CapCon 2015. Central Illinois gaming convention

[archersix]

This is the second year for this Con. I went last year and there was a wide array of games from Magic and D&D 5e to some really cool old school miniature games (I saw Napoleonic and WWII bombers). There was even a neat old west shoot out miniature game that I'm going to try to get into this year.

It's July 25th from 9AM-8PM at the Springfield High School.
Check it out: www.sps186.org/Capcon/

and www.facebook.com/events/1604204023126860/

I'm not affiliated with it other than I went last year and had a great time, and it's put on as a fundraiser for a scholarship fund at Springfield High School.

[Finarvyn]

Interesting. There used to be a "Capitol Con" in Springfield in the 1980's and I went there quite a few times. At the civic center, or prairie center, or something like that. I remember having a good time but that Springfield seemed to close up really early when I wanted to buy food outside of the con.

Might be worth a trip for nostalia's sake, even though this seems like a different group entirely.

[scottenkainen]

Intriguing. I noticed it's only $5 to get into the convention, but it costs extra to play in tournaments. I didn't see anywhere on the site where it said how much the tournaments cost. Did I miss that info somewhere?

Just curious,
Scott "-enkainen" Casper

[archersix]

@ Scott: I think the extra cost is only for Magic card tournaments that a FLGS puts on. Last year I gamed all day for just the entry donation,

@ Finn: There is a group of gamers who used to put on the original CapCon that was at the PCCC (Prairie Capitol Convention Center), they let this new group use the name for this con. Those guys(the ones that are still around) should be there. Some of them were the guys doing the Napoleonics last year.
I went to a few of the old ones. I was in jr high at the time. I remember somebody having a giant Circus Maximus track, and one year Jim Ward was the guest of honor.