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BYOC Information Mega-Thread
BYOC Twitter Feed: @BYOC_East
Registration Status: OPEN?
BCEC Load-In
If you're travelling by car, pull into the Westin/BCEC area at the base of the giant media wall. Follow this road (West Side Drive) all the way past the building, and down and back up the ramp. Keep following the road until you get to Level 1 Southwest. This will be the first glass vestibule you come to on your right hand side.
We will have signs posted where the load-in area will be and there will be Enforcers inside the building manning a security station that can hold your equipment for you while you park your car.
For those of you staying at the Westin, you've got a bit of a walk...sorry about that! Go straight from the skybridge connecting the Westin and the BCEC and down the escalator. Keep going the same direction through North Lobby and around the Northwest corner of the building. Keep following the hallway until you get to "Southwest Lobby B2". This will be the second lobby you come to, just past the food court. From there you can make use of either the RIGHT escalator or the elevator down to the PC Room level (Level 0/ Hall Southwest C1).
Note that BYOC opens at 8:30am on Friday, 90-mins earlier than the rest of the show. Obviously that's pending our ability to make sure things are totally ready for you, but the idea is you'll be able to set up your rig with plenty of time to hop in the Expo Hall line.
BCEC Load-In Map
BYOC Information Mailer
includes errata
Group Seating Information
I will be tweaking this over the next few days.
Registration Status: OPEN?
BCEC Load-In
If you're travelling by car, pull into the Westin/BCEC area at the base of the giant media wall. Follow this road (West Side Drive) all the way past the building, and down and back up the ramp. Keep following the road until you get to Level 1 Southwest. This will be the first glass vestibule you come to on your right hand side.
We will have signs posted where the load-in area will be and there will be Enforcers inside the building manning a security station that can hold your equipment for you while you park your car.
For those of you staying at the Westin, you've got a bit of a walk...sorry about that! Go straight from the skybridge connecting the Westin and the BCEC and down the escalator. Keep going the same direction through North Lobby and around the Northwest corner of the building. Keep following the hallway until you get to "Southwest Lobby B2". This will be the second lobby you come to, just past the food court. From there you can make use of either the RIGHT escalator or the elevator down to the PC Room level (Level 0/ Hall Southwest C1).
Note that BYOC opens at 8:30am on Friday, 90-mins earlier than the rest of the show. Obviously that's pending our ability to make sure things are totally ready for you, but the idea is you'll be able to set up your rig with plenty of time to hop in the Expo Hall line.
BCEC Load-In Map
BYOC Information Mailer
includes errata
SOONish
Group Seating Information
GROUP SEATING IS NOW OPEN!!!
Group Seating RequirementsTo request group seating, email pax_pc@paxsite.com
- Your party is considered a group if you have SIX or more people.
- Groups must pre-register seating assignments prior to PAX, or else seats will be based on first come first serve availability
- Requests are taken on a first come, first serve basis.
BYOC Table LayoutGroup Seating will be updated once per day, each morning.
- RED - Reserved for Admin Use
- BLUE - Group Seating Reserved
- GREEN - Available Seats
Registered Groups
- Admin Area: F1-16
I will be tweaking this over the next few days.
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EDIT: 1 more needed!
EDIT: All set!
PAX East 2018 4-Day Pass [X] BYOC Pass [X] Hotel Reservation [X]
See y'all at PAX East 2018!
6 passes, ie: 6 seats.
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Do you mean in space or numbers?? Has it been decreasing? I haven't gone to
East in a few years, but always assumed it was growing.
I love the byoc, I consider it like the best kept secret. Also, learned it's also a fundraiser. Fun and good!
well, grouped with @Trandescent now. Thanks for the info for going forward, though!
I am a sucker for consistency.
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As long as I get my royalty checks for it, we cool.
I will play all the Rocket Leagues with you people.
also if there's anyone needing one more for a group or something shoot me a pm
will also be bringing some spare things if people need anything: half reel of cat.6 with connectors (yay for working in IT), sata cables, usb cables.
PAX East 2018 4-Day Pass [X] BYOC Pass [X] Hotel Reservation [X]
See y'all at PAX East 2018!
Odd. I received my BYOC pass along with my regular passes.
PAX East 2018 4-Day Pass [X] BYOC Pass [X] Hotel Reservation [X]
See y'all at PAX East 2018!
Will the BYOC team have access to some servers to host game servers for BYOC LAN?
JR
I will also take 1 Rocket League please.
Answer is no and yes at the same time. There have been some difficulties this year and us at LANFest are working hand in hand with our Enforcer cohorts to push through the items that keep popping up like whack-a-moles.
Will there be servers: yes.
Will they be available for BYOC: maybe.
Is that a promise I can take to the grave and berate you for it at a later date: no.
The current diagram should be up to date, if you do not see your group on there please contact me immediately.
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Thanks Kilo.. Should be all set.
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PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE UPDATED BEFORE YOU PACK YOUR COMPUTER
Reason I say this: right now Steam is in the middle of downloading ~70 game updates for me, each 100-250MB. The reason: a Windows update at some point made one of the installer redistributables change, and this is Steam trying to "fix" that file for every game that needed that "update".
PAX East 2018 4-Day Pass [X] BYOC Pass [X] Hotel Reservation [X]
See y'all at PAX East 2018!
Is this a question of lack of resources for BYOC use? If I can get some servers for BYOC-only would that help?
JR
Not quite. More along the lines of late resources (physical product) and new resources (network/server team). It's been a crazy several months planning for PAX East and we are working with a more localized crew right now. A lot of the are very experienced in their fields, but this will be a first PAX. So our focus for this year is getting proper training in before and during the show. I, and I'm sure Dreggor, want to keep everything to what we have to ensure you all experience a smooth ride... and it's a bit late to be adding more servers onto our current load. Mind you, we are covering the entire PC area... something like 700-800 PC/laptops.