There is a good deal to be said about the subject of attendance (among other things). I actually have several ideas for a write-up that I think may be appropriate for this unique situation in the interest of molding mass expectations to be more realistic. That will come later tonight or some time this weekend, though. In the meantime, have a few ballpark figure facts.
- AWA is a Top 10 Attendance con in North America, slotting in at #8 in the US in 2012. There will be a respectable turnout in general, I'm sure.
- While I don't know AWA panel numbers, the AnimeBoston and Otakon Touhou panels routinely get several hundred people.
- There are a non-trivial number of people that go to cons strictly for the programming (EDIBLE). I would bet that there will be at least a handful of people that will attend ZUN programming because he's an interesting thing to see rather than because they know anything about Touhou. Maybe they want to learn more about it.
- There will probably be a lack of out-of-state student-age attendees since the con is at the end of September.