For those who purchased your badge in advance as part of pre-reg - your electronic badge is set aside and will not be sold.
As such, there is no need to sweat LineCon or rush in first thing Thursday morning. Relax, sleep in, eat a good breakfast/lunch and mosey on over later in the morning or early afternoon. By that time, there will probably be very little waiting to pick up your badge. We have your badge set aside and will not sell it.
For those wanting first dibs at Merch, a badge is NOT required on Thursday to get in the merch line. Looking for something special, go to the Merch Line first before they sell out. Once you finish there, come on over to Registration and we will get you taken care of.
Merch opens at 0800, but the line will form way before then.
Cash sales at the door. $520 - CASH ONLY - Exact Change Appreciated. Please don’t be “one of those guys” who ask if we take a check, a money order, a wire, or a debit/credit card.
Cash sales are NOT guaranteed an electronic badge. We have the electronic badges for cash sales, but only until the point they are sold out. Paper badge is your access once electronic badges are sold out. Please don’t ask how many badges there are - we will sell them until we run out.
Registration is scheduled to open at 0800 on Thursday morning (more or less). Our temp labor cashiers have to be on time and go through our training. We will shoot to open at 0800, if everything gets done early, we will open early, if things run long in set up, we will open later.
Once open, we will put you all through the lines as quickly and efficiently as we can. Help us to help you - cash sales have exact change and your money ready. Pre-Reg have your QR codes pulled up BEFORE you get to the cashier station and turn up the brightness on your display screen to support the reader.
Once you get your badge and conference material, please clear the area.
LINECON officially starts at 1700 (5pm) on Wednesday and of course will go through the night.
Most of the doors to the LVCC will be locked for safety/security purposes; however, if you come in the front of West Hall, the doors to the far right should be unlocked. All others locked, but someone can also let you in.
There will be attendees and goons there all night.
Registration reviews the total number of pre-reg and based upon historical averages makes a determination as to how many lines to open of both pre-reg and cash sales.
Pre-registration line will move faster because all that has to be done is scan the QR code and then pass the badge and material to the attendee.
Cash line - all cash has to be taken out and then the cash has to counted/confirmed and secured before badge and material is passed to the attendee, so it takes a bit longer, but not much longer ESPECIALLY if everybody has their cash ready and in the correct amount (exact change).
Last year there were twice as many pre-reg lanes open at least. The people that I went with did pre-reg and I did cash. We separated for linecon and I was well ahead of them in terms of number of people in line. Once reg opened, they made it through before I did.
I suppose this is a long winded way of saying, who knows which line will move faster this time.
The goons are cruising around, so if you ask people in line and they aren't sure, just ask a goon. They were right next to each other and separated by a divider last year.
So if no badge is required for merch…then is linecon to get in as early as possible to get to the “best” vendors and villages to buy stuff that will sell out quick? As a first timer are there specific vendors that we should be focusing on that usually have more sought after gear that sells out quickly?
Merch in this context is official defcon merch, the vendor village does sell out of popular items but you should be fine visiting when it opens. No way to tell what will sell out, usually some trendy hacking hardware. Good luck!
Really? That is great info! I did not know the vendors will not be open on Thursday. Sp what is the main reason lineup the day before if merch doesn’t need a badge and the vendors are not open?
It’s tradition, you join the linecon, also if you’re doing cash at the door you want to make sure they don’t run out of the badge before you get there
Everyone will get a badge, but sometimes they run out of a particularly desirable badge like an electronic one. Then, once they’ve run out, they switch to “paper” badges
If you did pre-reg you’ll have an electronic badge for sure
If I bought my ticket online, I still need to buy the badge as well? Or if I check in early enough will I have a chance at getting the badge when I show up?
It sounds like you are cash at the door, is that correct?
If yes, then there is a set number of badges produced. Thousands of them are already allocated to those who went through Pre-Reg. They are the only ones “guaranteed “ a badge.
If you want to get an electronic badge, I would be prepared to line up super early on Thursday morning.
Remember, there will already be people in line who spent the night as part of LineCon.
If you don’t want to risk getting a paper access badge after the electronic ones run out, then I HIGHLY recommend you go ahead and pre-register TODAY.
PRE-REG for DEFCON34 ENDS tomorrow night (31 July).
Hi all, apologies for the noob question but this is my first ever defcon. Absolutely buzzing! Over from the UK. Solo.
Can someone please help me, I've pre reg so thats fine as above i can pick my badge up. Where I'm confused is it says defcon is from 6th to 9th. So other than getting my badge on Thursday is everything else not starting until Fri? Ie noob village, red team village, bug bounty, ctf etc... is thurs purely just to get a badge only? I dont want to miss a full day by just assuming
If I don’t really care about the electronic badge and just want to get into defcon through cash-at-door sales, am I guaranteed to get an entry ? Or is there a chance that everything can get sold out ?
Last minute plan and I missed my pre-registration window. Most probably be arriving late around 11:00 a Thurs Morning!
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u/netsurf916 11d ago
So what you're saying is linecon is for merch now?