$200 Full Registration Price Extended Til Nov. 29

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Thought you ought to know...

We've extended our $200 rate for a Full Registration through CyberMonday (November 28), so your Ascendio registration can be a great kick-off to the holiday season! Remember what's included in a Full registration:

• Two fantastic feasts
• Three days of formal and informal programming and meet-ups
• All author readings and signings
• Access to the Common Room, Art Gallery, Vendor Room, Craft Faire and Courtyard
• Pickup Quidditch
• The Afterparty at Malfoy Manor Ball (which we may come up with a better name for)
• Showings of fanfilms, fanvids and some Harry Potter movies
• Podcasts, workshops, drabble and drawble challenges
• The Fashion Show on Saturday evening
• Wrock concerts on Thursday (and acoustic wrock concerts throughout the weekend)
• The ability to purchase a ticket to Night of a Thousand Wizards 2 (when they go on sale)

And lots more! Basically, this means that the cost of a Full registration is the same as you'd pay for a daypass for Thursday, Friday and Saturday, but since it's a Full registration, you also get to go to two amazing feasts at the Portofino Bay resort - one brunch on Friday, and one brunch on Sunday. And that, in turn, helps you keep to what we're calling Ascendio Arithmancy, where we suggest that every day, you have: 
Five hours of sleep
Four panels or presentations
Three meals (or substantial snacks)
Two bottles of water
One shower!

Thursday Programming Extended; $50 DayPass Launched

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Since we started planning Ascendio back in 2010, we've planned to host meet-ups, Common Room activities, the Fan Art Gallery and the Vendor Room on Thursday, but at our site visit last month, it became clear to us that we could do more with our Thursday plans.
First thing's first:  We're in the process of adding an afternoon of Wrock concerts and other entertainment, and to make the day accessible to everyone, we're also introducing a Thursday-only Day Pass, priced at only $50.

The Thursday Pass will give you access to all programming on Thursday, including Wrock concerts featuring Undesirable #1, The Butterbeer Experience, Gryffindor Common Room Rejects, Carpe Geekdom and more bands who'll be announced this winter. You'll also get to hang out in the Common Room, shop the Vendor Room, explore the Art Gallery and more! (We're waiting for some AV info from the hotel before we can confirm fanfilm showings on Thursday, for example).
You'll also be able to purchase a ticket to Night of a Thousand Wizards 2 with a Day Pass for Thursday, Friday or Saturday! (note: NoaTW tix are still not on sale, but will be soon!)
On our Registration Page you can register for a Thursday Pass (or get a multiday pass) - but here's the biggest news: if you already have a Full registration, we're including access to all programming, concerts and events at the hotel on Thursday with your registration! So basically you're getting another full day of Ascendio programming for the same price! Talk about bang for buck.

Now, for some math. The Friday and Saturday Passes are still $75 per day, which means that for a few lucky people, you can purchase a Full Registration for the same price of Day Passes for Thursday, Friday and Saturday! $50 + $75x2 = $200... and that's the price for the rest of this month! Even once the price goes to $225, if you want to enjoy Harry Potter discussions, fan creativity and magic on all three days, you might want to opt for a Full Registration, which includes two feasts and only costs $25 more than the three day passes. And the meals? They're definitely worth more than twenty five dollars!
We hope you're as excited about our expanded Thursday programming as we are. Not only do we feel it gives those with Full and Merlin's Circle's registrations even more to do, but hope that the $50 Day registration for Thursday "Wrock Day" and other programming will make Ascendio possible for both Wrock fans and those on a budget. Whether you come for the whole con or mix and match day registrations and individual event tickets, we want all Harry Potter fans to find something at Ascendio, and have a great con!
(Oh, and if you can come up with a better name than "Wrock Day" for our Thursday programming, and we opt to use it for the event, we'll send you a lovely Ascendio lunch bag! Send your suggestions to pr@hp2012.org.)