Last week finalized the 21st edition of FADJA, the American Gambling Fair, which took place in the usual Corferias convention center. There they showed the latest news and trends in machines, sports bets, equipment for bingos, roulettes and novelty accessories for the gambling industry that seek to provide this sector with the necessary tools to develop its full potential.
The first day of the fair attendance was low compared to previous years, as well as the supply of machines and their exhibitors was also very reduced.
However, the slot machines that were exposed came to the FADJA market with bigger screens, better sound and more enveloping effects than usual, which little by little is demonstrating the importance of the Latin American market in the casinos as technology arrives to the market highly comparable to that seen in the most renowned casinos in Las Vegas, the average prices of these slot machines ranged between 15 and 17 thousand dollars
The roulettes were those that had a greater presence at the fair. They had a wide variety deployment between manufacturers and alternatives: 2, 3 and up to 4 progressives, which managed to locate their average prices between 103 to 123 thousand dollars.
The fair in general had a greater influx of online games, because this year FADJA had the presence of 25 companies dedicated to the Online sector of the industry, located in this mode in the first place in terms of the amount of supply.
Also, among the novelties that the fair was the presence of suppliers of elements of the fourth industrial revolution, such as Bigdata, artificial intelligence, Blockchain that offered services for the registration of players, databases, and all the amount of unimaginable information that moves within a casino in order to increase profitability, and conversion in the player rate.
The academy was an important bet made by the organizers of FADJA for this year's edition, which is why they gave ample space to talks and trainings at the end of the pavilion. Conferences that were based on topics around hyperrealism, interactive games, multi-game mixes adapted to the Colombian market, avant-garde cabinets and artificial intelligence applications, topics that were dealt with by international speakers, software suppliers, experts in loyalty and marketing systems, They wanted to give the audience an analytical look between the online world and traditional casinos.
The assistant’s companies or booth exhibitors made an effort to bring characters, among them 3 women and a former Colombian playboy were hired to show their games, but also the associations also took an important role in the fair.
The second day the attendance was better, and I'm marked by the corridor comments on Juan B Perez:
"What do you know about A letter that was sent by Juan B. Pérez, president of Coljuegos, to the finance minister Alberto Carrasquilla?" ... it was the voice to voice that hovered
In this letter the president of Coljuegos exposes and argues the need to increase the tax on slot machines, a document that is being analyzed by the associations.
Even the president of Coljuegos, who visited the stand of Cornazar, was confronted and questioned by Elizabeth Maya and León Montoya newspaper. Those who, with calculator in hand, sought to demonstrate the garrafal error that had the figures cited in the letter sent to Minister Carrasquilla (this is a story that we will expand during the next week).
This situation caused many operators to have a bad feeling throughout the day.
Mundo Video managed to awaken the interest of the attendees despite having no stand presenting their products with catalog and through technological tools, giving rise to what will be the beginning of a new space for their closest where everyone wins, with game elements like roulettes Hera, the most sold machine in the market, the Multigame, and the long-awaited Multipoker machine, which has already entered production.
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