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Hyatt Concourse ◊
Marriott Concourse ◊
Sheraton ◊
Concourse Performance Area ◊
Reserving a Fan Table ◊
Guidelines & Rules ◊
Reserved Tables List ◊
Standby List
Changes for 2010: This year, our fan tables will be located in the Hyatt Regency, outside the Grand Hall. Tables for Performers and Bands will return in 2010 to the Marriott Marquis's Convention Level.
Due to space allocation changes at the Sheraton, which had been used for fan-tables in the past, our fan-table space quickly became full, and we started a Standby List. By shifting some fan-tables into the Marriott on a one-tme basis, and by asking that conventions utilize half-tables in the Hyatt, we were able to shift the first seven or so fan-tables on the standby list to the Hyatt.
The Hyatt's Grand Hall will again host our Art Show and our Comics Artists Alley.
The acoustic/ambient music stage remains in its traditional location, outside the Hyatt's Centennial Ballroom and one floor below the lobby.
Fan Tables are available for fan groups, conventions, clubs, etc. to showcase themselves. These tables are free, but they are limited in number and must be reserved in advance. Please see below for the rules regarding tables and staffing.
Our onsite coordinator for fan tables will be Sara McCorkendale, who will be
handling at-con table assignments.
Paul W. Cashman will again be handling the onsite coordination of the band and performers' tables in the Marriott.
The Hyatt Concourse
The area in the Hyatt known as "The Concourse" now consists of the two
floors below the hotel's lobby, through which most traffic to the ballrooms and panel rooms must pass. Several things will be located on these two floors:
- Convention Information Kiosk
(at the foot of the escalators down from the lobby)
- Concourse Performance Area, for acoustic and electronic performers
(outside Centennial Ballroom I)
- Fan-tables (lower level, outside the Hyatt's Grand Hall)
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The Marriott Concourse Area
The Marriott Marquis' Convention Level will host all of our band and performers' tables. This hotel has high visibility and traffic flow due to the Marriott's famed 47-story open atrium lobby, and is also home to Dragon*Con's two Exhibit Halls and the Dealers Room, making it the mercantile capital of the con.
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The Sheraton Concourse Area
The Sheraton Atlanta Downtown's Concourse Area will be located outside the ballrooms being used for Registration, one floor below the lobby level. For 2010 this area will house our new "Paranormal Pathway" area.
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Concourse Performance Area
This tiled area, outside the Hyatt's Centennial Ballroom I, will be used for smaller-scale performances by bands and acoustic performers. The band Emerald Rose has kindly donated their sound-system and stage personnel for our use. Many thanks to Emerald Rose for their continuing support!
This year, we'll continue our highly-successful practice of listing band performances in the convention schedule, with bands being booked in advance where possible and listed on the website.
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Requesting a Fan Table
Requesting a table is as easy as emailing your request
to Paul W. Cashman, Concourse Director. Please include the name of your organization, contact information, a rough idea of what you plan to be promoting (if it isn't obvious), and any other needs/requests. Please let us know if you have a large banner or other display; we'll try to accommodate you within the limits of our available space.
We have been working fan-table reservations this year the same way as we have for the last several years. We accepted reservations in advance until we filled up our available space. The Sheraton Atlanta Hotel, which was used as fan-table space last year along with part of the Hyatt, will instead be used for our new Paranormal Pathway" area in 2010, so our available space was severely curtailed. Now that all space at the remaining location, the Hyatt, is spoken-for, we have started a standby list. Any "reserved" tables remaining unclaimed by 4pm Friday
(unless you notify us of a later arrival time) will be given to groups on the standby list. If a reserved table is cancelled in advance -- and we really appreciate it if you let us know this! -- the table will be reallocated to the fan-clubs on the Standby List in order of receipt.
Note: our reserved table-space is now full and we have accomodated who we could from the standby list, so new requests are no longer being accepted.
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Rules and Guidelines For Tables
Yep, we have some rules. Here they are:
- Tables must be staffed by Dragon*Con members. In other words: yes, you'll need your steenkin' badges!
- Table staffing hours:
- Fan-tables must be continuously staffed during the day, from 10am until 8pm at a minimum. On Monday, plan on staffing your table until 2 or 3pm.
- Band-tables must also be continuously staffed from 10am through 8pm. The Marriott has become more of
an all-hours hotel for Dragon*Con, so you'll probably want to staff your band table later into the evening, or even
24 hours. One benefit of 24-hour operation is that you won't have to pack up all your merch at night. :)
- In deference to our dealers and exhibitors, who pay for the privilege, no general merchandise sales are permitted at fan tables or band tables. You can sell logo merchandise from your organization and other items made exclusively for and by your club, band or organization. Dragon*Con does not charge a percentage of merchandise sales.
- No raffles or other games of chance are allowed. Sorry, but they contravene the laws of the State of Georgia.
- Electrical power:
- Be sure to bring your own extension cords and splitters.
- Power in the Hyatt for tables has historically been available at most locations on the Concourse at no charge.
