EVENTS
Play Your Fave Gaming Project
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One of the best parts of any gaming convention is being able to play games you love with people you love. Maybe the second best thing is learning new games and making new friends, both of which become lifetime loves! And that’s what the Play Your Fave Gaming Project offers our attendees! Each attendee is invited to commit to teaching one or more of their favourite games on any of the days of the con. We will have sign up sheets at the convention, released each morning, for people to sign up for the scheduled games!
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Play to Win Games
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Play to Win is an event where by playing a specific board game you earn a ticket for a draw. At the end of the evening one person will take home the game just for playing the game! Once we have confirmed titles for our Play to Win games below:
Tournaments!
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What: Pandemic Survival Tournament
Time: 2 hours max + 1 hour set up
Requirements: 24 chairs at a series of 8’ tables.
Player Count: Min 12 for the tournament to run, Max 24
Requirements: Yes – Players must know how to play basic Pandemic
Guaranteed Games Played: One
Format: One game - First to four cures or last team standing wins
Prizes: Yes
Pandemic Survival is the competitive version of Pandemic. In Pandemic Survival, teams of two players face other teams to be the first team to find all four cures or to be the last team standing. During this unique experience, players will be faced with the same situation; the roles, infected cities, epidemics, even the sequence of the cards drawn in the player deck; everything is identical for all teams. The only thing that will decide if you win or lose are the choices you make along the way. Can you save humanity?
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What: Sagrada *** This can be shorter if we only play two games***
Time: 4 hours + 30 minutes set up
Requirements: 24 chairs at a series of 8’ tables.
Player Count: Min 12 for the tournament to run, Max 24
Requirements: No – Rules will be taught
Guaranteed Games Played: Three
Format: Three games
Prizes: Yes
In Sagrada, players will carefully construct a stained-glass window masterpiece by drafting dice and using the tools-of-the-trade. These special tools can be used to help you break the rules by spending skill tokens; once a tool is used, it then requires more skill tokens for the other players to use them. Players will play three games each one using one of the three Great Facades expansions. Games will be played with all players using the same Window patterns. After each game, players will be awarded points based on where then place.
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What: AEG Big Game Night Tournament – Sponsored by AEG
Time: 3 hours + setup
Requirements - 24 chairs at a series of 8' Tables – Groups of four chairs
Player Count: Min 8, Max 24
Requirements: No – Rules will be taught
Guaranteed Games Played: Two
Format: Two games will be played
Prizes: Yes
Description: Enjoy the following two AEG games:
Waffle Time - It’s a wonderful lazy morning and your stomach is grumbling. What’s that heavenly smell coming from the kitchen? It’s Waffle Time!
Draft combinations of fruit toppings and whipped cream to load up your waffle. Create patterns to spread syrup for scoring points. What you draft not only affects your score, but also your turn order and how much syrup you can use. After eight quick rounds, the player with the highest scoring waffle is the winner!
Number Drop
Roll dice to create shapes with numbers and drop them efficiently into your grid. Circle combos of identical or consecutive numbers to score points. Match values of combos before your opponents do to drop Block shapes on their grids. When a player reaches the Game Over line, whoever has the most points wins!
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What: Earth Tournament
Time: Up to 3 hours + setup
Requirements - 16 chairs at a series of 8' Tables – Groups of four chairs
Player Count: Min 8, Max 16
Requirements: No – Rules will be taught
Guaranteed Games Played: One
Format: Four qualifying games will be played. Winner from each table advances to the finals. Whoever wins the final, wins!
Prizes: Yes
Description: Earth, the soil that supports and sustains our beautiful planet, Earth. Over thousands of years of evolution and adaptation the flora and fauna of this unique planet have grown and developed into amazing life forms, creating symbiotic ecosystems and habitats.
It’s time to jump into these rich environments and create some amazing natural synergies that replicate and extrapolate on Earth’s amazing versatility and plethora of natural resources. Create a self-supporting engine of growth, expansion and supply where even your unused plants become compost for future growth.
Earth is an open world engine builder for 1 to 5 players with simple rules but tons of strategic possibilities. With its encyclopedic nature and the enormous number of unique cards and combinations, every single game will allow you to discover new synergies and connections, just as our vast and fascinating world allows us to do!
What: Courtisans Tournament
Time: 1 hour, including rules
Requirements - 24 chairs at a series of 8' Tables – Groups of four chairs
Player Count: Min 8, Max 24
Requirements: No – Rules will be taught
Guaranteed Games Played: One
Format: The winner of each table wins the game they played with!
Prizes: Yes
Description:Tonight, the queen holds a banquet that everyone will attend. Will they leave a good impression? Backstabbing is fair game, and no trick is too dirty if it allows you to place your favorite families in the spotlight.
In Courtisans, you receive and play three cards on each of your turns. One is played at the Queen's table to sway a family's influence, whether in a positive or negative manner. The two other cards are played in your domain and in an opponent's domain, and they can be worth positive or negative points, depending on their family's status at the end of the game. Choose where best to place your three cards if you want to end up with the most points and win.
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What: Knarr Tournament
Time: 1 hour, including rules
Requirements - 24 chairs at a series of 8' Tables – Groups of four chairs
Player Count: Min 8, Max 24
Requirements: No – Rules will be taught
Guaranteed Games Played: One
Format: The winner of each table wins the game they played with!
Prizes: Yes
Description:In Knarr, you are the leader of a band of Vikings that you send to new destinations. Manage the recruitment of your crew, and choose the best territories to explore. Depending on the destinations reached (for trading or influence) and the Vikings who accompany you, you can increase your reputation to gain even more wealth. Each turn, you:
Place a new member in your Viking crew, activate the effects of all of them with the same icon, and get another one from those available under the matching color on the central board, or
Explore new destinations, with the opportunity to trade with those places and get more gains or reputation.
Bring and Buy Auction
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At each of the OtonaCon Tabletop Events, attendees will have the opportunity to sell and buy games from the other attendees. OtonaCon will take either $1 or 10% of the sale price, whichever is higher, as a service cost. Attendees will have dedicated shelves to display their games for sale during the Bring and Buy Auction.
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Games must be laid out in the appropriate area by 11:00am on the Saturday of an event and may be put up earlier. Starting at 1:00pm attendees may purchase games by taking the game to the OtonaCon representative. For each game for sale there should be three prices, one for 1:00pm, one for 3:00pm, and a final one for 5:00pm. The Bring and Buy will end at 5:30pm. The area where games are displayed will be cleared at 12:55am, 2:55pm, and 4:55pm, with a line forming for people anxious to purchase a game. If you purchase a game between 1:00pm and 2:55pm you pay the 1:00pm price, and so on for the 3:00pm and 5:00pm times. Prices must be in full dollar amounts.
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Item Sheets and Item Forms can be printed off and filled out ahead of the convention by following the below links:
If you have any questions, please contact Greig Ashfield.
Proceeds from your sales must be picked up between 6:00pm and 7:00pm.
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Games not picked up by 7:00pm will become the property of OtonaCon Tabletop Events.
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More events to be announced as we organize them!
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