History
Anime Weekend Atlanta was first held in October 1995 at Castlegate Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. The average age for the attendees is 12-21. Each successive year, the convention moved to a different, usually larger, hotel with meeting space to accommodate growing attendance until 2003 when the convention moved to the Renaissance Waverly Hotel and Cobb Galleria Centre where it remains today.
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