That's one reason why the announcements are so early this year.. to give people time to save money. Of course, we can't announce them all early enough to help people decide about MDF since it's 6 months earlier than ROD.
I don't know whether canceling your travel arrangements is possible or if you would lose all your money.. but I would look into it.
Naturally Ares Kingdom has to play on the day that I can't make it. I've seen them twice, though that hardly takes away from the shitiness of the situation.
"It's time to RAID THE CONVENT THIS YEAR!! NUNSLAUGHTER (OH) will make their return to Rites of Darkness in December!! We are almost done with the line up. Expect some great news this coming month. We had to push that further than expected. Sorry for the delays."
Seeing them at MDF, and I don't exactly care about them; but they're idiotic fun so I guess it won't hurt seeing them either time.
"ROOT (CZ) to perform their first show on US soil this year at R.O.D. III. One of the last headliners we have to announce. Expect the last of them sooner than expected."