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PAX West Party Line 2016
The party thread is back for PAX West 2016. Post info on any party/meetup you might know. I will keep the list updated here with time, date, location, cost, etc. so that everyone can have a single point of reference. Also follow @paxparties on Twitter as they are always up-to-date on what is currently happening including capacity/overflow/etc.
MAP
The Map can be found by clicking Here!
Wednesday 8/31
Thursday 9/1
Friday 9/2
Saturday 9/3
Sunday 9/4
Monday 9/5
MAP
The Map can be found by clicking Here!
Wednesday 8/31
SchlitzKrieg 2016
Magical Mystery Tour/Pokewalk 2016 - Wednesday
- Only 6 Seats remain!
- Time: 7:30am - 8pm
Where: Bus picks-up at the Sheraton
Age Restriction: 21+
Cost: $100
Tickets: Start Here.
Magical Mystery Tour/Pokewalk 2016 - Wednesday
- Time: TBD.
Where: TBD.
Age Restriction: None.
Cost: Some or all locations will cost money. Check the event for further details.
Tickets: Check Event for further details of locations and prices.
Thursday 9/1
Magical Mystery Tour/Pokewalk 2016 - Thursday
Pre-PAX Board Game Night
Pre-PAX Pinny Dinner
The ID@Xbox Pre-PAX Open House
Pre-PAX Gaming, Dinner and More!
Welcome to the START OF TERM FEAST (Aka the Pre-PAX Dinner)
Another Castle 2V2 Rocket League Tournament
Top of the World Pre-Pax Board Game Extravaganza 2016!
Pre-PAX Hookah 2016
Geek Out! Trivia Night - PAX West Edition
Nindies@Night
The Triwizard Drinking Tournament 2
The Final Station Launch Party
PAX Countdown 2016
- Time: TBD.
Where: TBD.
Age Restriction: None.
Cost: Some or all locations will cost money. Check the event for further details.
Tickets: Check Event for further details of locations and prices.
Pre-PAX Board Game Night
- Time: 4pm - ???
Where: The 2nd Floor of the Seattle Sheraton Hotel.
Age Restriction: None
Cost: None
Tickets: No Ticket Required!
Pre-PAX Pinny Dinner
- Ticket Sale has Ended!
- Time: 4pm - 8pm (this is extremely casual so show up anytime during those hours, whenever works best for you!)
Where: Lunchbox Laboratory
Age Restriction: None.
Cost: $28.00
Tickets: Here.
The ID@Xbox Pre-PAX Open House
- Time: 5:00pm - 9:00pm
Where: Microsoft Visitor Center (building 92)
Age Restriction: 18 and older (under 18 allowed with parent/guardian)
Cost: None
Tickets: No Ticket Required!
Pre-PAX Gaming, Dinner and More!
- Time: 5:00pm - 11:00pm (Might be later for some.)
Where: SPORT Restaurant and Bar;
Age Restriction: 10+.
Cost: $60.
Tickets: Here.
Welcome to the START OF TERM FEAST (Aka the Pre-PAX Dinner)
- Ticket Sale has Ended!
- Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Where: Barça!
Age Restriction: 21+
Cost: $24.68
Tickets: Here.
Another Castle 2V2 Rocket League Tournament
- Time: 6:00PM - 9:00pm
Where: Another Castle Video Games
Age Restriction: None.
Cost: $15 for teams! $10 for Individuals!
Tickets: Most likely sign-ups are at the event. Verifying.
Top of the World Pre-Pax Board Game Extravaganza 2016!
- Time: 6:00pm - 1:00am
Where: Columbia Tower Club, Floor 76
Age Restriction: None
Cost: $79.00 - $84.00
Tickets: Here.
Pre-PAX Hookah 2016
- Time: 7:30pm - 11:00pm
Where: Aladdin Hookah Lounge
Age Restriction: 21+.
Cost: Free to enter.
Tickets: None.
Geek Out! Trivia Night - PAX West Edition
- Time: 7:30pm - Late
Where: The Raygun Lounge
Age Restriction: None.
Cost: Free.
Tickets: None.
Nindies@Night
- Time: 8:00pm - Midnight
Where: EMP Museum
Age Restriction: None.
Cost: Free.
Tickets: None.
The Triwizard Drinking Tournament 2
- Sold Out!
- Time: 8:30pm - ???
Where: TBA
Age Restriction: 21+
Cost: Free, but expect to bring money to donate to Child's Play. A small donation will be expected when getting your score cards, etc. Pay for your own drinks.
