Update: Two weeks left to buy Expo Icrontic tickets

Brian Ambrozy 19 May, 2010 at 3:37pm ET Article published in Life

This year’s Expo Icrontic (EPIC 2010) is shaping up to be the best and biggest yet, with tons of new attendees, a great gaming lineup, sweet swag and prizes, and awesome events like the Tastes of Detroit Food Tour, Magic the Gathering tournament, boardgame tournaments, a golf outing, and more.

Sales end June 10th, and tickets are limited, so if you’ve been lazy or indecisive, time is running out!

This year’s sponsors include OCZ Technology, EA Games, Gigabyte USA, Shuttle, SteelSeries, and Paradox Games, with more to be announced. Expect great prizes and other cool stuff from these fantastic companies.

Here are some pictures of past events, from 2004-2009 to give you an idea of the insanity, camaraderie, and fun that goes on. You definitely don’t want to miss Icrontic’s biggest event of the year!

Comments

19 May 2010 ~ 4:08pm QCH You miss this event, you miss a lot. Each year is different and each is the best in its own way. DO NOT MISS THIS.
19 May 2010 ~ 4:11pm Cyclonite Gonna miss everyone this year.
19 May 2010 ~ 4:33pm primesuspect aww
19 May 2010 ~ 7:39pm pigflipper If someone wants to give me a ride or buy me a plane ticket, I will go. But that is the only way that I can.
19 May 2010 ~ 10:52pm QuadyTheTurnip I'm going to miss it. I really don't have the money. This is Quady's sad face:
20 May 2010 ~ 12:12am rolleggroll I too am going to miss meeting up with everyone at expo this year. Maybe someone else will be a new token guy / drunken mess / etc.

To everyone else on the fence, if you can go...GO. DOITNAO.

Also, if I sign up do I still get a badge and shirt?
20 May 2010 ~ 1:42am Cliff_Forster I can't hang with the cool kids this year. :*(

Perhaps I'll talk to Preacher and chuck some Berger Cookies and a case of Clipper City Gold Ale into his wagon for everybody.

I wanna, but the family vacation in July has my remaining time.
20 May 2010 ~ 2:02am Bandrik I'm totally going, come hell or high water. Hopefully neither will happen, but if so we'll enjoy ICHQ's new swimming lake.

As everyone else said, if you can possibly make even a few days of this event, it's totally worth it. There's something for everyone, even if you aren't much of a PC gamer (wutreally?) Some of my best memories are of the Food Tour, the Duct Tape Challenge, and general shenanigans with Really Cool Peopleâ„¢.
20 May 2010 ~ 2:21am Thrax I absolutely do solemnly swear that you will not have more fun all year. Period*.

* Unless you win the powerball and take home $110 million.
20 May 2010 ~ 12:05pm pigflipper

Thrax wrote:

I absolutely do solemnly swear that you will not have more fun all year. Period*.

* Unless you win the powerball and take home $110 million.

Winning the powerball is the only way I can make it, so here's to hoping
20 May 2010 ~ 2:36pm primesuspect Eggy, if you buy the hotel rate ticket, you'll get a badge and a shirt for sure.
21 May 2010 ~ 5:07am NLichtman I will be home too late for this, gentleman. I am sorry. Next year...
21 May 2010 ~ 8:20am TiberiusLazarus Oh ya, I guess I'll show up.
21 May 2010 ~ 1:17pm yagga I like the "If you have a discount code, enter it here:" spot in the checkout page. Me is going to try to find a working code.

Not to be a cheapass or anything...

I might have to give this little lan a try sometime. New occupation prohibits me from going this year.
21 May 2010 ~ 2:33pm fatcat

yagga wrote:

I like the "If you have a discount code, enter it here:" spot in the checkout page. Me is going to try to find a working code.

Not to be a cheapass or anything...

even the staff don't get discounts, but if you do find a code post back here :bigggrin:
21 May 2010 ~ 2:39pm shwaip You could try ( . Y . ).
21 May 2010 ~ 2:39pm Kwitko I'd go, but I'm sick and tired of the fixed lottery drawings.
21 May 2010 ~ 7:20pm yagga

Kwitko wrote:

I'd go, but I'm sick and tired of the fixed lottery drawings.

Tell me more...
21 May 2010 ~ 7:23pm fatcat

yagga wrote:

Tell me more...

Prime's kids win all the lootz
21 May 2010 ~ 7:54pm rolleggroll Or the girls. >_>
21 May 2010 ~ 9:19pm primesuspect Yagga, some people are butthurt cause random drawings didn't pick them

Anyways, we do chinese auction now.
22 May 2010 ~ 5:35pm Preacher

Cliff_Forster wrote:

I can't hang with the cool kids this year. :*(
Perhaps I'll talk to Preacher and chuck some Berger Cookies and a case of Clipper City Gold Ale into his wagon for everybody.
I wanna, but the family vacation in July has my remaining time.

Cliff,
you AND/or your cookies and beer are welcome to carpool with us. Me and my sidekick are IN.
24 May 2010 ~ 6:26pm QuadWhore Its 79.8 miles away. Too far for a man with no car. Sorry guys.
24 May 2010 ~ 6:39pm primesuspect Dude, 80 miles is nothing. I will pick you up personally.

That's not really a good reason. Got a better one?
24 May 2010 ~ 6:49pm QuadWhore

primesuspect wrote:

Dude, 80 miles is nothing. I will pick you up personally.

That's not really a good reason. Got a better one?

