Hi guys, I'm head of Staff at Camcon, so I'll might give a bit of insight into this.
Anime League in itself is not running this. Mike Towers have been invited to do PR work for us and as I originally didn't know him before hand, I objected to his based on his reputation and because I know a few people who have strong bad feelings about the guy, and I was overruled. And then I went to Encyclopaedia Drammatica and saw Mike Towers entry there. In any case, his role as PR is restricted to getting fliers distributed and sending out email invitations, so hopefully, we won't have the same problems as Anime League events have. I'm sure we will have brand new problems though, as every event has to have it's stresses, after all, it's hardly something we can rehearse and as far as I know, there are no professional event organisers involved in the cons (there are in the "trade shows" though, like Hyper Japan, MCM Expo and LFCC).
On Anime League leagues defence, I can say that the ban on Expo was due to commercial reason - not because they were rowdy or something of the likes. They did the stupid move of promoting another event on Expo, which is something that doesn't bodes well with MCM.
This is not my first role in an event, as I have been stage manager at Heart Japan (one off event to raise money for the victims of the tsunami), runner at Brighton Japan, cosplay shepherd and translator at Hyper Japan. I know quite a few of the people involved in running the event and I volunteered, as I believe they've gathered enough serious people to run a fun con. Some of the events ran by the other volunteers include the Japanese Arts Festival, Bunkasai & The Grand Cosplay Ball, as well as the events I've mentioned above.