Tickets: Here. Password: Can be found on the page here.
The Final Station Launch Party
- Time: 9:00pm - Midnight
Where: Capitol Cider
Age Restriction: 21+.
Cost: Free.
Tickets: Here.
PAX Countdown 2016
- Time: 9:00pm - 2:00am
Where: Kremwerk
Age Restriction: 21+.
Cost: Free.
Tickets: None.
Friday 9/2
Monster Hunter Generations 2016 Tour: Seattle
PARAGON PAX West 2016 Meetup
ArenaNet / Guild Wars 2 Community Party
Tespa PAX West Meetup
Pokecrawl: Seattle Pub-Crawl
GameJolt IndieDev Gathering
DEUS EX GO & KINDA FUNNY PARTY
PAX West Beer Swap and Bottleshare!
2016 High Score Tour with Mark Dago and Red Bennies and DJ Shanty
Unreal PAX VR After Party
Dimension Door Kickstarter Launch Party & Cosplay Contest at PAX
- Time: 2:00pm - 8:00pm.
Where: Unicorn
Age Restriction: 21+
Cost: Free.
Tickets: None. RSVP Here as it is encouraged.
PARAGON PAX West 2016 Meetup
- Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm.
Where: GameWorks in the Arena Bar Pub Room.
Age Restriction: None.
Cost: Free.
Tickets: None.
ArenaNet / Guild Wars 2 Community Party
- Time: Undisclosed.
Where: A downtown Seattle Location near the WSCC.
Age Restriction: 21+
Cost: Free
Tickets: Message the Admin on this site by August 19th.
Tespa PAX West Meetup
- Time: 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Where: FareStart
Age Restriction: None.
Cost: Free.
Tickets: RSVP Here. Otherwise, None.
Pokecrawl: Seattle Pub-Crawl
- Time: 8:00pm - 1:00am.
Where: The Barking Dog Alehouse
Age Restriction: 21+.
Cost: Free.
Tickets: None. RSVP Here.
GameJolt IndieDev Gathering
- Time: 8:00pm - 1:00am
Where: The Raygun Lounge
Age Restriction: None.
Cost: Free.
Tickets: RSVP Here.
DEUS EX GO & KINDA FUNNY PARTY
- Time: 8:00pm - 2:00am
Where: Hard Rock Café Seattle – 2nd Floor
Age Restriction: None.
Cost: Free.
Tickets: None.
PAX West Beer Swap and Bottleshare!
- Time: 8:00pm - Late.
Where: Grand Hyatt. Room information will be posted Here! Please join the Facebook group as it is private.
Age Restriction: 21+
Cost: Have a different beer for every one you bring.
Tickets: None.
2016 High Score Tour with Mark Dago and Red Bennies and DJ Shanty
- Time: 8:00pm - Late. Note: No time was listed, I just took the time off of the show they are doing the night before elsewhere.
Where: Central Saloon
Age Restriction: 21+
Cost: Free.
Tickets: None.
Unreal PAX VR After Party
- Time: 9:00pm - 2:00am
Where: Fred Wildlife Refuge
Age Restriction: 21+.
Cost: Free with Pax Pass or an RSVP, otherwise $5 before 11pm.
Tickets: RSVP Here.
Dimension Door Kickstarter Launch Party & Cosplay Contest at PAX
- Time: 9:00pm - 2:00am
Where: Club Contour
Age Restriction: 21+.
Cost: Free entry with your PAX Badge or Cosplay!
Tickets: None.
Saturday 9/3
Semaphore Lunch at GameWorks
Karazhan Release Party and PAX PRIME Tournament
Vainglory North American Live Summer Championships 2016 - Saturday
Chiptunez Street: at PAX West (FREE SHOW)
NCSOFT PAX West Mixer
Official Pink Party Prime Pre Party
Design Club Live - By: Extra Credits
Idle Thumbs Wizard Meet 2016
PAX CRITTERCONCRAWL
The NPC Collective Presents: PAX West 2016 Nerdcore Hip Hop Concert!
Pink Party Prime 8
- Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Where: GameWorks
Age Restriction: None.
Cost: Free.
Tickets: RSVPing can be found Here.
Karazhan Release Party and PAX PRIME Tournament
- Time: 2:00pm - 6:00pm
Where: The Raygun Lounge
Age Restriction: None.
Cost: None.
Tickets: None.
Vainglory North American Live Summer Championships 2016 - Saturday
- Time: 3:00pm - 11:00pm
Where: Amazon Meeting Center
Age Restriction: None.
