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There sure are a lot of blood elf women at BlizzCon. Anywhere you look, it seems, you"ll spot a pair of pointed ears knifing through the crowd, which inevitably widens as eager fans stop to focus their lenses on vast expanses of uncovered blood elf skin. The blood elf population, of course, isn"t nearly as high as the veritable legions of black T-shirted men, nor the masses of brunettes sporting red or blue streaks. Those stylings have practically become an official entry badge for BlizzCon 2010.

What you won"t find at BlizzCon, though, are kids. Blizzard has set a minimum age of 5 to attend the event, but most parents opt to leave even older kids at home. It"s a pretty logical decision; $150 is a pretty steep price to pay for a child who doesn"t have the patience for long programs, the endurance for long lines or the interest in ancillary things like hardware booths. Most of the few kids WoW Insider has spotted at the con have been traipsing dutifully along behind their parents, noses plastered to their Nintendo DSes or cell phone games. They"re not the true WoW fans of the family -- and it shows.

Not young Ethan, who plays a just-under-level-cap death knight and is a fourth-grader from Torrance, California. Ethan"s attending BlizzCon with his dad this year and loving every moment of it.

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BlizzCon 2010: The view from fourth grade originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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