Busting our butts with updates, we're headed to the Sheraton tomorrow to talk yet another major Doc Oct upgrade... Also, someone pointed out recently we didn't have reward information up... we now do:

http://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/bring-your-arcade-machines/

Sorry for being late on that, until someone earlier this week pointed out it wasn't up, I thought it was! We're hoping to really fill the room this year... and with any luck, we'll have some cool additional party announcements too.

Uhm... wow. Just... wow.

The web site guy is actually Gary, the other show organizer. We've been slammed with stuff, but are working through a list. I have to meet with some officials from the city of Brookfield later today about the show. Yeesh.

Anyway, shouldn't be the same issues Hilton - it's a brand new web site. We're learning usability things about it and working on them as much as we can, but I've literally got a laundry list two pages long of stuff to update on it right now. At the same time, my house is being rebuilt starting today from a flood, I've had a nasty cold, and I have a ton of stuff due at work.

It *will* *all* happen I promise, just not quite as quickly as I think we'd all like.

As for bringing a machine, you do not need to get show tickets, you'll get them when you arrive. If you want to order anything else that needs a two-day ticket (including Tom's), contact us through the site and we'll send you a link to do so.

Thanks, and any other ideas anyone sees with the site, or for that matter anything you find that isn't working perfectly, PM me or contact us and we'll add it to the list. The plan right now is to get a lot done on it tomorrow night, and I SO appreciate the support, the last couple weeks have been really tough for me (but REALLY good for the show!)

No problem, no offense taken at all.

I was just pointing it out because things have been so crazy this last week, I've been out at the Sheraton three times in the last six days, and while honestly the public face of the show is insanely important, the only thing that could keep it from it is making sure that our emergency plans are okay with those people that need to approve them and we aren't going to start a fire with a new electric grid, and so on.

With any luck, I'm greatly hoping that over the next few days, I'm able to focus on getting a lot of the web site stuff answered. I do a lot of the content for it, Gary does anything that money touches. The joke that's also basically true is that he makes all the money for the show (he handles ticket sale stuff, vendors, etc) and I spend it all, since I handle content It works for us

Made some huge Web updates already today, hoping to finish a lot up tonight. Check it out, and if you see anything wrong, tell me!

Nuts, thought we got it.

It should work something like this:

You add the name of people coming to the show. They'll show up below.

After you do this, you click the names of the people and then "add to cart" whatever it is you're getting.

If that isn't working, can you PM me in detail exactly what's going on and we can look at it? If that makes it work, it means we need to clarify the process somewhat. No matter what, not cool - and we just spent a few hours looking at it too

PMing you in 3...2...1...

So, amusing story...

In October, my upstairs toilet overflowed clean water for 11 hours. Sucks, but is what it is. Major renovation finally started today (argh), but because of that we were told to find a hotel for two nights. The MGC Sheraton is the closest hotel to our house, so we went there.

My son walked in and got super excited, and then said, "Mom, it's time for us to go play in the pinball room! PUH-LEASE! I am ready to go! I want to play the pinball!"

My wife explained that wasn't this weekend, and then Ben said, "So this place isn't just the Midwest Guh... uh... Classic?"

He went from being super excited about staying here to pretty darn sad.

In good news, the hotel had a major renovation, and it looks outstanding now. Brand new carpets everywhere, the restaurant was completely redone... looks super nice!

Heh, that would have been great

It was funny, my wife was trying to explain to him that I was the person that organized the show, and he wasn't having that at all either.

A few things...

We spent a while updating ticketing last night and we think we have cleared up about 75% of the issues. We're working on the rest, and may end up changing how ticketing works even further. The other 25% of the issues we hope to hit tonight. If anyone is still having issues, PM me and we'll get it looked at immediately.

We officially announced Clock Chaos, Up To Par, and the MPC 10-Packs for Friday night. If you want in for these, do so ASAP, as again, last year all three of them sold out. New this year, you select your time slot when you order, so you know immediately that you got the right time.

Finally, we woke up this morning, and my son asked if they would have the pinball set up today. He's still horribly disappointed about it all.

Those should actually be up later today. There has been a lot of city stuff we've sort of been stuck doing, which is why it seems some stuff is moving slower, sorry.

Yeah, sorry - that was some sort of error. I put up the flyers, and then the next night the guy who did our web banners accidentally overwrote them when he put up the web banners

Starting to get close! Hotel has less than 10 rooms left last I checked, Tom's Open House is almost sold out, Clock Chaos is almost sold out, and I'm pretty sure that we've got about 200 arcade machines confirmed so far... but need way more!

Yes, pins and video combined.