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Panel and Event line up question

gymimgymim Registered User new member
edited January 2009 in PAX Archive
Is it possible to get the panel/event line up, times, and room numbers before 2009 PAX opens? I remember I got there 2008 and wished I had planned what panel I would attend a few days ahead of time.

Is there a web page that will have that data?

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  • ColdbrewColdbrew Down in Front Productions Lake Stevens, WARegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    All of those details are released usually within a month or so of the time PAX takes place, so you're going to have to wait a while. :P

    It takes time for them to figure out what kind of panels are even taking place, let alone time and location, but you will get the details before PAX so don't worry about that.

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  • SkinnaySkinnay Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    even if you did have everything planned out before you got there... that's not how things are going to work out for you in the slightest bit. and if you show up early on friday you can get a book that has everything and then you can read that and plan out while you're wating in line instead of drawing penis' on pictochat... because well... we all do that

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  • ColdbrewColdbrew Down in Front Productions Lake Stevens, WARegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Skinnay wrote: »
    instead of drawing penis' on pictochat... because well... we all do that

    *dreads the arrival of the DSi* :P

    but... you have a point, I tried to plan things out, and it just doesn't work...

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  • seraphexseraphex Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I think it was a couple weeks before the event that a PDF of the times and rooms was posted on the pennyarcadeexpo.com site. I printed (and bound) copies to hand out to my crew. They made great scratch paper. You can plan ahead to some extent, but be prepared for changes and to possibly abandon ship completely.

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  • TransparentTransparent Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    If memory serves me, last year the official event schedule was released at 4:30 pm Pacific on 8/9/08. 3 weeks before the event that time.

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  • parabolaparabola Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Planning your PAX amounts to failure.

    I ended up going to too many panels... Next year i'm forcing myself to only choose a few. Which is going to suck.

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  • TransparentTransparent Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    It's hard not to feel like you missed out on something. I can't believe I didn't play any Kickle's Cubicle at PAX 08, I barely did any tabletop, and I missed some of the few panels I decided I wanted to attend. But last years PAX was still one of the best weekends of my life.

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  • parabolaparabola Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Transparent wrote: »
    But last years PAX was still one of the best weekends of my life.

    And the next one ad infinitum.


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  • LailLail Surrey, B.C.Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    parabola wrote: »
    Planning your PAX amounts to failure.

    No way! If you don't at least half-plan you miss so many awesome things.

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  • BrokenAngelBrokenAngel Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I plan every year, then promptly do absolutely nothing I planned.

    Yet I still have the greatest time EVER. Weird.

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  • Moe FwackyMoe Fwacky Right Here, Right Now Drives a BuickModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited January 2009
    I had last year planned out to the letter, then forgot about it, with exception to a few things. Although it wasn't like I planned to go to those things, so I did. It was more like, I planned to go, forgot about it in the bustle of awesome, then ended up there by accident.

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  • MrBartokomousMrBartokomous Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I had mine planned out and entered into my PDA's dayplanner along with a copy of the PAX map (whoever made that for blackberry, kudos!) with all the different stuff I wanted to do, and stuck to... most of it. There were a number of cases where panels were full or events were delayed/cancelled and I wound up playing board games, futzing around on my laptop, touring the exhibit hall, or enjoying some freeplay.

    I would schedule as much as you can, but don't worry or get all in a huff if you miss some things, because there's plenty of alternatives at any given time, and they're all a great deal of fun.

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  • kropotkinkropotkin Forum Badge Creator London UKRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I regret not getting to all of the panels I wanted to. The Podcast one was a big problem for me as I was post-producing and uploading my show as it was running. Great planning on my part eh?

    Still, at least I can cross off 1Up Yours this year, I'm sad to say :(

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  • Rogue_hunterRogue_hunter Breaks Through Brick Walls Los AngelesRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    kropotkin wrote: »
    I regret not getting to all of the panels I wanted to. The Podcast one was a big problem for me as I was post-producing and uploading my show as it was running. Great planning on my part eh?

    Still, at least I can cross off 1Up Yours this year, I'm sad to say :(

    I really wanted to go to that podcast one too. But there were ALOT of panels that I wanted to go to. I ended up going to a grand total of 3 panels and the keynote. Though, I got to see the ending of the 1Up Yours live panel, only because of the Dawn of War 2 panel that was right after.

    Plan for a bunch of things, but just pick two or three that you REALLY want to go to

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  • parabolaparabola Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Hopefully this year there are more that i dont want to go to.

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  • CaptainTapoleCaptainTapole Awesome in the Possum - Yee-Haw! Northern CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    parabola wrote: »
    Hopefully this year there are more that i dont want to go to.

    Colour me stupid and curious, but why?

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  • VThornheartVThornheart Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    So that there's no guilt and regret about not having seen it, I understand how Parabola feels on that =)

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  • redhaloredhalo Also a Professional Alcoholic Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I missed at the least half of what I planned, but made up for it with impromptu parties and meetups. In the end I think I was the better for it.

