YUP. I have been specifically invited to come to cons to run things, because of the positive feedback organizers have been given about my games. I’ve had people show up to play the exact same game twice in a weekend, telling me that they enjoyed it so much the first time that they were willing to play it again.
And yet if you asked me to remember a con game? The time I totally flubbed Hollowpoint. And the time I wasted 5 hours of people’s time on a completely dissatisfying session of Night Witches (which I was told by several participants was actually pretty satisfying!).