Setsucon

Setsucon 2017 Pre-Registration is now open! Our venue is allowing us to increase our cap this year to 850 people! Pre-Registrations must be postmarked by December 2, 2016 or they will not be counted.

Also, please note that our parental consent policies have changed (again)! Attendees under the age of 18 at the time of Setsucon 2017 must be accompanied by either a parent, legal guardian, or chaperone 18 years of age or older. Visit our registration page to get more details and to pre-register!

Setsucon will be returning to the Toftrees Golf Resort & Conference Center in State College, Pennsylvania on January 21-22, 2017! Attendees can make reservations under our special rate of $92/night. Rooms booked at Toftrees will temporarily require a two night minimum reservation. See our website's Location Page to learn more about reserving rooms.

We hope to see you all at Setsucon 2017!

Time has flown by since Setsucon 2016! Our staff have finally, finally, finally returned to normal sleeping and eating schedules and are getting the gears rolling to prepare for another year.

But first! We’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who came out to Setsucon 2016, especially in the face of the challenges that we faced pulling off the event. We’re going to keep working hard, and we hope to see you again in 2017!

Just a heads up to all of you. The ATM at the Toftrees is out of money. We do not expect it to be replenished over the weekend.

We have sold the additional 50 badges. Keep an eye out for further announcements. We will continue to monitor the situation and let you know if we can manage to squeeze any more people in!

We just got the go ahead from our venue to increase the cap by a smidgen! Starting at NOON we will have 50 more badges available. Badges are still available on a first come, first serve basis.

We have reached our attendance cap of 700 for Saturday. There are no longer any Saturday/Weekend badges available. There are at least 70 Sunday-only badges remaining. We will post a more exact number later today.

Good morning! The registration desk is already open and going strong. There are 46 Weekend/Saturday badges left before we reach cap. For Sunday only badges, we have at least 70 remaining, but will not sell these until Sunday.

Good morning! The registration desk is already open and going strong. There are 46 Weekend/Saturday badges left before we reach cap. For Sunday only badges, we have at least 70 remaining, but will not sell these until Sunday.

The registration desk is closed for tonight. The registration desk will reopen at 7AM Saturday morning for pre-registration pickup and at-con registration. We will have 100 weekend badges available on a first come, first serve basis.

Reminder, the registration desk closes at 10:00PM for tonight. You've only got 30 minutes left to pick-up your pre-registration or register for 2016! We have 133 badges left before we reach that cap.

Setsucon is pleased to announce the card gaming events for 2016. This year we are running tournaments for Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh, Cardfight Vanguard, and Force of Will. For more information on the tournaments and the rules that we will be using, go to our Programming page.
Special Thanks to Jake's Cards and Games for running the Setsucon 2016 Card Gaming Tournaments

Need help finding your way around? Here's a map of the new venue to help you out!

View the Setsucon 2016 Venue Map

Just in a nick of time, the Setsucon 2016 schedule is now available! Please note that the schedule is subject to change. Check back regularly for any updates.
View the Setsucon 2016 Programming Schedule

Since the burning question on everyone's mind is "are there still badges available for Setsucon", we are happy to report that we have about 230 Saturday/Weekend badges still available with at least 70 Sunday badges available! On Friday evening, in addition to pre-registration pick-up, we will be selling Saturday and Weekend badges for Setsucon 2016 on a first come, first serve basis. Sunday badges will not be sold until Sunday. We will do our best to provide updates about the number of remaining badges through our social media accounts. Also, please remember to familiarize yourselves with our Registration FAQ and Parental Consent policies. An adult (parent/legal guardian or chaperone over 21 years old) must be registered alongside any attendee under 18 years old with the proper paperwork on file.

For Setsucon 2016, we have a new addition to the lineup for our dance event, Setsu Odori. We're delighted to welcome JR Schmitt, a student from Penn State’s School of Music! For more information about JR, please visit our website's Guests page.

Returning for an encore performance, DJ Zing will be performing at Setsucon 2016’s dance event, Setsu Odori! For more information about DJ Zing, please visit our website's Guests page.

We are honored to welcome the geek belly dancing troupe Antipode for their tenth Setsucon appearance! Enjoy their performance full of fun dancing and vibrant costumes with cosplay, pop culture, and humor. For more information about Antipode, please visit our website’s Guests page.

Due to the original deadline being ambiguous, we have decided to extend our art contests. The new deadline is Saturday, January 16, 2016 at 11:59:59 PM EST. For more information about the Setsucon 2016 art contests, please visit our website’s Contest page.

We are happy to announce the return of geek comedian Uncle Yo for Setsucon 2016! Karl "Uncle Yo" Custer is the personality behind the “We are the Geek” podcast and the YouTube series “Dungeon Crawlers”. You won’t want to miss his hilarious comedy show! For more information on Uncle Yo, please visit our website’s Guests page!

Setsucon is pleased to reveal our final voiceover guest for Setsucon 2016, Rachel Robinson! Rachel is probably best known for playing Oerba Yun Fang in the Final Fantasy XIII games, but you may also have heard her in other games such as Holly Whyte in Bravely Default, Celsius in Tales of Xillia, or Rox Whetstone in Guild Wars 2. You can also hear Rachel in anime as Zorin Blitz in Hellsing Ultimate and Lidvia Lorenzetti in A Certain Magical Index II. For more information on Rachel, please visit our website’s Guests page!

