2025 Call for Volunteers
Volunteers are the lifeblood of any gaming convention. Events like this just can’t happen without volunteers! Here’s a list of different roles and shifts you can sign-up for.
Setup & Teardown
Looking to stretch out those muscles or push things around? Then we’ve got some shifts for you! Setup & Teardown shifts are helping to get the convention ready or putting the convention away. We have shifts on Thursday which are to help unload our truck and get the Games Library shelves set up and stocked. In addition to Thursday setup, each day of the convention, U-Con needs to set up and put away the registration desk area and Games Library. On Sunday when the convention is wrapping up, we’ll get the convention put away. Most of these times are not during event times, so if you’re looking to volunteer and not interfere with your gaming during the weekend, we recommend looking into these shifts!
Registration
Registration shifts are working at our operations desk, helping out fellow attendees. This can include badge pick-up, attendee registration, and general customer service questions. Our Ops Captains will be on site to help assist learning the Tabletop Events system or handle more complicated customer service questions. If you’re curious on how a convention runs during the event, this is a great opportunity to learn all about it. We also have a special Tier 2 Registration support slot during our busiest times, this role will be fulfilled by one of our staff to help out our registration volunteers.
Games Library
Looking to help people pick out board games to try? Willing to teach people some games? The Games Library shifts are what you’d be looking to volunteer for. You’ll be checking games in and out from the U-Con Games Library, answering questions about the games to the best of your ability, and if you’re comfortable doing a bit of teaching, teaching some games to those who need an additional assist. Games Library shifts are some of the more chill shifts you can sign up for.
Learn To Play
Coming back in 2025 is our Learn To Play at the Games Library. Have a variety of games you’d like to teach, but aren’t sure which to GM at U-Con? This is a great option. For each shift, Learn To Play volunteers offer up a different set of games they are willing to teach at one of the Games Library open tables. You can bring your own games or ones available at the Library itself. You can theme your Learn To Play if you want to, last year we had sessions of trick-taking games and games that take 15 minutes or less to play
Auction
We have a couple of volunteering slots for assisting with the charity auction. These are to help check-in items for the auction and other slots to help keep the auction moving smoothly along. You can still bid on lots if you are volunteering for the auction itself, making volunteering for this a two in one opportunity.
Ops Captains
These are special volunteer slots for those who will be overseeing the convention itself during their shift. If there is something that a regular volunteer can’t or should not be handling, the Ops Captain will be the point person to get things resolved. Due to this, Ops Captain slots are selected to those who have volunteered in the past. We will be very selective for this role.
In order to volunteer for any of these shifts, you’ll be using Tabletop Events to sign-up. Volunteer shifts will be opening up when event tickets go live on Saturday, September 6th. Don’t forget that those who volunteer and/or GM for at least 8 hours qualify for a discounted weekend badge to U-Con. 16 or more hours of volunteering/GMing will earn you a compensated weekend badge.