Retlaw's Gencon 2012 Pictures

[Retlaw]

Tuesday August 14th:

Spoiler Alert!

Just one picture for today.

These are all the boxes that will be loaded tomorrow to go downtown. The front stack are the boxes of terrain for the maps. The stack in back are the prizes that Rÿchean sent for this year (the prize stack is 17 master set cartons - a carton holds 3 master sets). More pictures tomorrow night (after setup, etc.).

Wednesday August 15th:

Spoiler Alert!

Part 1: Just a couple of before and after pictures of the van before the trip downtown:

Just a little over half an hour before I head downtown -- meeting MM and crew around 3:00 (about a 20 minute drive).

Part 2: Setup pictures. Sorry about the poor quality -- they don't turn on many of the lights (or the AC) in the convention center game halls during setup time.

More pictures tomorrow night.

Thursday August 16th:

Spoiler Alert!

Pictures from the morning games (4x400 and Monster Mash) and a few from the dealer hall. I had to leave early today to be at my daughter's school by 6:00, so sorry but no pictures from the second round of games.

More tomorrow night.

Friday August 17th:

Spoiler Alert!

Pictures from the morning games, Day 1 of Championship, and a couple of misc. pictures.

The guy in the Plaid Hat looks familiar:

Summoner Wars games:

Championship Day 1 Pictures:

Saturday August 18th

Spoiler Alert!

Pictures from Saturday including: Championship day 2, kids tournament, general wars. Also, a picture from the exhibitor's hall display and the war ruined city from yesterday with the roof off the building.

More tomorrow -- until then, enjoy.

Sunday August 19th

Well, Gencon is over, all the terrain is in the garage (will make the trip to the basement later this week). MM and crew did a great job running the games this year -- thanks!

Just four pictures today (forgot to bring extra batteries for the camera). The first is a large group shot of the team tournament - there were 32 teams (64 scapers).

The next is our sponsor sign for this year. I got to meet and talk to Auggie at Gencon (he also got some of my money :)) -- really nice guy. Part of his prize support were the tenticle Dungeon Crawl minis; these were used as prizes for the kids only tournament and all the kids were excited about getting prizes.

If price is no object, here is your gaming table.

One last picture of the team tournament.

[MegaSilver]

[The CEE]

Originally Posted by Retlaw

Tuesday August 18th:

Just one picture for today.

Today is the 14th.

[Retlaw]

Added a few more pictures to first post.

[Kinseth]

How many years more of Prize support do we have before there will be no prize support for Gencon?

[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Kinseth

How many years more of Prize support do we have before there will be no prize support for Gencon?

That's a question for Rÿchean or MM -- I'm only the pack mule

Also, more pictures in the first post.

[GaryLASQ]

Nice to see someone came prepared by bringing his towel.

[Rÿchean]

Thanks for the pics Walt!!!! Never thought I would actually miss set up....but i so do or uh did.... Whatevers! You guys enjoy!!!

Originally Posted by Kinseth

How many years more of Prize support do we have before there will be no prize support for Gencon?

Pretty much the the end of the line, but that is just the sealed product stuff. The real prizes are the dice and plaques and such; the custom stuff that the community steps up and provides. I am sure we will be able to provide some sort of prize support for years to come just not in the form of sealed product.

I will have some items to give for NHSD events this year but really very little and that will deplete the arsenal that Hasbro entrusted to me.

[Retlaw]

Added more pictures to the first post.

[Ace Histoli]

Thanks for posting these! It really brings everything to life for those of us who can't attend. I love reading battle reports and event results every year, and having the pictures to look at makes everything much more real.
Thank you!

[teasedbyeldgrim]

Nice pictures. I don't recognize the game in the last three Thursday pix. What is it?

[Taeblewalker]

It's nice to see the community forging on.