SCAARE Con Un-Official Site

I deserve to be shot for my lateness. (But please, don't shoot me D8) I'll do you all a favor and layer this out so you can see what's what and skip around as you please.

Updates:

Meggen

Camile & Misty

W.T. Hatch

Saturdays On Goings

Official Dates

Booking and Pre-Registraion

Mascot Contest
Update Speed
Guestbook Questions

Wrap Up

Meggen:

As much as I love Meggen, she will no longer be helping us out as much. Before anyone starts rumors and starts talking bad about her, because we as humans tend to gossip, there were no fights had and there were no yelling conversations. Meggen's simply hit a rough patch and will no longer have the time. That's all that will be said about it. She has offered to help out here and there, with no promise made, and there for if you all wish to cantact her for any reason, you may do so. I would encourage you to contact me and the other members of the Scare Con staff before, however.

Camile & Misty:

Camile Gushel and Misty have greaciously stepped in to help out. Camile is our new time manager and site cooridnator while Misty is just helping out with things in general. I am, naturally, extremely greatful. I'm good friends with both of them and I'm glad to have them on board.

W.T.Hatch:

A well known voice actor through out the industry, Hatch is honestly a pretty cool guy. And I've had the good fortune of knowning the guy since I was seven. He's a funny guy and extremely productive. I know so because he is now helping us cooridnate our convention. He's greaciously took up the task of sitting at the helm and issuing orders as to where all us headless chickens are meant to run. I am forever greatful and look forward to having him help out as much as is convienent for him.

Saturday's On Going:

So we had a staff meeting on Saturday. It consisted of Camile, Misty, and myself being shown around the Marriot and being informed by our sales clerk what exactly was what. As much fun as that was, when we sat down to plan, we found there were many things that had been unspoken about and several more that hadn't even been thought of. An hour in, we called Hatch in a bit of a panic. He, too, raged. Mostly at the fact that we hadn't called him sooner... An 9 o'clock meeting that was only really supposed to last until about 11 o'clock then ran to about 2 in the afternoon. There was much to talk about and much to deliberate. (Well, it was more of us sitting around listen to Hatch gush out his convention wisdom)

Through out our several hours of talking and debating, we came to a few conclusions. 1) We started late as hell. 2) Camile has been the serious back bone of this convention from the start. 3) We needed to start fundraising, like, NOW. 4) Updates on the sites need to go up, like, NOOOOOW. 5) Why on earth had I not set up the forum? 6) Facebooking, Myspaceing, Twittering, DeviantArting, and emailing are ESENTIAL. 7) We need a mascot, like, NOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!

So, in response to all of those, please forgive me. I know I started rolling this ball around pretty late but I think we've got a kick ass shot at this. We got this, boys and girls, we just gotta WANT it. And I know we do. We've gotta give Cami a serious hand here. Everyone go add her as a friend. Seriously. Not only has she set up our site and revamped it a few times now, she's seriously taking charge and making sure stuff gets done. In fact, she's probably going to give you flash updates on everything, as in general heads up, before I post a news journal about it. You all should love her. In regards to fundraising, those are being set into motion. We're already planning and I know we're going to have a big bang kick off on that at the start of the summer. As for updates, I know I've been slow guys and I'm really sorry. I know for a fact that this is where you all are going to be getting you're core information for the con and I'm sorry I've been slacking. It shant happen again. I hereby vow to give a full length update at least once a week, with flash updates scattered through out the week. As far as the forum goes, Cam has also stated that she'll be getting it done with in the next day or so. You all will have a place to talk and get going. Online extravaganza!! We have a Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Albuquerque-NM/SCAARE-Con/387486324496), a Twitter (http://twitter.com/SCAARECON), I'm working on getting a Myspace, a DeviantArt (http://scare-con.deviantart.com/), and of course our email (SCAAREcon@gmail.com). Feel free to contact us at any of those. And then there's our mascot. We can't properly function with out one so.. We're starting a contest to find one. More on that in a few. But anyway, the point is that we're seriously moving on this thing. We now mean serious business. e-e

Official Dates:

Our official dates for the con have been desided!! We're going to hold the con on Thanksgiving weekend, the 26th to the 28th!! REJOICE! We haven't officially booked the space yet because we want to get at least one fundraiser done first, or at least I think that's what's happening. But! That's what's open and that's what we're taking. It's called. We got it. >8D Mark those calenders and star working on them cosplays because we're in business~!

