Onsite Food Hours and Menu

We have worked with the Eagle Crest chef to create a menu with a variety of options at reasonable prices. Any money you spend on food from the stand at the hotel will go directly to U-Con and help defray our costs. Copies of the menu are available at the registration desk.

Friday Snack 3pm-4pm [...]

Site Organization

U-Con 2012 is really close now!  We thought we should tell you about how the site is organized.  Our space consists of the large ballroom on the first floor, a registration desk on the first floor, and nine conference rooms on the 2nd floor.

The best entrance to take is labeled with a black circle. [...]

Con Book Preview

Whoa!  U-Con starts in 9 days.  We are making final arrangement: printing tickets, ordering shirts, jumping up and down from excitement.  The final proof for the shirts is on the right!

Event submission closed over a week ago.  If you got your events in, yey thank you!  We love our GMs!  If you didn’t get [...]

Convention Opens Friday Oct 26 at 12 pm

Preregistration is officially closed, because the convention opens soon!  However, you can still register at the door.

U-Con Gaming Convention Marriott Ann Arbor Ypsilanti at Eagle Crest October 26-28, 2012 Friday 12pm – Sunday 7pm

This is shaping up to be a great U-Con.  We have fantastic seminars and tournaments, over 350 events in total.  [...]

Prereg Closes Today

You guys are kinda blowing me away with preregistration.  We surpassed 2011 totals days ago.  I now have a goal for you guys to reach 2010 preregistration levels – you know, before we held the con in an emergency location.

So, if you haven’t already, go register now!

Preregister by Oct 12 Search for events [...]

Wizards Duel in Magic: the Gathering

The game Magic: the Gathering (a.k.a. M:TG) broke new ground when it was published in 1993.  It was the first trading card game – a game where you collect cards and select some to add to your deck.  In Magic, your deck consists of spells to cast and creatures to summon as you participate in [...]

Dominion

How about a nice game of Dominion?

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2012 Events added after preregistration opened

Events added after preregistration opened, in mid-September, are included here.  Events were added for Miniatures, Board Games, and Roleplaying.

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What’s a New Player to Do?

While looking at comics you might have noticed a flyer in the shop for this U-Con Gaming Convention and thought, “I like games, maybe I’ll check them out.” Or perhaps your friend, spouse or neighbor has been going to this gaming convention for years and said that you should come, you’ll love it! It [...]

Costume Track

New this year – we have the beginnings of a costuming track.  In addition to having a costume contest on Saturday evening, we have three seminars about costuming.  We also have a LARP for which costumes are not required, but I thought there might be some interest in it as well.

Costume Contest

Saturday 6p [...]