PAX West 2026 Extravagansa!

But to

start, I thought it would be

best to learn your overall impressions of PAX West.

Like, was it a well-run show or did you see any cracks anywhere?

Yeah, it was a well-run show.

I was very impressed with it.

It took place over... kind of two and a half-ish buildings.

So the Pax Convention, or yeah, the Seattle Convention Center has kind of one big main building, and then...

They've since either acquired or built a new one that's kind of added on but is kitty-corner from it.

And then there's also the annex to the main building.

So the annex was where all the badge check-in was, but there's truly nothing else PAX-related in there.

So everyone had to go there, go up to the third floor.

get their badges and then go back down and then find the building they were going to.

And so it was the Arch and Summit buildings.

And in the Arch was pretty much all the video game stuff.

And Summit was pretty much all the tabletop stuff was how they divided it.

And then also in Arch, there was the Red Bull Tavern that seems to be a mainstay at these PAX events.

But that was also a journey.

You had to go through a very literal maze of corridors and With good signage to get there.

So it was funny to me how spread out it was compared to PAX East, which I'm more used to.

I currently reside in Massachusetts, despite being from Seattle originally.

And so I've gone to PAX East more recently, and that's just one giant convention center, one building, everything's in the one gigantic building, and you just find your way around there.

And then PAX West was spread out.

But there was such good signage.

There were so many enforcers and security people and just kind of wayfinding people.