… Saturday, May 21st and Wednesday, May 25th!  Woot!

Mark your calendars! Tickets for BlizzCon 2011 will go on sale at on Saturday, May 21 at 10 a.m. PDT and on Wednesday, May 25 at 7 p.m. PDT through the official BlizzCon website (www.blizzcon.com). In addition, a limited number of tickets to an exclusive pre-BlizzCon Benefit Dinner will go on sale Saturday, May 28 at 10 a.m. PDT. BlizzCon tickets will be available at $175 USD each, while tickets to the BlizzCon Benefit Dinner (which include admission to the show) will be priced at $500 each, with proceeds going to benefit Children’s Hospital of Orange County. Tickets to previous BlizzCon shows have sold out within minutes, so be sure to synchronize your hourglasses.

If you can’t make it to the show in person, the BlizzCon Virtual Ticket will once again allow you to watch the event live from the comfort of your own home. The Virtual Ticket will be available as multi-channel Internet stream around the world and also via DIRECTV in the United States.

See the full press release or visit the official BlizzCon website for more information, and we’ll see you at BlizzCon!

I’m a bit torn about the ticket price this year.  Last year, I was willing to pay $150 because it was my first Blizzcon and I wanted to experience it.  Now that I have, and now that I know what to expect, it’s a little harder to justify paying that price.  The big announcement is going to be Diablo 3, which doesn’t interest me at all.  The games they’ll have to play will be Diablo 3, perhaps the next milking expansion of Starcraft, and World of Warcraft.  The swag doesn’t do anything for me – I still have the unclaimed pet card on my desk.

Guess I’ve got a month to figure out what I want to do…