Have pitchfests run their course?

I remember when pitchfests on twitter were a attended virtually by about 3000 and a good chunk of agents.

Now the number of pitchfests have proliferated, as have participants. Some pitmads etc get half a million a tweets. Meanwhile the number of agents actually interacting seems to drop steadily. Not just every year, but every pitchfest, its going down that rapidly.

I've never been sold on something effectively feels like n extra step in the querying process, particularly when it does so...

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