How do the badges work?

[Aon Ati]

Hello 17th Shard. I am going to Dragonsteel Con with my Mom, but I am super nervous about messing up in regards to the badges. We've never been to a Con before, so getting the badges was a sweat inducing experience(I think the Mission Impossible theme was playing behind us). Thankfully we got the badges but I don't know how to use them. I'm not sure what we are to present at the entrance of the Con. Is the QR code the badge itself? Do we print out the webpage with the QR code on it and show it at Dragonsteel Con? I'm just worried that my inexperience might mess this up. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

[Argent]

I would say that you have nothing to worry about, I suspect that worse case scenario is that you might end up spending a little extra time during Registration (which is when you arrive to the location and go to pick up your physical badge/wristband/whatever the con does). 

I don't know how exactly things will work, but I would expect that you and your Mom will need to go to wherever Registration takes place (I imagine there will be signs for all that all over the place), pull up your badges' QR codes on a smartphone (paper should work too, and worse case I would expect someone to be available to look you up by name), scan them, and get some physical versions of your badges - often times those are laminated pieces of cardstock, but they can be anything: stickers, wristbands, whatever; the purpose of these is for you to be able to quick prove that you are an attendee when you move around. 

I also expect Dragonsteel will send out an email at some point detailing all of this.

[Aon Ati]

16 hours ago, Argent said:

I would say that you have nothing to worry about, I suspect that worse case scenario is that you might end up spending a little extra time during Registration (which is when you arrive to the location and go to pick up your physical badge/wristband/whatever the con does). 

I don't know how exactly things will work, but I would expect that you and your Mom will need to go to wherever Registration takes place (I imagine there will be signs for all that all over the place), pull up your badges' QR codes on a smartphone (paper should work too, and worse case I would expect someone to be available to look you up by name), scan them, and get some physical versions of your badges - often times those are laminated pieces of cardstock, but they can be anything: stickers, wristbands, whatever; the purpose of these is for you to be able to quick prove that you are an attendee when you move around. 

I also expect Dragonsteel will send out an email at some point detailing all of this.

Thank so much, my fears have been lessened.