A quick reminder that I will be closing the online preregistration sometime after 8pm this evening. If you intend to preregister and possibly prepay for the con, please do so sometime today. Otherwise, registrations will take place throughout the convention this weekend.
Did I mention FallCon is THIS WEEKEND?!
The members of the FallCon Gaming Society had a quick meeting last night to discuss some last minute details and I gotta say, we are all really pumped for this weekend. We hope you are too!
See you on Friday,
Jasen
Preregistrations Closing Wednesday Evening
FallCon Gaming Society - Wednesday, September 16, 2009
FallCon Food Services
FallCon Gaming Society - Wednesday, September 09, 2009
As many of you know, Mama Zanini has been running our FallCon kitchen for
many years. And sadly last year she
announced her retirement.
But fear not! We have found a wonderful replacement. The youth
group from St. Peters Church in Calgary, called the "St. Peter's Truth
Group", has offered to run the kitchen for us this year. They are
using our event and other activities to raise money to attend World
Youth Day in Madrid, Spain in 2011 (and check out their favorite
regions from the game El Grande of course).
The "Truth Group Cafe and Bistro" has put together a menu with a
variety of mouth-watering and economical options. And, the more you
eat in at the conference the more time you have for gaming!
Please check out their menu and plan on enjoying some or all of their offerings!
UPDATE: We had a question come in yesterday regarding the Saturday evening meal times and the availability of food at non-prime meal times. To clarify:
1) The Saturday evening meal will be available from 4:30-9:00pm so we straddle the auction.
2) The sandwich + wrap bar is available throughout the convention kitchen hours as an alternative to the meal "specials". There will also be a variety of snacks including baked goods, chips, fruit, snack bars, etc available at the sandwich bar.
UPDATE: We had a question come in yesterday regarding the Saturday evening meal times and the availability of food at non-prime meal times. To clarify:
1) The Saturday evening meal will be available from 4:30-9:00pm so we straddle the auction.
2) The sandwich + wrap bar is available throughout the convention kitchen hours as an alternative to the meal "specials". There will also be a variety of snacks including baked goods, chips, fruit, snack bars, etc available at the sandwich bar.
3-Weeks-To-Go Update
FallCon Gaming Society - Sunday, August 30, 2009
Registrations
Registrations are coming in fast and our game events are filling up quickly. If you intend on getting into our moderated events, we would strongly recommend you register as soon as possible as we already have several full, or nearly full events.
Full Events:
Circus Maximus
Small World
Games we expect to fill within the next week:
Advanced Civilization
DBHx: Waterloo
Rise &Fall
Agricola
LeHavre
Descent
Dominion
Galaxy Trucker
Rails of Europe
Auction Info
We've added an Auction Info section to our Information pages. There you will find our selling conditions, procedures as well as the Item Submission Form for download. If you want to speed up your submission process, fill out the form prior to your arrival at the Con and have the games and form ready for submission.We also created a geeklist on BGG to list the games you intend on bringing to the auction.
Spiel des Jahres Nominations Announced
FallCon Gaming Society - Wednesday, May 27, 2009
From Wikipedia:
For more info on the Spiel des Jahres and its past winners, head over to the BoardGameGeek Wiki entry.
The Spiel des Jahres (German for Game of the Year) is a prestigious award for board and card games.
The award was created in 1978 to reward excellence in game design, and to promote top-quality games in the German market. It is thought that the existence and popularity of the award is one of the major drivers of the quality of games coming out of Germany. A Spiel des Jahres nomination can increase the typical sales of a game from 500-3000 copies to around 10,000; and the winner can usually expect to sell 300,000 to 500,000 copies.
This year's nominations were announced on May 23rd:
Our Sunday schedule currently has a slot allocated to the Spiel des Jahres Winner or last year's winner Keltis. As Dominion and Pandemic are already on schedule elsewhere, the Sunday slot will be filled by one of the other nominees. Since designer Reiner Knizia won last year for his design of Keltis, it's highly unlikely he would get the nod this year for FITS. Should the winner be Fauna or Finca, we will pick a game to slot into the Sunday schedule based on game availability. At this point, I'd say the slot will either be filled by Finca or Keltis.For more info on the Spiel des Jahres and its past winners, head over to the BoardGameGeek Wiki entry.
What is Fallcon?
FallCon is a boardgame and tabletop miniatures convention for the masses held every fall in Calgary. Consider FallCon a philosophical extension to those fun Friday game nights you spend with family and friends! Against a backdrop of fun and friendly competition, gamers young and old are invited to join us in playing some of the best games available today.
October 15-17, 2010
Marlborough Community Hall
636 Marlborough Way NE
Calgary, AB
Fallcon Countdown Time, Baby!!!
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Nearly full events:
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Sellers in auction:
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