![]() ![]() Last year, there were food trucks parked outside the convention hall, and it might be a good idea to step outside the center for a few minutes and get food elsewhere. I’m not just talking stuffing pretzels or chips into your mouth either: find a place to sit down with some lunches you packed for yourself, hopefully with some protein and real nutrition, or hit up a food court for something more substantial. While you are at a convention, remember to eat. The Saturday night concerts might be the ones you are looking for, but on Friday night, maybe that's the time to head back to the hotel early to catch up on sleep. Maybe on Saturday, you wake up at the crack of dawn to get on the queue line, but on Sunday, you sleep in a little, deciding not to rush. PAX East has done a great job in the last few years making sure the concerts and the show itself ends a little sooner, but you need to make sure you follow your own schedule of needs, not just maxing out convention center time. Sure enough, after we got back to our homes in New York, basking in the fading glow of non-stop fun, the rest of us got a cold, or flu, or some sort of problem from just wearing ourselves down too damn much. He ended up calling out of work for most of that week afterwards. ![]() I was able to hold out just fine, living off a buzz of caffeine and adrenaline and youth, but my friend had just recently had surgery for an illness before the expo. We stayed again until 2 AM to enjoy some free-play arcade, and then we again found ourselves getting up around 8 AM Sunday morning to leap back into the fray. We stayed until after 1:30 AM at concerts, went to bed by maybe 2:30 AM, and then woke back up before 8 AM to try and get to Saturday early. My first time doing a full PAX East (2011) involved me driving to Boston on Friday for 4 hours, after a day of work. This point gets put at the top, simply because it can be the one that’s often forgotten. #1: Before Everything Else, Take Care Of Yourself For now, start taking care of yourself so you can stay healthy to enjoy the whole convention, and do what you think is right for your own health. If there's any major news between now and the event, expect us to update this page as needed. Bring hand sanitizer with you or wash your hands often.Ī lot of this is common sense that we already talk about in our points below, but we feel its important to reiterate because of the shadow looming over this year's big event. Start taking some extra vitamin C supplements now to build up your immune system now, not later. For those who are going to PAX East this year, they have a listing of mask and vaccination guidelines right on their website.Įven though we're confident in the precautions that the convention are taking, I'd like to stress even more than usual the importance of self care: get enough sleep and eat enough food to keep your immune system strong. Those who made it to PAX events during 2022 spoke well of their dedication to safety protocols. I can with confidence that the PAX team has been taking COVID seriously, trying its best to make sure it doesn't become an outbreak vector. After cancelling 2021's event, PAX came back back. We had a blast, but it had a particular 'last hurrah' vibe to it that you couldn't quite shake. The event was perhaps the cleanest convention I had ever gone to, with every booth having hand sanitizer and teams wiping down demo stations between every session. It was just before the outbreak truly hit, with organizations like Sony backing out from the convention entirely, citing concerns at nearly the last minute. In 2020, we had the blessing of being able to have PAX East at all. Unfortunately, illness is no longer a joking matter it is now a real concern that is impacting attendance the convention itself. Sometimes called "Con Crud" as a more generic stand-in, this term was used to bring attention to the simple fact that so many people in one place could lead to some unintended side-effects. In years past, there's been a running inside joke about "The PAX Plague", enough so that I remember a booth introducing a 'viral' marketing minigame for free prizes back in 2016. We hope that you find something that helps makes PAX East 2023 a little more fun. So here: we’ve put together a small list of ideas that have worked for us in the past. Every year, we find ourselves giving out some of the same tips to these friends, attempting to prepare them for what is to come. Every year, new friends come along to see what the big deal is about these large scale conventions. Some of us have been going to PAX East for a decade now, and every year, we manage to find newer, better ways to enjoy the convention experience, to make the most out this marathon of an event. ![]()
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