Cost: $5 - PAX badge holders will be granted free entry on a first come, first serve basis. A shuttle will be running from PAX to the Live Championships for free with a PAX badge.
Tickets: Here.
Chiptunez Street: at PAX West (FREE SHOW)
- Time: 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Where: 7th & Pike
Age Restriction: None.
Cost: Free.
Tickets: None.
NCSOFT PAX West Mixer
- Time: 5:00pm - 9:00pm
Where: Motif Seattle
Age Restriction: None.
Cost: Free.
Tickets: RSVP Here.
Official Pink Party Prime Pre Party
- Time: 6:00pm - 11:00pm
Where: Raygun Lounge
Age Restriction: 21+
Cost: Free.
Tickets: None.
Design Club Live - By: Extra Credits
- Time: 6:00pm - When it ends.
Where: Nagomi Tea House
Age Restriction: None.
Cost: $15.
Tickets: Here.
Idle Thumbs Wizard Meet 2016
- Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Where: The Diller Room
Age Restriction: 21+
Cost: Free
Tickets: None
PAX CRITTERCONCRAWL
- Time: 7:00pm - Late.
Where: The Raygun Lounge
Age Restriction: None.
Cost: Free.
Tickets: None.
The NPC Collective Presents: PAX West 2016 Nerdcore Hip Hop Concert!
- Time: 7:30pm - Late.
Where: LO-FI Performance Gallery
Age Restriction: 21+.
Cost: Free with any 2016 PAX Badge or $5 without.
Tickets: At the door.
Pink Party Prime 8
Sunday 9/4
PAX weekend worship gathering 2016
Love Live! School Idol Festival Meetup - PAX West 2016
Vainglory North American Live Summer Championships 2016 - Sunday
Rivals of Aether PAX West Tournament & Innervate PAX West Party!
Seattle Indies Expo After Party
Double Fine Presents: PAX Fan Meetup 2016
Dishonored 2 – Visit Karnaca at PAX West
SUPERHARD: HI SCORE
“The Silver Case" PAX Party
Poropalooza
- Time: 9:00am - 10:00am
Where:Plymouth Church
Age Restriction: None.
Cost: Free.
Tickets: None.
Love Live! School Idol Festival Meetup - PAX West 2016
- Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm.
Where: TBD.
Tickets: Free.
Cost: None.
Vainglory North American Live Summer Championships 2016 - Sunday
- Time: 3pm - 11pm
Where: Amazon Meeting Center
Age Restriction: None.
Cost: $5 - PAX badge holders will be granted free entry on a first come, first serve basis. A shuttle will be running from PAX to the Live Championships for free with a PAX badge.
Tickets: Here.
Rivals of Aether PAX West Tournament & Innervate PAX West Party!
- Time: 5:00pm - 12:00am.
Where: Emerald City Trapeze Arts
Age Restriction: None.
Cost: $10
Tickets: Here.
Seattle Indies Expo After Party
- Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Where: Melrose Market Studios
Age Restriction: None.
Cost: Free.
Tickets: No Ticket Required!
Double Fine Presents: PAX Fan Meetup 2016
- Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Where: Hard Rock Café Seattle
Age Restriction: None.
Cost: Free.
Tickets: Not Required.
Dishonored 2 – Visit Karnaca at PAX West
- Time: 7pm - Late
Where: The Center for Wooden Boats
Cost: Free.
Tickets: None.
SUPERHARD: HI SCORE
- Time: 9pm - Late
Where: Seattle Eagle Tavern
Age Restriction: 21+
Cost: $10 after 10pm.
Tickets: At the Door.
“The Silver Case" PAX Party
- Time: 9:00pm - Late
Where: Barboza
Age Restriction: 21+
Cost: Free.
Tickets: None.
Poropalooza
- Time: 9:00pm - 2:00am.
Where: Q NightClub
Age Restriction: 21+
Cost: $10 Entry.
Tickets: At the Door.
Monday 9/5
The Rock Band After PAX Party(RBAPP3)
MC Frontalot
- Time: 7:00pm - 1:30am. Might change.
Where: Unicorn
Age Restriction: 21+
Cost: Free.
Tickets: None.
MC Frontalot
- Time: 7:00pm - Late.
Where: EL CORAZON
Age Restriction: None.
Cost: $10 - $12.
Tickets: Here.
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I'm curious if the HP Lovecraft bar crawl will be making a return, have a buddy who wanted to go but missed out last year.
Tri-Wizard still has 7 slots.
PAX Weast 2017 Status: Badges [X] Room [X] Fried Rice [X]
Oh, yeah, its free.
