More than 1,250 Attend Summer of Sonic 2011

This past weekend’s Summer of Sonic convention in London was by far the hottest ticket for fans, and that’s good for those who actually had tickets, but good for only some of those waiting outside the venue to get in.

A post on the Sonic Wrecks Twitter account, citing door security, estimated the crowd that got in throughout the day to total more than 1,250 people, a new record.  It’s not clear whether that number includes the many people who, in some case, spent all day outside the SOS venue hoping to get in.  A second, separate estimation of that crowd from SOS co-organizer Svend Joscelyne on his Twitter account puts that number at about 300.

For those who couldn’t make it, they were entertained in droves, so much so that one of the principal sources of the SOS live feed, Sonic Wrecks, went down for a time due to so much traffic.  More than 22,000 are estimated to have watched the stream at one point or another on Saturday, according to an estimate released on Sonic Wrecks’s wrap-up of the day.
As to our wrap-up, if you’re wondering where it is…so are we.  We hope to have what we’ve gathered from the show and our correspondent there shortly, but know that a planned news event for today–namely, the Supreme Court’s Brown v. EMA decision–may pre-empt any scheduled coverage for the rest of Monday.  We regret the delay, but we think it’ll be worth the wait.