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Plan your setsAll 133 sets, five stages, three nights. Pick yours, see the clashes, send your plan to your crew.

Find your people before baggage claim

Check in with the EDCO 26 topicOn the main screen, check in at your airport and tap 🎪 EDCO 26. Everyone else headed there shows up on the same roster. Check in
Wear your kandi on the planeA stack on your wrist is the signal. Somebody will ask before you even sit down.
Hold up the signA full-screen sign for your phone, for the gate, the plane door or baggage claim. It is right below.
Meet up in the open
Split the ride Open The Kitty

The sign

Pick one, then hold it up. Tap anywhere on the sign to put it away.

Something to say at the gate

Nobody minds being asked about the festival they are flying to.

PLUR at the gate

PeaceThe gate agent has been on since five. Be the easy one in line, especially when the flight is delayed.

LoveShare the outlet, the charger, the last seat by the window. Small stuff is the whole point.

UnitySomebody flying in alone with a stack on their wrist? Pull them into the group chat and the ride.

RespectAsk before a trade or a photo. No thanks is a full answer, both ways.

Never done the handshake? It is four moves, step by step on purePLUR.

Keep it easy on yourself

Meet new people in the terminal, not at your hotel.
Keep your hotel and room number to yourself until you know who you are with.
Use gate chatter here before you hand out your number.
Text your crew who you are riding with, and the plate.

Why any of this

1993. A fight breaks out at a Storm Rave in Brooklyn and Frankie Bones grabs the mic: peace, love and unity, or else. Respect gets added soon after, and PLUR spreads on flyers across the country.

The 90s. Kandi turns into how you pass it on: a single you made, traded hand to hand with the handshake. Electric Daisy Carnival starts in Los Angeles in the same decade.

2011. EDC adds an Orlando weekend. Fifteen years on, a good share of your gate is headed the same way.

More of the story on purePLUR.

Bring these along

Kandi StackDesign singles on your phone. The EDCO 26 starter is on the Shelf. Pocket cardsPrint eight to a page with the handshake. One goes with each single. The KittySplit the ride and the late-night food. Boarding GuardianSet it for the flight home before the last set.