It’s big news time here at Hypericon!

The venue for our 2017 event – Hypericon 12 – has been selected! The contract is signed and room bookings have come online.  We will be utilizing the beautiful Marriott Nashville Airport, which includes event space and sleeping rooms which have all seen some amazing updates, on a lovely wooded property with plenty of free parking.

Towering over Nashville’s eastern suburbs is the newly remodeled and stunning Marriott Nashville Airport. An ideal fan-convention hotel, this gorgeous venue features loaded rooms, phenomenal event spaces, a perfect outdoor courtyard for nightlife, relaxing pool deck, and easy access to highways heading in every direction. If you need to find our hotel simply look to the horizon for the Marriott – perched on a hilltop next to Interstate 40 and Briley Parkway.

Some fans in the region are familiar with this venue. It has been the frequent home of the Full Moon Tattoo and Horror Festival, and served as an extended event space for the Middle Tennessee Anime Convention. After our thorough evaluation of the Marriott, we’ve found it to be an ideal fandom convention hotel. We look forward to properly utilizing all the advantages of the venue, and our team has developed a fantastic relationship with the management. There is great excitement within our organization at the notion engaging this fabulous location through the right plans and the right people, along with you – the right fans!

Click here to learn all about the Marriott and book your room today, for our great convention rate of $159! With Nashville hotels often reaching rates of $400/night, we consider this rate to be a refreshing break, and easily affordable with a small group of friends. In fact, a room with four people for two nights costs less than $80 per person.

Our block will fill up fast, so be sure you make your reservation today! You can always make adjustments later, as long as you don’t cancel later than one week out from the convention. (A one-night penalty will then apply.)

Now is the time to make Hypericon a permanent item on your convention calendar with the Infinity Membership!

After 11 years of Nashville’s Convention, we have decided a lifetime membership level should be made available to our extended family. However, the idea of “lifetime” seemed too limited for such a limitless concept as the Hypericon “what if” mantra. We asked ourselves just that: “What if…” What if you could keep your membership forever, passed along to anyone you like? What if they could pass it back, or to someone else?

Many conventions offer a lifetime badge. We wanted to go beyond that – to infinity.

Our Infinity Membership is a fully-transferable, ongoing registration, with premium features such as a laser-etched badge and leather lanyard, special member perks, and various exclusive opportunities. Priced at just $300 for its introduction, this membership will easily pay for itself over the next few years of attendance to Hypericon events.

This year, our awesome new hotel is included in the Infinity fanfare as well! Every night anyone in our room block stays in the Marriott, they will be entered into a drawing for an Infinity Membership. So if you’re coming to Hypericon and stay Friday and Saturday night, that’s two chances to win an Infinity Membership of your own! Stay more nights, and get more chances to win. Best of all, entries are automatically made with your room check-in.

There is one more piece of fantastic news for the new Infinity Membership: the Infinity League. With all the big steps we’re taking this this year, the idea of allowing our fans to invest in the convention was conceived. As this is a fan-run event, the usual boring business investment concepts seemed out of place. Instead, we’re giving fans the gift of infinite membership as a token of our appreciation. Anyone interested in supporting the larger goals of the convention may lend $1000 or more to become part of the Infinity League. Those contributors receive an Infinity Membership as a benefit as well as a premium gift, and are paid back one year after their generous support infusion. The names of these helpful heroes will be listed permanently on a commemorative piece displayed at the convention each year as well as special thank-you spaces online and in print.

More information on the Infinity Membership and the Infinity League will be coming soon to our Registration Page.

The Hypericon team is still choosing between the four – yes, four – awesome choices for convention hotels bidding to host Hypericon 12 next Summer. One thing we do know is that our dates have been selected and we’re excited to announce that Nashville’s Convention with return on Father’s Day Weekend, June 16-18 2017!

Mark your calendars and invite all your closest friends, and get ready to register, too! We will open our Early Bird registration on Friday, November 25th and for the three days of the holiday weekend, we’ll be offering a discount to those who want to include Hypericon registration in their “Black Friday” shopping! Early Bird registration, normally priced at $25 for all three convention days, will be on sale for just $20 through Sunday the 27th!

After this weekend, Early Bird will remain on sale at full price though December 31st. Beginning on January 1st, 2017, our Advance Registration will begin, at a higher rate. Don’t wait for prices to increase. Grab this very affordable membership rate today, and tell your friends and family to do the same! You won’t find a better value in a full weekend of round-the-clock entertainment – featuring guests, panels, unique events, vendors and exhibits, a fabulous social scene, gaming, contests and so much more!

Registration information and links (once on-sale) are located at our Registration page.

As always, stay tuned in social media and on Hypericon.net for the latest news and announcements, as we put the next exciting year of this amazing by-fans-and-for-fans event together for you!