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PrezCon News Archives Friday, July 16, 2010 PrezCon Update!I just wanted to let all of you know that PrezCon's registration site is now open. You can now pre-reg anytime you would like. We have held the pre-reg price of $60 for the whole 5 days plus pre-cons! That is a great value as we plan to run over 90 boardgame Tournaments and dozens of Demo's. Go to http://www.prezcon.com to see what we have to offer for 2011! The dates for 2011 are Feb 23rd-27th.Some of the new games for 2011 will be: Washington's War Moto Racing Julius Caesar Flying Colors Finger Baseball and many more! Go to www.prezcon.com to see what our games list is. We will add a few games after the WBC but the list we currently have excellent. Games Library! We are working hard to expand our Games Library for 2011! We have added over 50 games since PrezCon has ended in Feb! I know that is not many compared to the other Mega cons but we will work hard to make our Library as well stocked as we can by Feb! Tell your friends that Prezcon wants them for Tournaments and OPEN gaming! We will list all of our Library titles on our website before PrezCon. I have to also tell you that we are also running a NEW con in 2011 called the NEC or "National Eurogame Championships" We will have a website up and running with all the details after the WBC! We will need GM's for that but not as many as PrezCon! Stay tuned! The dates will be May 26th-30th 2011 in Bethesda MD at the Doubletree! The list of games will be posted on the new website as soon as we have it up and running. If you want to be a GM for a Eurogame please e-mail me. kingmaker@prezcon.com or call 434-531-9191 Lastly I would like all of you who are attending the WBC to wear your GM shirt or other PrezCon shirt SATURDAY! That will be the offical "Wear your PrezCon shirt day" for 2010! Questions? E-mail me at kingmaker@prezcon.com or call me at 434-531-9191 Thanks Justin Thompson Wednesday, June 9, 2010 PrezCon NewsletterPrezCon 2011 Newsletter June 9th, 2010Follow Gamers, PrezCon 2010 was a huge success. We had over 575 folks attend our 17th annual Board game convention. PrezCon had a very impressive resurgence from a low number of 414 folks in 2009. This momentum in 2010 has us looking towards a bright future for our hobby. Thanks for making PrezCon 2010 our best and largest show ever. The Website has been reset and is now open for pre-registrations for our 2011 PrezCon event. Go to http://www.prezcon.com to get signed up today. The Hotel has also opened there website so you can now make your hotel reservations. The cost is $109 for up to 4 folks per room! Go to this link to make your hotel reservations: http://doubletree.hilton.com/en/dt/groups/personalized/CHOSHDT-PZC-20110220/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG GM’s…….If you ran a event for us last year and you expressed a interest in running it again it is yours if you want it. Remember you save 50% off the pre-reg price if you run a game for us. If you would like run a game (GM it) that is new and has open next to it please let me know. Go to this link to sign-up to run a game for us: http://www.prezcon.com/prezcon/gmguidelines.aspx The List of games that are being run at PrezCon can be found under the link called “Convention Info” Then hit Games! Here is a quick link to that page: http://www.prezcon.com/games/game_listing.aspx The National Eurogame Championships to be held at the Doubletree hotel of Bethesda MD! This new event is brought to you by PrezCon Inc. It will be at the Doubletree of Bethesda Md. We will start Friday at 9am and run through Monday at 5pm. At this event we will be running 25-40 Eurogame tournaments. If you have any suggestions about what games we should run please feel free to send them to us at: kingmaker@prezcon.com PrezCon will have a new website up and running for this event by the WBC. Until then please use my e-mail or call me at 434-531-9191. Any mail questions can be sent to NEC P.O. Box 4661 Charlottesville Va. 22905 A Dealers room will be at this event as well as a Auction Store. Dealers please contact us as soon as you can to let know of your interest. We will have a limited dealer’s room the first year so it will be a first come first serve situation. The NEC will offer a Settlers of Catan Qualifier event and many other special events. There will be Championship Plaques plus Champion T-shirts to all winners. 2nd and 3rd place plaques will also be award based on the PrezCon Formula. A Team event will be happening as well as our ever popular Euro Ironman. This con will be limited to Eurogames only in Tournament format. Tournaments, Demo's, Jr Events and Play-tests for designers will all be happening at the NEC. We will also have our Games Library for Open gaming. The hotel cost is $125 for a room for 1-4 people. As I have stated above we will have a website up and running by the WBC. You may start making your hotel reservations then. Go to this video tour of the hotel: http://www.vfmii.com/exc/aspquery?command=invoke&ipid=1067781&ids=40337 The Doubletree Hotel Bethesda has recently finished a 26-million dollar renovation on all of our guestrooms, meeting space and lobby. Our guestrooms received a complete makeover and our meeting space has been converted into an Executive Meeting Center. The lobby has been converted to the Great Room, which consists of the Front Desk, The Wine Bar, The Umi Sushi Bar, The Cup (serving Starbucks), The Lava Room and The O.Z. Restaurant. The guestrooms were completely renovated just recently. Each room has a brand new interior decor, brand new bathroom, flat-screen panel TV’s and our Doubletree Sweet Dreams Bedding Package. We offer complimentary wireless and wired high-speed internet in all of our guestrooms. We are within walking distance to over 150 restaurants and shops in Bethesda. Our hotel is located only 7 miles from downtown Washington, D.C. We are within walking distance to the Bethesda Metro Station and the Medical Center Metro Station. We offer complimentary transportation to the Medical Center Metro Station. Our lobby is equipped with self check-in kiosks, and we also offer complimentary high-speed internet access in all of our guestrooms and public space. This is going to be an exciting 365 days! We hope to see all of you at the WBC this summer and at PrezCon in Feb! We invite all who have interest in either of our events to contact us and offer suggestions or comments. Thanks in advance for your support! Questions? Call me! Justin Thompson Convention Director kingmaker@prezcon.com 4340531-9191 Wednesday, May 26, 2010 PrezCon Update!Just a quick note to let everybody know that the website is up and running for pre-registrations. That is for GM's or players. We have added a new item to our gift list. The new gift is a cool "Water Bottle" with the PrezCon Logo on it. It cost an additional $5 to get instead of the free T-shirt but it is very cool! We have a limited number of these so get them while they last.We had our largest convention ever in 2010. THANKS to all of you who attended and helped make the con the best yet. I would guess the new games library, 24 hour open gaming, 90 board game tournaments; dozens of Demos, Packed Dealers room and Games Auction will make the 2011 event even bigger! Just to let everybody know we have contracted with the Doubletree of Bethesda Md. to host our 2nd Game Convention Memorial Day weekend 2011. The name of this new event will be the NEC or "National Eurogame Championships". We will have the website up and running by the WBC. The dates are May 26th- May 30th 2011. We will be running over 40 Eurogame Championships in 2011. You know we will have a Dealers Room and much, much more. We will give you more info as we firm up our plans. We hope all of you have a great Memorial Day weekend! Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Thursday, April 29, 2010 2010 PrezCon Age of Renaissance AAR!The 2010 PrezCon Age of Renaissance event was streamlined to minimize the time investment and maximize the fun! There was one single elimination heat consisting of two six player games taking the two winners and the three best percentage of win finishes in a classy five player final in the board room!The five finalists were Ken Gutermuth, Mark Smith, Bill Crenshaw, Arthur Field and Tedd Mullally. The players were well matched and extremely comfortable with their poker chip money and leather seats while college basketball played in the background. Capital bids resulted in Ken Gutermuth receiving Barcelona, Mark Smith receiving Genoa, Bill Crenshaw playing Paris, Arthur Field receiving Venice, and Tedd Mullally receiving London. With this set of veteran players, there was very little abnormality to the play The Genoese made a successful push for Spice in Epoch 3 to cashing in for $288, but succumbed to a Civil War due to the nation’s vast wealth. As After Religious Strife was discarded with Master Art in Epoch 3, Tedd made the unexpected move of banning Science with the very playable Papal Decree preventing Paris from a buyout. In the final round, Bill Crenshaw emerged from his cover to blow past the leaders buying everything EXCEPT the pope banned Laws of Matter and streaking to a 2188 first place score. Tedd (London) came in a reasonable second at 2027 having done a superb job of managing misery. Arthur (Venice) squeaked past a failing Barcelona with a last round influx of cash at 1911. Ken (Barcelona) managed 1836, and the very miserable Genoese (Mark Smith) finished with 1647. Tuesday, March 16, 2010 2010 Tournament Results
2010 Tournament ResultsAuction Results Coming Soon!Monday, March 1, 2010 PrezCon was a Great Success!PrezCon 2010 was the largest event we have ever run. We want to thank all the Gm's for making the event what it was. Without them the con would not be the best Winter Board gaming con in the country! We were down last year (2009) by 15% but this year we were up at least 15% over the 2008 levels! The exact number is still being tabulated but I can tell you that we had 550 players in 2008 so we were above that level! The numbers will be announced soon! THANKS!Without a doubt the con attendees really enjoyed the new games library. The comments about the library were 100% positive and will lead to us making this new feature larger in 2011! The Open gaming group of players increased with the addition of the library. In the past we were more focused on Tournaments and less on open gaming. 2010 was the year changed our focus by listining to our players and deciding to introduce the games library. We will always run excellent tournaments but now the opening gaming at PrezCon will be bigger and better! If you attended the con lets hear from you on Consim or Board Game Geek! Once again thanks for supporting the con! 2011 is 358 days away! Justin Thompson Convention Director 434-531-9191 kingmaker@prezcon.com Monday, February 8, 2010 PrezCon Update!Just a quick note to let folks know PrezCon is 14 days away! We have had 327 folks already signed up to attend our 17th annual Game Convention! A record! We are still taking pre-registrations until Feb 20th. If you pre-reg you save $10 the door price. The pricing for the con is:$70 at the door ($60 if you pre-reg) Convention Badge (All week) $60 Fri-Sat $45 Wed-Fri $45 Sat-Sun $40 Open Gaming Pass (No Tournaments) $35 Junior playing Adult Tournaments (12 & under) $25 Any One Day (This is for the person coming for one day only) No multiple one badges allowed. $15 Visitor Badge (No tournament or Open gaming.) This is for the person who is going to attend the Auction, Dealers Room or just hang-out. Junior's 12 & under FREE if accompanied by an adult. (Playing only Junior Events) Group rates of 4 or more attending the con can be arranged. (Group rates only apply to those who have pre-reged for the con and paid in advance of the event) The Auction is already 2/3rd filled. This year’s event has some really excellent items already registered. If you have games you want to sell in our annual Auction please go ahead and register them at the site. http://www.prezcon.com The hotel is sold-out but there might be an opening at anytime so keep checking back. 434-973-2121 Justin Thompson Convention Director kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Thursday, February 4, 2010 PrezCon Game Auction Update!We have close to 300 items already registered for the PrezCon Auction Feb 27th. If you plan to put any games in the auction please do so early. We will not take items that are not already registered (if we hit our 600 game goal) at the con. With less than 3 weeks until the con please take the time to upload your games as soon as possible.Now a couple of FAQ's about the Auction sign-up or login 1. If you have registered to sell games in the pass your info is on our system. If you try to recover your password or user name it will tell you it can't find it. Go ahead and make a new user name(Use your real name..not the same as last time) and use this e-mail. (Your name@prezcon.com) The e-mail will stop you from making a second entry if you already have the same e-mail attached to your old registration. 2. New folks should not have any problem. We do ask that you use your Real Name as your user name. 3. There is no limit to the number of games/lots you can sell except we will hold fast to the 600 number. 4. Each lot cost $1 to list and you need to pay-pal or mail in the fee before the con. Pay-pal fees to kingmaker@prezcon.com or mail it to PrezCon Inc. P.O. Box 4661 Charlottesville Va 22905 5. Please read the auction rules at the website: http://www.prezcon.com 6. Use the Blue painters tape to attache the auctions slips to your games. We will provide the tape at the con if you are in need of tape. Questions please call me at 434-531-9191 or e-mail me at kingmaker@prezcon.com Thanks Justin Thompson Convention Director 434-531-9191 Saturday, January 30, 2010 PrezCon Update!Ok, we are at the Jan 31st deadline. If you want the free gift you need to register today and pay via Pay pal or mail it. Since it is Sunday I will give you until Monday but you need to have the post mark on the envelope for Feb 1st. If you want to pay via Pay pal send your money to kingmaker@prezcon.com or by mail to PrezCon Inc. P.O. Box 4661 Charlottesville Va. 22905If you have registered and have not made your payment please do so today! After today we will still take your pre-registrations until Feb 20th but you won't get the free gift. You will still save the $10 off the door price. We have 308 folks already signed-up for PrezCon 2010. Don't miss out on what is sure to be our best show ever. Questions? Call me at 434-531-9191 Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 P.S. You can still get rooms at the Hotel if you are willing to pay the higher rate. The PrezCon Block is Sold-out! Tuesday, January 26, 2010 Room Mate WantedMarvin Birnbaum is look for a person who would like to share his room at the con. If you are coming and don't have a room contact Marvin at E-mail ContactJohn Clarke is look for a person who would like to share his room at the con. If you are coming and don't have a room contact John at E-mail Contact If anybody else needs room mate please e-mail me E-mail Link Justin Thompson 434-531-9191 kingmaker@prezcon.com Tuesday, January 26, 2010 Opponent Wanted.I want to find an opponent to play War without Mercy (COA), A Victory Lost, or one of the EFS (GMT) games. Mark Mazers E-mailIf you have a Open gaming request please e-mail me at Justin Thompson E-mail 280 Players already sign-up! Thursday, January 21, 2010 PrezCon UpdatePrezCon “The Winter Nationals” Feb 24th-28th 2010. Pre-Con’s Start Feb 22nd. The Doubletree of Charlottesville Virginia. Hotel number 434-973-2121We have 10 days until the 1st round of pre-registration is over. That means the free gift shirt offer for pre-reging goes away. You must have your registration paid by Jan 31st to get your free gift! You also save $10 off the door price if you pre-reg by Jan 31st! Go to the website to get started: http://www.prezcon.com The hotel has all but been sold-out but we might have 1 or 2 rooms left. Go to the website to check availability: http://www.prezcon.com/hotel/hotel.aspx We have just added a Junior Lounge Room on the first floor of the hotel. Yes, you can feel good that your children are somewhere safe. This new room will have a Ping-Pong table, TV, Couch’s and more for the younger folks. The age limit will be 16 for this room. Jeff Bakalchuck is our Teen Coordinator and will be checking on this room all week. Just one more way to make your vacation the best it can be! Game Auction registration is now open. If you plan to sell games in this year’s auction you need to go to the website and upload your info. After you have uploaded your games info you just need to hit print to have all of your slips printed for you. We started the numbering system at 952 so we will accept lots up until we hit the number 1552. So let’s see the games you plan to sell at this year’s auction. Go to this link to view all current lots: http://www.prezcon.com/auction/show_auction_items.aspx 24 hour open gaming with a new Games library open to all who attend the con! Justin Thompson 434-531-9191 kingmaker@prezcon.com Monday, January 18, 2010 PrezCon UpdatePrezCon 2010 is just about here! We will host a number of Special Event’s this year that we hope you will find interest in.We will run our 5th Annual RevCon at PrezCon. What is that? Well it is a group of games that run over the week that are all based on the American Revolutionary War time frame. You play in each game in tournament form and are awarded points based on how well you do in each event. At the end of the weekend a player is awarded the prestigious George Washington Award. Mark Miklos is the gentleman who coordinates this event. Most games are Single elimination so you will need to arrive when the tournament starts to play in that event. This years line up of games is: Liberty (Columbia Games), We the People (Avalon Hill), Hold the Line (Worthington Games) and Battles of the American Rev War Series by Mark Miklos and GMT Games. Go to this link to see the scoring system and schedule used for RevCon. http://www.prezcon.com/minicons/revcon/RevCon.htm PrezCon is pleased to host the Settlers of Catan Mid-Atlantic World Championship Qualifier Tournament! Charles Minter will be the Game Master for this great event. Charles has attended all of the past PrezCon’s and is an expert in the Game Settlers of Catan! Now that he has run Settlers for many years his event has become the event not to be missed.. The schedule is a Heat system will all winners moving on to a Sunday Morning Semi-final! The Winner of this Grand Event will receive round-trip Airfare, Hotel Accommodations and Admission to Origins. ($500 maximum pay-out) The North American Settlers of Catan Championship will take place there. The winner of that event gets an all expense paid trip to play in the World Settlers of Catan Championship! Don’t miss out on your chance to take your Settlers of Catan game to the next level! http://www.prezcon.com/minicons/Settlers/Settlers_of_Catan.htm TNT is a focused in depth tournament featuring the exclusive play of Avalon Hill's Titan. Competitive play featuring some of the best players in the United States. We will offer a plaque for 1st thru 3rd place for the main event! Come play in the longest running and most prestigious Titan Tournament in the world. If you win this event we also add your name to the TNT Yearly winner’s plaque that is displayed at the con. To see the schedule go to this link: http://www.prezcon.com/minicons/TNT/tnt.htm We hope that all of you plan to attend this year’s event. These special events are just a few of our tournaments we are running in 2010. For the whole list of game tournaments (90+) go to our website at: http://www.prezcon.com/index.aspx Thanks Justin Thompson 434-531-9191……..kingmaker@prezcon.com Wednesday, January 13, 2010 PrezCon Update!PrezCon will host its 17th Annual Game Convention Feb 24th-28th 2010! PrezCon runs over 90 board game tournaments, many Demo's and lots of play tests. Go to this link to see what games we have to offer: http://www.prezcon.com/games/game_listing.aspxThe “My Schedule” link allows you the opportunity to look at the schedule that fits your wants’ and desires. You may pick all of your games and see how they fit your schedule. Dealers like Mayfair Games, GMT, Clash of Arms, Columbia Games, Worthington, Troll & Toad, Collins Wargames, Ravensworth Press, Z-Man Games, Mayfair Games, Our Game Table and Lock n Load! The Dealers at PrezCon are second to none! There are deals to gotten at PrezCon. Troll & Toad and GMT among others offer discounts at the con every year. Most of these fine companies advertise in our convention booklet so please check the ads for specials and discount notices. Each person who attends the con gets a copy of the con booklet. We will run our 17th annual Game Auction. If you would like to put games in the auction please go to our website and upload your descriptions of your games there. We started our numbers this year at 952 so keep adding until we hit the number 1552. The schedule for the Auction is: The Auction Preview is Saturday at 10:30, with all auction items on display. 2. The Euro/Family Games Auction begins at 11:00. 3. The War/Strategy Games Auction begins at 13:00 or as soon as the Euro/Family Games Auction is over. 4. The "most collectable" items from each part of the auction will be sold at the end of that part We will offer you 24 hour Open gaming for 6 days! We also will have a small games library in 2010. We have over 40 games so far and hope to have more before the con. If you have any old games you would like to donate please let us know! The Doubletree hotel is 95% sold-out so please make your reservation today. http://www.prezcon.com/hotel/hotel.aspx The newly remodeled hotel has an Indoor Heated Pool, Bar, Hotel Restaurant and much more. Come join over 550 players every year who play here in Charlottesville Virginia. Our contact info is: PrezCon Inc. P.O. Box 4661 Charlottesville Va. 22905 or call me at: 434-531-9191 Justin Thompson Convention Director 434-531-9191 kingmaker@prezcon.com Monday, December 28, 2009 PrezCon Hotel UpdateHappy Holidays!The Doubletree hotel of Charlottesville is all but sold-out for PrezCon Feb 24th-28th! I spoke to the hotel on Friday and they informed me that all of the 2 bed rooms had been sold-out for the PrezCon Group and for that matter the general public. So all they have left is King Beds. They also told me that they have a number of Kings that have fold-out sofas in them. They are limited but I want to let you know there are a few of these as options. You might need to call the 800 number to get the sofa beds. Go to our website to get started. http://www.prezcon.com Pre-Registration is underway! You save $10 off the door price and receive a free gift Color T-Shirt if you register by Jan 31st. Thanks Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Tuesday, December 22, 2009 PrezCon's 2010 Hall of Fame winner is...........It's our pleasure to announce that the PrezCon Hall of Fame class of 2010 is now set. We had over 26 folks qualify to be voted on for this year’s ballot. It was amazing to see that only one would rise to the top. Gerald Lientz was one of the first players to support PrezCon in 1994 our first year. He has been a GM every year and has game mastered over 10 different games in that time. He has worked with the con behind the scene sorting mailers and helping in any way he could. After 17 years of service to PrezCon it is my pleasure to invite you to our Friday night induction ceremony. Please just find your way into the main hall for the induction ceremony at 7pm. Gerald also has had success as a Player. He has won 6 tournaments including Setters of Catan twice. He was the second person to represent us at the US Setters of Catan Championships. If you get a chance to see Gerald at the con please express your thanks and congratulations as he is most worthy.Thanks Justin Thompson Convention Director kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Friday, November 27, 2009 Prezcon Games LibraryPrezCon is proud to announce the forming of the PrezCon Games Library. We are in the process of gathering games for our new library. We are planning to have it up and running at the con in Feb. If you would like to donate any game to the library please contact me at kingmaker@prezcon.comPrezCon is going to be the Open Gaming place to play. You may check out the game in the library starting Monday Feb 22nd at 9am. This is an exciting new addition to our already excellent convention. Pre-Registration is now open! Go to our website to get started. Prezcon.com. If you pre-reg by Jan 31st your will save $10 off the door price and you get will get a souvenir T-Shirt as a free gift! The Doubletree hotel is filling fast. Go to this website: http://www.prezcon.com/hotel/hotel.aspx and get started. The $99 rate for up to 4 people in the room is one of the best out there. The hotel is already 80% filled so do not delay! Columbia Games announced yesterday that they are going to produce Rome vs. Rome next. The expected release date is now Feb 1st. I want to thank all of you who have already pre-ordered the game. Columbia Games has announced that the last opportunity to pre-order and save up to 25% off the price is Dec 31st. Go to the Columbia Games site pre-order the game. Click here to preorder. Rome vs. Rome will be added as a tournament at PrezCon this year! Thanks for all your support! Justin Thompson Tuesday, September 1, 2009 PrezCon UpdatePrezCon 2010 Update! 2010 Tournaments:
We will host more of these events as players come to us with suggestions and the want to GM. We offer 1st place plaques to all winners of our Jr. Events. Wednesday, July 8, 2009 PrezCon UpdatePrezCon is registration now open! Go to http://www.prezcon.com to get registers for PrezCon 2010! With over 90 board Game tournaments, Jr. Events and Demos of your favorite games PrezCon will be a Convention not to miss in 2010. If you register Early we give you a $10 Discount and a Free T-shirt gift.The Hotel is now taking reservation. We always sellout the hotel block so if your coming go ahead and make your reservation today. Go to: http://doubletree.hilton.com/en/dt/groups/personalized/CHOSHDT-PRZ-20100222/index.jhtml The Dealer Room is filling quickly! We already have Mayfair games, GMT, Worthington, Troll & Toad, Columbia Games, Z-Man Games, Harmony House, Clash of Arms, Our Game Table and Lock n Load Games. We sold over $8000 in games at our Games Auction in 2009. We will have 600 spots for our 2010 game auction. The on-line registration will be open soon. I look forward to seeing all of you at the WBC next month. If you are one of our Great GMs please seek me out and get your Game pre-registration packet. With over 90 Game on the list we are in need for a few GMs for 2010. I will fill those openings at the WBC! Thanks for all of your support Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 PrezCon UpdateYes! PrezCon is going to have a Block Game Tournament Track at our Feb 24th-28th 2010 Convention. The growing interest in these games has prompted us to create a players track that will allow you to participate in all Block game tournaments with a minimum of overlap. The games we have in the Block Games Track are listed below:1. War of 1812 2. Richard III (NEW) (GM Needed) 3. Hammer of the Scots 4. FAB: The Bulge 5. Prussia Defiant Stand 6. Command & Colors 7. Texas Glory (NEW) What do you think? Anything missing from the list? Suggestions on formats? Do you like the list or the idea? Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Friday, May 22, 2009 AOR After Action Report!The action was great at the PrezCon Age of Renaissance event in 2009. In the first heat, there were two boards and the usual game ensued, including the customary “Buy a boat” notes scribbled on the score sheets. The second heat had 1 six player game with Mark Smith trying his hand at Hamburg. The game started with a bang as London declared War! on Genoa and promptly lost his capital. After that the game was unusually skewed towards Genoa, who started receiving Wool payouts and multiple Stone shortages! Genoa coasted to a close win over Barcelona, who, going last in the final card play, played Black Death, Pirates, and Rebellion against himself!The AoR final was a marathon session running almost 6 hours. Diplomacy was running high, with equal emphasis on the stick and the carrot. The finalist were Bill Crenshaw (Paris), Mark Smith (Barcelona?!?!?), Tedd Mullally (London), Jeff Mullet (Venice), and Kevin Sudy (Genoa). Mark got off to a strong start with an early Turn 1 Crusades play, which made for an interesting Turn 2. London, compensating for Barcelona’s fortunes, landed in Seville as well as Oran while Barcelona was busy gobbling up the Eastern Med. On Turn 3, London showed up with 36 tokens and Armor to carve his way into a Fur Wool Trade with Genoa and firmly establish presence in the game. Venice and Barcelona struggled after neglecting to upgrade their boats to galley 6 and had to settle for smaller doms during their turn 4 expansions. When Paris played his first of three military advantages, Venice could only reply “Better not mess with my Mongol Armies”. The deals were flying in all stages from card play to purchase to expansion. After an amazing feat of diplomacy, Paris convinced Genoa to forego his usual Holy Indulgences for exploration. Remarkably the Pope remained silent. Paris also was able to maintain good relations with Barcelona through Epic 2, which sent Venice into impromptu choruses of Kumbaya. Epoch 3 came on with a roar as London started the card play with Christopher Columbus in the box and a swift Religious Strife to forever silence an as yet not played Pope. Things were looking poor for Venice after he missed out on the Ocean Navigation (even as London sailed straight for the New World), but the experienced Mullet used the handicap as a veritable cloak of invisibility, enabling him to get 3 spice provinces and cash in for several decent payouts. On the following Cosmopolitan and Cathedral turn, London was the big loser, but was able to negotiate his way out of being diced and sliced by the other 4 nations. The leaders were flowing at that point and Venice made its move taking advantage of a free Copernicus and his own Leonardo Da Vinci to buy Renaissance. Genoa made the unusual decision to discard Alchemist Gold, even though several players had not yet bought Laws of Matter. This was a decision he would fret over when Venice’s cloak of invisibility lifted the following turn. Several players were poised for this to be the final turn and Paris and Genoa conspired to buy a 9 and 12 card to make it so, only to discover one more card than they could handle, and a lack of shortages to push the game one more turn. The blood was flowing in this new final turn, with Pirates and Rebellion not waiting for final card play. Tempers began to run hot as all nations were still in contention. Venice, going first, was able to leverage his cards and those spice holdings into a lead over Genoa, while Barcelona poured money into tokens for the privilege of going last. Final card play saw Venice make a desperate play to push Genoa’s misery down via a War only to see the result come up tied, followed by a Venetian, win pushing both nations into more misery. This would prove to be a pivotal difference. Venice, continuing the bloodshed elected to hit his own home territory, Area VII, with the Black Death. Paris made his contribution to the fight by playing Civil War on Venice; his capital already reduced by plague, Mullet taunted “You’re not reducing my capital buddy!”. After a plunge of 3 misery by most nations after Barcelona’s Famine, Venice’s miseries resulted in Genoa squeaking out the victory over Venice by a mere handful of points. Venice “Won the War only to lose the battle”. Wednesday, April 15, 2009 2010 GamesWe will add a few more games after the summer conventions. We are looking for a few GMs to run the Open Games. If you are interested please e-mail Justin at kingmaker@prezcon.com or call him at 434-531-9191. We offer our GMs a 50% discount and a free Polo Shirt for running our games. If the game has "Open" next to it, that game is available to the first person who ask's to GM it. If the game has a "yes" next to it that game is spoken for in 2010. If any of these "Spoken" for games become available we will let you know.GM Registration is open.
