Deluge

Welcome back, weary traveler! We have a veritable flood of information today so I hope you’ve got your galoshes ready! First up, we are very proud to announce the first sponsor of Nerdapalooza! Staying in the big leagues as they were last year, we welcome back Wired Geek Dad as our first 64-Bit Sponsor. We’re very excited to have them returning and look forward to partying with the Dads at Nerdapalooza this year.

Now, as promised, we have some tickets and hotel discounts to announce! First, let’s do the hotel. We’ll be staying at the Crowne Plaza in downtown Orlando. It’s located at 304 West Colonial Drive, Orlando, FL. To make a reservation with our code simply follow this link: https://resweb.passkey.com/go/Nerdapalooza2012. You can also call up 1-888-233-9527 and ask for the Nerdapalooza discount. Now, the discount is $85 plus tax and that discount ends July 13th, so make sure you order before then. We’ve also made sure we got a special parking rate for all of our attendees. It’ll be $3.00 self parking and $8.00 for valet. Both are overnight. The hotel will be about a twenty minute walk from the venue. For those of you that fear melting in the Florida summer, worry not! There is a complimentary shuttle service that runs from the hotel for the whole weekend, running from 7 AM to 11 PM.

Now we move on to ticket prices. We’ll have three different levels for all of you this year. First off is just for the day – that price will be $35. Since we’re so close to the event, unlike other years this price will not change between now and when doors open. We’ve offered lower prices in the price to help encourage presales. This year, however, we sincerely believe that we will sell out for the first time ever. We have limited tickets on every level and if you are interested you should purchase now! Next up, for the weekend tickets, it’ll be $50. That’ll give you access to both venues for both days!

For the Nerdageddon, we decided to offer something brand new for you. For the first time ever, Nerdapalooza will be offering a purchasable VIP ticket. This ticket gives you full access to a balcony in the Beacham which will only be available to a select group of people, including owners of this ticket and the performers. You’ll also get a traditional black “Nerdapalooza” t-shirt of whatever size you’d like ready for you when you show up and a unique event badge that will only be available to owners of this ticket. More than that, with this ticket you will have a full open bar from 5 PM to 10 PM both Saturday and Sunday at the balcony bar – that’s right! The balcony comes equipped with its own bar! And when we say open bar, we mean that you get all the drinks taken care of because you are a special guest to Nerdapalooza! You get all this, and some more pleasant surprises we have in store for you, all for only $290 for the weekend. As you can guess, with an open bar, this’ll only be available to people 21 years of age and older and there will only be 100 VIP passes available! Saturday tickets are available here and all of the rest of the tickets are available from Ticketfly.

When we posted our post last week, we got so excited we forgot to give a shout out to all of the applications we have for all of you out there. If you are interested in volunteering for Nerdapalooza 2012, please go to this form. If you would like to have your art displayed at Nerdapalooza, please go to this form. If you are a member of the media and would like to cover Nerdapalooza, please go to this form. If you are a photographer and would like to get in to take pictures of the event for us, please go to this form. Now, if you are a musician what you should fill out this form.

BOOM! Finally, we got a laundry list of amazing talent to announce! Are y’all ready?

First up we have Koo Koo Kanga Roo returning to Nerdapalooza for their second year. We had a major blast with them and are really excited to have them back! Returning for their third year are the Sapphire Squadron – The Megas. I got to see them at MAGFest this past year and they have somehow leveled up since their last Nerdapalooza appearance. Next up returning to the stage is one of Nerdapalooza’s favorites – Schaffer the Darklord. Since he stole the show at 2008, he’s been a mainstay at the event and has shown no sign of slowing. The next band is coming to the event for their first time but they are sure to leave an impression: Bit Brigade. Not your typical video game cover band, Bit Brigade perform speed runs of the video game they’re covering in a single sitting. I got to witness Mega Man 2 at MAGFest and it was a helluva performance. We were so impressed that these guys won’t just be performing during the main weekend – they will also be the Friday Pre-Party headliner! You will get a double dosage of Bit Brigade and two separate game run throughs!

Continuing the lineup, we have the unstoppable Dual Core returning to the nerdy stage. It is always a pleasure to have int eighty /mount the stage – he ensures that every performance is unique and stands out. This may not be enough Nerdcore for all of you yet? How about we throw in Adam WarRock! Adam is returning for the second year and has released so much freaking music since his first appearance that he could give a whole new set based on music he’s released in the last month alone! Continuing the nerdcore train we have the ThoughtCriminals! These guys rocked the secret performance at Nerdapalooza last year so hard that we had to make sure they got a chance at the main stage. Last year, Tribe One rocked the stage pretty hard with Adam WarRock and we were so impressed we’re giving him his own performance. He just released an album exclusively sampling Anamanaguchi, so you should definitely enjoy this guy whatever you listen to!

Keeping it rolling with the massive announcements, we are very proud to announce that Descendants of Erdrick joining the Nerdapalooza family of bands. I’ve heard rumor that they don’t like Random Encounter too much – we’ll see what kind of shinnanigans ensue. Returning after his highly celebrated pre-party after-party performance last year, we got Dj RoboRob coming back for his second year at Nerdapalooza. He’ll be giving you something very special! As well as being one of the DJs for an after hours rave one of the nights he’ll be having his own set during the day where he will be DJ’ing as friends of his take turns coming on stage and performing with him. This is bound to be a very memorable set. Now, on their own, MPFM and 8-Bit Duane are forces to be wreckoned with. However, mix them together with Joey-Z and you get the Frogsuit – a brand new Nerdcore group that is a true honor to have at Nerdapalooza. We are also incredibly honored to announce that the penultimate fantasy band, Those Who Fight, a brand new rock opera troupe inspired heavily from Final Fantasy, will be taking to the stage. Last but definitely not least, we have DJ Cutman joining the party. Not only is he joining the party but he’ll be doing the pre-party-after-party-dance-party-party-party-we’re-gonna-have-a-party. Aptly named, you will not want to miss it!

For the last two years, we’ve hosted Epic Win Burlesque all the way from New York City and it’d be a downright shame if we weren’t able to invite them back for the Geekocalypse! That’s right, the critically celebrated Epic Win Burlesque troupe are returning to Orlando for Nerdapalooza 2012!

Speaking of after parties, continuing the trend of having a party around Nerdapalooza, it sounds like our geek ally, A Comic Shop, will be throwing an after party. More details on that as they emerge. If you’re sticking around for an extra day, you won’t want to miss it. The Geek Easy, their venue connected to the shop, has been evolving like an adorable Bulbasaur into a badass Ivysaur. It sounds like the next step is soon and we might get full on Venusaur action by Nerdapalooza’s after party. I think I’ve confused myself with that analogy.

HEX USED ANALOGY. IT CAUSED CONFUSION. IT’S SUPER EFFECTIVE.

In any case, thank you so much for reading all of this! Looking forward to partying in August!

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