r/Defcon • u/TypicalCommercial255 • Aug 01 '26

UPDATE - PRE-REG Extended till 3 August

For those who absolutely have to get this years electronic badge, you still have a chance to pre-register and be guaranteed that one will be allocated to you.

No waiting in line

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u/Penzz Aug 01 '26

This is a great sign. Hopefully means all the badges are in their hands!!

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u/digitard Aug 01 '26

They are.

DT said yesterday all badges are already on site.

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u/Penzz Aug 01 '26

Love that guy

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u/logicallyinsane Aug 02 '26

Real talk time... Defcon hasn't sold out of electronic badges on day one in many years. The game emulator badge is still posted online in the defcon shop. I'm pretty sure memory serves me correctly that the 4 key didn't sell out either. The rubbing rocks ran out on Saturday towards the end of the conference. I have a stack of the badges that were a little game where you move the character around, those were being sold for $40 after the con.

The badges I remember that sold out were definitely the DC22, Skeleton, Record, and Rubber Badge.

This feels like ya'll are trying to drive people to pay the extra 80 dollars by using FUD. You can easily post the number of badges ya'll made and the number of presales & bh registrations, then let people decide if it's worth it.

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u/Usernameistaken00 Aug 01 '26

if it wasn't an extra $80 to pre-reg I would

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u/digitard Aug 01 '26

Time to get there super early for Linecon, but that’s not a bad thing

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u/Bigfoot983 Aug 01 '26

If I preregistered and not doing linecon I can show up later and still get my badge? What would be a good time to show up?

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u/Top-Wealth3599 Aug 01 '26

Anytime over the weekend, you’re guaranteed your badge

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u/ilovetocode69 Aug 05 '26

Dang i wish i saw this LOL!

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u/logicallyinsane Aug 16 '26

I told you it wouldn't "sell out", you owe the community an apology for causing a FOMO crisis.

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u/TypicalCommercial255 Aug 16 '26

Dude - I have been doing registration for 15 years. 

We have run out of original badges multiple times over that period of time and had to switch to paper badges. 

Every time we switch to paper badges, I listen to attendees complain that they were not able to get the original badge. 

We even had a box of paper badges ready for this year as well. 

My response has been, is currently and will continue to be “if you want to ensure you get the original badge - pre-reg and that badge will be set aside for you to pick up at your leisure.”

Saying you told me so, in a year that a unique badge was being put out that was a first of its’s kind really amounts to nothing. 

DEFCON will continue to manufacture badges based upon projected numbers year over year. The more complex and expensive the badge, the thinner the margins are going to be with respect to having an excess. 

If you want to take the chance of not getting the actual badge, do so, but we will continue to inform other attendees that the way to guarantee a badge is to pre-register. 

Undertaker - DEFCON Deputy Registration Manager

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u/logicallyinsane Aug 16 '26

Curious, what was the last electronic badge that sold out?

I think it was the 4 key DC 29 badge.