2009 Convention Results
Saturday, March 7, 2009 PrezCon Photo's Posted!Eric Haas has posted his Photo's of PrezCon 2009 at: PrezCon 2009 Photo'sThanks Eric for your excellent pictures. Tuesday, March 3, 2009 Kevin Brown's PrezCon Experience!PrezCon expanded to a full day of pre-con goodness on Tuesday, so I drove up Monday in order to be ready to go at 9 AM. I saw tournament director Justin Thompson as soon as I came in and he invited me up to his room for a pre-pre-con poker tournament. I bombed out early, as expected. Plenty of sharks in the room, and I'm a poor card player.Tuesday I did the Eurogame sampler. Six different games (Bohnanza, Maharaja, Vegas Showdown, Princes of Florence, Zooloretto, and Amun-Re) to fill the day, with a break for lunch and one for dinner. I managed to win once, finish 2nd twice, 3rd twice, and 4th once. No wood there, but I learned a game I'd never played before (Zooloretto) and got to play a few that I hadn't done in a while. Wednesday began the con proper. I started with the first heat of Union Pacific. Dud game for me. The first scoring round came when I'd had only one turn, right before my second one. The second and third came simultaneously, again right before my turn. That put me hopelessly far behind, though I did manage to scrape out of last place. Next up was Tikal. I was able to effectively cut off a portion of the board where only my men could easily reach five temples. I capped one at 10 and one at 8 for one man each. I wound up winning by about a dozen points. I made a note of the Thursday night semi-final, then moved on to Agricola. I wound up second. I was in it until Gerald Lientz started playing all these Minor Improvements with bonus points on them to pull away for victory. I met Gerald again at my next game, Power Grid. It turned out to be one of those game that ended with someone winning by powering 11 cities. Actually, three of us were powering 11 (the other two powered 10) and one decided he could win on the tie break. Of course he was wrong and finished 3rd. I knew I wouldn't win the tiebreaker and stopped at 14, finishing second. The one powering 11 and only built 11 won. I had a free couple of hours, so Bruce Reiff corraled me into a game of Agricola with him and Jeff Mullet. Both Bruce and the game are always fun. Last game of the night was a heat of McGartlin Motor Racing. Hung around the back most of the race, then surged to 4th. I waited too long to make my move. Timing is everything in racing, but the vagaries of the lap counts cost me. The heat ran long, so there were no other events I was interested in that night. The attendance on Wednesday was relatively sparse, not many people were available for open gaming, so I called it a night. With nothing I was all that keen to play on the early schedule Thursday, I got into a game of Borneo with Steve Quade. He always has funky new games. I thought this one was just so-so, but was willing to try it again later. At 11:00 I did Dominion. The way it worked was to play three hands in two hours with different preset card combinations, changing tables after each hand. Contract Dominion, I guess you'd say. First hand was mega-Witchy, with many of the tables having winning scores in single digits. Our table was relatively high scoring. Tom McCorry won going away, scoring 39, with an absurd tree of actions involving multiple Festivals every round. I took second at 18. Second hand I won, playing a very basic low action high money strategy. Third hand I bombed out, trying a Chapel strategy only to have Dave Platnik also doing that at the table and doing it better. 4th place in that hand ended any chance I had of qualifying for the semifinals. Next up was Carcassonne, a game I always do poorly at. I played to form, winding up with too many farmers producing too few points, and took 4th. After that I had a try at St Petersburg. Unfortunately, Hall of Famer Arthur Field was also at the table. He was to the left of a very inexperienced player, something a player of his caliber doesn't need but left me playing for (and getting) 2nd. I was going to do Air Baron next, but not enough people showed to hold a heat. So I moved on to Puerto Rico. Got an early Factory, which led to a Harbor, a Wharf, the Customs House, and an easy win. Note: semifinal Saturday at 2:00. There was another McGartlin heat that evening, this time on a Super Speedway. Lots of high lap counts made the race end quickly, so I wasn't able to improve past 4th after a poor qualifier. I took a break before the Tikal semis, I wanted to be well rested and fed. Got matched with Arthur Field and Greg Gordon. They got bogged down with each other, doing the quagmire thing on one of the temples right next to the start camp, while I got a camp and kept it to myself with some aggressive bidding (lord knows we never go as high as 8 at home). I was able to hold off Greg's treasure hunting to win, and as the top two finishers we both qualified for the next day's final. It was a pretty tense game, ending after midnight, so I knew I'd had enough for the day. Friday morning the crowds were notably larger than the earlier days. I did St Pete again and bombed completely, finishing 4th. I was struggling for money the whole game. I had a little free time after that, so I settled into some open gaming with Eric & Michelle Hymowitz and someone else whose name escapes me. First we played Dominion. They have an interesting method of choosing which cards will be in play. Each player is dealt four of the bluebacks and they pick two to be in play. The other two are determined randomly from the remaining cards. I like the concept of letting players have some control over what's in play. After that we did Wasabi. I took second to Eric. I completed all of my recipes except one three, he had a four and a two uncompleted but had many more wasabi cubes. The second heat of Air Baron was more popular than the first, filling two boards. I took third, without ever really being in contention. I had San Francisco and Denver, but couldn't expand beyond that. The Tikal final was after that. One of the four players was unable to attend, so we had to play three. It was me, Greg Gordon, and Pete Pollard. I started out well, isolating a corner for myself and capping an 8 for one man. Then Pete dropped an open tile and a camp in my area and proceeded to ruin all my carefully laid plans. We got involved in one of those leader plus 6 or 7 men things down there. When that happens, you either have to bail quickly or stay to the bitter end. I got out first, but too late. Greg had built up his area too far away for me to attack him effectively. I hung on to second, Pete never had an area of his own to build on, but left thinking how much better Tikal is for four than three. More free time, which led me to another try at Borneo with Steve Quade and Eric Hymowitz. I started to get the feel for the game towards the end, and also got the feeling that I didn't really want to play it again. A third 4th place finish at McGartlin was on tap after that. Seems like I used to be good at that game. I finished Friday with a round of Ra. I got hosed in the first epoch by three consecutive Ra tiles to end it, leaving me with a -2 score. I came on in the later epochs but could only manage third. By Saturday the con was really filling up. Not much empty space available. I decided to start with a second heat of Power Grid. We all got pretty well thumped by Lisa Zitomer on the Germany map. I sat in on the auction for a bit after that. Bruce Reiff is always amusing when he's doing his auction schtick. He even got $3 for a copy of Go To The Head Of The Class. I got into another Puerto Rico heat at noon. Did the full bore Factory this time, producing all five goods, leading to another easy win. The semifinals of PR were immediately after that. This one turned out to be a shipping game. I scored 52, to win by a single point over Carolyn Strock. The PR finals followed immediately after that. Well, not quite immediately, there was a 45 minute interval during which Steve Quade roped me into trying this weird game with sliding floors and giant mice. I didn't have time to finish, but it was immediately apparent that it was not my kind of thing. The PR final was something else entirely. It was an almost immaculately played game by all four players, extremely tight with no way to determine who was leading at a given moment. The final scores were 49-49-48-46. I had the 46. One more shipping round and I would have been golden. No more events for the night, so I settled into open gaming. First was Brass with Dave Platnik, Gerald Lientz, and Roderick Schertler. I started well, getting two level 3 cotton mills flipped in the canal phase, In the rail phase I spent too much time trying to get all my level 4 cotton flipped and not enough time building rails, which allowed Roderick to pull ahead. After that I did some two player Dominion with Paul Wischow. It's a very fast game with two people. I think two player really demonstrates how little interaction there is between the players. I was barely paying any attention to what Paul had in his hand, but I kept winning. Lastly I met up with David Hood, who I had seen the day before and promised to game with. We did Ticket to Ride with Brian Shelden, then Twilight Struggle. As usual, I crushed him at TS. It was getting late, so we arranged to meet at 9:00 the next morning for whatever game we could decide on. I was up early. There was some snow on the ground, but none falling. I didn't bother to look at the weather report. I went down and jumped into the 8:00 heat of Settlers of Catan, figuring it would be done in an hour. It wasn't, so David came looking for me. I won the Settlers game, then declined the semis so I could thump Hood at Twilight Struggle again. Ed Rothenheber came in just as we were finishing, so we decided to do Puerto Rico as the getaway game. Ed pushed the game to a quick finish, getting City Hall and then buying up cheap violet buildings for the bonus points. That left me in last, as I was trying a longer term strategy and couldn't adjust out of it quickly enough. The drive home was an adventure in itself. I'm on US 29 south of Lynchburg. It starts snowing. No problem, it's not sticking. But then I see it start sticking on the median, then on the shoulder, then I see white on the road. Time to slow down, I think, and just as the thought enters my head I realize that the car is swerving on an icy patch. I'm from Georgia, I don't know beans about driving on ice. I vaguely remember that I'm supposed to stay off the brake and turn into the swerve. It's unnatural to me, so by the time I remember all that I'm spinning off the road. I see a guardrail during one of the spins and wonder if I'm going to hit it. The car stops suddenly, in a ditch about 3' from the rail I saw. It's still running. I sit stunned for a moment, and a state patrol car drives up to check on me. I am uninjured, but I don't know what the car's condition is. I tell him I'm going to call AAA. I shut it off and get out to inspect the car. There's no apparent damage. So I start it up. It's stuck, no driving it out of the ditch. I make the call and wait. Eventually a tow truck comes and pulls me out onto the shoulder. After the paperwork is complete, I start down the road again. The snow has stopped, just rain and wind now. The car has a serious vibration problem. I know why, I could see grass and mud sticking out from the wheels, and my suspicion is confirmed by the inability to feel any of the road bumps that are normally noticable. I limp down to Greensboro, where I spot a Wal-Mart. Wherever Wal-Mart is, there's always an NTB or Merchant's Tire & Auto nearby. In this case it's a Merchant's. They clean about 8 pounds of mud out of the wheels and realign me. I get in I-85 shortly after that, and just before Charlotte it starts snowing again. This time when I see white on the shoulder, I get off the road and decide to finish the drive Monday. When I get up Monday morning, part of I-85 is closed. Checkout time isn't until 11:00, so I can wait. About 9:30 the TV reports that the interstate is open and traffic is moving. I go out to the car and it's covered with snow. I start it and turn on the windshield defroster and the rear window heater. It would take forever for those things to melt off all that snow and I don't have one of those window scrapers in the car. Like I said, I'm from Georgia. I get the plastic spout from my gas can and do the best I can. The guys next to me are from Florida and are using bare hands to clear their windows. The interstate is treacherous. Lots of places where one or two lanes are still snow covered. There are at least two clear lanes all the way, though, so the traffic keeps moving pretty well. By the time I reach Georgia, all the lanes are clear. Even on 441 and 129 there's no snow on the road. In some places it's right up to the road. South of Athens things green up, the only snow I can see is well off the road in the shade. By the time I pass Gray there's no white stuff to be seen at all. I hate snow. Monday, March 2, 2009 One of our Best shows ever?PrezCon 2009 is in the books! Yes we had a grand time at this years show. From the opening day until we closed in the snow we gamed and gamed. With out a doubt in my mind this con was one of our best ever. The attendance was a little down compared to previous PrezCon’s but the level of fun and competition was excellent. In the next few weeks we will post the results of the Iron man, Team Event and individual Tournaments.Check back soon. Once again Thanks to all of you for attending this years Prezcon! Justin Thompson Monday, February 16, 2009 PrezCon Last minute info!• 85 tournaments over 5 days!• Dozens of Demo’s of your favorite Classic and New games. • Play Tests of games still under development. • 24 hour Open Gaming. • Monster Games. • Dealer’s Room with: GMT, Clash of Arms, Lock in load, Worthington, Columbia, Harmony House, Our Game Table, Z-Man, Troll & Toad, Mayfair and Blood & Cardstock Games. • Ironman Championship • Team Championship • Best Sportsmanship Award • 16th annual Game Auction • RevCon 4 (Rev War games Event) • Newly Renovated Hotel • And so much more! It is almost time to come play some games! We look forward to seeing all of you in 8 days. Remember to bring your copy of the games you plan to play. The only reason why you won’t be able to play in a game you want to play is if there aren’t enough games to allow everyone to play. Player’s who bring a game get 1st priority in playing in the tournament. We have 3 men who will be inducted into the PrezCon Hall of Fame Friday night. Please take the time to gather in the main hall at 7pm. This is a special night for these well deserving players. If you have games that need the onsite bid slips you will need to come to the desk anytime we are open to get your forms. They must be attached to your games prior to check-in Sat morning. Questions call me at 434-531-9191 We have a Teen Coordinator this year. His name is Jeff Bakalchuck and he will handle all Teen related issues at the con. He will be available to you starting in the evenings on Wednesday night. After the Concession stand closes Soda’s will be available at the store next to the front desk. They will also sell Ice-cream and snacks 24 hours a day! Hotel rooms will be available up until Feb. 20th! The rate of $95 is great so get your room. Call 434-973-2121 or go to http://www.prezcon.com Once again Thanks! Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Tuesday, February 10, 2009 PrezCon UpdatePrezCon is 14 days away! The hotel still has over night rooms! They just told me that they are going to accept reservations until Feb 20th. This is great news and should allow anybody who hasn’t gotten a room to get one. Make your reservations NOW! 434-973-2121 or go to this link: Doubletree Hotel LinkWe have 309 players signed up. You can still save $10 off the door price. Go to: http://www.prezcon.com/register/player_registration.aspx" target="_blank">Player Registration link to get started. Feb 20th is the last day to pre-register and save the $10! The Auction on-line registration is working for some but not for all. We are going to attempt to correct the problem by allowing those of you who it hasn’t worked for to send us a complete list of the games you plan to sell. We would need info like: 1. Name of Game 2. Condition of the game 3. Complete/or Missing parts 4. What you would like to start the bidding at: $1 is best. 5. Family or Wargames Auction We asking you to use Excel or Word and send the info to Ken Gutermuth at: Ken Gutermuth's E-mail for those of you who have your games up on the site not to worry you are good to go. If you have put your games up on the site we expect the $1 per lot before the con. Send your check to PrezCon Inc. P.O. Box 4661 Charlottesville Va. 22905 or PayPal it to kingmaker@prezcon.com The Deadline for games is Feb 20th! Please send in your info to Ken by the 20th! We are really excited by the numbers we have so far. Come join us in 14 days and play some games. We do have 85+ tourneys, dozens of demos and lots of Junior Events! If you have any questions please call me at 434-531-9191. Justin Thompson Convention Director kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Monday, January 26, 2009 Down the stretch we go! PrezCon is 29 days away! The hotel is 1 or 2 rooms away from selling out. Make your reservations NOW! 434-973-2121 or go to this link: Doubletree Hotel Link We have 259 players signed up. The Free gift goes away Sat, Jan 31st. Yes you can still get the free shirt for signing up early. You also save $10 off the door price. Go to: Player Pre-Registration Link to get started. The Auction on-line registration is working for some but not for all. We are going to attempt to correct the problem by allowing those of you who it hasn’t worked for to send us a complete list of the games you plan to sell. We would need info like: 1. Name of Game 2. Condition of the game 3. Complete/or Missing parts 4. What you would like to start the bidding at: $1 is best. 5. Family or Wargame Auction We asking you to use Excel or word and send the info to Ken Gutermuth at: Ken Gutermuth's E-mail for those of you who have your games up on the site not to worry you are good to go. If you have put your games up on the site we expect the $1 per lot before the con. Send your check to PrezCon Inc. P.O. Box 4661 Charlottesville Va. 22905 or PayPal it to kingmaker@prezcon.com Questions? Call me at 434-531-9191 Justin Thompson Convention Director kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Friday, January 23, 2009 Monster Game EventThe Monster Game for Prezcon 2009 is Avalance Press's Second World War, which combines John Prados' Third Reich and Great Pacific War. It will be played in the downstairs foyer area (where OCS Case Blue was played last year). It starts on Wed AM. Contact Martin Svensson to get onboard. Be there or be square!Wednesday, January 14, 2009 PrezCon 2009 is looking excellent. We have lots of players already signed-up to attend this year’s event. We have 17 days until the free gift goes away. So if you’re waiting till the end to get your registration done….now would be the time. You save $10 off the door price plus we offer you a free Color T-Shirt for registering early. Jan 31st the free gift goes away. We will still give you the $10 off up until Jan 20th. Go to PrezCon Inc. to get started. We do welcome walk-up if you need to wait until the con. The Hotel is with-in a day or two of being sold-out. Go to Doubletree Hotel Link get your hotel reservation done. On-line auction sign-up! You must login and upload your games that you plan to sell at this years Auction. Go to the auction sign-up and get started. We will only accept 600 games for this year’s auction. I have 30 games I have yet to post so put your games up before you get locked out. Ok, Thanks for your support and we look forward to seeing you at the con. Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 P.S. If you have already registered on-line and have not sent in your payment, you need to send in your payment. Send it to PrezCon Inc. P.O. Box 4661 Charlottesville Va. 22905 or Pay pal us at kingmaker@prezcon.com Monday, January 12, 2009 As predicted the Hotel is now selling out of certain types of hotel rooms. If you need a room please make your reservation soon. We have less than ten (2 bed) rooms left to sell. Go to Doubletree Hotel Link to get your reservation started. If you would like to talk to a live person call 434-973-2121. Make sure you tell them you’re with PrezCon. The $95 rate is good for 1 to 4 people in a room. We look forward to seeing all of you at the con. It is really looking good now! Justin Thompson 434-531-9191 kingmaker@prezcon.com Monday, January 5, 2009 PrezCon Update! Today is Jan 5th! Only 50 days until the start of PrezCon 2009! We have 196 players signed up so far. The con offers you a $10 discount and free T-shirt if you pre-register by Jan 31st. We know that quite a few of you have attended the con for many years. With that in kind we offer you upgrades for a few more dollars. When you sign-up hit the gift catalog link: PrezCon Gift Link to see the upgrades. The hotel is nearly filled. If you have any plans to attend and would like to stay at the hotel go to this link: Doubletree Hotel Link We have King Rooms Smoking/Non-Smoking still available. The Double Bed Rooms Non-Smoking are just about gone. Go to the link above and make your reservation today. You can call the hotel directly 434-973-2121. Make sure you mention the con to get the rate. This year PrezCon Hall of Fame recipients have been announced. Arthur Field & David Fritsch have been elected into the prestigious PrezCon Hall of Fame. Friday Night at 7pm we ask that you come help us induct these fine men in the hall. Congratulations Arthur & David you’re both extremely worthy of this honor. On-line Auction sign-up is underway. If you are going to sell any games at the auction this year you will need to go to this link: Auction Upload Link to upload your games to the website. We are going to accept only 600 games this year. We will not have an auction store in 2009! If you have any questions about the auction contact Bruce Reiff at: bdreiff@aol.com If anybody needs my assistance in anyway please contact me at kingmaker@prezcon.com Justin Thompson Convention Director 434-531-9191 Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Win This at the Con! Detroit Grand Prix Tournament! Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Looking for a ride to the con!Joshua Gottesman is in need of a ride to the con from the Baltimore area. If you can help e-mail him at: joshua@jagslife.comThanks Justin Thompson Monday, December 29, 2008 PrezCon Update!PrezCon Update It is Dec 29th! 57 days until PrezCon 2009! The game auction on-line registration has already started. If you would like to see what we already have registered go to: http://www.prezcon.com/auction/show_auction_items.aspx If you would like to sign-up your games go to this link: http://www.prezcon.com/auction/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fauction%2fregistration%2fadd_auction_items.aspx We will only accept 600 items for the 2009 game auction. We expect to fill all the slots via the on-line sign-up before the con opens. If we do we will not accept games at the con.The Doubletree is filling up as I feared early. Take the time to make your reservation today at: http://doubletree.hilton.com/en/dt/groups/personalized/CHOSHDT-PRZ-20090220/index.jhtml you will not want to stay up the road. The hotel looks great and is a great value for 09! The schedule is looking great. Here is the link to look over what we have planned for you at the con: http://www.prezcon.com/schedule/schedule.aspx If you would like to Demo a game that is not on the list of current game we will be glad to add it if you will Gm it. WE are not accepting new games at this time. If you are planning to Play-test your games please give us a heads up. We expect a large crowd in 2009 and space will be at a premium. We will be glad to advertise your play-test if you send us your info. We already have 181 players signed up to attend the con. Go to this link to see who is already planning to attend: http://www.prezcon.com/register/preregistered.aspx if you aren’t signed up now would be the time to get your registration forms mailed or on-line submitted. Remember you must send in your payment to have your registration completed. Jan 31st is the deadline for pre-registration. The free gift goes away Jan 31st! You also lose the $10 discount Jan 31st! Don’t delay sign-up today! Go to:http://www.prezcon.com to get started! Questions? Call me 434-531-9191 Justin Thompson Convention Director kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Monday, December 22, 2008 PrezCon Hotel UpdateMerry Christmas! For those of you planning to attend PrezCon 2009 the hotel block is 95% filled at this very moment. The Doubletree has just gone through a 4 million dollar renovation. All the guest rooms are completely renovated with all new furnishings. The indoor Pool has been renovated as well as the Jacuzzi. When you walk in you will notice the lighting has changed. There is all new wall vinyl, new fixtures, and chairs. The Bar, Giorgio’s and the restaurant are completely renovated as well. The list of improvements is long but needless to say it looks like a new hotel. I hope you enjoy your hotel experience in 09! If you want a room you need to get cracking as we will sellout the rooms probably by Jan 15th. Call 434-973-2121 or use the link at the website http://www.prezcon.comQuestions? Call me 434-531-9191 Justin Thompson Convention Director kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Wednesday, December 17, 2008 Panzer Grenadier lives!Avalanche Press is sponsoring a 4+ hour Panzer Grenadier game for up to 12 players on Friday, 1200—1600+;The battle is Operation Goodwood, July 18, 1944, where the British army is attacking east of the city of Caen with elements of three armored divisions against elements of II SS Panzer Corps. It’s the biggest British tank battle of the war. Avalanche Press will be providing a prize for the winners. This will be a open gaming event! John Stafford will Gm this event. You may contact him via his cell phone. 703-609-4109 Thursday, December 11, 2008 PrezCon UpdateI wanted to drop you a line to let you know that the main flyer should be in your hand now or very soon! The schedule is in the flyer so you can make your plans. With over 85 tournament games we are pretty sure you will enjoy yourselves. We have added a Monster Game that will run Wed-Friday morning. Here is what Martin has in mind:Conquer the world….at PrezCon The Monster game event at PrezCon 2009 is going to be held in the Promenade Ballroom. It runs February 25-27. This event features the Avalanche Press combo of John Prado’s’ Third Reich and Great Pacific War, played together and simultaneously. Global warfare from the North Atlantic to the furthest reaches of the Pacific played over six maps! Third Reich 3rd edition rules (a.k.a. Second World War) rules will be in use. This rule book is downloadable from the Avalanche Press website. If interested in participating, contact Martin Svensson at martin.svensson8@gmail.com. With the Settlers of Catan Regional National Qualifier, RevCon, “TNT” the Titan National Tournament and our first Eurogames Showcase Sampler Pre-Con PrezCon gives you lots of gaming options. With Mayfair Games, Columbia Games, GMT, Troll & Toad, Clash of Arms, Worthington Games, Lock n Load Games, Z-Man Games, Our Game Table and Harmony House as our dealer line up you can’t go wrong in 2009! The Game Auction, 24 hour Open Gaming, Demo’s and Play Tests are also all good reasons to join us in 2009! Let’s not leave out the Ironman Championship, Team Championship, Best GM Award, Hall of Fame Award or the new Sportsmanship Award! So many reasons to come play games with us at the Doubletree hotel in Charlottesville in Feb! Go to http://www.prezcon.com to see what game we have already setup to run. Pre-Registration is also open. We offer you a FREE gift for just signing up early. The free gift is yours if you pre-register by Jan 31st 2009. The Hotel is filling very quickly. We have already filled over 85% of the Hotel Block. Don’t be left staying up the street. Call 434-973-2121 or go to http://doubletree.hilton.com/en/dt/groups/personalized/CHOSHDT-PRZ-20090220/index.jhtml to make your reservations today. We hope you have a excellent Holiday Season. See you in Feb! Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Thursday, October 2, 2008 2009 Games
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 PrezCon UpdateSubject: PrezCon Update!PrezCon Eurogames Pre-Con Sampler? Yes, I am considering hosting a Eurogames Showcase Sampler event on Tuesday Feb 24th. We already host an excellent assortment of Euro Games but our Pre-con Day Tuesday is lacking a Euro Event. I am hoping that someone will step up and host a Euro sampler event with games we don’t offer in our regular Euro Track. Is there a GM out there that can come Tuesday and run this Grand Event? There are so many Euro Games we don’t run because we just don’t have the space in our regular schedule. So if you have a plan, give me a call at 434-531-9191 or e-mail me at kingmaker@prezcon.com Remember we don’t charge for the extra day of Pre-con’s once you pre-registration or pay at the door there is no additional cost! GM’s Oct 1st is the deadline! Please get your Gm forms done and send in your money to the PrezCon mailing address is PrezCon inc. P.O. box 4661 Charlottesville Va. 22905 The 50% discout goes away Oct 1st. If you have already sent in you forms and payment Great! For those of you waiting to the last minute NOW, NOW and yes NOW is the time to get it done. You have 7 days to go! Thanks for all support! Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Tuesday, September 22, 2008 PrezCon GM Alert!Here is the current list of GM's who have not sent in there Game Master info. Go to http://www.prezcon.com and get started. The dealine to have your game signed up is Oct 1st! Most of you have contacted me and confirmed that you wanted to Gm your game. This is a reminder to get it done. Questions? E-mail me at kingmaker@prezcon.comSuzanna Tuch Alhambra Jack Jaeger Agricola Jim Jordan Britannia Peter Martin Kingmaker Ivan Lawson Lost Cities Luke Koleszar Titan the Arena Amy Jordon Greed OPEN Circus Maximus Jeff Bakalchuck Formula Motor Racing Doug Galullo Formula De Ed Wagamon Tabletop Aces George Seary Hammer of the Scots Karl Laskas Command & Colors John Emery Up Front Patrick Duffy Paths of Glory Dan Strock Axis & Allies Mark Love Monsters Menance America Mark Miklos Battles of Amer Rev Doug Galullo Advanced Civilization Mark Smith Victory in the Pacific If you would like to GM one of the open games please contact me. I hope this looks as good as it does now when you get it. Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Friday, September 5, 2008 2009 PrezCon GM’s2009 PrezCon GM’sIt is now Sept 5th. The deadline to get your GM pre-registration in is Oct 1st! We have over 40 of you already signed up and paid. That is excellent. We do have Open games for GM’s this year. What is an Open Game? It is a game that either wasn’t a Tournament Game last year or was dropped by its GM from last year. Most GM’s from last year want to GM this year but there a few who move to a different game or can make it from year to year. If you would like to GM one of these games e-mail me at kingmaker@prezcon.com *Dominion* *Pacific Typhoon* We just dropped Pirates Cove and Pompeii from this year’s game list. Dominion was added as a replacement for Pompeii. Some of our GM’s have dropped there game this year but we have had no problem finding replacements for all existing tournament games currently. GM’s get a 50% discount off the pre-reg price so they only have to pay $30! We also give them a very cool embroidered polo shirt. Also all GM’s are in the running for the Carr Cup for the Best Game Master of 2009. Our, GM’s who ran their game last year who wanted to host it again need to get there GM forms to me as soon as possible. Oct 1st is the deadline. The line-up of games is impressive for 2009. PrezCon is right around the corner and will be here before you know it. Make your plans now. The hotel is going to sellout as it always does. We have quite a few folks who have already made there hotel reservations. Go to the site and hit the Doubletree link to get started. We thought about having the first night being charged and non-refundable with-in 30 days to cut down on cancellations. We didn’t do that because we know we can handle this ourselves. We understand consolidating with your friends but we would ask that you make your reservation with this in mind…..If you make a hotel reservation remember if you find a friend who is coming with you let him or her stay with you. Don’t cancel your reservation. Last year we had folks who couldn’t get a hotel reservation because we were sold-out at the Jan 30th hotel deadline if you have to cancel we understand but do it before the Jan 30th deadline so folks can snap up the open hotel rooms. Demos, Play Tests are welcome at the con. If you have favorite game and would like to share it with the world just let us know and we can setup a time for a demo. If you are designing a game we would be happy to help you setup play tests by putting you on our official schedule of events. Jr. Events. We currently have, Formula Motor Racing, Circus Maximus, Carabande, and Table Top Aces. We would like to add 2 more Events in 2009! If you want to GM a Jr. Event let me know. We offer a 1st place plaque to all Jr. Winners. Ok, there you are! Now is the time to get pre-reged! Player or GM’s may pre-register at http://www.prezcon.com my e-mail is kingmaker@prezcon.com and my phone number is 434-531-9191 Thanks for your support! Justin Thompson Convention Director Monday, August 11, 2008 PrezCon Update!Returned from the WBC yesterday after noon tired and completely gamed out! It was just a piece of gaming heaven. I arrived Wed Morning and began handing out the GM packets. If you had already pre-registered I didn't seek you out. I handed out over 60 GM packets at the con. It was nice to see all of you at the con. I don't normally get a lot of time to socialize but this time I was demoing my new upcoming release from Columbia Games. I demoed "Rome Vs Rome" for over 25 hours. That gave me plenty of time to sit, talk and to enjoy some of my good gaming friends company.Personal Note: If you would like to see what my new game looks like go to http://www.columbiagames.com and hit game plan and then the Rome Vs Rome Link! If you like what you see pre-reg it and save 25% of the retail price! If you are a GM NOW is the time to get your registration done! You have until Oct 1st but we would like you to register as soon as you can so we know if we need to find a GM for your game! For those of you e-mailing me about open spots, I will e-mail you if any open up! We do have Acquire, Pacific Typhoon open at this time. Players, you may pre-reg any time you are ready. The site is up and running! The Auction page is also up and running. We will accept 600 items only for the auction. The auction store is back and we will accept your items of $30 or less value. It will cost you .25 to insert an item into the auction store and 10% of the selling price. We look forward to seeing all of you at the con! Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Monday, July 14, 2008 PrezCon Update!For those of you who want to GM a current Open Game now is your opportunity. We have just a few games that are not spoken for or have a GM already signed up to GM it!*Nappy Wars (GMT) *Pacific Typhoon (GMT) *Wars of the Roses (Columbia) *Union Pacific (Rio Grande) These are the only games currently open. 20+ GM's have already signed-up! We offer a 50% discount off the $60 pre-reg price. Yes, $30 if you GM a game for us. We also give you the excellent GM Polo Shirt. Don't miss out on the opportunity to run a game and save! First come, first serve. The Hotel is now open for reservations! Go to the site at http://www.prezcon.com or go directly to: http://doubletree.hilton.com/en/dt/groups/personalized/CHOSHDT-PRZ-20090220/index.jhtml to make your reservations. PrezCon 2008 saw us sell-out the hotel so don’t be one of the many who had to driving up the road! The $95 for the newly remodeled hotel is a steal! Take advantage of the low rate and book now! The Doubletree will have a New Fitness Center when you arrive in Feb. They also have all newly remodeled Rooms, Restaurant and Meeting rooms! It looks like a new hotel! If you are not a GM and would like to Pre-Register you may do so NOW! We look forward to having you as our guests in Feb! We will see some of you at the WBC in a few weeks! Yours in Gaming Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Wednesday, July 2, 2008 GM's for 2009!Wow, we had such an overwhelming response to our Gm request that we only have 3 games left without GM’s! Our returning GM’s (That is a GM from last year that told us they would GM their event in 2009!)+ Our New GM’s have filled all but 3 open events.Pacific Typhoon (GMT) Clash for a Continent (Worthington) Wars of the Roses (Columbia) If you want to help us out and GM open events go to http://www.prezcon.com We of coarse offer GM’s the 50% discount and the free embroidered Polo Shirt for helping us out! Move fast as these games will be snapped up faster that you can say Settlers of Catan. Thanks Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Monday, June 30, 2008 GM's Needed for PrezCon 2009These games are in need of a GM for 2009! If you want to take up the GM job for one of these please let me know! kingmaker@prezcon.com or Call me at 434-531-9191Ticket to Ride: The Card Game Athens & Sparta Wars of the Roses Pacific Typhoon Clash for a Continent Remember GM's get a 50% discount! Yes, $30 instead of the $60 Pre-Reg Fee. We do ask that if you are GMing a game already you let other folks attempt to Gm the open games. We want you to enjoy the con and play a few games! All Gm's receive a free Embroidered Polo for helping us out. We also award the Best GM award every year as well! So there you are! To be a GM you have to sign-up and pay by Oct 1st! We thank all of our Gm’s from the past and all of you who will GM in 2009! PrezCon looks to be the largest event yet! Justin Thompson Convention Director kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Bill Macon's PrezCon Experience!Author: Bill MaconPrezCon, Inc. recently hosted its 15th annual Board Gaming Convention at the Doubletree Hotel in Charlottesville, VA. Since 1994, PrezCon has grown from a small regional convention to become a premier winter event attracting attendees from North America, Europe and Asia. Scheduled during the lull between the winter holidays and upcoming spring breaks, what better way to survive the February gloom period than to roll some dice and push cardboard around a mapboard with old friends? I made a day trip down to Charlottesville to see what all the excitement was about. Justin Thompson, President/Convention Director and founder of the PrezCon game convention, snagged me at last year’s World Boardgaming Convention and invited me to check out the “other” con. I caught up with Justin to get an inside scoop. This year’s event had over 500 registered participants and the Doubletree Hotel was sold out. PrezCon is Doubletree’s largest event all year and has been its longest continuing event. Needless to say, the hotel staff was very accommodating to the hundreds of wargamers in attendance. So what were the top game competitions this year? Settlers of Catan by Mayfair Games was a main event, and was in fact the Mid-Atlantic Regional Championship. Texas Holdem (a late night card tournament game), McGartlin MotorSports by McGartlin Motorsport Design, and Twilight Struggle by GMT Games were also popular events among the more than 85 boardgame tournaments and juniors’ events offered. A special event for 2008 was the inclusion of the 3rd Annual RevCon inside PrezCon, with their separate area and Revolutionary War atmosphere. Gaming PrezCon events include old favorites, Euro Games, as well as some of the Classic Wargames. I will not list them all; they are listed on the PrezCon website. I will mention that the grand ballroom, all of the smaller meeting rooms and the hallways on the first level of the hotel all had tables set up and activity going on. As I wandered about checking out the games in progress, I stopped at a couple. Having recently reviewed Matrix Games’ Empires in Arms, I watched a game of GMT Games’ Napoleonic Wars being played. It was nice to see this fast-paced card-driven game in action, and it definitely plays faster. I also stopped to see GMT Games’ Combat Commander, Europe being played. This is very similar to the old Avalon Hill Squad Leader, but is a card-driven series. I am intrigued more and more by these innovative card-driven games that provide additional randomness and unpredictability to gameplay. For those who compete in these convention tournaments, I do not need to promote the gaming aspect. But I mention all this for readers who may be curious to attend a convention as a visitor. Please do so! Watch and learn, and discover something new. Dealers and Deals Conventions are a great place to find a new wargame to add to one’s collection. Avalanche Press, Café Games, Columbia Games, GMT Games, Lock ‘n Load Publishing, Mayfair Games, SherCo Games (Amazing Space Venture), Troll & Toad, Worthington Games and Z-Man Games all had tables set up. Players can usually find a bargain or two plus there is no shipping charge. Most game stores do not have such an extensive selection offered as can be found at a convention, so what better place for a wargamer to shop for his hobby? I spent some time checking out the new games, as I usually do, but I also took time to sit in on the Game Auction being held. Convention auctions are also a great venue to buy some old games at a decent price, or sell some unwanted games as the case may be rather than throw them out. Some games sold for as little as a dollar, others for tens of dollars, and some for hundreds of dollars. I did not catch the title of the last game auctioned, but it sold for over $600. Wow. Demos I enjoy sitting in on the game demos at these conventions. They give me a chance to see something different, perhaps meet a game designer and learn about something new. This convention was provided a few nice opportunities during my one-day visit. First stop was the campy Monsters Menace America by Avalon Hill, a game of “mayhem and mass destruction.” Mark Love provided a walk-through of the updated version, complete with all of the classic Hollywood horror movie monsters to stomp and destroy cities in their path. Next up was PQ-17 Arctic Naval Operations 1941-43, a P500 title for GMT Games. Game designer Chris Janiec was on hand to provide the demo and was there throughout the day playtesting a scenario. Richard Berg, a prolific wargame designer, was also on hand with a couple of new games set up for playtesting; one had a Conquistador setting and the other had a Wild West setting. Unfortunately I noticed these too late in the day and did not get a chance to talk with him about them. These demos were just a few of the many offered during the convention. One highlight that I had planned to attend was a Gettysburg seminar by Jonathan Lockwood. This featured a boardgame staff simulation using the old 1974 Rand game, Lee vs Meade. This was interesting for two reasons. For one, the staff simulation was designed to introduce the realistic factors of “limited intelligence”, “fog of war” and “friction” for up to 20 active participants divided between Union and Confederate staffs. Each staff uses a large gaming map while a referee controls a master map to resolve simultaneous movements and determine combats. The other reason this was personally interesting was that this particular game was the first real “wargame” I ever played, not counting Risk and Stratego. After 30 years it was vaguely familiar at first, and progressively became more familiar as I realized “Yes, I played this game before!” Too cool! Although we did not have nearly 20 participants in the seminar, the few of us there split into two staffs and played the first four turns of the battle. It was a fun and enlightening exercise. For anyone interested, Jonathan plans to conduct this seminar again at the World Boardgaming Convention in Lancaster, PA in August. Conclusion PrezCon is just one of many great regional conventions held throughout the year around the country, and around the world. The ConsimWorld events calendar provides a listing of upcoming game conventions and other events. Check out the calendar and find something local to attend. Not everyone can make it to Origins in Columbus, OH each summer, but certainly there must be something nearby. Get to an event, roll some dice and have some fun! Saturday, March 1, 2008 The Winner's ListHere is the news you have been waiting for!
