I think the competition this year for entering the dinner will be much more fierce than last year in Paris though The dinner was on thursday and wasn’t largely announced, mostly people following Kawasoft newsfeed knew of this beforehand.
Now VA has a much better presence on the Western side, and there’s much more people interested in this event coming to LA than Paris.
Seems like Japanese fans will come too, though a Japanese/Western fans meeting would be nice if it weren’t for the language barrier. We should not forget South-East Asia fans too (or everywhere in the world).