BlizzCon 2009 was announced on 17 February 2009 and took place at the Anaheim Convention Center on August 21-22. The event's space was expanded from three convention halls to four. There were more than 20,000 people who attended.
$125.00 USD per ticket (up from BlizzCon 2008, was $100.00 USD)
This year introduced a new ticket purchasing system via a queue. Rather than allow users to flood the server with one massive purchase period, the servers placed customers in a virtual line, checking each one out in order.
Sold in two batches:
Saturday, May 16th, 2009 at 10:00am Pacific Time (California) (Sold out in 30 minutes)
Saturday, May 30th, 2009 at 10:00am Pacific Time (California) (Sold out in 30 minutes)
Barcodes for tickets began being delivered via e-mail on 30 July 2009
Several community websites have had contests to win tickets.
On a different note, a drawing was to be held to allow 200 people to purchase a ticket to the Laguna Art Museum's Blizzard exhibit. Included with the purchase of the ticket was a BlizzCon ticket
BlizzCon Souvenir Program Ticket (Redeem After Opening Ceremony)
a two-for-one admission coupon to the Laguna Art Museum's World of Warcraft: Emergent Media Phenomenon exhibit
BlizzCon Instant Hand Sanitizer (2.0 fl. oz.)
Brady Games Bookmark/Quest Catch Me If You Can
Find Brady Mercantile, use map to find five (5) treasures, and return to Brady.
BlizzCon Schedule/Map Foldout
Promos for Nvidia, Intel, Laguna Art Museum, Zipzoomfly, SteelSeries, Razer, Jinx and 3point.
Coverage
DirectTV covered BlizzCon via a Pay-Per-View event as well as a streaming internet video of the same feed. Price is $39.95 USD, and includes code for Grunty.
The streaming internet video was provided in HD Blue Post - Eyonix, including the following coverage items:
Exclusive interviews and commentary
Main stage presentations including opening ceremony
Tournament coverage and team highlights
Rebroadcasting of coverage directly following the live stream (so if you miss out on the first couple hours, don't stress!)
The Warcraft III and Starcraft tournaments were available for free. However, in order to get the highlights, the panels, and the full coverage, the DirectTV stream is the only option. Blue Post Europe - Slorkuz
You can also find coverage of the event on several websites:
Blizzard Entertainment BlizzCon 2009 past event
[WoW's 5th Anniversary] in November
