Our final general meeting before the 2010 convention will be held Sunday, August 22, at 1:00pm at the Portland Downtown Hilton in the Salon Ballroom:

Hilton Portland & Executive Tower
Salon Ballroom
921 SW 6th Ave
Portland, OR 97204

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The Salon Ballroom is in the Executive Tower, which is on the northeast corner of the 6th and Taylor intersection. (The address and address-based maps point to the Main Tower, which is kitty-corner from the Executive Tower.)

Following the meeting, there will be training sessions. Please bring paper and pen so you can write down your questions and hold them until the ending Q&A.

General meetings are open to the public. Although staff registration closed as of the previous meeting, you can still learn how to volunteer, and learn about future involvement with the convention.

Attention attendees! Now is the time to get your hotel reservations made and done! If you have not already booked a room, fear not! We still have King bedrooms available! To book these rooms please indicate “no preference” for your bed type. If you try to request a Double Bed room the system will tell you there is NO AVAILABILITY and will not let you book a room.

Please be aware that these are the last of the rooms available to us at the Hilton Downtown Portland and once they are gone they are gone! There are many hotels around there area that may have rooms so if you cannot get into the Hilton Downtown Portland, check with hotel@kumoricon.org for more options.

Once again, we have used all of our Double Bed rooms and are now down to the single King Bed rooms. But there is still availability! Simply indicate “no preference” or call and request a King Bed room and ask for the Kumoricon rate (or insert the KUM code) and you’ll be good to go!

The schedule of all Kumoricon events is coming soon. Until then, we’d like to highlight a few of the most popular events!

Due to demand exceeding room capacity, if you want to attend the following events, you must pick up a ticket earlier in the day at the info desk. Tickets are free (except for events where an additional cost is noted), but are likely to be all given out prior to the event:

• Cosplay Contest
• AMV Contest (correction: only the contest is ticketed, not the show afterward)
• Cosplay Chess
• Sake Tasting ($10 fee, ages 21+ only)
• Closing Ceremonies (contest winners, 2011 mascot announced, and 2011 venue announced)

We are having three dances this year. One of them is the semi-formal Kumori Ball, hosted by Ouran Host Club hosts. Be sure to review the dress code, as those not properly attired will be turned away at the door. Our other two dances feature multiple DJs and last into the morning hours.

Saturday DJ lineup: Jimni Cricket, Initial P, Graz, Kid Kaboom, Matt Terror, Mr. GnarGnarKillKill
Sunday DJ lineup: DJ DiscoSnake (request thread), Electric Pig, (TBA)

Help out a great cause, bid on one-of-a-kind items, and have a lot of fun at the Kumoricon Charity Auction! Donations from a variety of local and national businesses, as well as unique souvenirs, will be up for bid. All proceeds benefit the Sunshine Division, a local food bank.

We want to remind everyone that pre-registration closes at the end of the day (midnight) on Sunday, August 15. We will be selling 3500 weekend registrations. After that, at-the-door registrations will be limited to single days based on space available. The easiest way to ensure you receive a weekend registration is to pre-register online by August 15. This also gets you a lower rate than at the door.

We would like to welcome voice actor Todd Haberkorn as a guest of honor at Kumoricon 2010.

Learn more about some of his roles on our guests of honor page!