WALL STREET JOURNAL - Daters with swipe fatigue are signing up for singles' nights and speed-meeting events. Attendance at speed-dating events put on by Pre-Dating Speed Dating waned as dating apps took off in the early part of the last decade, says Linda deLucca, the company's co-owner. Many of its competitors shut down. In the past year, however, Ms. deLucca says demand is higher than when the company started in 2001. Pre-Dating operates across 70 cities in the U.S. MyCheekyDate runs speed dating for gay and straight singles in 50 cities in the U.S. and another dozen around the world.