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Just wanted to give a quick update on where we are at with the schedule of events. I've tallied up all the submissions from Paizo employees and other companies and community members and we're looking at 176 events ranging from seminars, workshops, games and "other". This does not include Pathfinder Society RPG or ACG.
My goal is to have the event lottery up early or mid-April.
How the lottery selection works:
We will be blogging and emailing when we have the Event schedule ready for lottery choices. Anyone who has a 4 day badge will be able to rank lottery events on how much they would like to attend an event. Once the timeframe for selection is up, we'll run the lottery which randomizes things and gives everyone who has made selection preferences a fair shot at getting into the high profile and/or limited seating events. Once that has happened, we open up event registration to everyone and folks can add remove and trade events. Shortly before the show we'll close down online event registration so we can print event tickets and assemble attendees packets. (Any open seats at events will go onto a corkboard that anyone can take or leave extra tickets from).
Buddies:
If an attendee wants to register for events in the Event Lottery, they will need to have a PaizoCon 4-Day Badge on their own account (these can be transferred from your My E-Tickets page). The Event Lottery has a buddy system for up to 2 people to be linked up for events they select. The Event Lottery buddy system doesn't allow for groups larger than 2 to sign up together (this is a policy that we have in place because of the demand for some of the seats in higher profile lottery events). However, event trading occurs after the lottery is run if the third person is looking for an open seat. It's also possible that there may be an open seat if not enough people signed up for an event.
Kids Badges are not eligible for the Event Lottery process as they are meant for younger individuals who would not be doing as many games/events but are still interested in taking part in the convention. If a younger attendee is looking for a full convention schedule, they should purchase a full 4 day badge. Kids Badges can sign up to events when open registration begins if their badge has been transferred to an individual's account. There is no buddy system for open registration. There are some evens specifically targeted at kids which are left out of the lottery system specifically to make sure kids have the opportunity to sign up.
Thanks for the update, this is good information to have.
JD
How long is the time frame for selection of events for the lottery? I ask because I will be driving cross country for a few days and will not have a computer on me during that time. I would hate to miss out on it if the lottery selection is only a day or two long.
We are estimating ~1 week to let people get the chance to make their preference selection. You'll also be emailed ahead of time before this goes live :)
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I am starting to enter events onto the site and will hopefully be able to make them live tonight or tomorrow morning. I had an incident with excel that delayed me a little bit yesterday and had some last minute changes that had to be dealt with this morning. (That spam war didn't help either).
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We are doing a soft roll out of events. General PFS is now live and I am making events live as I create them. PaizoCon Events. You are supposed to be able to go to the event's individual page when you click the link but that's not working at the moment and tech is looking into why.
What is the difference between CORE and NORM events?
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What is the difference between CORE and NORM events?
Pathfinder Society introduced Core games at the end of January, you can read about them here:
http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lh0h
It's so exciting to see these games listed! While we're talking CORE vs NORM, would it be possible to add that distinction to the search feature? I see that one can pick all the scenarios under CORE or NORM, but it'd be cool to just check a single box and see only one or the other.
Also - Sunday night special, everyone is a 7th-level Aspis agent? Awwwwrsum!
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I am currently drooling over the list, and it doesn't look finished.......
Not even close. I've got Friday's games entered and I have about 18 more seminars. Unfortunately I need to call it a night, but I'll be back in bright and early to enter more! I've also have an assistant tomorrow as well to make it go faster.
Yeah, it looks like my Anagnorisis and other Mark's Out of Retirement are the first lottery games up. All Marks, all the time!
Are the PFS Special events considered lottery events or are they open events like all the other PFS games?
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Its my First paizocon, its just weird to me that 1-7 slots aren't advertised. I understand that i can look for pick up games, but i'm not sure if there is anything i could or should do now. Are the lottery games perhaps played within the 1-7 time frame? I also thought i saw something about a miniature trading event? Hopefully they will have some more of this stuff locked down in the next week or two.
Of course, people were invited to submit PFS events for the lottery in those slots, so you may see some.
Wait until its all up! :)
There will be other non-PFS events scheduled in that time frame, including some of the special games run by Paizo staff.
And quite a few from a handful of third-party publishers, as well. I think Legendary Games alone is contributing 10 tables to the mix spread over Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. And I know Kobold Press is coming with a slate of games, too. So, stay tuned indeed.
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Yes. I had a bunch of last minute questions about how Tanis wanted the ACG events entered. Since they aren't part of the lottery, they're further down on the list of what still has to be entered. They are all in 2 hour time blocks though, from 8am - 6pm Friday, Saturday, Sunday and 8am- 12pm on Monday. There are Demos, Open Play and scenarios from Wrath of the Righteous.
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Yes. I had a bunch of last minute questions about how Tanis wanted the ACG events entered. Since they aren't part of the lottery, they're further down on the list of what still has to be entered. They are all in 2 hour time blocks though, from 8am - 6pm Friday, Saturday, Sunday and 8am- 12pm on Monday. There are Demos, Open Play and scenarios from Wrath of the Righteous.
Thank you ever so much Sara. Your awesomeness is unending :)
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As soon as the tech team is able to turn that off, I'll be going through the people that managed to sign up for events and booting them so it doesn't affect their lottery results.
I can see there are quite a few people that have hopped on the PFS/non-lottery train while this has been up. if any of you see this can you please remove yourself from the event, it will save me a lot of time.
Thanks!