Tom Gregorio's PrezCon Experience!PrezCon SummaryThe Third Annual PrezCon TRC event has just concluded and Bert Schoose is now on a roll as he added the crown for this tournament as a nice follow-up to his WBC win. There were eleven stalwart participants who got nineteen games of the TRC 5-turn scenario in. Games started on Wednesday and the finals took place on Saturday. Bert Schoose, Tom Gregorio, John Ohlin, and Forrest Paffenberg qualified for the semi-finals. The free-form format took the three best games each participant played to determine qualification; two semi-finalists qualified with 3 wins and two qualified with 2 wins. (“Strength of Schedule” was the tiebreaker.) I matched up against Bert in the finals and was rolled, Sep/Oct 41 saw my Russians risking a 1-2 against a stack of three surrounded Panzers and rolling the dreaded “Attacker Eliminated” which led to my resignation. Bert did a good job on providing the game details, I think he wants to surprise a few more folks before revealing the details of his new ‘approach’ to the game. Well done, Bert! Here are a few more anecdotes from PrezCon: Seemed a bit busier than last year, there always seemed to be something to do. I missed the auction entirely, not sure if that’s not really a good thing! Food selection was so-so but I did like the restaurant burgers, overpriced though they were. Accomodations were excellent, as they were the past few years, and I really had no reason to leave the premises. Managed to get in at least 6 hours of snoozing each night so I was in fine fettle throughout my stay. Justin runs a good event and I’ll be there again. Met a few new people and re-energized relationships with old gaming acquaintances. Bruno was getting more excited as the week wore on, I’m glad the weekend ended when it did. The John O. and John R. duo from Florida were there again and got in a ton of TRC games. (The professor scored some free drinks from some women, again, I’ll have to pay more attention to his technique.) Bill and I talked about day trading, Paul C. failed to convince me on the merits of having a 56k home internet connection, and the Schoose brothers were entertaining as always. Marty was as calm as ever and Rob B. also made an appearance. (I always seem to get in a game of ‘something’ with him that ends early, this year it was BWD.) Played Martin S., I thought I recognized the name but the ‘mental picture’ did not match the real life person. Despite never having played hold-em poker before, I surprisingly won the second heat to make it to the finals. (Where I got blown out, early.) Bert gave me a few tips going into the heat and I made good use of them. Before I play again, I’m going to have get a book or something to review poker stats because I had no clue as to what I was doing in terms of the hand probabilities. FAB: The Bulge, from GMT, seemed to very popular. Too popular, I felt obliged to buy a copy. It’s a block game, and probably not really suited to PBEM play, but my son loved Hammer of the Scots so figure this will be a good entre into the dark woods of the Ardennes. Top notch components, rules seem to be clean. Stay tuned. Bitter Woods had a good showing. Forrest Paffenburg, my gaming nemesis, spanked my Americans handily but I went undefeated otherwise. My decision to not participate in the finals, a team campaign game, was purely a result of my inability to work well in a team, I know I’d be hard pressed to relinquish any decision-making or cardboard caressing to a team-mate. Had a memorable match with Bill Morse. Another one of those games that I deserved to lose but Lady Luck bailed me out in the end. (Shades of the BWD WBC ’07 finals!) For next year, assuming I run TRC again, I’m going to really focus on bumping up the participant count. Given the folks who show, this really should be a 16+ event, I just need to figure out how to more effectively recruit for this regional event. Saturday, March 1, 2008 Dr. Lewis Pulsipher Prezcon ExperiencePrezCon 2008I attended the 15th annual PrezCon in Charlottesville, VA 21-24 February. Rick Steeves and I arrived later Thursday evening, PrezCon is a miniature WBC (World Boardgaming Championships), with the focus almost entirely on board (and card) game tournaments. Registered attendance was over 550. Justin Thompson, who runs the con, says it has grown larger every year. PrezCon is purely boardgames and non-collectible card games--no role playing, no Magic or Yu-Gi-Oh, no "pure" miniatures (there was a Star Wars Minis tournament), no electronic games. I don't go to conventions to play games, and I don't have much luck getting people to playtest because they're so busy with the official tournaments. Players pay a single fee and play as many tournaments as they can fit in, with wooden plaques for the winners. Most tournaments have two or three heats or rounds, then the most successful players play in a final. GMT, Mayfair, Z-man, Cafe, and other game companies were there, but the vendors are a minor part of the convention compared with Origins. It really is a miniature WBC. I've been at PrezCon every other year since 2004. I noticed this year that there seemed to be more kids (under18), and more folks in their 20s and 30s, and more females, though the most common demographic was still a gray-haired male. Some of those kids are offspring of the older folks, but the increase was certainly noticeable. Early Friday I talked with Jason Hawkins (co-designer of Parthenon) at length about his elaborate but quite clever prototype game of Alexander's successors. I'm afraid Jason thought I was a curmudgeon with my questions about the complexity of it--I seem to be more and more into simple games these days rather than ones with a lot of detail. I also watched a bit of Richard Berg's prototype Dynasty (China) game being played, and skimmed the rules. Berg was also playing a cowboy game that he called a "growth game"--someone asked what had happened to him, as he's very well known for nuts-and-bolts wargames--but there was some gunslinging in it. Dynasty also appeared to be more about about growth than about war. Evidently Richard likes to write a full set of rules fairly early on, rather different from my typical practice (though I write the first-draft rules for quite simple games pretty early in the process). The most useful thing I did was talk with Ron Magin of Cafe Games about my prototype Law & Chaos. He, Rick, and I played, and he then recommended to Pete, CEO of Mayfair Games, that he should try it. Pete talked at some length about where he has games printed (US, Germany, occasionally China, depending on what needs to be printed). The US has become cheaper than Germany owing to the high value of the Euro (or low value of the dollar, depends on how you look at it). Mayfair is one of the larger US publishers, in particular having the US franchise for Settlers of Catan, which sells in enormous numbers (six figures). There was a small Britannia tournament, two rounds and then a final board, won again this year by Mark Smith in a tight game. About a third as many people participated as at WBC, which fits the attendance numbers (WBC is 1,500+ attendees). Though I don't play at conventions, I look at lots of games in progress and talk with various people, and get a lot of good game ideas at a con. One in particular (using techniques from Law & Chaos) is likely to turn out well. Another is a space-themed, broader market, analog to Robo-Rally, my friend Rick's favorite game. Rick also played an eight hour Axis & Allies game, which reminded me of an old project I had to try to make a two hour WW II game that concentrated on the virtues of A&A (strategy) rather than its "unvirtues" (lots of dice, economy-driven, LONG). Many notes and much discussion took place, but I don't know if I'll get any further this time than last. At the con I heard about a "broad market" (as opposed to mass market) version of a famous gateway game. That gateway game is quite simple, but this version is MUCH simpler, to appeal to a broader market--people who don't normally play boardgames at all except for Monopoly and such (I think), and who might buy them in places like Target or Macy's. Just for the heck of it, I'm trying to develop a "broad market" version of Brit (the kind of thing that would sell with Risk and similar games). History may be too serious for a broad market, especially medieval British history, but it's an interesting exercise. I already have a "Brit Lite" version, and that can be played by casual gamers and video gamers, but I'm aiming at the sort of folks who might play Risk and Monopoly and checkers or chess, but not much else. I'm doing this for my own amusement, not with the idea of ever having it published. Friday, February 29, 2008 PrezCon Announcement’sPrezCon Announcement’sI first want to thank all of you who attended the con! PrezCon was a great success. It wouldn’t have been so great with out our excellent GM’s or excellent players! I know ever year we thank you for attending but this year we really want you to take notice to the fact we had a 20% increase of our 2007 numbers. That means you took the time to spread the word to your friends, gaming buddies and family members. It will take your good will for us to continue to see the growth we want and you deserve! We had 19.75 players per game tournament average this year! That is up from 16.01 in 07! Our tournaments in 2008 had 8 or more players 92% of the time. That is up from 74% in 07! I could go on and on about all the great numbers we had in 2008! I think you get the point! THANKS! The con is poised to make dramatic leap into becoming the largest pure board game convention outside of the WBC! It is a great time to be in the hobby and to enjoy playing games with all of your friends and family. Changes for 2009! 1. A (1) sheet GM form that will be filled out with the 1st thru-4th players and brought to the Convention Desk! We will then allow the winners to pick up there plaques right away. 2nds and 3rd will be slightly delayed but never more than a few minutes! 2. (1) Ironman for the whole con! We enjoyed the track Ironman’s but outside of the Euro or Horsepower tracks nobody really was interested. So in 2009 we will have (1) Ironman for the whole con and it will be awarded after the con in completed. 3. New Sportsmanship award will be awarded in 2009! 4. The Auction Store will be back in 2009 in a larger way. Stay tuned for the new revamped store in 2009! 5. Quarterly News Letters will be coming to you soon! If you gave us your e-mail you are already on the list. If you would like to be added to the list just send me a e-mail kingmaker@prezcon.com 6. Junior Events! Yes we will have a full slate of events in 2009! If you would like to GM an event in 2009 please send us an e-mail. Stay tuned for a announcement on how these new events will be run in 2009! Request: If you found some Poker chips in the Main Ballroom and mistakenly took them home with you please contact me at kingmaker@prezcon.com so we can get them back to the owner. The chips were a gift to one of our players and he would like to see if anybody found them. Thanks for your help! Dealers in 2009! All of this year’s dealer’s will be returning in 2009! That is GMT, Columbia Games, Worthington Games, SherCo Games, Mayfair Games, Z-Man Games, Café Games, Lock in Load Games and Troll & Toad. Our Operations Director Bill Alderman is retiring! Yes after 5 years of solid contributions to PrezCon’s Success Bill will be taking a step back. We will be retaining him as a consultant on future PrezCon’s! His contributions will be behind the seen’s but very much felt at our future events. He will be missed and very hard to replace! We do expect to have him as a player at the con! So for all of you Combat Commander, Down in Flames or Upfront players our loss is your gain! That is all for now! Once again thanks! Justin Thompson Convention Director 434-531-9191 kingmaker@prezcon.com Tuesday, February 26, 2008 Kevin Brown's PrezCon ReportTuesdayI was seriously considering leaving at 11:00 Monday night in order to play 1960 on Tuesday morning, but after an afternoon gaming session down home I just didn't have the energy. So I left Tuesday morning instead and arrived in time to play Advanced Civ. A seven player game that quickly divided into four haves and three have-nots, with me as a have-not in Babylon. I got the first civil war and just never recovered. Wednesday Started the con proper with a rousing round of Union Pacific. It was a strange game, with the purple train locked out of growing and three purple stocks on the board for most of the game. I couldn't get diversified. At game end I had only red, yellow, and black stocks played. Even though I led both red and yellow, which were the second and third largest trains on the board, I finished last. Only 13 dollars separated me from first, however. I got into a heat of Settlers next. It started close and ended with me having 18 cards in my hand after building the two cities I needed to win. Once the 6s and 9s started coming it was all over. Tikal was next. Apparently the rest of the world bids much more aggressively than we do at home. Chris Terrell won the game by often bidding in the 6-8 range during the mid-game, much higher than I'm used to seeing. His first camp went on a tile I placed going last in one turn, thinking I could go first the next time at a reasonable price and place one there myself. I had time for Alhambra after that. I tied for first, which should show the whole Middle Georgia crowd that either this game is purely luck or they could come and be competitive in the games we play alot of. As often happens, I had two competing walls, one finished at eight and the other at nine, that would have gotten me an outright win if I'd been able to connect them. After that came one of my favorite events, McGartlin Motor Racing. Due to scheduling, this was the only heat I was able to play. I finished the day by entering the Texas Hold 'Em tournament. I was the last one eliminated before the final table, more because of my conservative play than any great skill. Thursday None of the morning scheduled events really appealed to me. I considered Manifest Destiny, but I've only played once and didn't feel it would be that fair to the other players to be relearning the game in a tournament round. I decided to do Formula Dé instead. I'm not much more experienced at that, but since it's just a matter of picking between two dice and trying to roll the right number I figured I couldn't damage anyone's chances much. As it happened, I rolled well and won, including a redline/slipstream thing at the finish line for the win. Carcassonne was next. As usual I did poorly. Ran into the one of our locals that did attend, Derek Croxton, in this game. I got a distant third out of five. St Petersburg was up next. I got an early Observatory, went green mining for a couple of turns then started noble hunting. I finished with eight unique nobles, which vaulted me to the win. I was GMing Air Baron, which was next on the schedule, and elected to play in the first heat. I got a couple of hubs, Detroit and Washington, took out a loan, and went...nowhere. The dice killed me in fare wars, then my chits wouldn't come when I came out. I was getting just enough money to pay my interest with practically nothing to spare. While I was waiting to gather enough cash to make another attempt at a fare war run, the game ended with defending champ Lee Presser gathering enough cash to put him over the top. Finally, 6:00 arrived and I got to the only tournament I've ever won here that hasn't been eliminated, Railroad Tycoon. My old friend David Hood decided to not let me play my traditional yellow, so I spent the game screwing with him around Chicago. We're both pretty good at this game and finished 2nd and 3rd, behind Tom McCorry who was mostly left alone in New England. The top three advanced to the final, so we would meet again later that evening. In between the RRT heat and the final was the semis and finals of Alhambra. In the semis, I got a long wall going early and won going away. It was 18 long in the second scoring round and 24 by game end. The final was a very closely contested affair between the top three. Again I got a long wall going but was struggling with tile scoring. On the last play of the game I bought two purple tiles, one of which I couldn't play, which got me second in purple and second in the game. 1-2-3 were separated by only eight points. The RR Tycoon final was after that. A very rich opening set of cards came out. I won the bid at 14 to do Atlanta-Richmond. David Hood did the big train thing, then built onto my line from Charleston. That was bad for me, I spent much of the game maneuvering around his track, but worse for him as we both got cut off from the west by Ray Alderman and I got to Savannah to keep him from moving down to Jax. I was able to squeeze second place out of the mess, Hood ended up 5th. Alderman wound up winning, in no small part because Hotel Atlanta netted him about a dozen points. Shortly after that Hood and I got into a pickup game of Outpost. Tom Kobrin won, playing the Data Library strategy. I got the other early Scientist and wound up two points behind. No big card for me on the last turn, I had to settle for 15 ore factories. Friday More St Petersburg in the morning. I took second in the heat, missing a win when no orange upgrades came out on the last turn. The semifinals were after that. I got completely dusted, leaving myself short a green on the second turn and having trouble keeping space available in my hand. With nothing going on for a while. I got into a demo game of Amazing Space Venture. It's a silly space exploration game, with Carc-like tile placement mixed with value added card play (kinda like Station Master, except other players only get to add on if you don't play a card of a certain type). The game was unfinished, though I was leading when we quit. Speaking of Carcassonne, that was my next event. Derek was at my table again, and again I finished mid-pack. With not much of interest going on, Derek & I got some other games in. He had picked up Take Stock on the cheap over at the Z-Man games kiosk so we tried that. I don't recall who won, though I was leading early. I think I'd like it better with more than two players. We then started up Race for the Galaxy with Dave Platnik and another player. I like Dave, but I think I'd rather learn a new game with someone else. After a short break, Dave roped me into a game of Apples to Apples Junior with a little girl (whose name escapes me) and her father that wanted to play with some grownups. It's a party game, so winning/losing is irrelevant. A good time was had by all. Finally it was time for a real event, in this case Puerto Rico. I got forced into a shipping strategy, with much corn and indigo, but came up short because I couldn't generate enough cash to get any decent buildings. Ra was the last game of the day. I won, mostly because I was able to wait everyone out to get free draws at the end of the second era. I got a whole rack and about a quarter of another everyone else was out of sun tiles. Saturday My plan for Saturday was to play Twilight Struggle all day. The first round was at 9:00. The system here was to dice for sides, with the loser of the die roll having the option to bid influence to switch sides (it's open bidding, the winner could overbid and so on). I won the roll and chose the Soviets. Jim Stevens, my opponent, declined to bid. I was going along well, getting a few points here and a few there. Turn 5 I was at -13 and could have scored SE Asia for six more, but decided to push for eight to end the game. He scored Africa for four, which meant my scoring card only got it to -17. Turn 6 I got OPEC. It was only worth three, the MidEast wasn't as red as usual, but that was enough for the auto win. The next round didn't start until 1:00, so I had time for one more round of Carcassonne. I got locked into a very large city that I couldn't complete. It still scored me 22 points, but that wasn't enough as I got yet another third place. Round two of TS was over before it really got started. I lost the roll and declined to bid, accepting the US. At the end of turn 2, the Soviet played CIA Created while we were at DEFCON 2. He was already in Cuba, thanks to Fidel, so I couped there to end the game. If it had been a friendly game, or even the first round, I would have let him take it back and play his other card (Truman Doctrine, which would have been bad for him as well). By the second round, everyone should know better. That left me with lots of time until the third round, so Jon Kwiatowski got me into a game of Brass. Since one of the players was learning the game, it took longer than usual. I had to leave after the canal phase. I had a slight lead and a nice setup for the second half. Round three of TS was the quarter finals. I won the roll, but Phil Rennert bid two to play the USSR. I took the two IP and the US. This game was just not to be. He played Flower Power as an event on turn 4 and I got dealt war card after war card. I managed to control Africa to get back to -7, but he slowly and surely beat me back down. He headlined Europe Scoring on turn 7 to push it to an auto win. I got into another heat of Ra after that, finishing second. After some food, the semifinals of Ra were up. Ra is fundamentally about patience, and I displayed very little of it. In era two I was out of sun tiles with only two Ra tiles drawn. Needless to say, I finished last. Late night, David Hood and the rest of the CAD contingent got me into another Railroad Tycoon game. No mercy this time, I won by 32 points playing in the SE. I got the opening bid at 6 for the Raleigh Service Bounty, with a yellow cube in Wilmington. I eventually closed off the whole SE for myself, making the whole loop from Richmond to Atlanta to Savannah back to Richmond. One City Growth gave me enough cubes to finish the game. Sunday I had qualified for the quarterfinals at Settlers, but wasn't that thrilled at the prospect. It took very little cajoling to get me into a pick up game of Brass instead. The cards didn't lend themselves to what I wanted to do, so I decided to find out if this was a game where you could force the game you want to play despite bad cards. The answer seems to be no, as I finished third and had income problems throughout. I still want to get a copy. Troll and Toad were sold out when I went to look for one Saturday, so I guess I'll have to go online. That's my con story, and I'm sticking to it. See my website! http://members.cox.net/pilight/ Monday, February 25, 2008 PrezCon 2008 is in the books!Yes PrezCon 2008 is over! We had a great time! The attendance was up 20% over 2007! The Dealers had record sales! The Auction was a great success! Thank you all for attending and making this our best event ever! more details to come soon......We will have the winners list and auction totals posted soon! Thanks for a Great Year! Justin Thompson Monday, February 4, 2008 PrezCon Auction Update!PrezCon Auction!We are very excited about the on-line registration! If you haven’t seen it go to this link: http://www.prezcon.com/auction/show_auction_items.aspx We currently have close to 200 items on the auction list! We normally have 650 or more! We would like you to give the on-line registration a try! Just go to this link: http://www.prezcon.com/auction/auction.aspx And read the rules. We would request that you use your name as your user ID! That will help us when it comes to creating the accounting files. The Auction Store will be limited to the first 200 items we take in! Please put your items of value in the Main Auction. The Auction Store is for items that shouldn’t be in the Auction. Items in the Auction store are for games that will draw a lower sale price. http://www.prezcon.com/auction/storeitemsheet.doc Go here to download the Auction Store Slips. Bruce will have exact details of the store posted ASAP! The Auction sign-up is easy and only takes a minute. Go to this link: http://www.prezcon.com/auction/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fauction%2fregistration%2fadd_auction_items.aspx to get started uploading your items. After you are done hit the review your items list and hit print slips. All you have to do is use painters tape to attach them to your games. If you need tape we will provide it at the con! We look forward to you uploading your games! If we don’t sellout the 650 auction space before the con we will accept items at the con on a first come first come basis. Thanks again for your support! Justin Thompson Saturday, January 26, 2008 PrezCon Update!Hotel Update! Thank you all for booking 100% of the Hotel Rooms in our block. That is just exceptional! For those of you who were planning on getting a hotel room at the con we are sorry you will need to make alternative arrangements. Here are a few of the Hotels close to the con!Fairfield Inn: (434)-964-9411 577 Branchland’s Blvd Charlottesville Va. 22901 Directions: Travel south on 29S to the intersection that has the Waffle house on your right. Turn left at this light and you will see the Fairfield Inn on your right behind the Applebee’s. This hotel is approximately 2 miles from the con. http://www.fairfieldinn.com/chofi Marriott Courtyard: 434-973-7100 638 Hillsdale Drive Charlottesville Va. 22901 Directions: Travel south on 29S to the intersection that has the Waffle house on your right. Turn left at this light. Go to the stop sign and turn left. Go 300 yards and the entrance will be on your left. This hotel is approximately 2 miles from the con http://www.courtyard.com/choch http://members.tripod.com/~RichardHBerg/cowboyberg.jpg Richard Berg at the Con! Richard has decided to Play test quite a few of his upcoming titles! Check the PrezCon Website Schedule http://www.prezcon.com to find the exact times of his demos! Thanks Richard for attending and sharing your new offering with us! http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/2903/764/150/184670/gse_multipart10039.jpg Lewis Pulsipher will be in attendance. He is the creator of the board game Britannia! He will be stationed in the Demo room all weekend! He doesn’t have any scheduled times for play testing he enjoys the stop by play test! So stop by and take a look at his new offerings. Pre-Registration! It is going very well and we are expecting a record attendance in 2008! If you are not registered or you know someone who isn't now would be the time! The free gift goes away Jan 31st! The $10 discount goes away Feb 15th. We give you a free Color T-shirt as a gift for pre-registering. After 2 years of hard work I am very pleased to announce our on-line Game Auction sign-up! Yes you will need to go to the Auction Link at: http://www.prezcon.com/auction/auction.aspx Once there read all of the info provided before proceeding. We are charging you a $1 to insert a lot or game into the 2008 auction. We hope you understand that we are charging this so folks who sign-up will bring there games to the auction. WE MUST receive your payment by Feb 17th. Just add up the lots and send in a check for the total to PrezCon Inc. P.O. Box 4661 Charlottesville Va. 22905 or Pay pal us at kingmaker@prezcon.com the original 10% will be deducted after your item is sold. A friendly piece of advice, start your auctions at $1 and let the market work for you. If you want to put a larger starting price we will respect your wishes. We will only accept 650 lots in 2008! Don't be left out. Note: If we sellout all of the 650 lots in advance we will NOT accept games at the con! Sign-up your games today! Go to http://www.prezcon.com to get started. Update! We already have 170 Items up on the site. http://www.prezcon.com/auction/show_auction_items.aspx Don’t be locked out of the auction sign-up today! Go to the auction link and take a look at what we have already listed. 