FallCon - A Cornucopia of Gaming

I hope everyone had a great Canada Day long weekend (or July 4th long weekend for those fans of ours across the border). I suspect many of you managed to indulge in some celebratory beverages and snacks, maybe even a game or two. A select few of you though managed to find the time to click on our "Register Now" button to find out it had gone LIVE over the weekend! As of July 1, online registration is available for FallCon 23.

I want to quickly highlight the benefits of registering online:

• Early bird pricing on weekend passes in effect until August 31st.
• Register to guarantee your spot at the table for your favorite game events.
• Event head count tracking lets us know if we need to modify the number of copies to moderate.
• Online registrations makes our life simpler and makes the lines move quicker on opening day - we're process optimization geeks too.
• Online registrants will gain access to our soon-to-be-released online auction submission form.

Details on that last little news item are forthcoming but we expect to have the auction registration up within a couple weeks.

So register as soon as you can and let your friends and family know about us too by referring them, tweeting, buzzing and Facebooking!

See you soon across a game table,

Jasen
 
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Happy Canada Day everyone!

And what better day to announce our list of semi-finalists in the 2010 Canadian Game Design Award?

We had a total of 18 truly fantastic submissions. The competition was fierce but in the end, the first round judges decided to select the following 8 designs for the next round of playtesting (in no particular order):

• Graeme Jahns - The Great Pyramid
• Orin Bishop  - Argo
• Jay Cormier & Sen Lim - Jungle Jam
• Roberta Taylor - Octopus' Garden
• Emmanuel Aquin - D-Day Dice
• Alan R Biggs - That Property Flipping Game
• Leif Steiestol - I Dig the Moon
• John Lucas - Fruition

All designers should be commended for their excellent work as it wasn't easy to make our selections. We can only hope the crop of designs is as good next year. Never too early to start working on those designs for the 2011 Award.

We will have an announcement about the selected finalists in a few months once initial playtesting as been conducted. Congratulations and best of luck to all semi-finalists!

Jasen & Brent
 
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