This is an email I received Mar 25th from Gencon
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Testers Wanted!
Event Registration is coming soon, and we want help making sure our system is up to snuff! Interested? Up for the challenge? If so, then mark your calendar for April 10th and read below!
What We Need...
We need as many people as possible to test our event registration processes! There are changes throughout the registration system that we need help testing, from our new-and-improved Wish List (previously Watch List) to a simpler purchasing process.
We also need to test how much stress our system can take, to make sure everything behind-the-scenes is running as efficiently as possible. We’re trying to mitigate the issues we’ve had in the past by replicating the event registration opening day scenario during this test. The key is to get as many people as possible to try and purchase events at the exact same time.
How Will It Work?
Our TEST site will look a lot like the current registration site and will include all of your current Gen Con account information. You will be able to add and remove friends, purchase a free TEST badge and browse a limited number of TEST events. Then on April 10th we need everyone to push the button to add their events from the Wish List to their Cart…and see what happens! Remember, this is only a TEST, so feel free to shop ‘til you drop!
If you run into any issues along the way, we’ll have a special Forum on the Gen Con Community site and a testing email address for you to send us feedback. Your comments will help us clean up any bugs in the system.
Save The Dates!
Beginning April 3rd, the TEST site will open. You will have one full week to add TEST events to your Wish List. The official Event Registration TEST date is April 10th. Registration will open at exactly 3 pm (Eastern).
This is what they have on their site-
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Events
Event Registration opens at Noon (Eastern) on May 1, 2011. Get all your event information for Indy 2011 here…coming soon!