I will be shutting down the site at noon today and changing things around a bit.  At 7:45pm Oct 11 (today),  General Registration will open. 

Rest assured that no one has registered in General Registration. I shut down Early Bird yesterday morning and nothing changed since then. No one could log in at all to enable any Registration due to both a huge spike in traffic on our site AND issues with a change that our ISP did soon after.