"Super Bowl For Nerds" Draws Thousands To Downtown Minneapolis

By Adam Duxter, CBS Minnesota

November 13, 2022

Twin Cities Con Founder Ben Penrod hoped the event would draw in ten thousand people in its second year. Instead, it's likely he and the event accomplished that in just one day.

"Really, our goal was to establish a fan convention in the Twin Cities that kind of rivals what they have in other cities," Penrod said Sunday morning. "For too long, the Twin Cities area didn't really have a convention like this."

Penrod, who has worked to found comic-con-type conventions in Washington D.C. and Florida, has since moved full-time to Minneapolis to focus his efforts on growing the convention in the Twin Cities.

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