The Con is now over, and I will be unsticking this thread. Thanks for the great time all, and we hope to see you next year!Hello there Anime Fans!
To start things off, my name is Brandon, and I'm your Registration Manager for the 2011 convention year. I want to start off by saying how excited I am for this year's convention, and that I look forward to seeing you all there.
The reason that I started this topic (replacing the old one) is that I get a lot of emails from people asking me questions about registration, and I thought it would be nice to get the answers to some of the more common questions up on the front page of the main forum, so that they are easy to find. Filtering your way through a large thread with a lot of posts can be kinda daunting, and I don't want you to have to go through that.
So to start things off, here's a list of some of the common questions (green) and the common answer (red), and the explanation (blue). I like color coding things =^.^=
I lost / didn't get my badge, and it's only [days/weeks] until the con! What do I do?Email registration@kumoricon.org with your details (attendee name, birthdate, and badge name) as soon as possible to avoid delays. Registration can print another one out for you and leave it at will-call. Please be aware if you lose your badge after picking it up, there will be a reprint fee.Will-call, in the scope of Kumoricon (some other conventions use it differently) means that your badge is held at the registration desk for you to pick up, after you've paid already.When can I pick up my badge, and where?Pickup and check-in for pre-registered attendees starts on Day 0 (Friday), in the parking garage of the Hilton. Time TBA.What kind of ID do I need to check in or pick up my badge?If you are under 18 and getting a youth badge, then you need to have ID with just a photo on it.
If you are over the age of 18 (adult badge) you need to have ID that has your photo and birthdate on it. ID's that are valid for 18+ generally include:- College ID with a birthdate
- Military ID
- Driver's License/State Issued ID
- Passport
- Federal Library Card (yes, these have both your photo and your birthdate)
We can also look at a birth certificate and a school/work ID provided that it has a photo... however this doesn't always work, in the case of a name mis-match.Will you give out lanyards with the badges?Unfortunately, all we will be giving out with badges this year are clip-on tags. If you have a lanyard of your own, you are absolutely welcome to use it.Old information:
I ordered my badge on [date] and it's not here yet, when will I be getting my badge? Your badge will be printed and sent on the next mail-out, these happen about once every two months (sometimes more often)We don't get a chance to meet up very often to work on registration, since it's a rather involved process to make and send the badges. We'd love to be able to do mail-outs every day/week/month etc... but the amount of time to set up and tear down our operations makes it really inefficient to print more often.My friend/sister/mom/husband ordered their badge at the same time/after me, but they have theirs already, where's mine?Badges don't necessarily get printed and sent in the order they register. If you sent us a mail-in form, they take longer to process than the online registrations, since we have to manually enter the data. Alternatively, we don't always have everything we need to ship a badge with the normal batch. Some of the big factors on this one can be:- Incomplete Mailing Address
- Incomplete/Invalid Birthday
- Badge Name Too Long (This is especially true for badge names that are formatted like mybadgenamehere, or my_badge_name_here, since they're not entered with spaces, our software cuts them off).
- Multiple Badges Ordered For the Same Person
The reason for this, is that some of the information is required to either get the badge to you, or to determine which to print. We also don't want to ship you a poorly constructed badge, so if the name/badge name cuts off, we re-print it.A Word from Bresslol:
Hey all, I'm more posting this as Assistant Ops Director than a mod.
While we are having registration in the garage, I want to remind you that people may be lining up outside to get into the garage, as we have a hard cap of how many people we can have in the garage at any one time.
According to weather.com, the weather seems it will be flirting with 90 and sunny for the majority of the weekend.
We will have water available in the garage, and we are taking all steps to keep the garage itself cool, there is a possibility you may be lining up outside for an extended period of time. PLEASE ensure you have proper sunblock on you, as well as a bottle of water on your person. It might be a good idea to put your day zero cosplay aside until you have gotten all squared away so you don't overheat. Heat stroke is very serious business and could take you out of con early. Nobody wants that, so I implore you to take precautions when you're lining up for pre-reg or at-con reg during the convention.If you have any other questions, please post here and we'll be happy to reply, or send us an email: registration@kumoricon.org
Thanks and have a wonderful day =^.^=
(updated by randompvg, bresslol)