The Guidelines of SoyCon

January 21, 2012

In order to make sure everyone stays safe and have a good time at SoyCon, there's some guidelines we must inform you. A guidelines page has been updated for you to read the rules and guidelines from costuming, prop checks, and showing common courtesy. We advise every SoyCon attendee to read the page to have a better understanding on what's going on throughout the weekend. If you have any questions, visit our "Contact Us" page at the bottom of the site. We'll keep you informed when we have any adjustments on our guidelines.

Cosplay Calendar Contest

January 19, 2012

We are proudly to announce our first online contest for SoyCon. The cosplay calendar contest lets SoyCon attendee cosplayers be featured in our 2013 calendar. We will begin taking submissions from Feb. 1st to May 31st. Head on over to our "Contests" section to read all the rules, guidelines, and requirements. If you have any questions, feel free to contact soyconcontest@live.com.

We look forward to see what kind of photos you will submit. Also, each entry chosen to be featured on a calendar will earn a free copy of the calendar as well as their photographer too!

Hotel & Motel Information

January 15, 2012

Now that SoyCon is in one stable location, it may be wise to grab a hotel room so you don't need to communite twice towarrds the same location. In the "Locations" page, there's a small list of hotels and motels you can look into spending a night or two. We try to find ones with low cost, short driving distance, and a good area for resources.

Changes, Adds, & Drops

January 4, 2012

With SoyCon slowly growing every year, the event had to adjust and make some changes in order for us to run this event as smoothly as possible. There will be adds, drops, and changes.

• Changes
  • Rolling Meadows will be our location for this year's SoyCon and it will be held at the picnic grove for both days. The event is growing far too large for Chicago.
  • SoyCon Idol will return back to Karaoke Idol. The change is to open the invitation to all attendees who like to sing and not be restricted to vocal talents only.
  • Prop check will be a mandatory. All attendees with costume props, weaponry, and also armory must be checked in before proceeding into SoyCon. We will have volunteers to check them for you.
  • SoyCon Facebook and Twitter updates will now be unlinked and won't have repeating posts. This is for those who do not have both social networking sites.
• Adds
  • Waterballoon fight will be a SoyCon 5 exclusive only. This idea is still tentative so things might change. We'll keep you posted on information for this event.
• Drops
  • Cosplay Mock Weddings will no longer be an event at SoyCon. Even if the idea is fresh, this event can only go so far. We apologize for anyone who wanted to do a mock wedding for this year.

These adjustments had to be done in order to improve our event and have it run as best as possible. We apologize for any inconvience. Please understand that we are working hard for all of you to have a great time and have a safe SoyCon.

For those who are wondering about the *Under Construction* sections, please be patient as we are working to get those information up as soon as possible. We want to make sure everything runs properly and the attendee has a good understanding on what will be happening at this year's event.

Welcome To SoyCon 5!

January 1, 2012

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! We are happy to announce that the road of SoyCon 5 has officially started! Even though we are months away from the annual social cosplay gathering, there's lots to do to run another successful year! There are quite a number of changes for our 5th year so please read our site and forums for all the information.

We would also like to announce that we are now welcoming donations. This will help support SoyCon to keep running, as this gathering grows larger every year. We have a Paypal donation section on the right side of every page.

And we like to thank everyone for their strong support to help SoyCon grow into one of the largest and best gatherings held in the midwest.

SoyCon 5 - HERE WE COME!!!