Actually, it drew a surprising number of new people (demonstrating that the broadcast approach does have its own strengths), as well as large numbers who haven't made it to dance practice in an age. On the new front, we got a small contingent from Southbanke (yay!), as well as at least one lady who had encountered the SCA at my Worldcon dance demo the other year and had been meaning to check it out. On the old friends one, we got folks from Jasmina (who hasn't been there in a fair while) to Larissa (who hasn't been there in a couple of decades). And we also got some folks who have been in the SCA for a while but never tried dance practice, like a small group from Lochleven.

Overall, quite a bit of fun. The interesting question is how many of those folks become regulars or semi-regulars. The underlying objective here is to get the regular weekly dance practice back up to what I think of as "full strength" (20 or so). But it was successful enough that I'll clearly need to do it from time to time just for its own sake. (Preferably with a slightly bigger room...)