FallCon - A Cornucopia of Gaming

Civilization: The Expansion Project Playtest

Our moderators for our Advanced Civilization Project, Terry Tout and Gabriel Martin, are thinking about shaking things up this year by introducing a variant of Civ to FallCon. This variant comes with a huge map and an expanded technology tree that can accommodate up to 18 players. Gabriel and Terry would both like to trial run the variant and they are hosting a game session from 10am to 6pm on Saturday August 15 at the Sentry Box. Head over to the Calgary Boardgames Meetup Group to RSVP. Let them (and us) know what you think of the variant!

Lodging for Out-of-Town Attendees

We have a ton of people driving in from Edmonton, Medicine Hat & Regina. Heck! We even have someone coming in from Burnaby BC! For those of you planning on coming from out of town, we've come up with the list of closest hotels to the con. In years past, we haven't had enough demand to block book rooms at a hotel. If you'd like us to look into that possibility for next year, please let us know in this forum thread.

Now for those of you looking for more affordable accomodations (as close to free as possible), we figured we could let the local community step up and offer up lodging options. Those of you seeking quarters or those of you offering quarters can state your offers and conditions in this forum thread. My own "suite" is already reserved but should it come available, I'll be sure to post it to the forum.

Planned Open Gaming Sessions

Every year we struggle with what games to add (and remove) from the schedule. It's very difficult to make everyone perfectly happy but our hope is that our expanded open gaming space will allow attendees to play whatever they want even if their favorite game gets the axe (sorry Caylus). That being said we'd like to facilitate some "planned" open gaming sessions via our forums. If you have an interest in playing a specific game, add a post to this thread indicating which game you'd like to play with some proposed times. Interested parties can then reply to your post if they are interested. Our plan is to also have a few sign-up boards at FallCon so that you can plan sessions on the fly as well.

If you have any other ideas, comments, questions that you'd like us to answer publicly on the blog don't hesitate to post comments or contact us. Thanks!

Jasen

Just a quick update to highlight the fact that we now have our miniatures events up on the schedule. We'll have the 3 remaining slots allocated as soon as possible but this should give our miniatures enthusiasts something to mull over should they wish to register to get that special early-bird pricing.

Those of you who've already taken a look at our roster of game events might be wondering:

"People's Choice? What's that?"

We noticed lagging numbers in our Settler Variants Events over the last couple years and decided to open the schedule up a bit to allow a crowd favorite on Friday night instead. A geeklist has been setup on BoardGameGeek to accept nominations and votes. We're looking for a fun, tournament worthy addition to our schedule so head over to the geeklist, nominate a favorite and vote for all the games you'd be willing to play. Keep in mind, you may want to check the geeklist regularly to see what other people nominate.

If this is a successful initiative, you can be sure we'll implement a People's Choice Event again next year.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/43337

UPDATE: For those of you who don't have a BGG account, feel free to nominate/vote for games in the comments for this blog post. I'll update the geeklist as often as possible with your nominations & votes as long as the comments are NOT anonymous.