1.618, on May 21 2008, 11:20 AM, said:
I've never been to a convention but i love stargate and stargate atlantis.
The wife, little un and i have bought our tickets for chevron 7.
What can we expect?
Friday:
You will arrive and go to the registartion desk in the hotel lobby. There you will recieve your reg pack and con badge.
At 7ish there will be an opening ceremony where Jason and Mark the organisers will say hi and usually introduce the guests on stage. Once the opening ceremony is over the Gold pass holders will have a drink reception with the guests. At around 8:30pm the party will start, this is a themed party for everyone. Usually as the guests will have been travelling all day they probably will not go, but you never know.
Saturday and Sunday:
There will be a schedule in you reg pack explaining exactly when everything is on. There will be talks where the guests are on stage of 30-50 minutes and answer questions and chat. There will be photo shoots and autograph sessions. Depending on if you have photo shoots you will be called in for the photo shoots and based on your ticket number you will be called to get specific guests autographs. It could be on either Saturday or Sunday. But don't worry you will get all your autographs and photo shoots and there are enough seats for everyone in the talks.
Saturday night:
There will be a themed party where the guests will usually attend.
Please and this is a note to everyone, if you crowd the guests and ask for photos they will leave. If you are polite and talk to the guests in small groups and treat them as normal people they will stay for longer. This was proved at Eclipse and Lockdown. At Eclipse the guests came in and half the room ran at them asking for photos, after 45 minutes only 2 guests remained in the hall, after another 30 minute no guests were there. Were as at Lockdown were the guests were left to have a good time, with people just goin gup and chatting to them and they all stayed until 1am+
Sunday evening/night:
There will be a final big talk with all the guests attending, and then the closing ceremony. After that if you are staying Sunday nigt there is a chill out party on the Sunday night. Again at Lockdown were the guests felt happy and relaxed they came to the Sunday night party and Eclipse they did not.
Please don't feel I'm having a go at you personally about guests being mobbed. Obviously you were not involved and I'm sure never would. It just was a big problem at Eclipse that I feel people should be aware of. Be cool wit hthe guests and they will be cool in return.
Anything else you want to know just ask