Claim: Spiel, often called the Essen Game Fair after the city where it is held, is an annual four-day boardgame trade fair which is also open to the public held in October at the Messe Essen exhibition centre in Essen, Germany (the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany), had increasing attendance numbers every year from 2011 that had 147,000 up until 2019 that had 190,000, however, it was cancelled in 2020.
Evidence: 2019 209 000