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Blizzard has finally posted the schedule of events for this year’s iteration of BlizzCon. The event begins this Friday, August 3, 2007, and runs through Saturday, August 4, 2007, at the Anaheim convention center.

The very first event planned on Friday morning is open gaming time with StarCraft 2, which is likely to be the star of the show. Also planned are tournaments for Warcraft 3, StarCraft, and World of Warcraft, alongside discussions and panels.

Panel highlights include two StarCraft 2 live demos, discussions on cinematics, sound/music and careers in gaming, lore and art from Blizzard titles, and even WOW classes. And lest the cosplayers among us get worried, there will be sound-alike, dance and costume contests Friday night. The whole shebang ends on Saturday with a Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftain/Video Games Live concert in the arena.

Sounds like fun, but make sure you abide by Blizzard’s unintentionally hilarious rules if you’re planning on showing some WOW love in costume:

Costumes may not include or otherwise utilize any edged weapons (such as knives, daggers, and swords); ‘actual’ clubs, maces, or other ‘crushing weapons’; or projectile weapons of any kind, even if unloaded or nonfunctional (this includes firearms of any kind including airguns, long bows, crossbows, etc.). Acceptable costume ‘weapon props’ will be limited to air-filled or soft plastic melee weapons (swords, daggers, maces, clubs, etc.) and wooden staves that are not shod with metal.

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