So there is now clarification on that weirdness with the AVC guy running that Shreveport con a while back. Essentially the guys that were running AVC together are no longer partners, and at the end of this cycle they're going to dissolve the company and split the cons between two new companies. So AVC will cease to exist and two new companies will replace it with the cons divided up between the companies of each former partner. The Shreveport con was run by the one who will not be taking over Louisiana Comic Con, so it was apparently his attempt to carve out business to compete against LACC. But Geek'd Con is really what he's up against, not LACC, and Geek'd Con has placed itself as a tier above what AVC had been doing in terms of guests and attendance, IMHO.
So anyway...lots of Con drama.