Nom-Con - August 27-29

Sairus

Nom-Con is on this Friday-Sunday and is host to a decent amount of FG tournaments.
It's taking place in the D4 Hotel out at Lansdown Road. Map here.
Entry to the convention is €20 per day, or €35 for a weekend pass.
I'm not sure if there's an additional charge to enter to tournaments, but if it follows Eirtakon's set up from last year, there wont be.(Well, they had a €1 deposit for those tourneys I suppose)All tournaments are being run on PS3s, aside from Brawl obviously.

Friday:
Smash Bros. Brawl: 1600-1700

Saturday:
Tekken 6: 1000-1200
BlazBlue: 1600-1800

Sunday:
Super street Fighter 4: 1100-1300

Are many of yee planning on attending?

Voa

So...is that BBCS or BBCT?

Sairus

I asked that on the forum today and m waiting on a response. It's down as "Blaze Blue" on the time table, so I'm assuming they dont know about CS yet =D

animaX

Seems a bit expensive.

chunkis

Yeah i don`t see the point in spending 20 quid to get into this

Orim

It's not a fighting game event which naturally causes issues for those of us that would be just going for the tournaments.

It's a fair price if you're into the anime and durty, durty, underage cosplayers.

Also looking at the schedule there's only 2 hours for each tournament.

Sairus

Also looking at the schedule there's only 2 hours for each tournament.

I imagine they'll just be single game knockout toruneys so the turnover will be pretty quick. (Again, purely based on Eirtakon last year)
From what I gather these aren't run by actual FG enthusiasts, so it'll just be more of a throw a bunch of gamers in a room and let them play sort of thing.
I wouldn't go to Nom-Con purely to enter these tournaments, I severly doubt they'll be worth it. However, if you're interested in going to an anime convention and enter some tournaments while you're there, Nom-Con is for you!

chopperbyrne

Might go on Saturday.

Anyone else going?

Sairus

Full list of schedule stuff here:
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

Monkeyto

I'm defiantly going, just not for the street fighter!

I'll pop along for the SF if it doesn't clash with anything that I wanna watch

Scavenger XIII

I'm getting dragged to this anyway so I'll more than likely be hiding at the FGs all weekend.

chopperbyrne

Anyone know if the cost is cheaper for children?

bush

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Anyone know if the cost is cheaper for children?

I dont think cobelcog is going

chopperbyrne

They'd charge €20 to bring a five year old in?

GorySnake

Smash Bros! Too bad I aint going.

Scavenger XIII

chopperbyrne wrote: »

They'd charge €20 to bring a five year old in?

5 year olds probably shouldn't be allowed near anime cons at all, could cause irreparable damage. :pac:

Orim

chopperbyrne wrote: »

They'd charge €20 to bring a five year old in?

Looks like it. You have to remember that 5 yos are probably half their market :P

Here's the contact page if you want to try and get in touch with them. http://nom-con.com/page14.htm

chopperbyrne

Can't access their website in work. I did think of checking there myself first :rolleyes:

Orim

Garnet_koryu@Hotmail.com

E-mail of the person in charge of registration.

K.O.Kiki

I'll probably go on Saturday -- have some crap to sell, and want to buy too.

Sairus

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

I'll probably go on Saturday -- have some crap to sell, and want to buy too.

You have to pre-register stuff to sell. There's forms to fill out and ****.

chueytoo

i'll be going since most of my friends are going. Hope nom con is going to be good.

animaX

chueytoo wrote: »

i'll be going since most of my friends are going. Hope nom con is going to be good.

Bring your big sword!!

Monkeyto

chueytoo wrote: »

i'll be going since most of my friends are going. Hope nom con is going to be good.

It's gonna be awesome. Seems to be a bit of verything for veryone.

Even for Kiki...scary stuff.

Sairus

Just to note that all tournaments are indeed single game elimination and that it is Calamity Trigger in use.

Placebo

whats the prize pot? i might bring my pakistani cammy and destroy any guiles turtling around

Orim

I'd doubt there is a prize pot.

Placebo

thats terrible
perhaps to some, the prize would be the eye candy

Scavenger XIII

Placebo wrote: »

whats the prize pot? i might bring my pakistani cammy and destroy any guiles turtling around

:cool: - It's on, Guile shall be in the house.

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This is probably as hype as it's likely to get folks. :pac:

Scavenger XIII

Sairus wrote: »

Just to note that all tournaments are indeed single game elimination and that it is Calamity Trigger in use.

Double post, boo hiss, etc.

Just though I'd add that if anyone coming has CS I think we'd get away with running casuals.

I'd certainly welcome any CS practice I can get(bonus points for a Mu save).

Monkeyto

Don't forget all the Pre-teens at the J-Pop disco!

Hype?