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Message no. 1
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: Con dates for the US/Canada
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 11:31:47 +0200
According to Aaron Binns, at 16:23 on 9 Jul 99, the word on
the street was...

> Any chance that someone could bother to post the approximate dates for all the
> big RP touraments and gatherings across the US/Canada for those of us who arent
> over there?

For Origins and GenCon (plus a few others) take a look at
http://www.andonunlimited.com. GC should be from 10 to 13 August next
year, from some paperwork (the "Landyland" game) I found in my "free
stuff" pile from last year. Sorry, I don't know about Origins.

> Im thinking of going over next year if possible and Id like to make the trip
> coincide with one (or more) of these tourneys (eg: gencon or origin or
> others...). For someone who hasnt ever been to one of these things it sounds
> almost too big to be real.. I chalk it down to exaggeration.. but just in case
> its not exaggeration....

Take it from someone who made the big trip last year: it's not
exaggeration.

> We dont have enough gamers down under to make really huge con's - well we do
> but we're all spread out so far and its not so easy to get across the country
> here as it is over there (or so I found when I was there 2 yrs ago - at least
> when you dont have a car...)

It looks like it's much the same everywhere except the US and maybe the
UK; I went to Euro GenCon (now GenCon UK) in '97, and it was pretty big
too, with some 5,000 people there, IIRC. The few game cons here in the
Netherlands have in recent years been all but taken over by board games,
CCGs and computer games :(

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Message no. 2
From: Bull bull@*******.net
Subject: Con dates for the US/Canada
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 13:25:23 -0400 (EDT)
Origins is in Columbus, Ohio the first weekend of July (Around the 4th).

Gen Con is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin the second weekend in August usually
(Around the 10th).

Both are really good conventions, depending on why you are going. Gen Con
is good for meet and greets and for gaming. Origins is great to
participate in or to o to schmooze with the game companies.

Bull
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