I know... I was wondering the same thing. This is what comes to mind though.... As I was registering for the show, I realized that if everyone I met at the show last year was going to be in attendance at this years show, how can they make it there with everything that's going on? I'm a little disappointed, because I wanted to attend this year’s event, but I'm OK with it as long as they're testing the Strat and Inking the Russian deal.
As it's been said before... things change. We didn't know about the Russian deal until December.