2 Titan Gorgons (Mint) already up on the site! PrezCon will be hosting a small Auction Store at the con! This will be a first come first serve auction store. We will allow 200 items only to be displayed at the auction store. We open the doors at 8:00AM on Sat. If you want to put items in please bring your items by at that time. We will charge you .25 to put a item into the auction store. The regular 10% commission will be deducted at the end of the store hours. YOU will need to pickup any left over items at the end of the store hours. We will attempt to find you but if can’t all items not picked up will become property of PrezCon Inc. RevCon 3! Yes, RevCon has been around for 3 years now! RevCon is the con with in a con that we host each year. It is focused on the Revolutionary time period. All games: Liberty, 1776, We The People, Clash for a Continent and American Rev War Series by Mark Miklos! Mark is your host of this fine event. Go to: http://www.prezcon.com/minicons/revcon/George_Washington.gif to see what RevCon is all about! With the Jan 31st date looming I am ask you to forward to message to all of your gaming friends! Talk up the con! Tell them about your experiences at the con! Invite them down! Please just take the time to be a advocate for the con! We thank you in advance! We are looking forward to this grand event and expect to see you and your gaming friends in Feb! Questions? Call me at 434-531-9191 Justin Thompson Convention Director kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Thursday, January 10, 2008 PrezCon Update!For those of you who are from the VA Beach/Tidewater/Richmond Area coming up the 64 interstate please listen up! I have a attendee who is traveling from Florida to the Richmond Airport. He is arriving Feb 19th at 6pm. He is in need of a ride to the con. If anybody is willing to be kind and give him a ride please let me know! kingmaker@prezcon.com or call me at 434-531-9191 I will give you his contact info and we can get him to the con!Hotel Update! Thank you all for booking 95% of the Hotel Rooms in our block. We have 10 days till the Jan 20th cut off and we are 95% filled! That is just exceptional! For those of you who have been planning to get a hotel room at the con we are down to King Beds and Smoking Doubles. If you need a room call the hotel NOW! 434-973-2121 Once again Thanks for supporting the con! Richard Berg at the Con! Richard has decided to Demo and Play test quite a few of his upcoming titles! Check the PrezCon Website Schedule http://www.prezcon.com to find the exact times of his demos! He is also going to host a Blackbeard Demo of the upcoming GMT release! Thanks Richard for attending and sharing your new offering with us! Pre-Registration! It is going very well and we expect a record attendance in 2008! If you are not registered or you know someone who isn't now would be the time! The free gift goes away Jan 31st! The $10 discount goes away Feb 15th. Troll & Toad will be at the con! For those of you who have missed Toad & Toads advertisements, they are buying Board game collections! If you have any size collection they want to talk to you! Just stop by the Booth at the con and talk to the guys! After 2 years of hard work I am very pleased to announce our on-line Game Auction sign-up! Yes you will need to go to the Auction Link at: http://www.prezcon.com/auction/auction.aspx Once there read all of the info provided before proceeding. We are charging you a $1 to insert a lot or game into the 2008 auction. We hope you understand that we are charging this so folks who sign-up will bring there games to the auction. WE MUST receive your payment by Feb 17th. Just add up the lots and send in a check for the total to PrezCon Inc. P.O. Box 4661 Charlottesville Va. 22905 or Pay pal us at kingmaker@prezcon.com The original 10% will still be deducted after your item is sold. A friendly piece of advice, start your auctions at $1 and let the market work for you. We will only accept 650 lots in 2008! Don't be left out. Note: If we sellout all of the 650 lots in advance we will NOT accept games at the con! Sign-up your games today! Go to http://www.prezcon.com to get started. Update! We have Auction Games already up on the website! Go to the auction link and take a look at what we have already listed. 2 Titan Gorgons (Mint) already up on the site! Rumor has it that Prezcon will be hosting a small Auction Store at the con! This is not confirmed at this time! More to follow......Soon! Gettysburg "What If" Seminar and Demo Presenter: Dr. Jonathan S. Lockwood, DHS Faculty Chair, National War College, Washington DC This seminar features a board game staff simulation and demo based on the Battle of Gettysburg. It is designed to introduce the factors of "limited intelligence", "fog of war", and "friction" to up to 20 active participants in the staff demo itself, with room for additional observers on a space available basis. This "what if' simulation allows you to change the overall operational strategy and tactics for either side. Originally developed by Dr Jonathan Lockwood in 1998 as a modification to the RAND Games Associates "Lee Versus Meade" version of Gettysburg in their Command Games series (1975), was an integral part of Dr Lockwood's Intelligence Collaboration Exercise Course (ICEC), piloted by DHS and FBI participants on 24 August 2006. The game is designed to accommodate from 20-30 participants (although 20 is recommended), evenly divided between Union and Confederate staffs. The simulation uses one "master map" controlled by the referee, and two larger gaming maps, one for each staff. The maps are an historical representation of the Gettysburg battlefield, with a 12X12 grid superimposed on the map to facilitate movement of units. Each game turn represents one hour of "real time" on the battlefield. The entire game comprises 41 turns, governing the entire three days of Gettysburg; however, most staff simulations have been governed by a 2-3 hour time limit, at the conclusion of which the game is adjudicated based on the number of "victory points" each side has scored. In this way the relative effectiveness of each competing staff can be assessed. Scheduled for Saturday Feb 23rd at 12noon! We hope you will take the time to enjoy this "What if" Event! Ok, If all of this doesn’t get your Board Gaming juice's flowing.... I don’t know what will. We hope to see all of you in 40 Days! If you have any Questions please feel free to call me at 434-531-9191. Justin Thompson Saturday, January 5, 2008 Special Seminar presented by Jonathan LockwoodGettysburg "What If" Seminar and DemoPresenter: Dr. Jonathan S. Lockwood, DHS Faculty Chair, National War College, Washington DC This seminar features a boardgame staff simulation and demo based on the Battle of Gettysburg. It is designed to introduce the factors of "limited intelligence", "fog of war", and "friction" to up to 20 active participants in the staff demo itself, with room for additional observers on a space available basis. This "what if' simulation allows you to change the overall operational strategy and tactics for either side. Originally developed by Dr Jonathan Lockwood in 1998 as a modification to the RAND Games Associates "Lee Versus Meade" version of Gettysburg in their Command Games series (1975), was an integral part of Dr Lockwood's Intelligence Collaboration Exercise Course (ICEC), piloted by DHS and FBI participants on 24 August 2006. The game is designed to accommodate from 20-30 participants (although 20 is recommended), evenly divided between Union and Confederate staffs. The simulation uses one "master map" controlled by the referee, and two larger gaming maps, one for each staff. The maps are an historical representation of the Gettysburg battlefield, with a 12X12 grid superimposed on the map to facilitate movement of units. Each game turn represents one hour of "real time" on the battlefield. The entire game comprises 41 turns, governing the entire three days of Gettysburg; however, most staff simulations have been governed by a 2-3 hour time limit, at the conclusion of which the game is adjudicated based on the number of "victory points" each side has scored. In this way the relative effectiveness of each competing staff can be assessed. Scheduled for Saturday Feb 23rd at 12noon! We hope you will take the time to enjoy this Whit if Event! Monday, December 31, 2007 Prezcon 2008/InfoIf you are receiving this twice please accept my apology!Happy New Year! 50 Days till PrezCon begins! 5 days of Games Feb 20th-24th 2008! After 2 years of hard work I am very pleased to announce our on-line Game Auction sign-up! Yes you will need to go to the Auction Link at: http://www.prezcon.com/auction/auction.aspx Once there read all of the info provided before proceeding. We are charging you a $1 to insert a lot or game into the 2008 auction. We hope you understand that we are charging this so folks who sign-up will bring there games to the auction. WE MUST receive your payment by Feb 17th. Just add up the lots and send in a check for the total to PrezCon Inc. P.O. Box 4661 Charlottesville Va. 22905 or Pay pal us at kingmaker@prezcon.com The original 10% will still be deducted after your item is sold. A friendly piece of advice, start your auctions at $1 and let the market work for you. We will only accept 650 lots in 2008! Don’t be left out. Note: If we sellout all of the 650 lots in advance we will NOT accept games at the con! Sign-up your games today! Go to http://www.prezcon.com to get started. ANNOUNCEMENT! For those of you who have already made a hotel reservation and are staying in a Double Bed please listen up! We have sold-out all of the Hotels Double Beds. This is very nice but we have still quite a few King Bedrooms still open. Most folks want a Double Bed but there are a few of you who I know plan to stay alone. If this is the case please get in contact with the hotel directly and make the switch to a King Bedroom. This will allow a few extra folks to get a hotel room at the con. Call 434-973-2121 to make the change! Thank you for your help! For those of you in need of a Hotel room NOW is the time to get it done! Call 434-973-2121. Our Block in nearly sold-out but there is still time. Jan 20th is the last day to get the discounted rate! Go to this link: http://www.prezcon.com/register/double_tree_reservations.aspx Pre-registration! PrezCon offers you a few ways to save money off the door price of $60! 1. We offer you a $10 discount if you pre-reg by Feb 17th 2008! 2. We offer you a FREE gift in the form of a Color T-Shirt if you pre-reg by Jan 31st! 3. Lastly, we are offering you many options in the form of upgrades in regards to your free Gift! Please checkout the Gift Catalog to see what we have to offer before you pre-reg: Gifts/Upgrades Checkout the My Schedule Feature and make you’re our schedule to see what over laps. Go to this link to check it out. My Schedule Link Any Questions? Call me directly 24/7 434-531-9191 Justin Thompson Convention Director 434-531-9191 kingmaker@prezcon.com Wednesday, December 19, 2007 Hotel Update!The Doubletree hotel just called me to let me know that ALL of the Non- Smoking double bed hotel rooms are now Sold-out! They still have a few Non-Smoking King bed hotel rooms left. If you need a room PLEASE call the hotel! 434-973-2121! The deadline to make a reservation is Jan 20th. Remember they do have rollaway beds for a small charge.If anybody would like a roommate I have 1 person who is looking to share a room. He wouldn't be able to make it till Friday. If you have any interest please let me know. kingmaker@prezcon.com or call me at 434-531-9191! Have a Great Holiday! We are looking forward to seeing you Feb! 62 Days till the opening ceremonies! Thanks Justin Thompson 434-531-9191 kingmaker@prezcon.com Tuesday, December 18, 2007 PrezCon Hall of Fame Class of 2008This year we had 12 Players and Gm’s on the ballot for election into the PrezCon Hall of Fame! All of the folks who were on this years list were well deserving of admittance into the Hall of Fame. The Players and Gm’s were also devoted attendees of our con (Many years for most) and tireless volunteers. Each of the members of the current Hall and all of the PrezCon Board of Directors were allowed to vote for 2 players or Gm’s. To be elected into the Hall they needed to receive 67% of the total vote. We had 2 who were the top vote getters but only one got the necessary percentage to be elected.The Class of 2008 is well represented by the newest member to the PrezCon Hall of Fame: Stuart Pierce!!! Congratulations Stuart, no one is more deserving than you to be elected. Here are Stuarts Wins over the years: Europe Engulfed (04, 05, 06) For the People (03) Liberty (05, 06, 07) Crusader Rex (06, 07) War of 1812 (07) Wargames Iron man (07) It wasn’t until 2003 that Stuart just exploded onto the Championship stage. He has attended PrezCon since 1998 and has been a GM for most of those years. We want to thank Stuart for his passion for our hobby and his commitment to gaming excellence. We will have a ceremony at this years con on Friday night. Please join us as we induct Stuart Pierce into our Hall of Fame! Justin Thompson PrezCon Convention Director Wednesday, December 12, 2007 Merry Christmas! Pre-Register today!I want to thank all of you who have pre-reged. Remember the Pre-Reg Deadline is Jan 31st! Pre-Registering offers you many benefits. We give you a free Gift of a Full Color Logo T-Shirt or if you would like you may choose to upgrade. This year we are offering Polos, Tumblers and Game Bags as upgrades. The cost to upgrade is on our registration page.We are shooting for 600 players in 08! It is our 15th annual event and it is shaping up to be our best! With 4 Pre-Con's, 85+ Tournaments, 40+ Demos and our excellent Jr. Events we are all set and ready for play in 08! If you have not made a hotel reservation, please hit the Doubletree link and make it now! We always sellout the block and we wouldn't want you to have to stay up the road. We are 80% soldout as we speak! The Doubletree is an all enclosed hotel with 9 floors, Indoor pool, Bar/Restaurant and a fitness room. The Rate is $89 this year and it will be our last at this exceptional rate. In 2009 we are going to $99! You may have up to 4 people in your room at no extra cost. Roll always are available for a small fee. Call 434-973-2121 or just hit the Doubletree link and follow the instructions. Doubletree Reservations Link Checkout the My Schedule Feature and make your our schedule to see what over laps. It will help you plan your event so you can Game, Game, Game! Justin Thompson Convention Director 434-531-9191 kingmaker@prezcon.com Friday, November 16, 2007 PrezCon Update!We are Rolling Now! Yes the schedule is done! The Winter Flyer goes in the mail Monday. The hotel is filling quickly. Wow!I want to thank all of you who have pre-reged so far and for those of you who are going to pre-reg soon thanks as well! We are shooting for 600 players in 08! It is our 15th annual event and it is shaping up to be our best! 85 Tournaments, 40+ Demos and our excellent Jr. Events are all set and ready for play in 08! If you have not made a hotel reservation, please hit the Doubletree link and make it now! We always sellout the block and we wouldn't want you to have to stay up the road. The Doubletree is a all enclosed hotel with 9 floors, Indoor pool, Bar/Restaurant and a fitness room. The Rate is $89 this year and it will be our last at this exceptional rate. In 2009 we are going to $99! You may have up to 4 people in your room at no extra cost. Roll always are available for a small fee. Call 434-973-2121 or just hit the Doubletree link and follow the instructions. Doubletree Reservations Link Checkout the My Schedule Feature and make your our schedule to see what over laps. Go to this link to check it out. My Schedule Link Lastly, We are offering you many options in the form of upgrades in regards to your free Gift! Please checkout the Gift Catalog to see what we have to offer before you pre-reg: Gifts/Upgrades Justin Thompson Convention Director 434-531-9191 kingmaker@prezcon.com Monday, November 5, 2007 PrezCon Schedule is now up!The Schedule is now done. Go to http://www.prezcon.com to checkout the schedule. The "My Schedule" feature is also working. If you haven't signed up now is a good time! The hotel is also starting to fill so make your reservations via the website or call 434-973-2121.I will also be sending this to the folks who are currently registered. The Main flyer will go in the mail Nov 21st. Please talk up the convention to all of your friends. With your support 600 players in 08 is a real possibility. We are hosting our 15th annual event in Feb. There can be NO doubt that 2008 will be a very special year. Remember when you are signing up to check out the upgrade items. The PrezCon Tumbler, Hat, Polo and Game Bag are great upgrade options to the Free T-shirt we give away each year. Once again the schedule is rolling so check it out! Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Tuesday, October 2, 2007 All PrezCon Tournaments have a GM!Yes, there are few of you who still need to get your money in and a few who need to fill out your GM forms but as far as PrezCon is concerned we are all done. Yes! For the first time in 15 years all of our games have a GM by Oct 1st! Every year 3 or 4 games were always in need of a GM but not this year! We actually have 5 or 6 people who want to GM who are waiting for games in need of a GM! I just want to thank all of you who have stepped up to GM a game. With out you the con wouldn't be what it is today!Now please go to the Doubletree link and make your hotel reservation. We always sellout so don't be left having to go down the road to get a hotel. The $89 rate is on its last year. Next year the rate goes to $99! Use the link or call 434-973-2121. Once again THANKS! Justin Thompson Monday, October 1, 2007 PrezCon Update!I want to thank all of you who have pre-reged to GM a game for us in 2008! The response has been overwhelming. We now have all of the open games covered. Thanks to all of you who signed up as a GM!There are a few GM's in need of filling out there GM forms: Doug Galullo - Formula De John Emory - Up Front James Adams - Here I Stand Mark Smith - Victory in the Pacific All of the above GMs have committed to GM there game. There just need to fill out there GM forms. If they don’t fill out there GM forms by Oct 1st those games become open to the first person who volunteers to Gm them. If by Nov 1st they don't have a GM they will be replaced or dropped. We start making the schedule this week! We hope to have it up on the web by Nov 1st! Once again thanks to all the Game Master who has already signed up to GM there games. Justin Thompson 434-531-9191 kingmaker@prezcon.com Thursday, September 20, 2007 PrezCon GM Alert!GM's We are coming up on the deadline to complete the GM registration. Whatdoes that mean? Well..... 1. You get 50% off the pre-registration fee ($50 Normally) 2. You will receive a free Polo Shirt or Tumbler Mug or Hat for Gming a Game for us! What we ask..... 1. Sign-up on-line at http://www.prezcon.com as a GM! That means Read the Gm Guidelines and fillout the GM forms. 2. Send in your payment by Oct 1st! After Oct 1st the cost goes to $50! Send in your pay emnt to PrezCon Inc. P.O. Box 4661 Charlottesville Va. 22905 or Paypal to kingmaker@prezcon.com If you are getting this and you have already sent in your Forms or your Payment we apologize! If you are still waiting please do it today! The con is looking better than ever and with your help we expect a record crowd in 2008! We start making the Schedule Oct 5th. That allows you folks who are waiting to the last minute to get your forms and payments in! If you have already sent in your GM forms but have not paid....YOU NEED TO DO THAT BY OCT 1st! Questions? Call me at 434-531-9191 We do have a few games in need of a GM and a few of you receiving this e-mail are being targeted for GM duties! The games that need a GM are: Acquire Cowboys Caylas We The People: Part of RevCon 1776: Part of RevCon 1960: This is to be run as a Pre-Con Feb 19th starting at 9am. We do have other games in need of a GM. Folks have contacted me and asked to GM or had questions about Gming those games so I have not included them in the above list. If you are getting this e-mail and are one of those please GM one of the open games if you can! Please know that we THANK you for your time and effort! Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Monday, September 17, 2007 GM's 14 Days to go............GM's! You have 14 days to get your GM registration in and Paid! The 50% discount will be gone Oct 1st! Please take the time to Pre-reg NOW! The Games and GM's listed below are the one's we need to submit there GM form! Those of you who have already submitted your GM info.... Thanks! For those of you who still need to get it done NOW is the Time! Go to http://www.prezcon.com to get your registration done! Most if not all of you have contacted me to tell me that you’re going to GM in 2008! We thank you for your support!Bitter Woods.... Bruno Sinigaglio The Russian Campaign.... Tom Gregorio Panzer Blitz/Panzer Leader.... Bert Schoose Carcassone.... Michelle Hymowitz St. Petersburg.... Steve Quade Power Grid.... Gerald Lientz Thurn & Taxis.... Bill Navolis Ticket to Ride - Marklin.... Katie McCorry Ra.... Eric Hymowitz Tempus.... Jack Jaeger Circus Maximus.... John Jacoby Formula Motor Racing.... Jeff Bakalchuck Formula Dé.... Doug Galullo Tabletop Aces.... Ed Wagamon Down in Flames.... Rich Phares Robo Rally.... Tom McCorry Lost Cities.... Ivan Lawson Titan the Arena.... Luke Koleszar Battleline.... Jeff Mullet Football Strategy.... Bert Schoose Cowboys.... Gerald Lientz Star Wars Miniatures.... Bruno Sinigaglio Clash for a Continent - RevCon.... Grant Wylie History of the World.... Shane McBee Empire Builder.... Lee Presser Age of Renaissance.... Bill Crenshaw Manifest Destiny.... Bill Crenshaw Railroad Tycoon.... Ray Alderman Atlantic Storm.... Scott Buckwalter Titan.... Steve Koleszar Risk.... Randy Dean Axis & Allies.... Dan Strock Monsters Menace America.... Mark Love Queen's Gambit.... Bruno Sinigaglio Memoir '44.... Steve Lollis Napoleonic Wars.... Scott Pfeiffer Path of Glory.... Patrick Duffy Up Front.... John Emory Here I Stand.... James Adams Victory in the Pacific.... Mark Smith Advanced Civ.... Kevin Youells Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Thursday, August 16, 2007 PrezCon Update!Announcement: Effective immediately Bruce Reiff has been appointed to the title of Vice President in charge of all things “Auction”!We are very pleased to add Bruce’s extensive experience to our board of directors. As you may already know Bruce is currently serving his 3rd term as a board member of the BPA! He founded the Cabs game club and is a mover and shaker in the Origins and Buckeye Game Fest seen. Bruce started attending PrezCon five years ago and in his second year took over hosting the auction. He and his crew of devoted gamers have transformed the PrezCon auction into the place to sell your used games. The WBC saw how well Bruce ran the Auction at PrezCon and the WBC’s Auction shortly came into existence. He has nearly quadrupled the sales of the Auction at PrezCon from $3000 to nearly $12,000 last year. We are planning to have on-line auction sign-up. This will be a (hopefully) easier form Auction item Registration. We will offer 650 Lots…Yes lots. That means you may group games into bundles in 2008! The on-line registration will cost $1 per lot. This is the same fee the WBC charges to insert a game into the auction. Bruce will have complete control over what is allowed into the auction. The Auction Store is gone in 2008. If you have any questions concerning the Auction contact Bruce at breiff@ific.com. We welcome Bruce to the PrezCon team and we expect great things coming out of the auction in 2008! Justin Thompson Convention Director kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Wednesday, August 15, 2007 PrezCon GM'sWe are just 45 days away from the GM deadline of Oct 1st. The GameMaster Pre-Registration form is up and waiting for you! Please take the time to read the guidelines and then fill out your form. After you fill out your GM form you will be automatically moved to the player registration. You are being routed to the player page so you can let us know what you would like to play at the con. All of your info will automatically be moved to the player page.The Gm page will offer you a free Polo Shirt as a reward for GMing. We know many of you have many years of these so we are offering you our GM's a few options. For the same price of $0 we will give you a PrezCon Hat (Embroidered) or The PrezCon Tumbler Mug. If you would like to upgrade you may do so by upgrading to the Game Bag (Embroidered) for $15 additional. What ever you choose we THANK YOU for your time. We also offer our GM's a 50% discount off the Pre-Reg price of $50. That means you pay $25 instead of $50. This discount is good until Oct 1st. NOW is the time to Pre-Reg so do it NOW! Questions? Call me at 434-531-9191 or Email me at kingmaker@prezcon.com Justin Thompson Convention Director Tuesday, July 3, 2007 PrezCon UpdatePrezCon Update!Game Masters Pre-registration for Game Masters is now open for PrezCon 2008. Thanks for your support of PrezCon, your efforts help make the con what it is today. Our End-of-Convention Survey for 2007 said that most of you would be returning to GM again. Past PrezCon GM's know about the 50 percent discount we offer to GM's if you pre-register (and pay) by October 1st! All should pre-register early so we know what tournaments have GM's for 2008. GM gifts! We are offering the same embroidered Polo shirt we've given to GM's. Many of you have been Game Mastering at PrezCon for over a decade - perhaps you'd like something other than a shirt. We offer three alternatives: An embroidered Cap or a New Tumbler Mug with the PrezCon Logo as an even swap for the Polo Shirt. (We'll also offer these items to the general public but at an upgrade price.) If you would like to upgrade to the new PrezCon Logo Embroidered Game Bag, add $19.99 to your $25 registration. Price increase for larger shirt sizes! Larger sizes will cost $3 for 2XL, $6 for 3XL and $9 for 4XL. No extra charge for Small through Extra Large (XL) shirt sizes. The default size will be XL. That means if you forget to choose a size, we'll order you a size XL. Scott Stewart (Game Director) moved his entire family to England this summer! Alas, we will be without him in 2008, and Bill and I will need you to be patient. Make sure you read all of the GM guidelines before you summit your GM forms. PrezCon 2008 will open on Wednesday at 9 am. That's a whole day instead of a half-day. Veteran GM's: please sign-up early. If your tournament format has multiple heats, either start early and finish in the middle of the con, or start Friday or early Saturday and finish Sunday. You who are Game Mastering for the first time, please let us know when you will be arriving and when you will be leaving. We will guide you through the scheduling process and make sure you get a suitable schedule for you and PrezCon. Tournaments that need GM's: 1. 1776 (NEW) RevCon 2. Shifting Sands Player Pre-Registration Pre-Registration is open to all, including you! Sign up early - get into PrezCon for a lower price, and get a great gift too! Player gifts! We are offering you the same great color Tee Shirt we've given to all of our Pre-Registered players. Many of you have been coming to PrezCon for years - perhaps you'd like something other than a shirt. We offer four alternatives: A Cap or a New Tumbler Mug, Polo Shirt (Royal Blue this year), or the New Embroidered Game Bag. All have the PrezCon Logo. To upgrade to the Cap or Mug costs $5. To upgrade to the PrezCon Polo Shirt costs $15. To upgrade to the New Embroidered Game Bag costs $24.99. Price increase for larger shirt sizes! Larger Tee Shirt sizes will cost $2 for 2XL, $5 for 3XL, and $8 for 4XL. Larger Polo Shirt sizes will cost $3 for 2XL, $6 for 3XL and $9 for 4XL. No extra charge for Small through Extra Large (XL) shirt sizes. The default size will be XL. That means if you forget to choose a size, we'll order you a size XL. Open Gaming: Open Gaming will now be exclusively in the Main Ballroom foyer area. You may setup your games for open play there without the threat of having to be moved. Keep your area clean and the aisles free of chairs and games is all we ask. The foyer will be setup with 50 percent 6-Foot Rounds and 50 percent 8-Foot Rectangular Tables. We plan to use the Promenade Ballroom (downstairs, next to the indoor pool) for our Horsepower Track tournaments in 2008. The Horsepower Track takes more space than typical board games and we have lots of room in the Promenade Ballroom. Dealers: These fine dealers have committed to return in 2008! 1. Troll & Toad 2. Columbia Games 3. Mayfair Games 4. Z-Man Games 5. Worthington Games 6. Cafè Games 7. GMT Games We have room for one or two dealers who'd setup outside the Ballroom in the Hall area. If you are interested, please let me know. Pre-Register today! Thank you all very much! Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Friday, June 15, 2007 Game Masters Sign Up for PrezCon 2008GM's have lined up for almost all of the events for 2008. There are a few openings left for events. If you have the guts and want the glory of GM'ing, please sign up starting (July 1 2007) for one of our openings.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 Here are the 2007 winners
