Oh, sure -- lots of them are. But there's usually enough variation in the panelists to make the actual content rather different each time. For instance, it'll be fascinating to see how the "Intro to LARP" panel plays out this time: I think it may be the first time that the TS crowd has outnumbered the LC one. (Sometimes I've been the only TS guy on the panel, but this time we wound up with four members of the Intercon concom on it.)
And to be fair, the exact panel topics tend to shift from year to year -- "Intro to LARP" (by whatever name) is one of the few that really does seem to happen every year. But it does seem like, for instance, I wind up on a big analytical panel about comics with alexx_kay pretty frequently, and a more focused panel with Jonathan Woodward. (This time it's about steampunk; last time, IIRC, it was about Crossgen.)
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And to be fair, the exact panel topics tend to shift from year to year -- "Intro to LARP" (by whatever name) is one of the few that really does seem to happen every year. But it does seem like, for instance, I wind up on a big analytical panel about comics with