[GenCon] "(more) Road Construction News!" (Scouting and Info Within)

[DungeonKeeperUK]

Don't know if anyone's posted this, but the area that's being converted into the Convention Center this year is the RCA Dome apparently, in case anyone is doing Google searches to try and get floor plans or anything like that.

Am I right in thinking that this year, like preceeding years, you need to preregister to get at the hotel rooms set aside for this convention specifically, and can't just directly book them?

If I'm right in thinking what you are getting at basically most of the hotels in close vicinity to the convention centre have been "pre-booked" for the convention goers by GenCon and then booked thorugh GenCon themselves, not sure if thats today with pre-reg of gencon tickets or not...

... or you mey get lucky and get a room close by already like I did,,

 

[Vanye]

As of 6:30 AM Eastern Time (USA) it has NOT opened up!

As of 11:50 am Eastern time, it has not opened. All that I can do is get airline tickets...

 

[Vanye]

As of 6:30 AM Eastern Time (USA) it has NOT opened up!

As of 11:50 am Eastern time, it has not opened. All that I can do is get airline tickets...

 

[Dieter]

Days in anticipation for GenCon the 02/03/03 pre-registration: Many

Number of times I personally refreshed www.gencon.com this morning: Way too many

Realization that just about everyone under the sun is trying to get into that website: Priceless.

Stop refreshing people. Give those guys a chance to fix it.

 

[Duvall]

GenCon Site

I was online late last night and tried loading the web site and it started loading some Flash implementation that was far too slow to wait for over my dial-up from home. There wasn't even a "skip intro" button so I could avoid the damn thing.

At one point over the weekend they also had a different site up that was only marginally more visually appealing than the current one and really had no new info other than exhibitors could download forms for the Indy GenCon.

 

[CaptainCalico]

As of 11:40 CST
***Registration and housing will be open by the end of the day today. Please check back regularly for updates.***

Give them a break - and hope the new system is worth the wait.

 

[Duvall]

Web Site

This now up on the GenCon web site

***Registration and housing will be open by the end of the day today. Please check back regularly for updates.***

 

[Duvall]

Duvall

Did anyone notice that for GenCon Europe you had to download a registration application that weighed in at 6+ MB and then install it on your machine?

I'd be interested to hear feedback from anyone that actually used this.

 

[Hand of Evil]

As of 11:40 CST
***Registration and housing will be open by the end of the day today. Please check back regularly for updates.***

Give them a break - and hope the new system is worth the wait.

So, whos end-of-the-day are we talking about?

 

[thedangerranger]

Between 4 and 5 PST

The Folks at GenCon LLC were kind enough to return my phone call and said the site will most likely be up between 4 and 5p.m. PST today.

Gentlemen...Start your browsers!