Lottery Sign-Up Extended—Ends Tuesday, April 28 at 2:00 PM Pacific time!


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Hey everyone, just a quick update that we have extended the lottery signup window to Tuesday, April 28 at 2:00 PM! We wanted to be sure everyone had enough time over the weekend and early next week to get their selections in. :)

Need help with anything lottery/event related? Check out our instructions thread.

Silver Crusade

Chris Lambertz wrote:

Hey everyone, just a quick update that we have extended the lottery signup window to Tuesday, April 28 at 2:00 PM! We wanted to be sure everyone had enough time over the weekend and early next week to get their selections in. :)

Need help with anything lottery/event related? Check out our instructions thread.

Tuesday at 2PM or Wednesday at 2AM?

Lantern Lodge Customer Service Manager

We ended up nudging it to 11:59 pst tonight so some people that had ticket issues that had to be addressed could get their selections in.

Scarab Sages

Any idea when we'll know the results?
Eagerly awaiting!

Scarab Sages

Guessing Pat, that results will be a bit before open event signup goes live as per previous years.

Scarab Sages

Nizari wrote:
Guessing Pat, that results will be a bit before open event signup goes live as per previous years.

How are the results usually communicated? Is there an email announcement, or do we just start refreshing the Events page around noon Pacific tomorrow?


See this thread - lottery results will be available Thursday at 2:00, just as open registration begins. This is obviously a sub-optimal approach, and this point has been made to the folks at Paizo. I wouldn't be surprised if they appear a bit earlier than that, but I'm guessing.

I don't recall how the results are are communicated - last few years, it's just been lot of F5-mashing for me, eager as I was to know what happened.

Lantern Lodge Customer Service Manager

At the scheduled start time, if you go to the events page there should be a section near the top that says "Your Schedule" with the list of events you are either marked as attending or as a volunteer for.

On the back end, the lottery results and open registration are hard coded for one time and date field and I am reasonably certain that has not changed in at least the last couple years.

We also send out an email to remind people that open registration has begun.

Lantern Lodge Customer Service Manager

We have had issues in the past where we found an problem with something not having been set right for the lottery and we had to rerun it which is why we have a at least a day between when we stop letting preferences been selected and when we push the results live.

I think one year we announced results and then realized they were wrong and had to rerun it which was quite a headache for all involved.

Scarab Sages

Sara Marie wrote:
On the back end, the lottery results and open registration are hard coded for one time and date field

Okay, so hitting F5 from Noon Pacific until 2:00pm won't do anything but burn bandwidth. I guess I'll wait until 2:01pm.

Scarab Sages

Looks like the time to start mashing F5 has been moved to 3:30pm.


Yep. Something like this happened last year too.

Grand Lodge

So it looks like the lottery results are posted.

Scarab Sages

Nope, not yet

Grand Lodge

Well, mine are anyway.

Dark Archive

It's back down now. It sounds like there are many of us who ranked lottery events and didn't get in, yet the event was showing open seats. I'm guessing they're investigating.

Scarab Sages

What is it showing for you, TOZ?

Scarab Sages

Mine was visible at 2:30, but it's gone again now.

Grand Lodge

Same, now gone.

Grand Lodge

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Feels like Christmas Eve right now... I can't wait to see if or what I got into.

Scarab Sages

I think this is the only time of year I get that feeling anymore. lol.

Lantern Lodge Customer Service Manager

Locking this thread to try to keep things in one place.

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