They may not have turned a profit, but the organisers of the 100th anniversary Burnie Show are "overwhelmed" by the turnout.
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The 2019 iteration of the show was not only the centenary event, but also the first to be held at the new showgrounds at Romaine on the Ridgley Highway.
The Burnie Agricultural and Pastoral Society bought the site in 2016 with dreams of making it the permanent home of all agricultural events for the Burnie region.
That permanence is still subject to the approval of development applications yet to be lodged with the Burnie City Council, but temporary permits were provided for the weekend's events - which organisers are calling the biggest ever.
"It was an incredible turnout," said BAPS president Carol Jackson.
"We hoped for the best but we really had no idea what it was going to be. We're just all really happy."
In 2018 the Burnie Show attracted about 7,000 people. Mrs Jackson said early estimates were that 12,000 passed through the gates on Friday.
She had yet to hear how many the Saturday installment had attracted when speaking to The Advocate on Saturday afternoon, but she said she knew why people had turned out in droves.
"We had so much more to offer, so much more for people to do for the same price that we charged before," she said.
She said that turnout may have come at the very literal cost of not turning a profit, but that was to be expected for the first year at a new location.
"It's been stressful, safe to say. We have met every week since Christmas to plan this show.
"No one is paid, it is all volunteers."
She said there was never any intention to not hold the 100th Burnie Show, or to go the same way as many of Australia's agricultural shows, and it is organisers' intention to return in 2020 even stronger.
The Agriplex Development Committee is charged with transforming the new site, and chair Peter Broadfield said the weekend was a good test run for the site.
"This is a sign of the patronage, the Tasmanian public, give to this type of event," Mr Broadfield said.
"We had three times the number we saw at the last Burnie Show at the Wivenhoe grounds."
He said the Wivenhoe grounds had constrained the Burnie Show, and the new site will allow it expand to its full potential.
He said the livestock area alone, housed in a circus marquee this year, was double the size of the lower half of the Wivenhoe grounds.