Inviting a Participant to Be Your Tentmate

If you are eligible, you can search for a participant who is available to be selected as a tentmate. You can quickly locate a specific participant whose exact name or email address you know. You can also enter partial information in the Name and Email fields if you are not sure of the exact name the participant used to register.

You can invite someone who has not met the eligibility requirements, but your tent assignment cannot be approved until the participant meets them.

Notes: Due to the large number of people registered for this event, it is not advisable to enter a wildcard character to display all participants who need a tentmate as it may take too long to return results. If you do not know who you want to share a tent with, you can sign up for a random tent assignment.

From the search results returned, you can view information about each participant before you select one to send an email invitation that asks the person to be your tentmate.

If your invitation:

• Is accepted by the participant:

• You will receive an email from event personnel that lets you know that your request for a tentmate has been accepted. You should open that email to view the details to be sure the tentmate name is correct and view a personal message from your new tentmate as well as note the confirmation number of this transaction, which you may need if you must contact event personnel to change your tentmate.
• Your Tenting page is updated with the Tentmate approved message for your Tent Assignment Status and the name of your Tentmate.

• Is declined:

• You will receive an email from event personnel that lets you know that your request for a tentmate has been declined. You can open the email to view the details.
• Your Tenting page again displays the Search fields as well as the Decline Tent and Random Tent Assignment buttons.

Step 1. DisplayYour Tenting Information Page< /P>

After accessing your Participant Center Home page, click the Work with tenting options link.

Step 2. Search for a Participant

Enter all or part of the first name and last name, or email address, in the fields displayed and click Search.

Step 3. View the Personal Page of the Participant Returned

Click the View link next to the name of a participant to learn more about them.

Step 4. Select a Participant to Invite to Be Your Tentmate

Click the Select link to the right of the name of the participant. An area to add a personal message to the invitation displays along with the Send Tentmate Invitation button.

Step 5. Send the Tentmate Invitation

Optionally enter a personal note in the section and click Send Tentmate Invitation. Notice that your Tent Assignment Status changes to Waiting for approval and the name of person you invited is displayed.