GregoryStorm

From http://www.ycombinator.com/apply/

1. If you want to apply, please submit your application online by 8 pm PT on October 3. Groups that submit early have a small advantage because we have more time to read their applications.

2. On October 24, by 10PM, we’ll invite the groups that seem most promising to meet us in Mountain View in early November. We’ll reimburse reasonable travel expenses.

Being they said 8pm PT on the previous line item, I would guess that it's 10pm PT for the invitations. So basically, three more long hours to go... Good luck!

Check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBlN0MadgUo. They had a team of 4 founders in different parts of the world and they were all encouraged to be there for the meeting.

As a bootstrapped company, I would already be thrifty about travel with my own money, but I'd be even more thrifty with somebody else's.

So be thoughtful about your spending. Just because you can expense it, don't use it as an opportunity to charter a private jet, pop bottles of champagne and stay at the Four Seasons. :-)