I'm a student, got stuff to do during the summer. Emphasis on student, as I've got parents staring me down. All the time.
24 May 2010 ~ 7:09pm Thrax I will drive my ass out to your house and pick you up if Brian can't.

You can afford four days over the summer. It's summer.
24 May 2010 ~ 7:12pm Ryder 80 miles in what direction? I come from the West, others come from the Northwest. Probably drive right by you.
24 May 2010 ~ 7:30pm Winfrey I'm in a similar situation as Quadwhore yet I am willing to travel almost ten times as far.

Also you should get Thrax or Brian to pick you up, unless you want to get rocketed to Warren in the Ryder mobile
24 May 2010 ~ 7:36pm Ryder

Winfrey wrote:

Also you should get Thrax or Brian to pick you up, unless you want to get rocketed to Warren in the Ryder mobile

Which is less of a rocket than the old Ryder mobile.
24 May 2010 ~ 8:15pm QuadWhore Well guys, I'm only a teenager. Not to be the "my mommy says I can't" guy, but I'd think my parents would disapprove of me getting rides to Michigan with people she's never met before. Even though its only 80 miles.

Sucks to be in high school, sometimes.
24 May 2010 ~ 8:20pm Thrax We'll stop by and visit with mom to prove that we're upstanding gentlemen!

Seriously. We'll talk to her on the phone and otherwise do whatever it takes to convince her. I came to my first Icrontic Expo at 16!
24 May 2010 ~ 8:36pm QuadWhore

Thrax wrote:

We'll stop by and visit with mom to prove that we're upstanding gentlemen!

Seriously. We'll talk to her on the phone and otherwise do whatever it takes to convince her. I came to my first Icrontic Expo at 16!

Ha, okay, I'll make sure to talk her. And I'm 15, so I'll do you one better.
24 May 2010 ~ 8:38pm Winfrey

QuadWhore wrote:

Ha, okay, I'll make sure to talk her. And I'm 15, so I'll do you one better.

Now we're talking
24 May 2010 ~ 9:06pm QuadWhore So what goes down during IC expo usually?
24 May 2010 ~ 11:04pm GnomeQueen

QuadWhore wrote:

I'm a student, got stuff to do during the summer. Emphasis on student, as I've got parents staring me down. All the time.

I doubt your parents stare as heavily as my parents did, and I made it while being a student two summers in a row!
24 May 2010 ~ 11:06pm GnomeQueen

QuadWhore wrote:

Ha, okay, I'll make sure to talk her. And I'm 15, so I'll do you one better.

I could probably come with Rob if that would make your Mom feel better. (I'm a certified teacher, if that helps?) But 15 is kind of young to be attending an event far away by yourself, I understand why your parents are being cautious. If you're going to attend a random event with people from the internet, though, there's no safer one you could come to.
24 May 2010 ~ 11:12pm GnomeQueen

Cliff_Forster wrote:

I can't hang with the cool kids this year. :*(

Perhaps I'll talk to Preacher and chuck some Berger Cookies and a case of Clipper City Gold Ale into his wagon for everybody.

I wanna, but the family vacation in July has my remaining time.

YUS. BERGER COOKIES. LUVU CLIFF.
25 May 2010 ~ 7:50am Kwitko

QuadWhore wrote:

So what goes down during IC expo usually?

Gaming, socializing, gaming, sleeping, gaming, eating, gaming, socializing, gaming, socializing, fun, random wackiness, gaming, and maybe sleep for an hour or two.

Perhaps your folks will let you hang out for one day? Leave early AM, come back at night.
25 May 2010 ~ 8:33am Preacher

QuadWhore wrote:

Ha, okay, I'll make sure to talk her. And I'm 15, so I'll do you one better.

You also won't be the only 15 year old there. Rexxar is 15 as well and this will be his second EPIC. Of course, he has to deal with me as his parental supervision.
25 May 2010 ~ 9:28am pigflipper

Kwitko wrote:

Gaming, socializing, gaming, sleeping, gaming, eating, gaming, socializing, gaming, socializing, fun, random wackiness, gaming, and maybe sleep for an hour or two.

Perhaps your folks will let you hang out for one day? Leave early AM, come back at night.

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
25 May 2010 ~ 11:41am primesuspect My kids are both there - they are 11 and 12.
25 May 2010 ~ 12:18pm shwaip Laura and I will (probably) be driving from seattle, but we'll be doing it more for a vacation (so it'll take us several days). If someone wants a pickup on the last day (Cedar Rapids-ish -> Detroit), we may have space for a passenger.
27 May 2010 ~ 4:45pm primesuspect TWO weeks left.

You don't want to miss this event! The sponsor list is growing almost daily, and we've got tons of great stuff lined up.
7 Jun 2010 ~ 5:55pm SirCandle Ahhhh. I'm going to request some time off of work. I hope they can get back to me by the 10th.
9 Jun 2010 ~ 8:04pm primesuspect THREE DAYS LEFT to buy tickets. Seriously, this is zero hour. If you don't buy a ticket you are:

not eligible for door prizes
not getting a badge
not getting a t-shirt
not getting tent space for your computer
not eligible to enter events

Get in! Meet your friends! Have a riot! You do NOT want to miss this event!
9 Jun 2010 ~ 8:42pm pragtastic Is there a count on number of tickets still available?
9 Jun 2010 ~ 8:44pm primesuspect Nine tickets left.

Confirmed but lazy:

UPSLynx
Wags
Magic

that leaves 6
10 Jun 2010 ~ 3:48am UPSLynx Fashionably late. Officially in.
10 Jun 2010 ~ 10:19am primesuspect two days left!