CES 2012 Badge

JR1

How to Unlock
1. Follow CES
2. Checkin at ? recomended venues
3. Checkin between 1/10/2012 and 1/13/2012

Badge specific to Las Vegas, NV

Unlock instructions verified on: 00/00/0000

Venues:
Las Vegas Convention Center

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Space for future badge updates:

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Unlock message:

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From the CES 4sqr page:
"Join us at the 2012 International CES in Las Vegas January 10th-13th! Follow us on foursquare throughout the show by checking in at our venues to unlock badges and get insider information. With over 2,500 exhibitors, exciting keynotes, insightful policy roundtables, and more, you don’t want to miss out on this year’s show!"

neiceek

This is awesome cause I'll be in Vegas on Vac this week.

jmancil1972

@JR1 some more info from their follow page:

2011 International CES includes 2,500 exhibitors launching new and innovative products you can't miss. Check in at 5 of our 10 key venues to get your 2011 International CES Foursquare Badge

JR1

That is the info they posted from last year on how to unlock the badge. Hopefully it does stay the same again this year. Or if it does change that they are nice enough to post the unlock instructions again to make life easy for us.

choad17

They just say checkin at their venues to unlock badges they don't say their badge

Never mind. Saw the next post

Dan

According to a tweet from 4sqaddictinfo and a email received from a social media manager from CEA, there will not be a CES event badge as foursquare is no longer issuing event badges.

JR1

LOL.... Thats just wow.... Would have been nice for them to share that with CES BEFORE they announced that they would have a badge again this year. And on another note that would be folish of 4sqr to do... That would mean no mare badge for football games, baseball games, golf, basketball games, concerts, SxSW, and so many more "events" that they do badges for now. I can't see how 4sqr would suddenly stop issuing badges for events when the majority of the badges they have issued have been for events. There are 173(ish) active badges right now of which 11(ish) are event based; there are 228(ish) retired badges of which 164(ish) are event based. So with 401(ish) badges released and 175(ish) of them being "event" based (thats almost 1/2 of the badges ever released) it would be foolish for 4sqr to change their mind on that now... But hey thats just my opinion..... But then again nothing suprises me anymore..

Dan

I'm hoping this is wrong...but who knows.

Harjifangki

I hope that's just a mere hoax.
If Foursquare stopped the event badge issuing, that'll be ridiculous.
Because not long ago Foursquare just rolls out event support.
So if that's true, their policy to stop event badge issuing will contradict this event support feature.

vec

CES says to check into venues and unlock badges. They might just be referring to vendor badges such as Blackberry, Sony, etc...

JR1

Those would also be "event" badges. So if that info is correct there will be none of those as well.

Dan

Here is the tweet along with emails read into it what you will:

http://forum.foursquareaddict.info/discussion/22/2012-international-cess-badge

Harjifangki

Oh boy.
Well, let's hope Foursquare change their mind soon.
But she's not a Foursquare official right? So hopefully she's wrong.
*fingers crossed

TinyArchibald

I'm calling shenanigans on this idea that there will not be any further event badges. I don't consider this "4squareaddict" place a reliable source, I will only rely on actual 4 square and Matters of Grey. From what I've heard the average cost to launch a badge is $50,000 I believe, and for 4 square to deny event badges is to say "I don't want money" and I just don't see a business or 4 square saying that. That's not how companies stay in business, they make money and take money!!!

vec

So if CES isn't paying then there won't be a badge. Makes sense.

MartininBrussels

The main catagories for badges seem to be cities (which probably don't pay), universities (ditto), foursquare's own badges (they don't pay themselves, presumably), and companies/events (the money makers...)