Early Bird Preregistration will open on June 1st!

We’re happy to announce we will be opening up early bird preregistration for No Brand Con XI next week on Wednesday, June 1! It will be only $25 to register online or mail-in for the entire weekend! However, we will only be running this rate online until October 1, 2011 when it will then move up to our traditional $30 preregistration rate which will run for the remainder of the time until preregistration closes next April, so be sure to register early!

We will also be posting an update soon for all the professional cosplay photos that were taken last April during No Brand Con X. We apologize for the delay in this, but with the photos we’ve seen so far from the photograher, it will definitely be worth the wait!

And as always, you can follow us on Facebook & Twitter for convention updates!

No Brand Con in the News!

Here’s are links to all the local media coverage for No Brand Con X a couple of weeks ago:

(some articles may require a subscription to completely view)

Eau Claire Leader-Telegram convention preview article from 4/14/11.
Eau Claire Leader-Telegram convention coverage article/video from 4/17/11.
Eau Claire Leader-Telegram post convention article from 4/18/11.

Volume One Magazine convention preview article from 3/31/11.
Volume One Magazine convention photos from 4/26/11.

WQOW TV-18 (ABC) convention coverage article/video from 4/15/11.
WEAU TV-13 (NBC) convention preview interview from 3/16/11.
WEAU TV-13 (NBC) convention coverage video from 4/15/11.
WEAU TV-13 (NBC) convention coverage article from 4/15/11.

Sports Radio 1400 “The Watercooler” convention preview interview from 4/1/11.
20 Second Radio PSA for No Brand Con X that aired on local radio prior to convention.

Red Letter Media’s convention report from 4/22/11 episode of “Half in the Bag”.

We’ll be posting an update soon to all our convention cosplay photos that were taken during the convention! And as always, you can follow us on Facebook & Twitter for convention updates!

2012 Hotel Information Updated!

We’ve set up our room block for NoBrandCon 2012 so you can now start making reservations online or calling The Plaza in order to book a room for NoBrandCon next year! Feel free to check out the Location page for more information on how to book a room! The convention rates are the same as they were for this past convention (standard rooms starting at $92 per night) so be sure to book early to insure you’ll get the best room type!

And as always, you can follow us on Facebook & Twitter for convention updates!

A big thanks to everyone!

On behalf of all the staff of No Brand Con this year, we wanted to thank all the volunteers, guests, vendors, artists, panelists, and most importantly, all the attendees who helped make this the best No Brand Con yet! We had 1,271 people attend this year’s convention, which made this the biggest No Brand Con to date. We definitely want to hear your feedback of what you thought of this year’s event, so feel free to post on our Feedback/Suggestions forum on what you liked or thought could use some improvements or what you’d like to see at future cons!

For all of those who were not able to attend closing ceremonies, we just wanted to give you a heads up since we announced our dates for 2012 at the end of this past convention. No Brand Con XI will be taking place at The Plaza again next year during the weekend of May 4-6, 2012. Hopefully being a bit later in the Spring next year will allows us to avoid the snow better! XD

We’ve got a lot of good ideas percolating already to make next year’s convention all that much better and we’ll be hitting the road attending upcoming conventions including Wausaubicon, Geek.kon, and Daishocon with a lot of cool promotions for everyone! In the meantime, feel free to join up on our forums to chat about the convention and other topics with your fellow con goers. You can also always follow us on Facebook & Twitter for convention updates!

No Brand Con X is tomorrow!

We’re gearing up for setup this afternoon in anticipation of the start of the con on Friday! We’re looking forward to seeing a lot of old and new faces this weekend!

Everything you need to prepare for you convention weekend is right under the Events & Schedules page which has all our major events, master schedule, and registration times! Registration will open up at 11AM on Friday and the convention will start at Noon, so have a safe drive to Eau Claire and we all hope you have a great time at the con this weekend!

If you need to help kill some time in anticipation of the con, check out our plot videos for this year which are all conveniently linked right here, join up on our forums to chat about the convention if you haven’t yet, or follow us on Facebook & Twitter for convention updates!

Men of the Week!

So, this year, a funny girl named Q teamed up with John of Fast Food Anime once again to bring you the NoBrandCon 2011 Man Auction! …And the Men of Staff are more than willing to sell themselves…er, a date with themselves, to the highest bidder.

This year’s featured Men, stats, and info about them can be found here; http://www.nobrandcon.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15420

As you can see, a few Men from last year return, and a few more have joined the fray! Who will you bid on in our knock down drag out Friday night Charity event?

No Brand Con X Master Schedule

Our No Brand Con Master Schedule is now ready to go to! Feel free to check it out or download it to help better plan your convention weekend!

Click here to view and download it! It’s on google docs via a spread sheet for easy access.

There potentially could be a slight change made to the start time of a panel or showing between now and the convention if needed, but we have no plans to change it right now. All the major events and everything else will happen at the scheduled times on this schedule. If we do make any changes, we will post an update about it.

And as always, if you can’t always check the main site, feel free to follow us on Facebook & Twitter for convention updates!

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