FallCon
| FallCon | |
|---|---|
| Status | Active |
| Genre | Gaming |
| Date(s) | September 30-October 2, 2016 |
| Venue | Commonwealth Centre |
| Location(s) | Calgary, Alberta |
| Country | Canada |
| Inaugurated | 1987 |
| Attendance | 661 in 2015 |
| Organized by | FallCon Gaming Society |
| Website | |
| http://www.FallCon.com/ | |
 FallCon Logo | |
| Nonprofit organization | |
| Founded | 1987 |
FallCon is the largest and only boardgame convention in Calgary, Alberta featuring a broad range of boardgames and miniatures.[1] Calgary has a strong boardgame community,[2] which the Calgary Herald credits to events like Fallcon and game store The Sentry Box .[3] The convention is managed by a team of four directors and the approximately 30 Board Game Ambassadors, who all volunteer to teach boardgames to the general public.
The event started as a group of wargamers putting up their own money to rent the hall for the weekend and play games with a few of their friends. in 2010 FallCon had approximately 400 attendees, and has expanded 5-10% per year since. In 2015 FallCon has an extensive 1400+ boardgame library listed on boardgamegeek.com under the user name DBezzant. [4] FallCon holds a 400 used game auction that only takes 2hrs to complete on the Saturday evening of the event.
2015 FallCon announced some changes to the line-up of their event, including a giant version of King of Tokyo. [5] The online signup for hosted games has been reduced to only the select few staples of FallCon: 12 Man Titan, Formula De, Roborally and Circus Maximus. Several gameshow type events has also been added, including Wheel of Fortune, Wits & Wagers and Things in a Box, and a Family Game Zone has been added.
FallCon 365 is a directive managed by one of the FallCon Ambassadors to expand the Boardgame community to the general public. This directive hosts approximately a dozen different free gaming events each month. These events a generally held at local game stores, the Legion 285, or at several Calgary Co-Op grocery store community rooms. Ambassadors bring games from their own library and/or FallCons' library for others to play at the events. These events are hosted by an ambassador and several usually attend to teach games to attendees. Theses smaller events usually have 20-60 attendees with a 35 average amount. FallCon Ambassadors are called upon several times in a year to host boardgame events at other large conventions in Calgary. Otafest 2015 had 9000 atendees and FallCon had on hand many Anime Themed boardgames for the Anime Convention. [5] Comic Expos' boardgame room in 2013 was run by FallCon Ambassadors. Geekmoot 2015 had a dozen or more Ambassadors volunteer their time to run the boardgame room. [6]
Canadian Game of the Year Awards are given out at FallCon. The Game of the year awards are managed by the directors of FallCon. The Game Artisons of Canada[7] are one of the primary supplier of new prototypes to this award. Each year the award winner receives a hand crafted wooden plaque with the CGDA logo on it, and a monetary sum.
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References
References:
- ↑ ,David Minken. "Board Games – September 25th". http://www.btcalgary.ca/. External link in
|work=(help) - ↑ ,Caitlyn O'Connor. "A unique hobby for this generation". thegauntlet.ca.
- ↑ ,Peter Hemminger. "The poseur's guide to FallCon". www.calgaryherald.com.
- ↑ http://www.calgarygamers.net/event/fallcon/
- 1 2 ,David Chapman. "OtaFest 2015". http://comicreviewsrus.blogspot.ca/. External link in
|work=(help) - ↑ "Geekmoot 5.0".
- ↑ , Alan Biggs. "Game Artisans Attend FallCon". gameartisans.ca.