- Electricity in the Marriott for band-tables is available, but the hotel's electrician charges a fee for the hookup; this has now increased to $100 for the run of the convention.
- If you need Internet access at your table, you'll have to arrange this with the individual hotel. Although our host hotels offer wireless access in guest rooms, this service is usually restricted or blocked in the lobby and function-space areas.
- Table placement will be at the sole discretion of the respective Concourse directors or their assistants. We'll work with you as much as possible, but we can make no promises. The best advice: try to arrive early!
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Tables Reserved for 2010
Bands and Performance Artists At the Marriott:
- ComCast (sponsor)
- Netherworld (sponsor)
- Creative Loafing (sponsor)
- The Cruxshadows
- Emerald Rose
- Voltaire
- Pandora Celtica
- Tom Smith
- Leslie Fish
- Celldweller feat. Klayton Scott
- Black Tape For A Blue Girl
- Weep (Doc Hammer)
- Atlanta Radio Theater Co.
- Lips Down On Dixie
- Dragon*Con Cabaret
- Jennifer Teeter
- URIZEN
- Brazen Angel
- Chad Vader
- Green Goblyn Project
- I:Scintilla
- Ego Likeness
- Gypsy Nomads
- Extraordinary Contraptions
- Paul Mercer/Ghost Project
- Marc Gunn
- Attention System
- Cemetary Surfers
- Super 8-Bit Brothers
- Overflow from Hyatt Fan-table area, one-time emergency occurrence:
Tables, Fan-clubs and Groups Located At the Hyatt, outside Grand Hall East and West:
- Girls of the Con
- 76th Independent Battalion
- PlayOnCon
- AnachroCon
- Fans For Christ
- USCM (US Colonial Marines)
- Royal Manticoran Navy (David Weber Fan Club)
- Kingdom of Loathing
- R2D2 Builders' Club
- Mandalorian Mercs
- The ConFronted (Dark Conf. LARP club)
- Horror Writers of America (HWA)
- USS Republic NCC-1371
- ImagiCon
- HallowCon / FantaSciCon (8-foot desk)
- Dark Empire Costuming Group
- FeltBeats (Tom Felton Fan Club)
- Zombie Squad, Georgia Chapter
- Operation Anime Storm
- TheOneRing.net
- Middle Tennessee Anime Con (MTAC)
- FroliCon
- Ghostbusters Fans
- WHAT Entertainment (Hunter Cressall)
- Star Wars Combine
- Colonial Defense Force
- OutlantaCon
- TimeGate
- CrisisCon
- Society for Creative Anachronism
- Spooky Empire
Tables Located At the Sheraton Atlanta:
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Tables Reserved for 2010
Bands and Performance Artists At the Marriott:
- ComCast (sponsor)
- Netherworld (sponsor)
- Creative Loafing (sponsor)
- The Cruxshadows
- Emerald Rose
- Voltaire
- Pandora Celtica
- Tom Smith
- Leslie Fish
- Celldweller feat. Klayton Scott
- Black Tape For A Blue Girl
- Weep (Doc Hammer)
- Atlanta Radio Theater Co.
- Lips Down On Dixie
- Dragon*Con Cabaret
- Jennifer Teeter
- URIZEN
- Brazen Angel
- Chad Vader
- Green Goblyn Project
- I:Scintilla
- Ego Likeness
- Gypsy Nomads
- Extraordinary Contraptions
- Paul Mercer/Ghost Project
- Marc Gunn
- Attention System
- Cemetary Surfers
- Super 8-Bit Brothers
- Overflow from Hyatt Fan-table area, one-time emergency occurrence:
Tables, Fan-clubs and Groups Located At the Hyatt, outside Grand Hall East and West:
- Girls of the Con
- 76th Independent Battalion
- PlayOnCon
- AnachroCon
- Fans For Christ
- USCM (US Colonial Marines)
- Royal Manticoran Navy (David Weber Fan Club)
- Kingdom of Loathing
- R2D2 Builders' Club
- Mandalorian Mercs
- The ConFronted (Dark Conf. LARP club)
- Horror Writers of America (HWA)
- USS Republic NCC-1371
- ImagiCon
- HallowCon / FantaSciCon (8-foot desk)
- Dark Empire Costuming Group
- FeltBeats (Tom Felton Fan Club)
- Zombie Squad, Georgia Chapter
- Operation Anime Storm
- TheOneRing.net
- Middle Tennessee Anime Con (MTAC)
- FroliCon
- Ghostbusters Fans
- WHAT Entertainment (Hunter Cressall)
- Star Wars Combine
- Colonial Defense Force
- OutlantaCon
- TimeGate
- CrisisCon
- Society for Creative Anachronism
- Spooky Empire
Tables Located At the Sheraton Atlanta:
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Standby List
--Which brings us to the standby list. Now that our expected table capacity is exhausted, we are starting up the standby list here. These clubs or organizations -- in order of their requests -- will be bumped up to the Reserved List if any cancellations occur. You can Email Paul Cashman for more info.
- (first seven tables on the standby list shifted to Hyatt)
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