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Con updates from the Crüe!

  • Final Ticket Wave and Free Tickets

    We launched wave 1 tickets last week, and like clockwork we woke up this week to a pile of emails and an endless list of Signal messages about the next wave.

    So here is the plan y’all:

    • We still have free student and unwaged tickets up for grabs, and we will go through these submissions in the next few days so those who applied know if they have a ticket. You can still apply for one of those here.
    • If you wanted to bulk buy a load of tickets because your Corporate Overlords need an invoice and won’t give you a credit card to use, today (Wednesday) is the last day to request it. Otherwise, you’ll have to enter the wave 2 thunderdome to fight for your tickets.
    • Wave 2 (the last) will go live: 2025-08-22 @ 3:00 PM NZT. Yes, Friday afternoon. This last ticket wave will remain open until we sell out, so get in then if you were keen.
    • Merch and event tickets will remain open until a bit closer to the con. We will probably close merch at the start of October, and events at the end of October. To reduce waste, merch is pre-order only. We do not sell hoodies at the con, and we might have some spare shirts for sale but no promises. Event details are all here.
    • Questions are welcome, just flick us an email. Don’t forget: Crüe are volunteers. So if we don’t respond to emails until the late hours of the night, then that is probably because we are trying to do our actual jobs during the day. Patience is appreciated!

    See you nerds Friday!

    The Kawaiicon Crüe ☆ﾟ.*・

  • Incoming Ticket Waves

    Before we open up the shop, we want to lay down how tickets (or registrations if you work for the venue). Will you read this? We hope so. Do we expect questions in the inbox anyways? Always, tis the life of a con organizer.

    • There will be two ticket waves. We will announce them on socials before they go live. If you miss the first one, try the second one. We do this to give people time to get their procurement and managers moving on approvals, and to allow for the fact we all have lives that can be busy.
    • Wave 1 will be: 2025-08-13 @ 10:00 AM. Yes, Wednesday.
    • Wave 2 will be next week, and we will let you know the time with at least some notice.
    • We kept the same ticket prices. Yes, for the low price of $99.95 you too could come to Kawaiicon!
    • If you are a student or need an unwaged ticket: We had sponsors and a few good eggs who tossed us their own personal coins to pay for a bunch of these tickets this year. Not all of them, but a good number of them. You can apply for one of those here. If you have the means, you can buy your ticket for $29.95.
    • Yes, we are trusting a community of hackers to not misuse this form to scam free tickets from other hackers. Cut us a break, we are just volunteers.
    • Merch will also be open, and holy SMOKES is the art dope this year. The hoodie prices had to increase slightly (shakes fist at inflation), sorry.
    • Tickets to the Girl Geek Dinner and Kuracon will also be open. Check more deets on those here.
    • If you read this far: <3

    The Kawaiicon Crüe ☆ﾟ.*・

  • CFP is closing August 10th

    Con organising is in full swing - which means we finally got all our ducks in a row and set a final CFP submission date: 2025-08-10 (Yes, Sunday)

    If you have been um-ing and ah-ing on submitting, now is the time! Head over to our CFP here.

    What this also means is: Yes, tickets are soon! We plan to do at least two waves of ticket releases, as well as a whole butt load of free tickets for students (thanks to our good ol’ sponsors).

    More details soon, hacker friends! In the meantime: SUBMIT THAT CFP!

    The Kawaiicon Crüe ☆ﾟ.*・

  • Kawaiicon is back and returning to Earth

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    Hello, hacker friends!

    Kawaiicon is back, and we have a few short announcements to share now that we got our snazzy new website up and running. We will keep things short because there is A LOT to do!

    Our Call for Participation (CFP) is open. Want to join in on our chaos? Please do!

    Tickets will open in late July / early August. Social networks and communication channels are as consistent as our local Wellington weather. So you can trust our website news as the source of truth for comms, and we will cross-post the best we can to Bluesky and Mastodon. So keep your eyes peeled to whatever channel you prefer!

    That is it for now! Bye!

    The Kawaiicon Crüe ☆ﾟ.*・