As near as I can tell, the only benefit to SantaCon is that all those guys from Queens who were a six-pack away from it are now two six-packs into it. Other than that, there is allegedly a charitable element and the official site says it is "not a bar crawl"...but it is a bar crawl. I didn't see anyone being randomly kind, I saw a lot of people being drunk and annoying. Bah humbug!