    Tapole: What have you changed your avatar to?

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  • VThornheartVThornheart Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Aye, I missed all sorts of meet-ups too. =( It was all just way more compacted than I realized it would be.

    For some reason, I had this idea in my mind that at some point we were all going to go out drinking, for example... but when I went to Triwizards, it was utter insane chaos. I think I ran into Astayonix for like 5 seconds and that was it, I didn't recognize anyone else until after it was all over.

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  • CaptainTapoleCaptainTapole Awesome in the Possum - Yee-Haw! Northern CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    redhalo wrote: »
    Tapole: What have you changed your avatar to?

    To this!

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  • BamboozaBambooza Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Lol, VThornheart to think you showed up at the dinner on sunday night still forgetting who half the people where. Then again is it even possible to remember 10k+ new found friends names?

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  • VThornheartVThornheart Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Aye, that was the biggest problem. If everyone had a giant T-Shirt with their avatar on it I'd recognize most everyone... but man, the need for sudden name/face recognition for an old name on a new face (aka real life face instead of avatar) beat me up pretty badly =)

    Speaking of which, I think T-Shirts with peoples avatars are in order this year. =) lol

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  • Moe FwackyMoe Fwacky Right Here, Right Now Drives a BuickModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited January 2009
    God damn it, that's what the buttons were for. Did everybody forget?

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  • VThornheartVThornheart Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    lol, the problem is that everyone was wearing every button! =)

    What we need is collectible buttons, and then non-collectible forms of identification =)=)

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  • Moe FwackyMoe Fwacky Right Here, Right Now Drives a BuickModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited January 2009
    Or that people wear their own buttons in an identifiable place and the other buttons elsewhere

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  • VThornheartVThornheart Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Ah, true! =)

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  • CaptainTapoleCaptainTapole Awesome in the Possum - Yee-Haw! Northern CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    VThornheart wrote: »
    Ah, true! =)

    Didn't we try to do that last year or something? I vaguely remember someone (no clue who) suggesting to wear our own buttons on our shoulders; one on each side. But with a bajillion folks around and bags (or the awesome Cookie Brigade box thingie VT had) around our shoulders, it was difficult. I guess a more prominent area?

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  • VThornheartVThornheart Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Aye. I'm almost inclined to say that we should consider having... I don't know, maybe some sort of voluntary "wear a hat, and then only put your button(s) on the hat" or something like that.

    Ooh! Or what if we made like "My name is..." cards, and in the blank space we put our button on it and then put that somewhere on our person? Just to make it stand out from the other buttons, as it'd have that "my name is" border around it that would be noticeable.

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  • Moe FwackyMoe Fwacky Right Here, Right Now Drives a BuickModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited January 2009
    not hats, anything but hats

    I hate wearing hats

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  • redhaloredhalo Also a Professional Alcoholic Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I say we wear our underwear outside of our pants with our name on it. That should be pretty noticable.

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  • BrokenAngelBrokenAngel Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I have a "Broken Angel" T-shirt from pax 07 :) that was easy and awesome.

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  • AsiinaAsiina ... WaterlooRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Moe Fwacky wrote: »
    not hats, anything but hats

    I hate wearing hats

    Hats it is!

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  • Qs23Qs23 Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Asiina wrote: »
    Moe Fwacky wrote: »
    not hats, anything but hats

    I hate wearing hats

    Hats it is!

    I'm first!

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    Wearing that hat was honestly my idea for PAX last year until the idea of dressing up as Waldo succeeded it.

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  • VThornheartVThornheart Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    lol! =) I've never seen the full-sized version of that picture =) I had actually assumed that you had photoshopped an XBox 360 controller over some person's face... but now that I see it up close, I can see that it was actually there, on your face (as opposed to a random person's) =) Very funny =)=)

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  • eye-shuheye-shuh Walla Walla, WARegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Everyone could tattoo their tag on their forehead...

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  • VThornheartVThornheart Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    lol eye-shuh! =)

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  • jonxpjonxp [E] PC Security Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Asiina wrote: »
    Moe Fwacky wrote: »
    not hats, anything but hats

    I hate wearing hats

    Hats it is!

    I'll totally wear that hat you made for my daughter.

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  • TimeCruiserMikeTimeCruiserMike Past Organizer of the West Coast Train Trip San Fernando ValleyRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    guys. . . i have the perfect solution to this problem . . . BDUs with custom nametapes . . .
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    . . it really works. Last Year every one was coming up to me saying "Hey TimeCruierMike!"

    . . . wow . . . i just realized how far off topic we are.

    i made a schedule before PAX as well. .. and then threw it out the window when we got there.

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  • AsiinaAsiina ... WaterlooRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    jonxp wrote: »
    Asiina wrote: »
    Moe Fwacky wrote: »
    not hats, anything but hats

    I hate wearing hats

    Hats it is!

    I'll totally wear that hat you made for my daughter.

    The bear ears will be adorable.

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  • VThornheartVThornheart Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I have to say Mike, your outfit is awesome. =)

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