I have an hour drive home from work. I don't know what to do. I'm sure whatever decision I make, stick it out here at work or try to make it home before the tickets go on sale, will be the wrong one.

the wimperoo wrote:I have an hour drive home from work. I don't know what to do. I'm sure whatever decision I make, stick it out here at work or try to make it home before the tickets go on sale, will be the wrong one.

Same here. With my luck, tickets will go on sale 5 minutes after whatever time I decide to head home.

I have plans to meet my wife at the Map Room. I guess it could be worse; at least the Map Room has wifi. and beer.

ha, probably everyone in there will be doing the same thing though

For now, sticking at work with my 6-pack and hoping something happens soon

My enthusiasm for the event has waned though since they posted a "no kegs" request in their FAQ.

I'd planned on bringing a small keg of homebrew for trading samples with people (and for my own amusement). Now, I don't know.

JimTheBeerGuy wrote:My enthusiasm for the event has waned though since they posted a "no kegs" request in their FAQ.

I'd planned on bringing a small keg of homebrew for trading samples with people (and for my own amusement). Now, I don't know.

Bringing a corny of homebrew or something even smaller probably isn't what they're trying to eliminate with the "no kegs" request. If you tell them it's homebrew when they come over and complain about it (if they even bother), I'm guessing the "punishment" will be that you give them samples. Staff/security at DLD is often some familiar faces from various beer bars...

I'm wondering if Map Room will be as bad as everywhere else tonight given it's March 17. Chicago Beer Society moved their monthly Third Wednesday Map Room night to last week instead to avoid it.

On sale now

http://bit.ly/bjMWaW

They are now available:

http://bit.ly/bjMWaW

$10 each & 2/person, just like last year. $4 for shipping.

After I confirmed my purchase, I got a 'technical issues' message -- I hit 'try again' a few times and it went through.

Still trying to get past the error screen.

Yeah, the merchant site is almost as overwhelmed as their own site was. Keep trying though! I eventually got mine

Just got my confirmation email, but I think I now need a new F5 button on my computer -- only hit it about 67,000 times over the last 3 hours!!

Well, that only took 42 minutes...

Got mine. See you there, LTH...

Got my 2. Shipping costs will be refunded as they were a technical error.

I didn't get my two, but it wasn't the ticketing company's servers that got me...my wife walked in the door, saw me furiously F5ing and wanted to know what the hell I was doing, I explained, and she reminded me that we'll be out of town that week. Foiled again, maybe I'll finally make it in 2011

I'll be celebrating with the Dork Lord and his OCD minions once again. F5 is my friend. Yeah baby!

I also persevered last night and managed to score golden tickets for DLD 2010. It wasn't easy but it all worked out in the end.

This will be my third year in a row, really looking forward to it and hopefully meeting some of you all there.

It was really amazing how awfully long that took! I have my tix, and am going in with friends to rent a minibus. I think we have to get a driver, too

Did anyone else get hours of error messages trying to get tix?

I couldn't get tickets. What are my next options?!?!?!

nr706 wrote:Did anyone else get hours of error messages trying to get tix?

Well if you got literally hours of messages I am sorry to tell you that wasted a bunch of time, the tickets sold out in 55 minutes. So by 7:55 or so CST they were gone. But the very large majority of people had the same problem, everyone just kept refreshing the page until they got through. Looking back at my confirmation e-mail I think my wife got two of the last tickets, it is timestamped at 7:56.

orangejeans wrote:I couldn't get tickets. What are my next options?!?!?!

Go anyway and have fun. You will still likely have a chance to buy some at the end of the day; you just won't have the guarantee. Last year they had alot left over after all of the ticket holders got theirs, but I think there have have been confusion, people thinking you could ONLY get DL if you had a ticket. This year people may be better educated and know you will still have the opportunity to buy without the ticket, more than likely after 5pm.

SSDD

A look at the numbers from 3Floyds blog post...

3Floyds wrote:
So with that being said, here are some numbers to consider.

* Our store had 50,423 hits by 5,115 visitors in less than one hour effectively crushing Shopify’s servers
* The majority referred through twitter
* darklordday.com had 16,963 unique visitors
* 3floyds.com had 12,542 unique visitors
* #DarkLordDay and “Golden Tickets” were both trending topics on Twitter at the same time.

SSDD

headcase wrote:Go anyway and have fun.

Seconded. Get some Dark Lord on draft, check the beer table for some samples, come try a little of my homebrew, have a good time.

Per @3floyds account: Now that we've had a chance to sort out the duplicate orders, we're almost ready to mail the Golden Tickets. They should be out mid-week...

They are here....

SSDD

headcase wrote:They are here....

SSDD

I got mine on Monday. The artwork on them is pretty cool.

the wimperoo wrote:

headcase wrote:They are here....

SSDD

I got mine on Monday. The artwork on them is pretty cool.

Yeah, but the colors/fonts make difficult to read.

SSDD

headcase wrote:

the wimperoo wrote:

headcase wrote:They are here....

SSDD

I got mine on Monday. The artwork on them is pretty cool.

Yeah, but the colors/fonts make difficult to read.

SSDD

It has a bit of seizure inducing qualities.

That is pretty bad-ass, and definitely not as hard to read as last year's gold-on-violet. I'm thoroughly excited for this!

Hey now - I have found myself unable to attend DLD. I'm sending my tix with a friend who is going, but everyone he knows is full up. So if anyone here needs a ticket, we can coordinate getting them to you at the event. Let me know...

Looks like the tickets have been claimed. Thanks