I heard from the organizer of this event, it will not be happening this year; however is planned to return next year. I was sad.
Patrick sad!
Thanks for the info. That's such a bummer, but there are other things available.
I feel like if I go to the Tri-Wizard event I would need to dress up
You can easily get away with a correctly colored T-Shirt. But they are sold out again, so it's currently moot.
I wanted to add one more (LGBT-oriented) party we're hosting on Sunday 9/4:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1722747994651343/
Here's the info:
SUPERHARD: HI SCORE
Sunday, Sep 4 / 9pm - Late
Seattle Eagle Tavern (314 E Pike St, Seattle)
$10 after 10pm / 21+
Drop your joystick and level up at SUPERHARD: HI SCORE, the steamiest, sexiest party during PAX WEST*. Join DJs JOEY WEBB and FREDDY KING OF PANTS, along with super hard XXX stars TYLER RUSH (Amp Somers) and CASS BOLTON (Cass Bolton) at the Seattle Eagle for a night of uncharted fun and some serious PVP. SUPERHARD: HI SCORE will be kinky, crazy, and no holds barred. Whether you hit up the Eagle in your best Overwatch cosplay, WOW t-shirt, or Pokemon underwear, you can be a part of it, too.
*PAX West attendance NOT required for admission.
On that same note, even though we decided to take a year off, we are sort of working behind the scenes with John Howie (always our biggest sponsor) and Epic Team Adventures, a new campaign-style puzzle escape venture to put something together for everybody to enjoy that will involve board gaming at one of his award-winning restaurants, awesome escape rooms down the street at ETA, and some of John's amazing eats on that evening in order to raise money for Food Lifeline with John & ETA taking the lead on the individual components, with us providing some insight and expertise on putting it together.
Ooooh I love escape rooms!!!!
Huh. I'm not sure this is 100% accurate. You guys may be busy, but it also might have to do with one of the members of the ECTC having to step down, and a not pleasant split and a bunch of drama on the interwebs. It kind of seems like you're throwing the reasonable guy who stayed under the bus in the hopes that his event fails.
For instance, ECTC seems to have last run an event before Emerald City Comicon, and it is hosted on the same site as the current event: http://www.ftwevents.com/blog/?offset=1458949877000
And then there was this on Twitter:
And this:
And enough so that Mike Selinker, friend of Penny Arcade, spoke out: https://www.facebook.com/mike.selinker/posts/10153532307117309
Matt Winberry appears to be running the current event. I can't speak to whether he's got the prep work done or not, but disparaging his efforts seems very disingenuous.
To address your attempts at re-direction, we would invite anyone to spend 10 minutes looking at Jessica's Twitter feed to see what type of person she is. A guy with a strong personality and backbone like Chance is never going to get along with someone like her without her flying off the handle. Also, Selinker is a longtime friend of hers, so of course he's going to attempt to side with her. And try to not mention that Selinker attempted to threaten Chance in private messages which are out there for people to see if they are so inclined. And came to our event last year without warning (which we allowed because the CAH people asked us), didn't donate anything to the prize table like every other comped guest was asked to do, got sloppy drunk on our dime, and left without contributing one thing to the whole evening aside from signing one copy of Pathfinder Paizo had donated that we gave away. And yes, we've got photos. The only statement we ever made about that kerfluffle with Jessica was, and remains, here for those who want the other side: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fdllfrK5bYrDwxrZpunMbkZo8bpzPUMaFIjAx9I7xC4/edit
As to ECTC, our group used to partner with Matt for monthly free events at the tower club, but our paid events were always separate - his on tabletop day, ours on pax eve. After Matt did some things, the other 3 of us got together and told Matt we needed him to step down from the partnership and then Matt threw a public temper tantrum in the club and proceeded to delete the original ECTC Facebook group. Him being asked to leave has nothing to do with our decision to not run an event this year, and him even having the opportunity to run an event for pax this year is only the result of us releasing our reservation on the space for the reasons I already said previously. He can't have had the prep work done, because we didn't release the reservation on that space until very recently. Further, a delineation needs to be made because we've had many people who are confused about the event hosts and we can't have him damaging our brand by trying to ride our coattails. Here's an example from the ticket purchase page to the event he's trying to run this year:
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https://us.v-cdn.net/5018289/uploads/editor/kq/opalk7urjzuv.jpg
Since Matt has tried to run his own events for 4 years now, 3 of which we attended and the 4th which we heard quite a bit about, we feel we have a pretty good idea of what the event will look like, and it doesn't meet our standards. This is also a reason why we've sold out every year we've put one on, and he's never managed to fill half the floor. We can't have people associating what they are going to experience in a couple of weeks with what we put on and it's fairly obvious he's gone to some length in his descriptions and event titling to create a connection with the events we've put on with the one he's attempting in an effort to drive unsuspecting sales. There's more we can say about other concerns we have with his name being confused with ours, but that's not something we're going to put in the court of public opinion.
