Just got this news myself.

George Harris
RPGA Coordinator, RoundCon 2008


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> It is with great regret that we wish to announce that
> RoundCon 2009 is being indefinitely postponed. We understand
> this will come as great surprise to many of you. RoundCon is
> an annual event that many of us look forward to every
> Spring. We all look forward to catching up, seeing familiar
> faces, and doing some gaming. The decision to cancel the
> convention was not made lightly. Convention management has
> been considering various factors over the last several weeks
> and determined that RoundCon was not viable 2009. These
> factors are varied, but most salient among them is the
> current economic climate.
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> We have heard from several of you that are unable to attend
> and almost all of you have said it was due to economic
> reasons. Above and beyond that there have been additional
> complications behind the scenes that are making organizing
> the convention unnecessarily difficult. In the end there is
> no one aggravating factor for our decision; rather many of
> the small problems we have been encountering on the
> aggregate is the cause.
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> Some of you maybe wondering about the future of RoundCon.
> Even though we had to call off the convention for this year,
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