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Two More Days to Donate and Win!

Shelbi — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:34:01 +0000

Just a quick reminder that there are 2 days left to enter the drawing for the BlizzCon 2011 Ticket and Custom Minitarz Character. All proceeds go to Child’s Play.

I can tell you that there are less than 10 entries, so your odds of winning are REALLY good!

This Ticket is Child’s Play!

Shelbi — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:54:07 +0000

We’re running a contest over at LFG: BlizzCon from June 1st to June 30th. Donate to Child’s Play and get a ticket for our virtual raffle.

The winner will receive a badge for BlizzCon 2011 (no swag bag) and a custom character illustration (minitarz). 100% of the proceeds will go to Child’s Play. For more info, including rules, Click Here.

Although the details of the raffle are TBD, most likely it will be conducted just like our last raffle.

The Pros and Cons of BlizzCon

Jon — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:38:58 +0000

BlizzCon was a blast. This was our second year to attend and I can say without hesitation that it was a much more epic experience than the last. We learned some valuable lessons and plan on going into BlizzCon 2010 a bit wiser.

Pro	Con

Delicios burrito and chimichanga at Blue Burrito Grille at Sky Harbor Airport.	Bland tacos from the taco hut outside the convention center.
Pro	Con

The sweet rooms at the Hilton.	Looking out our window and realizing that the Marriott across the street has rooms with balconies.
Pro	Con

Meeting and chatting up Chris Metzen outside the lobby of the Hilton.	Missing the WoW.com meetup because it was too damn crowded at the Tangerine.
Pro	Con

The opening keynote that announced the monk class and cataclysm.	Not being able to twitter from the main hall due to iPhone service being completely borked.
Pro	Con

The awesome cosplayers.	No one knowing who General Vezax is. “Oh is that a protoss?”
Pro	Con

The excellent pizza for breakfast at Sbarro at the Hilton.	The horrible food and service at Coco’s across the street from the Tangerine (I hear the one closer to the convention center doesn’t suffer from failitis).
Pro	Con

Playing Kings Cup in the hotel lobby.	Ending the game early due to Hilton Security Staff. (note: the staff was actually rather cool about stuff, just doing their job.)
Pro	Con

Acquiring many phat lewts.	Needing to purchase an additional piece of luggage just to get it all home.
Pro	Con

Being able to customize a n00bz figure on the con floor.	Needing a strength potion just to disassemble the n00b for painting, then smudging the crap out of it while reassembling.
Pro	Con

The Artist Formerly Known as Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftan.	No new songs from TAFKAL80ETC.
Pro	Con

Ozzy Osbourne laying to rest any doubts about his abilities and totally killing the closing ceremony.	Being subjected to commentary by the dumb broad at DirectTV while we waited for Ozzy to take the stage.
Pro	Con

Epic afterparty at the Hilton.	Stupid camera was drunk so half the pictures turned out blurry. Ok so maybe it was operator error.
Pro	Con

Chilling with Damian and Jick in room 8430 at the afterafterparty.	Sleeping through our alarm and missing our 7:30 am flight the next day. Oops.

Despite the balanced list, the entire trip was mostly an enjoyable experience. It was awesome getting to meet everyone and sorry if we missed you.

*Disclaimer: a lot of these pics come from our BlizzCon Flickr, but I had to borrow some.

BlizzCon 2009: n00bz

Shelbi — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:58:55 +0000

On the last day of BlizzCon, we headed to the store for a number of goodies, including a blank n00b. Designing my own n00b was one of the things I wanted to do most at BC. I sat down at a table at 11:00am and didn’t get up from that seat until 4:30pm. While it was my intention to spend a few hours there, I had no idea I’d be there for over five. However, I do have a habit of being overly obsessive about my work and I don’t like to stop until I’m finished. Check out the pics of my Rogue Tier 5 (Deathmantle) n00b, created with Sharpie markers and paint pens:

Check back for more pics and BlizzCon reports soon!

Back to BlizzCon

Jon — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:30:02 +0000

Update: Check out all this awesome swag we’ll be handing out. Temporary tattoos, stickers, and keychains. Find us at BlizzCon and ask us for loots. Now Including DeathKnights!

We’re going to be at BlizzCon again this year. It’ll be our second time to attend and we’re stoked.

We missed a ton of people last year due to poor planning but this time we’re going in prepared with epic gear and a bunch of loot to hand out. That’s right, Shelbi has been slaving over a hot oven making various charms and whatnot to handout to all of our endearing fans.

Here’s our rough itinerary:

Thursday Night (08.20.09): The 3rd Annual Wow.com Meetup at the Annabella Hotel’s Tangerine Patio.
Friday Night (08.21.09): We’re gonna hit up the Tangerine again for the Twisted Nether Meetup.
Saturday Night (08.22.09): The 2nd Annual Blizzcon Afterparty at the Hilton.

Now during the day, we’ll most likely be at one of three places:

At the actual convention
At a nearby restaurant for some nomz.
In our hotel room for a nap.

As for the convention, we will definitely be attending the closing ceremonies for both nights, I may or may not be participating in the costume contest, and we’ll do our best to hit up the Dark Iron meet. I also want to get in some more Diablo 3 playtime and if they have a playable version of Cataclysm, I’ll be all over it.

Feel free to follow my twitter (@MrRoach) if you want to pinpoint our location.

On BlizzCon

Jon — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:38 +0000

Despite any truly epic announcements I still feel that BlizzCon was a huge success. The lines were long and the odors were quite pungent at times but we still had a blast. We met up with a couple of rogues who also happen to be IRL friends and enjoyed most of what the con had to offer. They say a picture is worth a thousand words so let me take that route.

The Entrance

Guy Crafting Voidwalker Action Figure

Dwarf Paladin and loldrood?

Draenei Shaman

Warlock

An Artist at Work

Upper Deck Guy Working on a Troll Mini-fig

Shelbi Reppin’ our Guild

Three Rogues and a Paladin

Epic Chair Fail (oh and The Aquabats!)

Pwning the competition in the Costume Contest

Curse you PF Chang’s for running out of warm sake!

These were a few pics from our personal collection but I also recommend DJWu’s BlizzCon 2008 flickr photostream.