Booking and Pre-Registration:

Because we haven't booked the Marriott yet, you can't book hotel rooms just yet. However, we going to set up pre-registration to start at the beginning of June! So fear not, boys and girls! We got this!

Mascot Contest:

We're having a mascot contest~! To be honest, it's more of a mascot and logo contest. This contest is serious business boys and girls. We talked about it and The contest begins first thing tomorrow, May 25. It will end on June 18th. Judging will begin June 18th and last until June 27th. The winner will be announced June 28th, and notified by email, unless requested otherwise. Please note that in joining this contest, you're allowing us to use you're art and design for the convention, not only this year but for the years to come. Please keep this in mind when entering. We have simple rules for you all to follow as well.

1) If you are under the age of 18 you must have your parents' consent.

2) You must be willing to do multiple pictures of the same mascot for different aspects of the con. This means that not only will we here at SCAARE CON use you're design and entered drawing, we will also have you do mutiple drawings of the character you've designed for mutiple purpose, such as site needs and badages.

3) It must be in anime/manga style.

4) When entering, you must have your character against a white background. 

5) It must be an original design, though not required, try to think of our name SCAARE (whish is SCARE with an extra 'A'... creep it out, kids.)

6) Have fun with it!

We, of course, wouldn't have a contest with out prizes!! The winner recieves the following:

1) A table at our artists alley.

2) Up to 4 (four) free, three day, passes into the convention.

3) $100 cash prize

We ask that you submit your full name and contact  information when submitting your entry. You are limited to three submissions into the contest. resubmitting the same entry multiple times will do nothing for your chances, only spam us. We will be displeased. Please submit all entries to our email as SCAAREcon@gmail.com

Update Speed:

DemDem got yelled at for lack of updates... So from this point on, I'll update more, I swear!!

Guestbook Questions:

I don't know where our guest book questions went but I'll have a talk wil Cam and get those back up. In the mean time, there's some questions that need answering.

1)

Q) Hello, I went to the Comic con. on May 1st. You might have seen me as Zack from FF7. I was the one with the Buster Sword and I was just wondering like what we would have to do if we wanted to volunteer for the Convention coming, because a young lady(I don't really know her name) asked my friends and I if we would like to volunteer to help around. It's okay with me but the only problem is the age, I mean am 15 but like how old do we have to be to volunteer? wouldn't it be like 18 years old or older? I would really love to volunteer and help around but I don't think am the right age yet, so yeah. Thank you for your time. ^^

A) Yes, I remember you. I was there also. So the low down on volunteering is that we don't mind, we could use the extra help. I'm 17 so it's not like I can discriminate. But for all minors, we need a signed permission slip from your parents that say you are aloud to volunteer. It's going to be the same for all underage peoples who are going to attend the con but your contract will be more extensive and much more binding. However, we talked about this in the last staff meeting and we were tralking about cut off ages. I think the cut off age for volenteering was 16. This is because you must be at least 16 to work and there for we think it would be alright for you to volenteer at 16. If you turn 16 before the con, I'd love to have you aboard. If not, I'm really sorry, but I'll have to say next year. :c

2)

Q) Will you guys be making a forum for this place, or is there already one and I'm missing it...? o Ao

A) We don't have a forum yet but I swear on my life we will have one. We should have some type of forum up with in the next few days. Sorry for the delay.

3)

Q) Why so anti-otaku mex?

A) I think Naruto007117 answered this perfectly. "Well I think the reason for that is that otaku mex is they haven't up dated the site in for ever. Some are even speculating that they have canceled their conventions." But it's not just that boys and girls. Otaku-Mex, as fun as it was to hang out with everyone, was poorly planned. To have a successful con, you must plan like a crazed wedding planner on crack. This isn't easy stuff to do and you can't just throw it together and hope it works. You gotta give more than that. And that's why we feel we're going to be better than Otaku-Mex. They're cool cats, we just plan better.

Wrap Up:

And call that a wrap, boys and girls. If you have any questions or complaints, please feel free to comment or shoot us an email. The rest of the site will be fully updated within the week. Thanks for all your support and I hope we'll see you at the con!

-Dem