of pounds, something which the organiser's report is very defensive about. Nowadays BiCon sits on a huge pile of cash (and venues charge significant deposits) and the amount looks trivial. BiCon 13 also continued a trend of offering increasingly organised entertainment (a screening of Rocky Horror and a party in a city-centre bar) rather than just providing a simple bar and disco - following on from BiCon 10's stand-up comedy show and 12's Ceilidh.
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