They didn't have tables for some of the panels, they had armchairs. On daises, raising the seat of the armchair to seated audience eye level. For at least the last two years, which is as long as I've been to Readercon. And I don't have that many long skirts for summer, so...I spent a lot of panel time focused on clamping my knees together and hoping for the best, or else draping a hoodie over my lap so I could worry slightly less about it.

BUT NO LONGER.