AnnouncementsSix years ago the original board members, Brian Carr, Jon Zug, and Bill Edwards, left PrezCon. They were all excellent board members and without them PrezCon wouldn't be what it is today. To help run PrezCon, I appointed Scott Stewart as our Games Director. Scott became the "Face of PrezCon" at the convention. Scott did an excellent job year in and year out! He worked nearly year-round in scheduling events, preparing the materials for each event, including the kiosks, and in many other "behind the screen" activities. In those same six years he has personally seen a lot of changes in his life. He married to an English citizen named Jane and fathered two children, Alex and Courtney. Trying to balance work, family and Jane's work authorization woes finally got the best of him. He will be moving his family to England in late April. He will be missed. And not easily replaced. Thanks, Scott, for six years of excellent service. Attendance at PrezCon 2007 was up 8% over 2006. Thanks to all for your support. The following changes for PrezCon 2008 may be of some interest:
The Auction Sold List and the Games attendance records will be posted on this PrezCon Website soon. Thanks to all of you who attended in 2007. PrezCon 2008 will be even better! Justin Thompsonkingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Friday, March 9, 2007 PrezCon Auction Sets A Record!Two original Titan games set a PrezCon record when they sold for $650 and $700. These games were the first version of Titan (pictured below on the right) and were in perfect condition. So make sure you attend the Auction events so you don't miss out on all the fun and opportunities for good bargains and in this case some rare gems! Jim
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 First Photos Are In!Thanks to Eric Haas for sharing his photographs! You can find them here at PrezCon 2007Well done Eric. We encourage any other folks who may want to share their photographs. Jim Stevens PrezCon web Monday, February 26, 2007 Kevin Brown's PrezCon Tales!So, how was PrezCon?TUESDAY Got started early because I wanted to play Advanced Civilization at 5:00. Left Macon around 7:00 AM, got to the hotel shortly after 4:00 PM. Plenty of time to unpack the car, get registered, and make it to the table on time. I get the 4th pick of countries. Assyria, Illyria, and Egypt are all taken. It's a six player game, meaning no western expansion map. I take Africa, figuring Babylon and Crete will be the other choices, leaving everyone sufficient space. I was half right, Babylon and Italy were chosen. That made it crowded in the west. Italy got the worst of it, blowing two gates. I only got to 9 cities a couple of times, but managed not to blow any. Assyria was the only other country not to miss at least one. At the end, Dave Platnik's Illyria had the big card advantage and won despite being a space down on the AST. I came in 4th, narrowly behind Egypt, in no small part because I lost four cities to calamity the last turn. WEDNESDAY Nothing on until noon, unless I wanted to spend all day on another round of Advanced Civ. Instead, I chose to play Power Grid at noon. I wasted very little time doing something stupid. Four turns in I purchased the 32 plant, only to find that I couldn't afford to buy fuel for it. It did put me way ahead on capacity, but I never got caught back up on city building. Next up was Ticket to Ride: Marklin. First time I had played this edition. The passenger dynamic really changes the game from the other two editions. I did OK, finished 2nd, but should have pushed the end of the game quicker instead of drawing tickets. Carcassonne was up next. Got on a board with Eric Hymowitz. That pretty much meant I was playing for 2nd, which is where I ended up. I just don't have the knack for placing farmers well. McGartlin Motor Sports was next up. I started in the back and stayed there. I just couldn't get the cards for any sustained movement up. Texas Hold 'Em fit the schedule, more or less, so I did that next. I lasted almost exactly one hour, getting busted with a pair of aces against two smaller pairs. I suck at poker, so I was not unhappy with that result. As an extra added bonus, getting out in one hour meant I could do Louis XIV for my final event of the night. Got the better of Platnik this time, winning by about 8 points. THURSDAY Kind of a blah selection of 9:00 games, so I tried Formula Motor Racing at 10:00. I started with the 6-7 pair. Gary Presser played the crash as the first card and rolled a 6, but elected not to take out both of my cars. It's a ridiculously random game as is, trying to play it with no cars would be torture. It was a two race match, my remaining car took second in the first. I managed a third out of the second which put me third overall in the heat. After that I got into a game of Goa with Bruce Reiff. Somehow I managed to convince him that I'd almost forgotten how to play. I was ahead when time ran out and I had to get to my 12:00 game. Gary Presser was in my next game, El Grande as well. Tight game for all four of us, until the last turn or so when Jimbo Carroll pulled away. Carroll had also been in my Power Grid game the day before. He was able to do the 2-1-13 thing before the last scoring round, which made the difference. After 8 rounds I had played my 1-8 cards! As GM, I was obligated to do Air Baron next, and there was Gary Presser again! He was the defending champ, so no surprise that he's playing, but random chance put him on my board. I like Gary, he's funny and he keeps a good attitude even when the game isn't going his way. This Air Baron game was a good example. He was in a debt spiral for most of it and eventually had to restart his airline. Just about everyone was in debt, thanks to multiple Fuel Rate Hikes. Chris Goebel was the only one who stayed out of debt, and thus had to be declared the winner when time ran out. Just as well, he played better than any of the rest of us anyway. 6:00 meant time for Railroad Tycoon. As always I jumped out to an early lead doing the triple upgrade/speed record thing. Charlie Hickok, the GM, was in the heat and said he couldn't wait to try it against his hometown players. When I started building it was on top of Ray Alderman in the SE, which led to a battle of malicious track building that nearly cost me the game. I was hauling cubes from the bluegrass triangle and St Louis and eventually the western link in Kansas City over to Charleston, Raleigh, and Richmond but had to pay him on every one of them. The RR Tycoon final followed immediately after the heat. The NE had a great cube layout, so much so that four of the six players went in there. The odd one, other than me who again went triple upgrade, was working the Detroit, Toronto, Pittsburgh thing. I took one blue cube from Norfolk to make the speed record, splitting the track points with three different players, then went out to unattended Chicago. Eventually one of the NE players broke out over the mountains and got some cubes I had left in the bluegrass triangle area. Two others spread south. There were plenty of red cubes around the midwest, so I grabbed Hotel Chicago when it came up and went about building a circular path to Kansas City for a western link. The last turn saw me delivering red cubes from KC to Chicago for 7+1 to add to what was already a double digit lead. Heck, I almost pulled off my tycoon, which was fewest shares. I had gotten a Government Land Grant on turn two so I only had six, which tied for the least. About three turns from the end, someone said "this would be a close game if not for yellow over there". All I could do was laugh. That was the last game of the night, as it was well after midnight before we finished. FRIDAY Again there was a blah selection of morning games scheduled, so I took the opportunity to learn Through The Ages, the new civilization building card game. We only played to about midway through the II deck before we all had scheduled games (at 12:00) but this is an extremely cool game. I would have bought it there if any of the vendors had it available. There's alot going on in this game, but it's not as complicated as it looks at first blush. Noon meant more Air Baron. Two boards, and I was on with former Avalon Hill guru Don Greenwood. We were both thrashed by Katie McCorry. Must be nice to be 16 and able to crush old men at games they're supposed to be good at. 2:00 and I had time for more Carcassonne. Again I was matched up with Eric Hymowitz and again I was unable to compete. Alhambra was up next. This time it was Katherine McCorry, Katie's mother, who whipped us all. I had already faced Tom McCorry, the patriarch of the clan, in the RR Tycoon final. I was doing pretty well, but got walled off and finished with two tiles in reserve. I had too much tile diversity, having a few of everything but the lead in nothing. I did finish with an 18 point wall, however. Had a little downtime, so I got into a Settlers of Catan game with David Hood and his son Wilson. More beatings at the hands of teenagers ensued. The last heat of McGartlin was up at 7:00. I did a little better, sneaking up as high as third at one point, but couldn't get over the hump. This was the first time in four years that I'd missed the McGartlin finals, but I guess I was due for a bad run. Last up was another heat of El Grande. Very tight throughout, the final scores were 100-100-99-94-80. I had the 99. One player, the one who finished with 94, could have scored the castillo in the last round but elected not to. If he had, I would have won. But it wasn't last after all! The Louis XIV semifinals had to be rescheduled and the best time was midnight. So I won that late night game, finishing seven missions. SATURDAY Air Baron was up at 10:00. I thought I might have to play again, but we got two tables of five without me so I stayed out. My two seconds qualified me for the Carcassonne semis, so I did that at 11:00. I faced Eric Hymowitz for the third time, and finished second for the third time. This one was close, at least. I finished just two points behind. After checking the progress at the Air Baron tables, I elected to play Acquire at noon. Naturally I was dropped at the table with defending champ Jon Zug. It was a pretty close game. I came in third, but we were all within a few thousand of one another. The Air Baron final was at 1:00, so I took a moment to get that started. There were six winners and all of them showed up, saving me the trouble of trying to round up alternates. Lee Presser wound up winning it all, keeping the title in the family. While that was being played out, I played Puerto Rico. I got an early harbor but had constant cash flow trouble and never got much further. I should have gone for the factory instead. I also got in a round of Titan: The Arena. Did very poorly, scoring 0. My two first round bets and my secret bet were the first three creatures killed. Some days you get the cards, some days the cards get you. Having some downtime, I went to check on the Diplomacy games. I found Dave Maletsky and some other eliminees and taught them how to play Acquire. They all whipped me at it, proving that I am a great teacher. I spent most of the game with no cash. 7:00 was time for the rescheduled Louis XIV final. I took second in a tough game. I finished seven missions but had relatively few shields. Last game of the night was Power Grid. Close five player match on the Benelux map. Ended with two players powering 15 cities and three powering 14. I had the low cash of the 14s, good for last place. I had taken an early lead on city building, figuring the Benelux rules would bring some decent power plants up. I wound up spending my last turn dumping an end game plant, the 20, because there wasn't going to be enough coal for me to run it. SUNDAY I had planned to play Settlers or maybe Alhambra again. Instead, I looked out at the steadily falling snow and decided I better get on the road while I could get on the road. I finished the drive monday, wishing the AC in my car worked because the temp was well into the 70's. See my website! http://members.cox.net/pilight/ Monday, February 26, 2007 PrezCon 2007!We would like to thank all of you who attend Prezcon this past week! It was a great pleasure to host The Winter Nationals event for you this year! There were more great players than ever who showed up to test there skills in 86 Board Game Tournaments. The attendence was on par with last years record 500 players. The Auction saw 2 Titan Gorgons go for $650 & $700. The auction also did over 11,000 in sales. We will give you a full update of winners and other info in the weeks to come. Once again THANKS!Justin Thompson Thursday, February 15, 2007 Auction Item RegistrationIf you want to complete the paper work for the items you are selling in the auction, you can now go to the Auction page and get the item registration slips in MS Word, HTML, or PSF formats.Jim Stevens PrezCon Web Wednesday, February 14, 2007 PrezCon Featured in PodcastCheck out his interview with Justin at Podcast!Tuesday, February 13, 2007 Richard Berg is coming to PrezCon 2007!Richard Berg is coming to PrezCon 2007!Rich, very active in game design for the past 25 plus years, is perhaps the most prolific war game designer ever. He was awarded the Charles S. Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award 1989. His designs have been published by most of the major firms, including at least two of his own companies. His games are successful, almost always selling out within one year, and they bring top-dollar on eBay! Mr. Berg is recognized, by some, as The Pope of gaming. He's published reviews and commentary on games and gaming for years. (Some of his comments are famous/infamous, almost always apt, and only occasionally, wrong.) Rich's designs are innovative, always well researched, and invariably fun to play. He doesn't attend many conventions these days, other than his own in Charleston, SC, but enjoys an opportunity to game a little, talk a lot, eat some good food, and visit with friends -- all of which can be easily done in Charlottesville at PrezCon. Incidentally, PrezCon 2007 has already attracted all manner of designers and developers. For instance, those pre-registered include Beyma, Lewis, Spiegel, Prados, Ruhnke, Miklos, Nagel, Sinigaglio, Fenlon, Carlton, Dalgliesh, Foley, Greenwood, Hickock, Janiec, Perla, Stoecker, Shlasinger, Alderman, amongst others. We will also be hosting a Combat Commander Demo Tournament run by John Foley. Just show up at the start time of the Demo and all will be explained. This isn't a Plaque Event. The over whelming request for some form of tournament has lead us to host this event! 7-Days! Away! Remember we will accept Pre-Registrations up until Feb 16th. This will save you $10 off the door Price! If you have Pre-Reged and haven't sent in your payment, you have until Feb 16th to get us your payment. Send you payment to PrezCon Inc. P.O. Box 4661 Charlottesville Va. 22905 or Pay pal it to kingmaker@prezcon.com Thanks to all of you who have signed up in advance! We are grateful to all of you who make PrezCon "The Winter Nationals" your choice! We will see all of you in 7 days! Justin Thompson Convention Director kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Monday, February 12, 2007 Richard Berg will attend PrezCon 2007!Richard wrote:I will be running play tests of the following games. (I will have all of These present) that are in final stages of Development: BLACKBEARD (multi--player, 3-5 . . . half Euro, half history; 2 hour play time) HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (3-4 player multi Wallenstein-style Euro; 2-3 hours play time) HOUDINI (3-5 player pure Euro; 1+ hour play time) THE BIG APPLE (3-4 player Euro on building NYC. 2-3 hour play time) BLOOD & SAND (2-player, card-assisted, very simple history game on WWII N. Africa; We’ll be playing the 2 hour Tobruk scenario). Times for these will be random and run from late Thursday thru early Sunday . . . We welcome Richard and expect many of you will stop by and attend one of his play tests! Thursday, February 8, 2007 The New and Improved RonCon Schedule!The New and Improved RonCon ScheduleI know you've all been waiting for this, and now it's finally arrived. The 2007 RonCon Schedule for PrezCon. At RonCon we usually have some level of prize support, normally consisting of a mixture of gag prizes right on up to semi nice prizes, but this year, we are totally selling out! (That's right Stein, we are "total sellouts"!) We have some Vendor supported prizes for the first time ever! Jon Velonis of Synelix Games has provided a free copy of "Venus Needs Men" And Zev Shlasinger of Z-Man Games has provided a free copy of "Lifeboats" the reprint of the Euro Rette Sich Wer Kann So we hope this will spark some interest in coming out and trying their games. To help get these fine vendors' games some exposure, we at RonCon are happy to demo their games. The schedule for the demo is: Thursday - 3:00pm "Venus Needs Men" Thursday - 4:00pm "Lifeboats" Now for the actual RonCon schedule: Wednesday Night - "Bang!" (Mayfair Games) - Card game. Quick to learn, Quick to play, loads of laughs. RonCon revised rules state that you MUST play the dynamite card when you get it, and you MUST make that cheesy sound all spaghetti westerns had when a fuse was lit. You know the one: "PSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!" Thursday Night - "Funny Friends" (Rio Grande Games) - Board Game. A hilarious game of obtaining your goals in life. This one is new to RonCon, so we don't have any "RonCon Revised Rules" for this one as yet. Friday Night - "Venus Needs Men" (Synelix Games) - Board Game. A humorous Sci-Fi game about attempting to capture the Earth's populace, while preventing your rivals from doing the same. This is also new to RonCon this year, but all reports are that this game is a Rocket Ship full of laughs! The top winner will recieve a free copy of "Venus Needs Men" from Synelix Games. Don't forget to attend the Demo on Thursday at 3:00pm! Saturday Night - Lifeboats (Z-Man Games) - (Rette Sich Wer Kann) Board Game - How to describe this game? Board Game meets "Survivor"? The Ship has sunk! Your band of pawns (pirates) and your rival players are spread out amongst up to 7 different Lifeboats. Your goal: Get as many to safety on the most plush island you can. Your perils: Leaky boats and rivals that vote against you! RonCon revised rules encourage Pirate talk, and require the first person be referred to as "Stickman" and the first person always refer to him/herself in the third person. The top winner will recieve a free copy of "Lifeboats" from Z-Man Games. Don't forget to attend the Demo on Thursday at 4:00pm! Thursday, February 8, 2007 A Letter to all who have Pre-Registered!PrezCon UpdateWe have 12 days until PrezCon’s Pre-Con’s Starts. Yes only 12 days until “The Winter Nationals” Kicks off its 2007 Championships! Thanks to all of you who have already pre-reged. A few of you need to get your payment in by Feb 16th but that is for another e-mail. As the year progressed we added a few Games and Demos that we thought you might want to be informed of. We added: 1. “Battlelore” was added to the list of Championships in Dec. Days of Wonders latest great game! 2. “Close Action” & “Flying Colors” was added to RevCon last summer but was left off the Main Flyer. For those of you who enjoy Sailing Ship Games these two are for you. Bill Alderman will Demo “Close Action” at the Con Thursday after noon. Check the on-line schedule for exact times. 3. Mark from Lock in Load will Demo “Band of Brothers” I believe he has multiple Demo Scheduled. 4. Mayfair Games will be doing demos of there games upon request in the demo area. If you ever wanted to learn “Settlers of Catan”, “Domain” or any of the other great titles from Mayfair just check in with Pete or Coleman and they will take good care of you. 5. North Star will be running there excellent Game Show Event “Wits &Wagers” They will be running 2 events on Friday night 6:30pm & 9:00pm. We have had over 40 GM’s and Players ask us to run demo’s there games. Take the time to add a few of these events to your schedule. Our main convention booklet will have all of these listed along side the regular tournament schedule. It’s not too late to have your friends Pre-Register! They save $10 off the door price. They need to go on-line to http://www.prezcon.com and fill out the player registration form. Once that is done they need to send in there $50 to PrezCon Inc. P.O. box 4661 Charlottesville Virginia 22905 or Pay pal it to kingmaker@prezcon.com We must have your check or Payment by Feb 16th for you to be considered Pre-Registered. We have folks coming from 25 States, France & Ireland! Tell your friends that Prezcon “The Winter Nationals” is the place to be in 12 days! Once again THANKS for your support. Justin Thompson PrezCon Convention Director kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Monday, February 5, 2007 PrezCon 15 days away!PrezCon 2007 Pre-Registration with Gift is over! This officially ended Jan 31st! We are still taking payments if they were post marked Jan 31st!You can still Pre-Register and save $10 off the door price if you send in your registration & Payment by Feb 16th. After Feb 16th you will need to pay at the door. We hope all of you who will be attending the convention will decide to pre-register. The extra hotel block is now gone. Yes Gone! We sold-out the original block and have now sold-out the extended block! If you would like to pay prevailing rates and there is any hotel rooms left call 434-973-2121. Mention PrezCon when making your reservation. The Auction page is up and running. If you would like to download our auction bid slips in advance you can do that now. You will need to download Adobe Reader before you try to download the bid slips. If you will be putting items in the Auction store you will need to print off a slip for each game and attach it with painter’s tape (Which we will provide). With 86 Championship Tournaments, 40+ Demo’s and countless opportunities to play- play-play your favorites games... PrezCon will be the place to be Feb 21st! Make sure you bring your gaming buddies. The Pre-Con’s kick everything off Tuesday Feb 20th. Our first Pre-Con’s Advanced Civ & Victory in the Pacific start at 9:00AM. Tuesday Night at 7pm the Battle Cry Pre-Con starts. Come enjoy these events for free with a purchase of a Convention Badge! Questions? Call me directly at 434-531-9191 Justin Thompson Convention Director kingmaker@prezcon.com Wednesday, January 31, 2007 PrezCon Update!Ok, we are closing in on 270 players pre-registered for PrezCon 2007! Today is Jan 31st and today is the last day to Pre-Reg and still receive the free T-Shirt or Hat! You must have your payment either send to us via Paypal(Send to kingmaker@prezcon.com) or snail mail it with a Jan 31st post mark to PrezCon Inc. P.O. Box 4661 Charlottesville Va. 22905. After today you can still Pre-Register and save the $10 off the door price. You must have your payment to us by Feb 16th or you won’t be considered pre-reg and will have to pay the additional $10 at the door.We hope all of you or your friends take advantage of the free gifts and Discount off the door price! Do it now! 2nd, Our additional room Block goes away at midnight tonight so if you need a room and would like to stay at the hotel were the event is happening call 434-973-2121 to make your last minute hotel reservations. After today the rooms will be gotten at the hotels prevailing rates. If they have any to sell you! Ok, that’s it for now. Go to http://www.prezcon.com to see what we have in store for you come Feb 21st! Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Wednesday, January 30, 2007 PrezCon Pre-Registration Update!I first want to thank the more than 260 folks who have already signed up for PrezCon 2007! The list is growing and the quality of players is exceptional. Every year we try to bring you, our players, the very best Game Convention value. All we ask is that you enjoy yourselves!For many, PrezCon is one of your yearly vacations. It is a time to renew friendships and try new games. It is also an opportunity (“for those of you who care”) to lay the smack down on your arch-nemesis in your favorite game. (Insert Arthur Field or George Seary here!) PrezCon attracts very good players to very great players. There are players who wish to find a good game and spend time playing it. Open Gamers want to play all sorts of games in our Open gaming area. The 14th Annual Auction also draws some great game bargains and serious bidders. If you want Tournaments, Open Gaming, Dealers or a Great Game Auction we are working hard to make your vacation all you expect and hopeful even more! Spread the word about your experiences at PrezCon – bring some players with you in February! Have them go to the website at http://www.prezcon.com and spend a few moments to see what PrezCon’s about. (You might want to go yourself and check out the excellent My Schedule link to plan your stay.) The hotel is sold-out except for the higher-rate rooms we added in last week. If you act now you can still stay at the hotel by calling 434-973-2121. You have until Jan 31st to Pre-Register and receive the FREE Tee-shirt (With New Color Art) or the PrezCon embroidered Ball cap. (To upgrade your Tee-shirt Gift to a GM-style Polo Shirt costs only $15! Go to the website to see photos of the Polo Shirt being modeled!) After Jan 31st we will still accept your $50 pre-registration, but you won’t get the Cool Shirt or Cap. The Pre-registration period ends February 16th. Your payment must be post-marked by Jan 31st to get your Shirt/Cap. Your money must be in our hands by Feb 16th to be considered pre-registered, after that you pay the $60 On-Site Entry Fee. Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Tuesday, January 16, 2007 The Doubletree $89 rate block is SOLD-OUT!Yes! We have Sold-Out the hotel in record time. The $89 rate is now gone. I have been working hard with the hotel to add more rooms at a higher rate. A higher rate?...why a higher rate? Well Charlottesville Opened the John Paul Jones Arena (Holds 16000 people) last fall and Billy Joel happens to be hitting Town the Saturday Night of our convention. The regular off the street rate of $159 is now what folks are paying. I am trying to get them to bump the block and add 15 more rooms to the block. That's 15 rooms each night. The only way I can get this done is to allow them to bump the price to $119 a night! I am sorry for the higher rate but I have kept all of you in the loop about the hotel selling out for 2 months now.So as of this after noon there will be rooms to get but only at the higher rate! The rate will be $119 for a limited time or until the rooms are gone. Our deal is that they will keep this rate for us till the hotel is 90% sold-out. PrezCon Thanks you very much and we hope you enjoy the newly renovated hotel. Justin Thompson Monday, January 15, 2007 PrezCon 2007 Update!As of Jan 15th the Doubletree Hotel has 3 Hotel Rooms left for Friday Night! We know Friday night is the peek night so if you’re coming and want a Hotel room that goes thru Friday night I would advise calling the Hotel Directly. I will tell you that the hotel is working as we speak on extending the Block 5 extra night on Friday. It might even be in place now. Even if it is 8 hotel rooms on Friday isn't much with 36 days to go! Call 434-973-2121 or go to the website and hit the hotel link. We will be looking to find alternative hotel arrangements for those of you who get left off the block. PrezCon Attendees, It is very nice to be able to send you this letter. The Hotel is about to be sold-out in record time. Yes if you haven't made a hotel reservation I would recommend doing today! The cost is only $89 for up to 4 people in the room. We have a 5 year deal in place and this is the last year at the $89 rate. Next year the rate adjusts to $99. The hotel has been remodeled in the pass year. 7 of the 9 floors are completely new with the other two floors scheduled for remodel in 2007! The Hotel has been sold and a major and I mean major renovation indoors and out will start in 2007. (NO there will not be any renovations starting before or during our event)With all of this money being poured into the hotel I am very happy to have 3 years left on our 5 year deal. Pre-Registration is still 25% ahead of last year's numbers. We just broke the 190th player pre-reg mark! We hope that all of you who haven't signed up yet are making your plans to attend in 2007! Spread the word that PrezCon will be bigger and better than ever in 2007. We are offering you over 85 Tournaments in 2007. Yes we keep growing the number of events trying to offer you the best convention experience we can! Make sure you thank your GM's for there time and effort. Without them Prezcon wouldn’t be were we are today! Your #1 Winter Board Game Convention! We are offering you the best Demo schedule ever in 2007. Right now we have over 40 Demo's planned. Just to give you a short list here are a few: Ra, Venus needs Men, Hero Clik, Gangsters, Kingmaker, McGartlin Motor Sports, Tempus and many more. Giorgio's is were all the Demo's will be happening. Make some time in your schedule to learn a new game, be it a classic or a brand new game. Go to the website to see what we have to offer. http://www.prezcon.com Our 14th annual Games Auction is shaping up as one of our best. We had hoped to offer on-line registration but alas we have hit a few glitches that we can't easily find a solution to. So we aren't going to offer On-Line Registration and will instead continue to take your games at the con. We have posted the Auction slips on the website and you are now able to download and print as needed. We use Adobe Reader to view our Bid Slips. Just download the program off the front page in the lower left of the page. Auction Store! Yes we really liked the Auction store at the WBC! They ran such a nice store we decided to copy it! It will be run just like they did. Go to the Auction page and hit the Auction Store link to read all about it. The Bid slips say different times than we are using and that will be corrected but if you need them now go ahead and use them. We will be glad to take them as is. Ok that is about it for now! If you have questions or concerns call me at 434-531-9191 or e-mail me at kingmaker@prezcon.com Justin Thompson 434-531-9191 kingmaker@prezcon.com Friday, January 12, 2007 PrezCon 2007 Update!PrezCon Attendees, It is very nice to be able to send you this letter. The Hotel is about to be sold-out in record time. Yes if you haven’t made a hotel reservation I would recommend doing today! The cost is only $89 for up to 4 people in the room. We have a 5 year deal in place and this is the last year at the$89 rate. Next year the rate adjusts to $99. The hotel has been remodeled in the pass year. 7 of the 9 floors are completely new with the other two floors scheduled for remodel in 2007! The Hotel has been sold and a major and I mean major renovation indoors and out will start in 2007. With all of this money being poured into the hotel I am very happy to have 3 years left on our 5 year deal. Pre-Registration is still 25% ahead of last year’s numbers. Spread the word that PrezCon will be bigger and better than ever in 2007. We are offering you over 85 Tournaments in 2007. Yes we keep growing the number of events trying to offer you the best convention experience we can! Make sure you thank your GM’s for there time and effort. Without them Prezcon wouldn’t be were we are today! Your #1 Winter Board Game Convention! We are offering you the best Demo schedule ever in 2007. Right now we have over 40 Demo’s planned. Just to give you a short list here are a few: Ra, Venus needs Men, Hero Clik, Gangsters, Kingmaker, McGartlin Motor Sports, Tempus and many more. Giorgio's is were all the Demo’s will be happening. Make some time in your schedule to learn a new game, be it a classic or a brand new game. Go to the website to see what we have to offer. http://www.prezcon.com Our 14th annual Games Auction is shaping up as one of our best. We had hoped to offer on-line registration but alas we have hit a few glitches that we can’t easily find a solution to. So we aren’t going to offer On-Line Registration and will instead continue to take your games at the con. We have posted the Auction slips on the website and you are now able to download and print as needed. Auction Store! Yes we really liked the Auction store at the WBC! They ran such a nice store we decided to copy it! It will be run just like they did. Go to the Auction page and hit the Auction Store link to read all about it. Ok that is about it for now! If you have questions or concerns call me at 434-531-9191 or e-mail me at kingmaker@prezcon.com Justin Thompson 434-531-9191 kingmaker@prezcon.com Monday, January 8, 2007 PrezCon Annual Game AuctionWe wanted to offer on-line game registration but our webmaster will not have it ready for us in 2007! We look forward to it in 2008. Here are the Auction Rules for 2007! Questions contact me at kingmaker@prezcon.comAUCTION RULES The auction will be broken up into two parts. At the beginning of the Auction 5:00PM we will have an auction preview. The Euro/Family games auction starts at 5:30 PM. The War/Strategy games auction starts at 7:30 PM or as soon as the family auction is over Saturday Night. The auction staff determines which auction an item goes into. The "most collectable" items from each part of the auction will be held to the end of that part. AUCTION STORE! Follow this link to read about this new addition to the PrezCon Auction Store. There is an Auction Commission of 10% of the sold price of each item. The fee is non-negotiable. It costs nothing to register an item. There may be a fee if your item doesn't sell - see rule #5. You may register your items on Friday from 8PM to 10 PM & Sat 10AM to 2PM at the Registration Desk. You must complete an auction sheet for each item or group of items (a group is sold as one lot.) Please do not tape these sheets to your game (except for painter's tape). If an item doesn't have an auction sheet it won't be sold. If the minimum bid line is left blank it will be assumed that the minimum bid is $1. Please make sure to fill out all sheets completely and HONESTLY! If a seller intentionally tries to mislead or hide problems with an item we will not sell any more of your items. This year you may sign-up your games via the internet. Go to this link (will be published here) and file out all of the info in each line. If you leave a line empty you will be prompted to fill in the line. We hope to have it set-up so that once you push print all of your forms that are needed will be printed out on your printer. All you have to do is attach them to your games. We will take up to 600 items. You will be able to add games at the con. (It will cost you $1 per lot or Item if you wait and register your games at the con) We will cut off the games at 700 total Games. MINIMUM BIDS RULE: The auction staff recommends that you start all items at a $1 minimum and let the market work for you. Some people aren't willing to do that. So, if you set an item with a minimum bid higher than $1 and it doesn't sell, AND the auctioneer deems your minimum to be "ridiculous", you will pay 10% of the items' minimum bid to get your item back (actually we'll deduct it from your total). We are not trying to prevent you from setting safe minimums on items like Dark Tower, the first printing of Monopoly, War in The Pacific, Longest Day or a Black Lotus. We are trying to discourage you from setting a $10 minimum bid on Luftwaffe or - and this really happened last year - a $20 minimum on a copy of After the Holocaust that was missing half the parts! Just use common sense. Or ask the head auctioneer for a ruling and you won't have any problems. We are not a Wholesale liquidation house. We will not accept item's that are at wholesale prices. We understand the want to sell the item for what you paid for it but we can't have our Auctioneer staff working to sell your item that is priced to high to start with. If it is a new shrink wrapped game in print the new maximum is $10.00! We recommend $1 but you can put up to $10 on it. If it is a $175 game we will make exceptions. We gladly except your items but please be willing to let this be an Auction not a K-Mart or Big lots! To bid you must have a bidder's card. A bidder's card costs $1 and may be obtained from the auction staff prior to the auction. When you win an item, please go to the front desk and pay for your item immediately - in CASH! Cash only! If you wish to pay by another method see Bill Alderman or Justin Thompson to get approval to pay with either a check or by Pay Pal! Pay Pal will be accepted if you pay the same day and add 5% for Pay Pal fees. Bidding - all bids are in $1 increments. Do not try and bid in a 50cent increment or the auction staff will make fun of you. The auction staff will be bidding on items as well. Please feel free to bid against them. Remember, the auctioneer is always right. If the auctioneer is wrong, point it out nicely and he will usually correct himself. Please make sure to bid loud and clear. This is an auction! Do not expect the auction staff to count for you. Just because an item starts at $1 doesn't meant you can't start out higher. Also remember Caveat Emptor (buyers beware)! We will try and check items up for bid, but we are not responsible for missing parts or untruths by sellers. TABS - in the past anyone could run a tab. This is very time consuming for the auction staff - especially when most of the tabs had only a few items. This year a tab bidder card costs one dollar ($1). To get a tab, you must give the auction staff a NON-REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT of $50. This $50 is credited to your total. For example, you buy $103 worth of games. When you clear your tab at the end of the auction you pay $53. You can have one tab for both auctions and will not have to clear out your items between the auctions (but can if you want to). If you don't spend the full $50, you do NOT get a refund. Sound harsh? Not meant to, it's just meant to have tabs only for the people who really need them. You can always just come up and pay for your games like everyone else. All sales are final! NEW! We will be charging a $1 Insertion fee on all items NOT Pre-Registered. You will save $1 per lot if you pre-Register your games! If you walk-up with Items we will take them if there is room but we will charge $1 per lot or item. Please take the time to Pre-Register your games using our NEW On-Line System. We will post a running list of what is up for Auction so folks can see what is going to be available for them to pick-up at the Auction Saturday Night. After the Auctions have completed we will tally the money and pay folks for what they sold. You may pick-up your money Sunday Morning at 8am. We will take out the PrezCon 10% Auction fee. We will attempt to find you but if we don't and you don't take the time to find us all Monies and Games become property of PrezCon, Inc. at 4 PM Sunday. Last year's Auction was out best ever. We had over 600 items auctioned at record prices! It took 8 hours! We are starting earlier this year so the folks running our Auction can finish a little earlier! Mark the time as it starts with a viewing at 5:00PM. The Auction begins promptly at 5:30PM. Bruce is an excellent Auctioneer and his staff is top notch. Enjoy our 14th annual Auction! If there are questions that Bruce or his crew can't answer please contact Bill Alderman at his email . He will also be at the event to help and advise. Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Thursday, December 28, 2006 2nd Annual RevCon at Prezcon...A Con Within a Con... Play all 6 American Revolutionary War games and accumulate points in pursuit of the coveted George Washington Award. The Games
Battles of the American Revolution Series
The Scoring
The Schedule
The Game Systems: The Treatments: The Game Companies: Friday, December 22, 2006 PrezCon Update!First, from all of us here at PrezCon, Inc. we hope you have a Very Merry Christmas and a Wonderful New Year!PrezCon's preregistration is open and running full steam! Take the time to hit the Registration link and get you preregistration in today! We are closing in on 140 folk's preregistered! Our goal is 300 players! You have until Jan 31st to preregister and send in your payment. Remember we will give you a free color T-Shirt or Hat for just signing-up! That is on top of the $10 saving off the door price. $50 for 5 days of tournament gaming! We hope you spread the word and bring lots of friends with you in Feb! The Hotel is filling at a record pace! As of last week we had to add rooms to Tuesday as folks are coming early to play in the Pre-Con's. The hotel is 75% sold-out as we speak! Take the time to call to click on Doubletree Hotel to make your reservation today! This is the Last year we will have the $89 rate. They allow you up to 4 friends per room at NO extra charge! So fill them up! Thinking about adding BattleLore as a Tournament? I would need a GM commitment! If you would like to GM this event just drop me a e-mail! Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Saturday, November 25, 2006 PrezCon AnnouncementFellow Gamers:It's time to Register for PrezCon 2007 - February 21 - 25 at the Doubletree Hotel in Charlottesville, Virginia.. This is our 14th "Winter Nationals" The PrezCon Flyer will be in the mail to them Dec 4th, including all the latest PrezCon info. PrezCon 2007 will have three Advanced Events, over 80 Tournament Games in seven tracks, as well as special "conventions-within-PrezCon," including RevCon, The Settlers of Catan Regional Championship, the Titan National Tournament (TNT), and, of course, RonCon (the late-night Con for those who must game all night.) See the Schedule link at PrezCon.com for a listing of tournaments. Use the My Schedule link to make your own printable schedule! We look to have a great Con with more players, new games, and more game designers/developers. PrezCon offers all this in a fun, interactive, friendly, and competitive environment. In addition to Tournaments, there are game demos, open gaming, the best game exhibitors, an outstanding Auction; and convenient, wholesome and inexpensive gamer-type food and cold drinks! Now is a great time to Register On-Line so you won't miss out on any of the fun, save some money and you get a neat PrezCon shirt or hat. PrezCon encourages Gamers and Game Masters to "talk up" PrezCon and their events wherever they are, on ConsimWorld, at gatherings of gamers, other conventions, etc. Your "personal invitations" to PrezCon is the most effective means of introducing gamers to our convention. The On-Line Registration process is simple, the result complete, and you'll be ready for the February Winter Nationals. Go to www.prezcon.com, click on the Registrations link on the left-side of the page, click Player Registration. A little thinking about choices, a few fast decisions, and You're Done - All Set! (And don't forget to tell your friends….) Best regards, Bill Alderman Vice President PrezCon, Inc. Friday, November 17, 2006 PrezCon Update!The schedule is coming on Monday Nov 20th! You can already use the My Schedule feature and checkout your events by making your own schedule. The full schedule will be out on Monday!The Main mailer will hit the streets Dec 1st! PLEASE take the time to talk up the con to all your friends! We want to be able to run all the events that we get requests for but at 500 players 80 to 85 games is the very top we can do. We need to grow to 700 to start our own century! We can do it this year if you take the time to talk it up and bring some friends with you in 2007! We here at PrezCon are getting very excited about 2007! We hope you are making your plans to attend! Go to the Doubletree link to make your hotel reservations or call 434-973-2121. We have sold out the hotel block for 4 years running. They have just moved the smoking floor to the 2nd floor to open up 18 more 2 bedroom hotel rooms. The hotel is 90% remodeled! The heated indoor whirlpool was completely rebuild. The pool is remodeled as well. You will be very happy with the convention hotel in 2007. So be ready for information overload in the weeks to come! Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Monday, October 9, 2006 PrezCon Update100 players already signed up! PrezCon is going to press for 300 pre-reg this year! We hope that all of you who have attended in the past will consider attending in 2007! We have a grand line-up that keeps getting better each day!Word of mouth is our best advertising...so we ask that you spread the word! Let your friends know about PrezCon and what you think of how it is run. We want to thank you in advance for taking the time and spreading the word! Our line-up of special events just keeps on growing! PrezCon will once again be hosting "The Settlers of Catan World Championship Feeder Tournament" Yes you can win a free trip to GenCon! We pay for your Hotel Room, Air-fair and your admission in GenCon! (Maximum Prize will not exceed $500) We are looking forward to hosting our 3rd World Championship feeder Tourney in Feb! To enter you just need to show up and pay to attend the con. It won't cost you a dime more to play for the grand prize! Our GM Charlies Minter has added a 4th round this year! Yes one more round! This will allow you a better opportunity to qualify for the Semi and maybe even win your way to GenCon 2007! Don't miss-out on this grand event at PrezCon 2007! RevCon 2007 RevCon, A Con Within a Con. Play in all 6 American Revolutionary War games offered this year at Prezcon and accumulate points in pursuit of the coveted George Washington Award. The Games: Liberty, We the People, Clash for a Continent, Bunker Hill, Oriskany, Germantown, Cowpens, Yorktown, GMT’s American Revolutionary War Series, Savannah, Eutaw Springs, Brandywine, Saratoga, Close Action, and Flying Colors. The Scoring 1 Point: For each RevCon event entered 2 Points: For each victory in a preliminary round 3 Points: For a Third Place finish 5 Points: For a Second Place finish 7 Points: For a First Place finish Our Sponsors RBM Studios, C3i Magazine, PrezCon, Worthington Games, Columbia Games, GMT, Games Days of Knights Game Store, Clash of Arms Titan National Tournament (TNT) TNT 2007 Titan National Tournament will be held at the 14th Annual PrezCon - The Winter Nationals - Doubletree Hotel of Charlottesville Feb 20th - 25th, 2007 When: Tuesday, Feb 20th starting at 12:00 Noon and runs in a free form format till Friday Feb 23rd until Midnight. Saturday, Feb 24th starting at 10:00 A.M is the Semi- Finals Sunday, Feb 25th - the Finals starts at 9:00 A.M. What: TNT is back! TNT is a focused in depth tournament featuring the exclusive play of Avalon Hill's Titan. Competitive play featuring some of the best players in the United States. We will offer a plaque in the Titan Team Event as well as 1st thru 3rd place for the main event! Game Master: Steve Koleszar Registration: Go to www.prezcon.com When you register for PrezCon TNT is free! On Site Lodging Info: The Doubletree Hotel of Charlottesville will once again be our location for PrezCon & TNT in 2007! Go to the website: www.prezcon.com The Hotel like is easy to find. The hotel offers a heated indoor pool, Fitness Room, Bar and Full Service Restaurant. Contact Info: Justin Thompson at: P.O. box 4661 Charlottesville Virginia 22905 Voice: 434-531-9191 E-mail: kingmaker@prezcon.com Website: http://www.prezcon.com Monday, September 11, 2006 Prezcon's 2007 Mid-Atlantic World Championship QualifierSettlers of Catan Feeder Tourney for Prezcon's 2007 Mid-Atlantic World Championship Qualifier Where: MACE 2006 - High Point, NC (USA) When: November 10-12, 2006 http://www.justusproductions.com Winner Receives a Paid entry and free hotel at PrezCon. Hope to see you there. Ron McClung Gaming Coordinator MACE 2006 Friday, September 8, 2006 This is the Current Games List 9/8/06GAMEAlhambra Carcassone Caylus El Grande Keythedral Louis XIV Power Grid Puerto Rico Ra Settlers of Catan St. Petersburg Tempvs Ticket to Ride - Marklin Tikal Acquire Battleline Greed HeroClix Liar's Dice Lost Cities Robo Rally Slapshot Star Wars Miniatures Texas Hold em Titan the Arena Circus Maximus Detroit-Cleveland Grand Prix Down in Flames Formula De Racing Formula Motor Racing McGartlin Motor Sports Royal Turf Speed Curcuit Tabletop Aces 18xx Age of Renaissance Britannia (Updated Ver.) Diplomacy Empire Builder History of the World Kingmaker Manifest Destiny Merchant of Venus Rail Baron Railroad Tycoon Union Pacific Air Baron Atlantic Storm Axis & Allies Memoir '44 Gangsters Monsters Menace America Pirate's Cove Queen's Gambit Risk Samurai Swords Titan National Tournament War of the Ring Command & Colors Crusader Rex Hammer of the Scots Napoleonic Wars Path of Glory Shifting Sands Here I Stand Twilight Struggle Up Front War of 1812 Africa Korps Bitter Woods Monty's Gamble Panzer Blitz/Panzer Leader Panzer Grenadier Squad Leader The Russian Campaign War at Sea ARW Series - RevCon Clash for a Continent - RevCon Close Action - RevCon Flying Colors - RevCon Liberty - Revcon We the People - RevCon Victory in the Pacific Battle Cry Advanced Civilization 82 Tournaments 3 Pre-Con's DEMOS Bumper Cars A Game of Thrones Thursday, August 31, 2006 GM's and Players ...Registration is now OPEN!From: Scott StewartTo: Game Masters and Gamers Subj: PrezCon 2007: Game Masters -Registration is due October 1st; Gamers -Register early, save money, get great stuff (On-line Registration Gifts!) Date: August 31, 2007 It's time to Register for PrezCon 2007 - February 21 - 25 at the Doubletree Hotel in Charlottesville, Virginia.. This is our 14th "Winter Nationals" PrezCon 2007 will be have three Advanced Events, over 80 Tournament Games in seven tracks, as well as special "conventions-within-PrezCon," including RevCon, The Settlers of Catan Regional Championship, the Titan National Tournament (TNT), and, of course, RonCon (the late-night Con for those who must game all night.) See the Winter Flyer at PrezCon.com for a listing of tournaments and of the many other events. We look to have a great Con with more players, new games, and more game designers/developers. PrezCon offers all this in a fun, interactive, friendly, and competitive environment. Now is a great time to register, whither you're a Gamer or Game Master so you won't miss out on any of the fun and save some money. It helps us, too - in planning, acquiring those neat shirts and hats, and other stuff. The sooner you GMs pre-register and let me know what you're thinking for running your tournament, the sooner the schedule can be put together and run by you. PrezCon encourages Gamers and Game Masters to "talk up" PrezCon and their events wherever they are, on ConsimWorld, at gatherings of gamers, other conventions, etc. Your "personal invitations" to PrezCon is the most effective means of introducing gamers to our convention. The On-Line Registration process is simple, the result complete, and you'll be ready for the February Winter Nationals. Go to www.prezcon.com, click on the Registration link on the left-side of the page, click GM Registration or Player Registration. A little thinking about choices, a few fast decisions, and You're Done - All Set!. (And don't forget to tell your friends..) Saturday, August 26, 2006 RevCon Adds 2 New Games & PrezCon adds a New RevCon Track!We are proud to announce that RevCon is going to be adding 2 new games to the excellent list of events in 2007! Clash of Arms Games is sponsoring there very popular "Close Action Age of Sail" Miniature event. This will be a single Elimination event running Wed or Thru night. Charlie Speagle will supply most of the miniatures for this event. Stay tuned for more info on this great new event.The Next Event is Flying Colors! Mike Nagel will host this New Event in 2007! No suggested schedule has been formally selected but stay tuned as we plan on firming up our RevCon Schedule soon! With the addition of these two new games we needed to make RevCon its own Track. This means we plan to schedule RevCon Events so you will get to play in all the events with as little over lap as possible. For those of you who don't know what RevCon is click the link to your right. The picture of George Washington will take you to last year info. We expect to update that very soon. GM's! NOW is the time to Sign-up! Go to the "registration" link and Follow the GM sign-up info. We need you to sign-up and pay by Oct 1st. We would like to have as many of you as possible to sign-up early so we can begin filling Open Game's. Remember we give all our GM's a Free Color Embroidered Polo for helping us out and a 50% discount off your Pre-Registration! Sign-up today! Justin Thompson Convention Director kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Friday, August 11, 2006 WBC & Prezcon 2007Ok, We just got back from the WBC! It was a well run event!It had a few bumps in the road but all in all it was another excellent event run by Don & Kaarin!Bill & I spent large amounts of time handing out the GM Packets. We talked to all the GM's from last year and found a few new ones for 2007! We hope you take those packets, fill them out and send them in asap! If you want just go to the website and register there. The website in now OPEN for all who wish to pre-register. GM's have until Oct 1st and players have until Jan 31st 2007. If you wish to buy an extra polo shirt as a GM this year you may buy them for $20 each. If you wish to upgrade your free gift T-shirt to a GM like Polo shirt you can for $15. Each additional polo cost $20. The GM or Player Polo or gift T-shirt cost more if you buy XXL or larger. This year we also will be offering our lady gamers a female version of the Polo shirt. It cost $0 to make your polo a ladies polo. We are adding Shifting Sands to our already impressive Wargames tracks. We are also looking to add Rail Baron and Here I Stand! Those Revcon folks are adding Flying Colors to there 2007 line-up! Troll & Toad New and Used games has signed on to be our General store for 2007! They will be offering you a full array of games not offered by the other Dealers. They will be selling Hasbro, Milton Bradley, Parkers Bros, WizKids, WOTC, Rio Grande, Days of Wonder and Eagle Games. They have also promised to offer discounts on all new games. We welcome them in 2007! They will be in the Main Hallway. GMT, Clash of Arms, Columbia Games, Mayfair Games, Z-Man Games, Worthington Games and Classic Wargames will all be returning in 2007! Lots of exciting stuff happening as we plan to host our 2007 edition. If you have questions or you would like to GM one of our open games let me know. Justin Thompson justin.thompson@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Thursday, June 22, 2006 PrezCon UpdateWell, it has been a few months since we finished our best ever PrezCon! Now that you are here at the website check out what we have to offer. We have fully updated the site with 2006 Pictures, Winners List, Auction Price list, Event Summary of next years Games, The Winter Flyer is also up! If your ready to make the commitment you may Pre-Reg as a GM or as a player! We are hoping to ad to the fever of PrezCon in 2007! We are proud to announce the return of TNT "The Titan National Tournament" This event has been run continuously for over 20 years! Bring your Team to compete in the ever Popular Team Championship. You score points based on how well you do during the event. We add all of those scores together and we have our Team Champions! It's lots of fun so come join us in 2007 for this great event. There is also the Grand Champion of TNT who has the single best performance at the con. We also will award 2nd-3rd is the numbers warrant them. It is nice to see TNT return to PrezCon and Charlottesville! 22 years and counting! More to come! Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Monday, June 19, 2006 Advanced Civilization makes its return to PrezConAfter a ten year absence, Advanced Civilization makes its return to PrezCon in2007 as an Advance Event. Three rounds over two days will determine a champion. Advanced Civilization is a game where each player starts with a single nomadic tribe with no skills. As the supreme leader of your people, you use your abilities to grow and develop your position into a powerful and glorious empire. The question is - do you have what it takes to be written into history as an enlightened ruler of a great empire? Advanced Civilization is a challenging game requiring both skill and stamina. Players must manage their board position, financial accounts, their neighbors and the all important civilization advances. Excellent diplomatic, military and trading skills are needed to do well. Schedule: Round One--Tuesday, February 20th 8am-4pm Round Two--Tuesday, February 20th 5pm-1am Round Three--Wednesday, February 21st 9am-5pm Format: There will be a total of three rounds played. All rounds will be timed with eight hours allotted per game. A game turn in progress when time expires will be allowed to finish, but no game turns will be started with less then thirty minutes left in the round. Due to the format and legnth of the game, timely play is strongly encouraged. Excessively slow play or stalling can be a form of poor sportsmanship and will be penalized at the GM's discretion. To save time, all trade rounds will be timed, allowing one minute per player in the game. In addition, please use simultaneous turns as much as possible. Players will be distributed between tables as evenly as possible. Table assignments will be random for all three rounds. Civilization assignments will be done by random draw. Scoring: The second place player in each game will receive an Adjusted Score of one hundred points for the round. All other Adjusted Scores will be based on a percentage of the second place total. Adjusted Scores for all three rounds will be added together to determine each players Total Score, and the highest Total Score will be the champion. Plaques will be awarded for first through fifth places. Scoring example: A game ends with Joe scoring 4213 points, Doug scoring 4322, and Kevin 4485. As the second place player, Doug would get an Adjusted Score of 100. Joe would get an Adjusted Score of 97.48 (4213 divided by 4322), and Kevin would get an Adjusted Score of 103.77 (4485 divided by 4322).
