CFC NEWSLETTER, FEB 2026 - REGISTRATION, REGISTRATION AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, REGISTRATION
To our future attendees and the furry community,
Welcome back to CFC's website for another round of information dumping. I'm McChaffee, the director of Capital Fur Con (CFC), and today we're going to be discussing what's been going on behind the scenes here at CFC in the month since our January convention announcement. This is gonna be a bit of a doozy, so grab some popcorn and buckle up.
The Immediate Community Response
First and foremost, I would like to thank everyone who took the time to respond to our social media posts. As a new convention, we were quite nervous with how we would be received, but we were blown away with how overwhelmingly positive your reactions were! We were definitely concerned about how sudden our reveal was to the local community, but I guess that's part of the fun of starting a new convention with little warning!
Please know that we're listening to all feedback regarding the convention and the way we're communicating. We're actively making changes and updating our website to better provide information to the community and will continue to do so as more feedback comes in. Additionally, we are committing to publishing a monthly newsletter on our website. Plus, our social media profiles (which you can find here: X - Bluesky) will become more active starting next month now that our social media team has had time to settle in.
On a brief side note, we highly appreciate those of you who joined our VR group and I personally wanted to say that these instances of hitting over 80 attendees AND having a queue is wild! We're currently working on figuring out a few solutions to improve our instances in VR in regards to moderation so that we can leave our worlds open for people to discover and hangout. In the event that anything disruptive happens, please let anyone with a staff tag know so we can deal with those problems. As a reminder, due to there being some distrust regarding uploading identification to third party platforms (see the current discord debacle), we do try to enforce a generally casual PG-13 atmosphere in our instances so we can keep them open without demanding age verification. While the convention is 21+, it's impossible to enforce this in VR without using VRChat's age verification platform, which we do not want to require.
The Industrial Registration and its Consequences have been a Disaster for the Furry Fandom
Now that this section's meme title has caught your attention, let's dive into the information that you're really here for, registration. As you may be aware, originally our plan was to launch registration this month. However, getting our registration system settled took longer than we expected, and we wanted additional time for our staff to get familiar with ConCat, so we shifted the launch back a month and our preliminary registration opening date is now planned to be Monday, March 23rd.
For those of you unfamiliar with the name ConCat, I have great news for you! If you've been to AnthroCon, Megaplex and Further Confusion (as well as several other conventions), you've actually used this system before without knowing it. If you've never used it before, it's quite a simple system, and built by furries! ConCat is currently one of the most-used back-ends for Furry Conventions that effectively handles most of the registration process and will greatly help our convention.
That being said, while we're still working on the system, we can still dive into and discuss our registration tiers and other information regarding the registration process.
Our Registration Tiers
One thing that CFC is trying to do to improve the convention registration process is keeping our registration tiers simple. We're offering three tiers of regular registration and two unique higher donation tiers. By keeping our tiers straightforward, we're able to better load value into them for our attendees. For this year CFC will be offering the following:
Standard Reg
- Early Bird: $70
- Regular: $80
- At Door: $85
- Daily: $35
Benefits:
- Full Weekend Event Access
- CFC Wristband
Sponsor
- Early Bird: $150
- Regular: $175
Benefits:
- All Standard Registration Benefits
- Access to Sponsor Reg Line
- Sponsor Gift Bag
- Unique Discord Role
- Early Access to the Vendor Halls
Super Sponsor
- Early Bird: $300
- Regular: $350
Benefits:
- All Sponsor Registration Benefits
- Upgraded Sponsor Gift Bag w/ Mascot Dakimakura
- Early Access to Event Room Block
The Gay Lord - Limited to 20
- Regular: $694.20
Benefits:
- All Super Sponsor Registration Benefits
- Con Themed Silicone Sculpture
- Opening Ceremony Shoutout
- Customized Con Badge
The Gay Sovereign - Limited to 5
- Regular: $1250
Benefits:
- All Super Sponsor Registration Benefits
- Ability to book an executive suite at the event
- Custom convention bathrobe
- Unique custom commissioned badge from our art team
- Special mention in our conbook
NOTE: It will be possible for attendees to upgrade from lower tiers if they so desire.
Registration Policy
Regarding our policies for registration, please view them here on our website: https://capitalfurcon.org/registration-policy
Registering Early Helps Us Out
CFC is a brand new convention, so we don't have any historical attendance data to guide our planning. For first-year events, pre-registered and at-the-door attendance can vary widely, making it difficult to predict turnout accurately.
Because of this, pre-registration is extremely valuable to us. It provides a reliable baseline that helps us plan staffing, space, programming, and overall logistics. The only other indicator of our attendance is our room block data, so each pre-registration makes a meaningful difference in our ability to prepare effectively.
So, if you know you're planning on coming to CFC, please register early! It will really help us out.
A Preview of Things to Come
Thanks for sticking with us so far! Our next newsletter will announce our official convention theme, the application process for events (panels and more) and will discuss our mainstage. For now, please see some concept previews of our standee characters from one of our art team members, Bagel Bytes, below:
Can you guess what our theme is before our announcement? Hint: It's related to the final frontier!
- Until the next newsletter, this is McChaffee and CFC's PR team signing off!