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Panel Submissions Now Open For No Brand Con 2023!

We’re excited to open panel submissions for No Brand Con 2023! Whether you want to plunge into in-depth analysis of your favorite series, hear bizarre industry stories you’d never expect, or just want some cosplay tips, it’s the a great way to spend your time. Importantly though, many of our panels are actually provided by our attendees just like you.

Fan run panels often provide the highlights of the convention, and we couldn’t do this without them. We also consider time hosting a panel as “double Volunteer hours,” which means hosting an hour long panel counts as two hours of volunteer time.

If you’re interested in submitting a panel for No Brand Con 2023, you can head on over to our Panels page. There you’ll find the rules along with our online submission form.

We’re excited to find out what you want to do!

The No Brand Con Roadshow Comes to Anime Milwaukee 2023!

We’re excited to say the No Brand Con roadshow is making another stop, as you’ll be able to find us at Anime Milwaukee this weekend! That’s right, we’re going to be in downtown Milwaukee this weekend (Feb. 3-5).

If you find us while you’re there, we’d love to hang out and say hello. You can, of course, also preregister for No Brand Con 2023 at our Ambassador Table too for our Road Show price of only $20.

If you’re coming to AMKE, we hope to see you there!

The No Brand Con Road Show Comes to Evercon!

The No Brand Con Road Show is kicking off our 2023 promotional tour this weekend at Evercon, just outside Wausau, WI! Swing on by for Central Wisconsin’s biggest tabletop gaming convention and say hello January 20th-22nd!

Also if you stop by our table, you can register for No Brand Con 2023 at our $20 road show rate. That’s half the price of the at door cost, and less than a day badge! So come on over, play some games, and we’ll see you there!

Vendor and Artist Registration Now Open For No Brand Con 2023!

The No Brand Con’s Vendor Room and Artist Alley are both now accepting applications for our 2023 convention! Whether you’re a vendor or an independent artist, we’re always excited to have you join us to show off what you do! Registration is open until March 15th 2023, and you can find instructions for both our Vendor Room and Artist Alley on our Vendors and Artists Page.

Like in previous years this is a juried selection process, as we want to provide a diverse, well rounded shopping experience for the attendees. Our team will be reviewing all applicants to make sure we can have as much variety as possible in our limited space.

We’re excited to see you guys this fall in our new home.

Save On Prereg With Our Annual Thanksgiving Week to Cyber Monday Sale!

It’s that wonderful time of the year again where you can get the absolute best price on preregistration for No Brand Con. It’s our annual Thanksgiving Week to Cyber Monday sale!

That’s right, from today (November 17th 2022) through Cyber Monday (November 28th 2022) we are discounting weekend badge preregistration for No Brand Con 2022 to just $20! That’s $10 off the normal preregistration price, half the price of a weekend badge at the door, and less than even our cheapest day pass!

All you have to do to take advantage of this rate is go to our online registration page between November 17th and 28th and take advantage of the rate!

No Brand Con Is Moving to Stevens Point, WI September 1-3, 2023!

A lot of you have been wondering why we hadn’t announced our dates yet for 2023. And while we’ll explain everything if you keep reading, to jump to the point we’ll just start by announcing No Brand Con XX will be held September 1-3, 2023 at the Holiday Inn Convention Center in Stevens Point, WI!

While we had an amazing convention this last April, it’s become increasingly clear over the last few years that the Wisconsin Dells wasn’t the right home for No Brand Con. The event spaces available didn’t really suit the kind of con we wanted to run, and — frankly — it’s an expensive place to attend an event. So, for the last few months we’ve been digging in and looking at our options. We reached out to venues around the state, pored over convention center layouts, and looked at what kind of a city would be the best home for the No Brand Heroes.

In the end, we settled on Stevens Point, WI for a couple of reasons.

First off, we like the town because it reminds us of where we came from. No Brand Con started out as an anime convention in a college town, and we’d like to become that again. Stevens Point used to host an anime convention (until circumstances outside of that organization’s control forced it to move), so we think we’ll be right at home there.

Secondly, we really like the venue. One of the biggest complaints folks had about No Brand Con over the last few years was that everything was too spread out at the Chula Vista. The con was split between four levels and nothing was close together. Our new venue in Stevens Point fixes that — putting all of our event on a single level and easy to find.

Finally, there is the change to our date. No Brand Con historically has always been held in the Spring, and we’re moving to early September. We’re doing this because, frankly, the spring calendar is and has always been a crowded place. Year after year before arranging our dates we’ve been forced to reach out to other events and make sure we had an adequate number of weeks between our con and another — not always successfully. It’s been, frankly, hard to manage a calendar. And with our decision to relocate to another city, we thought that this would be the best time to rethink our place in the schedule.

Preregistration will open for No Brand Con 2023 on October 15th, so we hope you’re as excited as we are.

And, just in case, here are some answers to questions we anticipate:

I was originally registered for No Brand Con 2020/2021/2022 and rolled over my preregistration to 2023, do I need to do anything?
All rolled over registrations are in our records, and we are still in process of adding them to the 2023 registration logs right now. You should receive an email by November 1st confirming your 2023 registration. If you do not get one by that date, please reach out to us.

Are your COVID-19 precautions still in place?
Right now it is hard to judge what the landscape will look like in September of 2023. Our current policies require all attendees to be vaccinated for COVID-19 and that attendees mask. While we are looking at streamlining our vaccination verification procedures (after seeing what does and doesn’t work at No Brand Con 2022), we haven’t formalized our final plans and likely won’t until we’re much closer to the event. Please know that we may choose to keep our 2022 precautions in place for the safety of our attendees and staff.

Will Duct Tape Boy be there?
Yes.

Tell Us About Your Experience With No Brand Con 2022!

The weekend is over, and most of us are pretty exhausted from running No Brand Con 2022 – but the work never stops around here! We want to know how you think we did, so it’s time for our regular post-convention survey!

There are a couple of important, new questions this time around, so read it carefully. Tell us what you liked, tell us what you didn’t like! We take your feedback seriously, and always want to know how we can do better. The survey is anonymous as well, so feel free to give us as much details as you are comfortable with.

So please, if you attended No Brand Con 2022, we want to know how it was — because we’re honestly striving to make it as great an experience as possible. We’re a smaller con, but that doesn’t mean we don’t want to give you a big experience.

So what are you waiting for? Get on over to the survey and fill it out!

The Full No Brand Con 2022 Program Guide is Here!

No Brand Con 2022 is almost upon us! With that in mind, we decided to share with you the official program guide for this year’s con! Whether you want to see when all the guest panels are, want to know when table top games are scheduled, or just are really enthusiastic about participating in our annual Lip Sync Battle, the guide will tell you everything you need to know!

In fact, this is technically a revised version that’s more accurate than the paper copies that will be at the convention, since we had that last minute guest change (and a few other details were updated). You can download the PDF here, and plan your weekend accordingly!

The No Brand Con 2022 Schedule is Here!

No Brand Con 2022 is just over a week away, and we know many of you are excited to plan your weekend of awesome. With that in mind, we’re happy to announce that the official schedule for No Brand Con 2022 is now available to view online!

This year we’ve put it up as a Google Sheet, so you can easily view it on your computer or with the Google Sheets mobile app on your smart phone. To take a gander at it, just click here to view the schedule.