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Q-Con XIX - 22-24 June 2012
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29-04-2012 2:02pm#1
Q-Con is back!
We’re ready to take Belfast by storm once again with a whole weekend of gaming in all its forms.
Whether you’re into video games, tabletop roleplay, wargames, LARP, anime, TCGs or comics this is going to be the event of the year for you! We’ll have hobby fans from all over the UK and Ireland coming to compete in competitions or just chill out and meet like-minded people.
Q-Con is now into its nineteenth iteration and we’ve done nothing but grow on our journey, with our event in 2011 having an unbelievable 1700 people in attendance over the course of the weekend. Tickets to Q-Con sell out less as a matter of “if” but “when”, so make sure to pre-order as soon as possible!
Every year, the event is organised and staffed entirely by a group of gaming fans from the Queen’s University gaming society, Dragonslayers. Q-Con is very much for the fans, by the fans and we love the games we run just as much as the attendees love playing them. We have competitions and casuals of all forms of gaming, as well as a range of anime-themed events (the biggest of which being the cosplay masquerade, allowing keen costumers to strut their stuff on stage) and talks from special guests. It’s not all about us, though; we also host fund-raising events for local charities.
We started off as a collection of hobbyists having a few mates around for some gaming and some fun and we’d like to think that, despite playing host to nearly 2000 people – many of which will be new faces – we haven’t lost the atmosphere of a group of like-minded fans spreading the love of geek culture and generally having a bit of a laugh. No matter who you are, whether you’re tall, short, thick, thin, vampire (sparkly or otherwise), werewolf, orc, dragon, zombie, pirate, ninja or just from down the road, you’re invited to come along and enjoy the craic!
Q-Con XIX is blasting into the Queen’s University Belfast Students’ Union from the 22nd to 24th of June, 2012. Pre-registration is available online and by post at a reduced rate of £15 (on the day weekend registration is £20, or £10 for a one-day pass) and we recommend pre-registration to avoid disappointment. We also offer local accommodation at just £19 a night. More information can be found on our website at http://www.q-con.org.uk
Contact:
Vaughan Yabsley
online.publicity@q-con.org.uk
Q-Con Committee
QUB Students' Union, Belfast, 22th-24th June 2012
www.q-con.org.uk0
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Yup, my bad - forgot to include the Ultimate in the title! I'll fix that later.chopperbyrne wrote: »Spread out over the whole weekend
I assume the Marvel vs Capcom 3 entry for Saturday should be Ultimate?
Would've been nice not to have to spread it out over the weekend, but there's simply too many games worth having tournaments for to do that! 0 -
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For Marvel, I'm pretty sure there was an even 16 or so. 4 pools blahdeblah.
AE had a slightly larger turnout, i think. Either that or just a larger spectator crowd - I'd guess around the mid 20s?
Skullgirls - I didn't even see it being played. Which is a crying shame, since it's a great game. I think at that point I was trying to get on the Rock Band stage
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OK, here goes;
- Won the Skullgirls tourney, which I'm happy with, but I'm not so happy with the turnout (5 players) and the skill level (I won 15 consecutive games (I think) to win the tournament, none of which were even close - am I seriously the only remotely competent SG player in NI?)
- In case you aren't already aware, Garou is hype as hell. Also, you can't not love this music.
- Console gaming occupied two floors this year, with some of the tabletop games moved to the nearby Elmwood Hall. With attendance reaching 2200 this year (up around 400 from last year) this was a much-needed expansion.
- This game was on one of the 360s on Saturday evening. Yes, I played it. Yes, it was about as good as you'd expect it to be.
- Massive thanks to the Q-Con committee for another great weekend of gaming.
On to the pics: (click to embiggen, full set here)
All of the pinball wizardry, with none of the deafness, dumbness or blindness:
The AE2012 tourney:
The full list of tournaments:
This Guilty Gear fanart won a prize in the art contest:
To the victor, the spoils (and a misspelled name):
Outside, after the closing ceremony:
I also recorded some video footage, which should be going up soon. Oh, and for 2gen, there were 21 entries for AE2012.0 -
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