This month, the World Gaming Expo Monaco (WGE) was scheduled to be held in the international gaming mecca. It would have been the second installment of the expo, about a year after the inaugural event was held. However, all of those vendors and attendees who were making last-minute preparations are going to have to change their calendars after the organizers announced that the event would be postponed an entire year.

The WGE is organized by Monaco International Events SARL. It issued a statement toward the end of last week in which it announced the delay, stating that it needed to create a “new business structure” to raise capital in order to fund the event. Apparently, it may have overextended itself.

According to Igor Gamba, WIE Managing Director, “…[W]e’ve decided to postpone the second edition of the WGE to 2019, which will mark its renewal; a decision which sole purpose is to sustain the event from next year on.

“The 2nd World Gaming Expo Monaco, thus to be held in December 2019, will be revamped and will welcome, under this new impulse, 60 exhibitors carefully selected and distributed over an area of 4000 square meters.