@Background Pony  
Yes, and the individual in question is Purple Tinker. It is quite a long and complicated tale, but nothing a quick google search won’t help. The short story is the CG staff originally worked on Bronycon but had a falling out with PT and left to found their own con in Ohio; there was lots of bad blood between them, PT accusing the CG staff of stealing Bronycon funds and harassing her for being transgendered and even went so far as to petition Hasbro to boycott the event. CG for its part apparently spread slanderous stories about her, and one of the major staffers was allegedly arrested for theft. In the end, everyone supposedly apologized and made up.

Is this that one convention where all the drama happened last year with the weird transgender fellow?

They did not do a good job promoting this Kickstarter at all. What I would really like to know however is what the hell caused their “major sponsor” to drop out in the first place, thus reducing them to begging for funds at a time when the Unicon fiasco is still fresh on everyone’s mind. It doesn’t make sense how a large con that was so successful in its first year would be crushed like this.

What a shame.

@Battle GT  
Agreed, that’s what made the Skullgirls indegogo campaign so successful, everyone was talking about it.

They honestly should have pushed harder in spreading the word about this