We are excited to announce the prolific Christopher Bevins as a guest for Setsucon 2016! Christopher’s voice directing credits include Princess Jellyfish, The Sacred Blacksmith, and Case Closed. You can also hear Christopher as Japan in Hetalia, Lahar in Fairy Tail, and Amata in Aquarion EVOL. For more information on Christopher, please visit our website’s Guests page!

Setsucon is proud to announce our first guest for Setsucon 2016, Natalie Hoover! You can hear Natalie as Sonia Nevermind from Danganropa 2: Goodbye Despair, Tsukino in SHOW BY ROCK!!, and Ayn Felice in Tales of Zestiria. For more information on Natalie, please visit our website’s Guests page!

The deadline for the Setsucon 2016 AMV Contest has been extended to January 15th. Go on over to our AMV Contest page for all of our rules, and keep those AMVs coming!

It's that time of year again! Want to have your art seen by every Setsucon attendee? We are holding three art contests: the cover art contest, for the convention booklet; the badge art contest, for the badges; and the T-shirt art contest, for Setsucon T-shirts on sale to attendees. Check out our Contest pages for more details!

Applications for the Setsucon 2016 Masquerade are open from now until January 20, 2016. Whether it's your first time or you're a veteran, Setsucon invites everyone to check out our Masquerade page.

Do you think your cosplay is an awesome, one of a kind example of your workmanship? Then try your hand in our Hall Cosplay Contest! Applications are available from now until Friday, January 22, 2016. Head over to our Hall Cosplay Contest page to read the rules and apply.

If you have not submitted a panel application yet, you are in luck! The deadline for Panel Application submissions will be extended to December 9th and notifications will start on December 16th. Don't forget, you must be pre-registered for the convention in order to host a panel.

Our journey through time will be coming to a close. The period to submit Panel Applications will be ending soon. If you haven't filled out your application yet, make sure to do so before 11/30/2015.

Your favorite time of year has finally arrived, Panel Application Submissions for Setsucon 2016 are now open! Do you have an interesting idea to share with fellow con-goers? Setsucon is your place to do just that! Head over to our Panels page to fill out and submit an application. Remember to read over all of the rules carefully and don't forget that pre-registration is required.

Setsucon Pre-Reg is here! Please remember that we do have an attendance cap of 700, so get your pre-registration in early! Pre-registrations must be postmarked by December 4, 2015 or they will not be accepted. Prices for pre-registration are as follows: $25 for Weekend, $18 for Saturday only, and $12 for Sunday only. Children 5 and under can attend free of charge. We look forward to seeing you at Setsucon 2016! Please note that our parental consent policies have changed! Attendees under the age of 18 at the time of Setsucon 2016 must be accompanied by either a parent, legal guardian, or chaperone. Visit our registration page to get more details and to pre-register!

Setsucon has arranged for a discounted room rate of $89/night (plus taxes) at Toftrees. When reserving a room, please be sure to call the hotel directly and mention that you are attending Setsucon and would like the group rate. Setsucon has reserved the entire hotel for its room block, so be sure to mention Setsucon or the hotel may say that they have no rooms available. Furthermore, Toftress will not be taking online reservations for this room block.

For its tenth anniversary event, Setsucon will take place on January 30-31, 2016 at the Toftrees Golf Resort & Conference Center in State College, Pennsylvania. We had a signed contract to hold Setsucon 2016 at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, however, The Penn Stater refused to honor this agreement. We spent months trying to work with The Penn Stater and other departments at Penn State to remain at The Penn Stater to no avail. Our only choices were to find a new venue or to cancel the event. In order to continue to hold Setsucon, we opted to find a new venue. To accommodate the smaller size of our new venue, we will have to institute an attendance cap of 700 attendees, as recommended by the staff at Toftrees. While we are disappointed that we must institute a cap, our priority is to ensure that our attendees can safely enjoy the convention. We deeply apologize for being unable to announce this information sooner. Although this news may come as a disappointment, we hope that our attendees will continue to support our event during this transition. We will not be raising our registration prices, and Pre-Registration will be opening on Sunday, October 25, 2015.

The Setsucon staff and I apologize for the early closure of the Saturday night dance, the Setsu Odori. Our staff received several complaints of venue damage and inappropriate behavior at the dance. For your safety, we made the difficult decision to end the dance early. Once again, we apologize and we hope that you enjoy the rest of your time at Setsucon.

C. Cody Miles
Setsucon 2015 Con Chair

Due to weather conditions and airport delays, there have been delays with some guests. In a effort to not cancel these guest panels, we have rearranged the schedule to accommodate their new travel plans.

Guest Panel Changes:
Though, Richard and Ellyn Stern Epcar are unable to make it out to Setsucon 2014 this year, they have decided to host a Q&A panel via Skype! The Q&A panel will be held at 8pm-9pm in Panels room 1!

Alexis Tipton Scary Story panel, feat. Leah Clark is now scheduled for 9:30pm to 10:30pm in Panels room 1!

We appreciate everyone's continued patience and understanding.