To further drive this home, here are just a number of examples of him trying to confuse the consumer as to who is running the event, taken right off his sales page:
"2016 was a tough year for us". There is no us
"We faced a lot of internal adversity, and while we're eyeing 2017 as our year to come back ". There is no we and there is no internal adversity because he's a separate entity.
we want to keep the momentum going on this great event in 2016. There is no momentum, because it wasn't his event and him getting to do it this year is a one year thing due to us being busy.
Therefore, the theme this year is one of "Scaling Back and Scaling Up" There is no theme this year, because there is no "this year", because pax was not his event. He can't say the theme has changed from last year when he wasn't involved.
We're not reserving as much room atop the tower this year. There is no this year vs. last year, because pax wasn't his event.
the base ticket will be $20 more expensive than last year. Once again, there is no more expensive than last year, because he wasn't involved with the pax event.
We try not to interfere too much with him, but we simply can't let these attempts to tie himself to what we've built in an effort to fool our customers.
Sad to see hardly anything for Friday or Saturday yet. =/
I am certain we will see more eventually. Just keep your eyes posted. 4 more weeks to go, so plenty of time.
https://www.facebook.com/events/140605606374729
I think they mean the "+ Going" button on the Facebook page.
Well I feel silly :P
I also ran across this announcement via Larry Hryb for a pre-PAX open house for Microsoft on Sept. 1. It's a jaunt but might be fun.
They had a shuttle last year that picked up right outside the convention center. I didn't go but some friends said it was a good time.
I'm sad to announce that there will not be an H.P. Pubcraft Lovecrawl this year. I simply have not had the bandwidth to create this year's experience in the way I would want, and the way you deserve. Big thanks to everyone who has attended, you make this event amazing. I do plan to triumphantly reanimate the Lovecrawl next year— bigger, better and more haunting!
Attendee: Prime '06, '07, '08, '09, '10, '11, '12, '13, '14, '15... East '10
Thanks for including us on the list!
https://www.pinnypals.com/pals/thefawnn
Just a quick note, ticket sales for the Start of Term Feast end on the 18th!
Thanks for this thread!
Friday, September 2, 2016
9:00 PM to 2:00 AM
Fred Wildlife Refuge
128 Belmont AVE E, Seattle, WA
http://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Unreal-Engine-4-Meetup/events/233252433/
RSVP to get in FREE http://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Unreal-Engine-4-Meetup/events/233252433/
prepaxevent.brownpapertickets.com/
For more info about Epic Team Adventures, visit:
https://epicteamadventures.com/
For info about Sport Restaurant & Bar, visit:
sportrestaurant.com/
Thursday, September 1st, 5:00 pm - 11:00 pm (some puzzle times may run past the 11 pm hour)
Ages: 10+ (that's right, you can bring the whole family!)
$60 (plus ticketing fees) Ticket price includes:
Sport & ETA are located in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle, and they are 2 blocks from each other. Sport is located across the street from the Space Needle.
If anyone wishes to purchase additional puzzle room adventures that evening or for future dates, the staff at Epic Team Adventures will be happy to assist.
As usual, proceeds from the event go to Food Lifeline, a fantastic 4-Star rated charity on Charity Navigator.
Nerdy People of Color Collective (www.npccollective.com/) is putting on a show Saturday the 3rd at PAX!
It's at the LoFi in Seattle less than a mile from the convention center!
Free for PAX Attendees (any day will work, or even PAX DEV)
21+ event.
Nerdcore Hip Hop
Prizes
Booze
What more do you need?
https://majornelson.com/2016/08/15/the-idxbox-pre-pax-open-house-returns-on-september-1/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1741437589449486/
(Description posted from their Facebook event)
Official Pink Party Prime Pre Party
Saturday, September 3, 6PM
Raygun Lounge (501 E Pine St)
Capitol Hill’s annual Pink Party (http://pinkpartyprime.com/) is always the PAX event of the season, so we are so proud to yet again be honored with hosting the official Preparty event for it, featuring guests, prizes, and even free passes to the main event itself so come on out while you’re in town and see how the other half lives.
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