I'll be sure to do the refer-a-friend thing if/when I join up. If nothing else, I'd need some hand-holding and would want to get on the right server.

Yeah, I kind of figured that tickets would be scarce: Blizzard never ceases to amaze me at how a multi-gazillion dollar cash cow can muck-up something as simple as a convention. But maybe it's just the people I run with (who do convention-running as a serious hobby). Still, I just liked to go and gawk or enter the masquerade, so I wasn't too put off by not getting one. Tracy, on the other hand, was coming out from VA to see folks, so that gave me the impetus I needed.