Here are the current additions to next years schedule! Enjoy!Ok, it has been 9 weeks since PrezCon 2006 ended! We are making our plans for PrezCon 2007 as we speak. I thought I would give you some of the info we have decided on so far. We have dropped these events from the 2007 schedule Struggle for the Med Civil War Europe Engulfed San Juan Attika Pirate of the Spanish Main Conquest of the Empires Princes of Florence Age of Steam Dixie We have added these games to the schedule for 2007!
We are going to move Ticket to Ride into the Parlor Track, Pirate's Cove into the Parlor Track, Battleline into the Tactic Track. We also will be running Britannia 2 instead of the old Avalon Hill Version of Britannia. There are many great additions to the line-up for 2007! We will need your help to get Gm's to fill all the new games. If you see one that is open and you would like to GM it let Scott Stewart know. E-mail him at sstewart@prezcon.com Justin Tuesday, March 21, 2006 The Results are in! PrezCon 2006 WinnersHere are the results from PrezCon 2006:
Data Compiled by Scott Stewart Saturday, March 11, 2006 RevCon After Action Report!RevCon Color CommentaryThis year's inaugural RevCon, hosted as a mini-con within Prezcon, was a success by any measure. The statistics previously given are a testimony to the number, variety, and competitiveness of the events. The story, however, goes beyond a mere recitation of statistics. It must be remembered that a mere 8 years ago the very notion of a renaissance in Rev War gaming was considered by most hobby insiders to be ill-advised, unlikely, and a stretch at best. Today the companies that have published Rev War titles are many, their systems are varied, and their following is numerous. In this context RevCon can be seen as a punctuation mark to the paragraph that disputes the claims of the naysayers of a decade ago. Over the years since the publication of GMT's "Saratoga" in 1998, Mark Miklos occasionally ran the idea of an all Rev War event that embraced multiple game systems up the flagpole. Few saluted. But as time passed and the popularity of Rev War gaming gained more traction the idea of RevCon became intriguing to an ever-widening circle of gamers. Paul Stoecker, a long-time supporter of GMT and the Rev War series, agreed to work with Miklos to help bring about RevCon. In the summer of 2005 Justin Thompson & Bill Alderman of Prezcon approached Miklos and Stoecker with an offer to host RevCon within the context of the upcoming Prezcon. The willingness of one of the premier gaming tournaments to offer a venue to the fledgling RevCon concept was a milestone in and of itself. Prezcon was but one of the eventual sponsors of this first RevCon. GMT Games, Worthington Games and RBM Studios/C3i Magazine each generously contributed merchandise prizes for the winners. Columbia Games contributed logistical support. And a special note of thanks goes to Days of Knights game store in Newark, Delaware, for providing the "George Washington Award." The "George" was a tasteful plaque awarded to the overall RevCon champion for "Excellence in American Revolutionary War Gaming." The organizers of Prezcon extended themselves to make RevCon a success by providing a separate room where Miklos and Stoecker were able to create a period environment. They displayed numerous portraits, battle scenes, and tabletop and wall mounted flags. A leader board was located on an easel by the door. Period music, from fife and drum marches to Yankee Doodle, was played in the RevCon room throughout the competition. It was truly an island within the storm in comparison to the larger convention and numerous Prezcon attendees walked through RevCon with a satisfied smile after noting its ambiance. There was a strong field represented among the RevCon competitors as well as many 1st time players intrigued by the topic and the format. Some players elected to only play in one event, others in several and a core group of enthusiasts competed in all four. This inherent flexibility is noteworthy. A player did not necessarily need to compete in all events to be viable. For example, Todd Treadway only competed in Liberty and the Battles of the American Revolution series and managed, by the strength of his play, to earn 3rd place overall and with it a harvest of prizes. The final event in RevCon was the Battles of the American Revolution series by GMT. The final match in the event was the Battle of Saratoga between Bruno Sinigaglio's British and Don Hanle's Americans. The match got underway at approximately 11 PM on Saturday night and had overall RevCon implications. If Hanle won he would win RevCon outright. If Sinigaglio won, Hanle and Miklos would be tied for the RevCon championship. Somewhere around 12:30 AM, with 2 game turns to go, the contest was tied with 5 VPs each. A small but dedicated group of about half-dozen spectators encircled the 4' x 6' demo game set upon which the climactic battle raged. Hanle pulled ahead by a point and in the end, Bruno's last attack with the British could only have netted a "disruption" result at 3:2 odds so he gallantly conceded the victory to Hanle. With that win Hanle passed Miklos in total RevCon points to capture the George Washington Award. RevCon will return to Prezcon next year and promises to be even better. Start making your plans to attend Monday, February 27, 2006 PrezCon 2006 Recap!We want to first of all express our thanks to all of the attendees who made this year's PrezCon the Biggest and Best ever! I could give you a blow by blow account of what happened but instead I will give you the highlights as I saw them. We had over 500 players in 2006! 292 of you pre-registered. The other 208+ of you paid at the door. Either way you paid you made it to PrezCon 2006 with the intention of having fun and playing a lot of great games! We had over 500 hotel rooms booked at the Doubletree this year! That was a average of 125 rooms a night! We know a few of you stayed at other hotels due to all of the Non Smoking rooms being sold out early. We understand this and plan to have a official over flow hotel in 2007. Once again the hotel worked hard to make your convention experience great and we thank them all of there hard work! We had 500+ items in the auction (click for results) this year. The family auction was a little low on prices but the Wargames Auction rocked. We did $7600 in sales. The Auction was our Largest in the 13 years of PrezCon. We want to thank Bruce Reiff and is great crew for there efforts in hosting another great event! It looks like the year of 500's! There will be many after action reports coming my way about the great events we hosted in 2006! We hope to have them posted very shortly. Once again thank you very much for making PrezCon your gaming choice. We hope to see all of your smiling faces in 2007! Justin Thompson Convention Director Wednesday, February 22, 2006 It's that time of the year!PrezCon - The Winter Nationals!Begins at 12 noon today! Come one, come all! for 5 days of gaming fun! Thursday, February 16, 2006 25 States!PrezCon will have players from 25 diffrent states in 2006! We have players coming from as far away as Alaska! it is nice to see that the convention has grown to the point that we draw folks from great distances.If any body is coming from the Orlando Florida Area please contact me as I have a person in need of a ride! Mark Guttag is looking for a roommate for Thursday - Sunday! Contact me if you would like to contact Mark! Remember pre-reg ends Saturday Feb 18th! If you want the $10 discount I need the money in my hand by Saturday! Justin Thompson Convention Director 434-531-9191 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 PrezCon info!We are 7 days from the Opening cannon shots at PrezCon 2006! Yes Tuesday at 9am we will start our first event in 2006! Victory in the Pacific will start Tuesday moring with War of 1812 to start the same day at 7pm! If you have the time we would really like to see as many of you as possible! Mark Smith is running VITP and believes 16 to 24 player are possible! The ever popular War of 1812 by Columbia will draw a good crowd! So if you are coming in on Wed why not take an extra day and get started early!The hotel has King Beds left! But just a few...Call 434-973-2121 If you still haven't paid for your pre-registration remember it needs to be to me by the 18th! If not you will pay the extra $10 at the door! Folks it is looking very good! Bring your friends and we expect to have a great time! See you in 7 days! Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Monday, February 13, 2006 McGartlin MotorSports NewsJon Zug says:Players are strongly urged to bring their own copies of the Car Deck and the One-Mile Oval track deck if they have them. Players are also encouraged to bring their own cars for the race as it adds flavor to the race (people have been doing that for years.) All players are also encouraged to bring any matching set of 1/24th AND 1/72nd scale cars that they may have so we can run some large sized heats. Friday, February 10, 2006 PrezCon Update!We are now over 260 players pre-reged! That is a record! Thanks to all who have made PrezCon the game convention it is today! You still have time to join us by Pre-reging! The date the Pre-Registation closes is Feb 18th! You save $10 off the door price but you must send in your money by Feb 18th! You canuse Paypal to instantly pay us or snail mail us at PrezCon Inc. P.O. Box 4661 Charlottesville Va 22905The Hotel is about Sold Out! If you have any last minute hotel needs call 434-973-2121. Justin Thompson Thursday, February 2, 2006 A New Event added to the Special Events List!PrezCon Game Show Trivia Events North Star Games will host three separate Wits & Wagers Trivia Events at PrezCon this year. At each event, seven teams will compete in a 60 minute Wits & Wagers trivia event. Cash and prizes will be awarded at each event to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place teams. Teams will consist of 4 to 8 players - we will pair you up with other people if you come with fewer than 4 friends. 1st Place - $50 cash, Conquest of the Empire (or Railroad Tycoon), Carcassonne, Wench, & everyone receives a $10 off coupon for Wits & Wagers 2nd Place - Balloon Cup, Lost Cities, TransAmerica, Wench & everyone receives a $10 off coupon for Wits & Wagers 3rd Place - Everyone receives a $10 off coupon for Wits & Wagers About the Game This is the first trivia event you can win without knowing any trivia! In fact, your team can win without answering any questions correctly. How? By betting on the best answer provided by another team. The events are based upon Wits & Wagers, the latest release of North Star Games. This party game brings out the excitment of a Vegas-style casino by giving each of the team's answers a different payout. Strike it big with a high payout answer and you'll be cheering like you just hit the jackpot! Event Times Friday - 5:00pm Saturday - 11:00am Saturday - 8:00pm Sign-up starts 30 minutes prior to each event. Space will fill up on a first come first serve basis with this one exception: priority will be given to larger teams and to people who have not entered previous events. Where? Wits & Wagers trivia event will be held in Giorgio's, located by the bar & restaurant. How do you play? You do not need to know how to play this game before the event starts. The host asks a question that no one will know the exact answer to. For instance, how many feet long was the longest whale ever recorded?" Each team has 1 minute to make an estimate on what the correct answer is. Each team's answer is written onto a 6 foot dry erase board. These answers are ordered from smallest number to largest number. The middle answer will pay out 1 times your bet, but the most outrageous answers on the low and high end will pay out four times your bet! Now teams have 1 minute to decide which answer(s) to bet upon. The host pays every team that bet on the answer that is closest to the correct answer. Winning teams are paid according to the odds on that answer. The team with the most chips after 7th "all-in" question wins! This 6 foot dry erase board is used to post each team's answer. Allowing teams to bet on any of the given answers helps keep the event fun and interactive. The Fine Print Winning this trivia event has nothing to do with betting on the best answers. You will win this event only if you bet on the answers that North Star Games (either rightly or wrongly) thinks is the best answer. We appologize in advance for any poorly worded question. The winning teams must figure out how to distribute the prizes among themselves without any bickering. We reserve the right to disqualify any team that does not keep in the fun spirit of the event. Monday, January 30, 2006 You asked for it!We have had a lot of good feedback on the 'My Schedule' feature of the PrezCon web. We appreciate you folks taking the time to write. From that feedback we have incorporated several new features that we believe will make using My Schedule faster and easier to use.The first new feature allows the My Schedule page to remember the selections you made from your last visit. This way if you need to change your schedule, you don't have to go through all the clicking to restart. This feature depends on your browser being able to take advantage of internet cookies. If you browser can't support or you have disabled cookies, the page will not remember your previous choices. The second feature is to make printing your custom schedule easier. Just below the check box section you will see a link marked "More printable version". If you click this link, it will open a new page containing only your schedule. This way when you choose print, you will be printing only the information you need. Thanks again for the feedback. I am always open to suggestions how to make the PrezCon Web the best in its class. Just drop me a line from the Contact Us page and let me know your suggestions. See you at the convention! Jim Stevens PrezCon Web Tuesday, January 24, 2006 PrezCon Schedule Maker!It is Finally Here! Yes you can now make a custom schedule using our scheduler! Try it out on the My Schedule link in the left navigation bar and let us know what you think. It uses different colors on each game to help you see what you are playing. It also isn't limited to 6 games so you can really plan out your entire convention. We hope this makes your convention experience just a little nicer. Just click on the square next to the game you plan to play and it will make a schedule down below the games.Justin Thompson Friday, January 20, 2006 The Passing of Tony CaddenIt is with a sad heart I have to announce the passing of Anthony Cadden on Jan 6th 2006. A long time player and friend to PrezCon he will be missed. He was one of the good guys in a hobby of good guys! I met Tony at the 2nd PrezCon. He walked in about 5 hours early and he was using a cane. I never asked him about is health issues till many years later. He had had a liver transplant before I ever new him. Every year he came to play games he would always say “if my health would allow me to attend I will be there!” I found that to be funny at the time. If I had known his real health issues I would have been…well you know a little more serious. I taught him to play Kingmaker at the 2nd PrezCon in 1995. He fell in love with that game and in 1997 he won is Kingmaker Championship! He went on to GM Kingmaker many times. He took the time to offer to GM any game I needed help with. He was scheduled to run Battle Cry at the upcoming PrezCon. I and Keith Levy are trying to find out his parents info so that if any of you would like to send letters or cards you can. We will be holding a moment of silence for Tony at the start of the Kingmaker event at PrezCon. If you would like to stop by please do!Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-531-9191 Thursday, January 12, 2006 Hotel Update!First I would like to thank all of you who have commited to attend PrezCon 2006! We have over 175 players already signed-up! If you have any friends or family not signed-up let them know that the Jan 31st deadline is come quickly! You save $10 off the door price and receive a cool free T-Shirt or Hat just for pre-reging!The hotel is 90% filled as we speak! I was called 3 times today with folks needing Non Smoking Double Bed room! Our block is soldout of those rooms. They do have 18 Smoking Double Bedrooms open now! The hotel is sorry but we have just taken all the other Doubles they have to offer. Now with that said I know for a fact that the 7th floor was just remodeled. I am sure they have King Rooms with a pullout couch in each room. Call directly to the hotel and see what can be done. Sorry but if you wait till the end to make a reservation you do have to take whats left! Make your reservation today. Call 434-973-2121! Its looking Great! We look forward to seeing all of you in Feb! Justin Thompson kingmaker@prezcon.com 434-973-2121 Friday, December 30, 2005 Winter Flyer now available. Click |
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| Game | Publisher | Track |
|---|---|---|
| Alhambra | Uberplay | European |
| Attika | Rio Grande | European |
| Carcassone | Rio Grande | European |
| El Grande | Rio Grande | European |
| Louis XIV | Rio Grande | European |
| Princes of Florance | Rio Grande | European |
| Puerto Rico | Rio Grande | European |
| Ra | Rio Grande | European |
| San Juan | Rio Grande | European |
| Settlers of Catan | Mayfair | European |
| St. Petersburg | Rio Grande | European |
| Ticket to Ride | Days of Wonder | European |
| Tikal | Rio Grande | European |
| Acquire | AVH | Parlor |
| Battleline | GMT | Parlor |
| Bohnanza | Rio Grande | Parlor |
| Cluzzle | Parlor | |
| Greed | AVH | Parlor |
| HeroClix | WizKids | Parlor |
| Liar's Dice | Parlor | |
| Robo Rally | WOTC | Parlor |
| Slapshot | AVH | Parlor |
| Spanish Main | Parlor | |
| Texas Hold'em | Hoyle | Parlor |
| Titan the Arena | AVH | Parlor |
| Circus Maximus | AVH | Horsepower |
| Blue Max | Horsepower | |
| Detroit-Cleveland Grand Prix | Mayfair | Horsepower |
| Formula De | Cafe Games | Horsepower |
| Formula Motor Racing | GMT | Horsepower |
| McGartlin Motor Sports | McGartlin | Horsepower |
| Royal Turf | Horsepower | |
| Speed Curcuit | AVH | Horsepower |
| Tabletop Aces | AVH | Horsepower |
| 18xx | AVH/Mayfair | Strategy |
| Age of Renaissance | AVH | Strategy |
| Age of Steam | Café Games | Strategy |
| Britannia | AVH | Strategy |
| Diplomacy | AVH | Strategy |
| Empire Builder | Mayfair | Strategy |
| History of the World | AVH | Strategy |
| Kingmaker | AVH | Strategy |
| Manifest Destany | GMT | Strategy |
| Merchant of Venus | AVH | Strategy |
| Union Pacific | Rio Grande | Strategy |
| Air Baron | AVH | Tactics |
| Atlantic Storm | AVH | Tactics |
| Axis & Allies | AVH | Tactics |
| Battle Cry | AVH | Tactics |
| Gangsters | AVH | Tactics |
| Memoir '44 | Days of Wonder | Tactics |
| Monsters Ravage America | AVH | Tactics |
| Queen's Gambit | AVH | Tactics |
| Risk | AVH | Tactics |
| Samurai Swords | Milton Bradley | Tactics |
| Titan | AVH | Tactics |
| War of the Ring | Fantasy Flight | Tactics |
| Dixie | Columbia Games | Wargames |
| Crusader Rex | Columbia Games | Wargames |
| Europe Engulfed | GMT | Wargames |
| Hammer of the Scots | Columbia Games | Wargames |
| Liberty | Columbia Games | Wargames |
| Napoleonic Wars | GMT | Wargames |
| Path of Glory | GMT | Wargames |
| Sword of Rome | GMT | Wargames |
| Upfront | AVH | Wargames |
| War at Sea | AVH | Wargames |
| A House Divided | GDW | Classic Wargames |
| Afrika Korps | AVH | Classic Wargames |
| Bitter Woods | L2 | Classic Wargames |
| Civil War | VG | Classic Wargames |
| Panzer Blitz | AVH | Classic Wargames |
| Panzer Gernadier | Avalanche Press | Classic Wargames |
| Saratoga | GMT | Classic Wargames |
| Squad Leader | AVH | Classic Wargames |
| Struggle for Europe - The Med | Clash of Arms | Classic Wargames |
| The Russia Campaign | L2 | Classic Wargames |
| VITP Tues Morning | AVH | Advance Event |
| War of 1812 Tuesday Evening | Columbia Games | Advance Event |
Grant Dalgliesh:
grant@columbiagames.com
Bill Powers:
powersa@comcast.net
GenCon will host Mayfair's United States Championship Tournament for The Settlers of Catan. There will be only 16 people in the Championships and one of them will automatically qualify by winning the Regional Championship at PrezCon! How do you qualify? Just play in the Regular Tournament and your In! If you win you will receive a 1st Place Championship Plaque a Catan Champion's T-Shirt and a certificate for transportation to and lodging at GenCon.
If you win and can't attend GenCon, PrezCon reserves the right to appoint a new champion who will fill the spot. This means if you can't attend GenCon and you win the prize, it goes to the second or third place player who will represent PrezCon at GenCon! We hope our winner will attend GenCon and we hope all of you play to represent us at the U.S. Catan Championship! (And who knows? If you win in Indy, you get a free trip to Essen, Germany, where you automatically qualify for the Catan World Championship!) Pre-Reg NOW!
Questions? Contact me by email or call me at 434-531-9191.
Justin Thompson Convention Director
We're also hoping to set the Guiness Book World record for the largest Carcassonne game. A record was set in November 2004 at the Spielzentrum in Herne germany with 5517 tiles used in a single Carcassonne. We are going for 5518.
Teams will start play about 3 p.m. on Thursday, take a break around 1 a.m., and then play all day on Friday.
What does this mean? WE NEED YOUR CARCASSONE GAME. You'll get it back--with all of the tiles. But without enough games, it will be impossible to meet our goals. Plus, we need you to promote this event to your friends and local game clubs, volunteer to play, be a referee, or help sort tiles at the end of the event.
Sign up by e-mailing carcassonne@brettspielwelt.info with your name, team members, and preferred playing times. Also tell us how many carcassonne tiles you will be bringing. You can also post on the forum at brettspielwelt.info. Get more details at the Mega-Carcassone web site.
