Yup, same thing here - I'd guess whatever is supposed to be populating the e-mail that was just sent out is pointing to the wrong place to grab the data. No issues when logging in and printing the confirmation directly so I'm not worried about it.
At least no barcode fiasco like last year!!
What was the barcode fiasco last year?
Okay, I got someone in trouble about this last year and yeah, I don't know what crawled up my ass about it because I got way out of line a few times then - but here's the basics from what I recall...
At the last minute, something like a week and a half before the convention, you could no longer log into registration and view your registration details. Turns out that CMR wasn't going to be the registration partner in the end and another company was used instead. Of course this was all kept quiet but eventually an employee of the new company opened his mouth on the unofficial facebook fan group.
The QR code that had been used for the previous two years was now going to be invalid, instead a barcode from the new company would be required. If you e-mailed or called them directly they would explain this but aside from that they were completely silent. In addition it seemed that the new company had ONE customer service person manning all phones and e-mail (unconfirmed but we all seemed to get the same person).
Like two days before Fanime they send out an e-mail with the barcode, way too late for a lot of people traveling to the convention to ever see until the absolute last minute. Additionally it was way too late in the game to get the word out or alleviate any e-mail issues and if you needed to make a registration change you were SOL.
So when Fanime comes around a bunch of people have no idea about the change and have QR codes, so their information has to be looked up manually, this slows down registration. The badge printing equipment is different than the previous two years (the kind that was back this year) and creates an additional assortment of problem variables. Botched prints, information printed wrong, tons of stuff I both heard from other attendees and saw first hand myself. Of course if you had a problem then you get to go wait in the special registration line to have it fixed - which already is overwhelmed with all the confirmation issues. This along with a number of other technical issues meant that registration became an impossibly huge mess. Because it was moved to a smaller space on the assumption it would be smooth as the two previous years, the chain of people in line stretched throughout the convention center. I still feel bad for the rovers who had to police that line because they were all so overworked.
No badge issues this year. Long live CMR!!
Makes me wonder, did anyone actually end up with @@UDF1 on their badge?
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