Fall Gamesday
Our Fall Gamesday is on November 5th at Board Game Empire
From 10 am to 10pm
We here at PrairieCon like to make sure that people have plenty of opportunities for gaming, so our next Gamesday is coming up soon. This time, we're teaming up with Board Game Empire, who is going to host the event at their shop! Previously we stated that it was on October 29th, but we didn't want to conflict with Comic Con. So we moved the date, so you (and we) can take in all the geek, gaming and comic book atmosphere that Manitoba has to offer! We hope to see you on November 5th at Board Game Empire, located at 1150 19th street to play some board, role playing and collectible card games and visit Board Game Empire if you haven't already!Click the map to bring up the address on Google Maps.
We are on a mission!
PrairieCon has come and gone and we hope you all had a great time.
The organizers have already met a few times over the summer to review the past convention and to start planning for next year's, but first I thought I would drop some hot stats one you from this past June:
This year we had :
Attendees
Games
Gamemasters
And we're hoping to make next year's event even bigger.
Otherwise next year's Artwork is being worked on, and if you scroll to the bottom of this post you'll see the date for the Fall GamesDay.
If you'd like to help out next year please contact us and I'm sure we find something for you to do. 🙂
So about that mission?
Right! We're on a mission, to collect and archive ALL of the artwork from PrairieCon over the years, going back to the VERY BEGINNING.
Since Brandon is such a great place (and also because we're a bunch of sentimental hoarders) we were able to start our project with cover art going all the way back to PrairieCon XIV!
That's over twenty years of artwork that we already had collected!
But that leaves the hardest ones to find!
So now we're asking you older gamers out there to dig deep in your personal archives.
Blow off that old Dungeons and Dragons red box, crack open that old copy of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles RPG or your old box of Car Wars and see if you have any old programs that you can donate or lend to to us so we can take some scan them and add them to our archives.
If you do, then please contact us using that contact page up there.
Or bring it to the next Gamesday or PrairieCon.
OH! And of course, you can check out the Archives Here! We will keep adding to it over time as we get new materials from the past, and of course as the years go forward.
Happy Gaming!
The Fall Gamesday
Will be on November 5th at Board Game Empire
Congratulations to the winners!
Congratulations to Michael From, winner of the Catan Canadian National Championship at PrairieCon! Michael will be representing Canada at the Catan World Championship's in September.
Big thanks to everyone who played and to our finalists (right to left: Emily Johnson, Michael From, [Organizer], Cheryl Fines and Paul Dueck). We are pleased to have hosted such a highly competitive and rewarding tournament in our 37th year and we're looking forward to doing so again!
PrairieCon XXVII Parking and Registration Info
We're looking forward to seeing everyone at the convention tomorrow! Here's a bit of info to help make your parking and registration go more smoothly, especially for those of you who are joining us for the first time. For anyone arriving before 4:30pm on Friday, parking in the ACC parking lot will be limited to 50 spots that will be marked out with signage by the college. We don't know where exactly those spots will be, but they should be in the general vicinity of the area marked "Assigned Visitor Parking" on the map below. Once those spots are full on Friday, any additional cars will have to park in the empty lot on the west side of 14th Street East. After 4:30pm Friday and all day Saturday and Sunday, attendees are free to park anywhere in the ACC parking lot.
A copy of the next map will be in your tote bag when you register. This shows the main floor, where you'll find all of our PrairieCon events. Well technically the gym is down a flight of stairs, but everything else is on one level. When you arrive at ACC, your first stop should be our registration desk. It's located in the gym on Friday afternoon until about 3:30pm, but after that it will be found in the cafeteria for Friday evening and the rest of the weekend.
If you're a smoker, please respect that the only places ACC allows smoking is in the smoking areas outside the doors marked with a white "S" on a grey square on the map.
Pre-Registration ends at midnight tonight.
Today is the last day to register online!!!
So go online and pick your games if you haven't already.
If you miss the online pre-registration, you can still register at the door and there's sure to be lots of great games still to play.
Click here to register