Intercon U -- Hopefully Third Time Lucky

[jducoeur]

For those who don't know it yet, Intercon is one of the oldest and largest LARP-centric conventions in the world. I've been involved with it since 1989, and it's still one of the highlights of my year: a weekend packed with dozens of games in all genres. You can easily play five games during it; some do as many as eight or nine.

Like most conventions, Intercon has had a hard couple of years of it. Intercon T managed to run in 2020, coming in just under the wire before the world shut down. 2021 just wasn't in the cards, so we instead held Extracon, a surprisingly successful experiment in online LARP. 2022 was supposed to happen, but Omicron had other ideas.

Things are still fingers-crossed, but things are moving along well to finally run Intercon U this coming March, and now is the time to go check it out! The initial schedule is up, and signups for games will begin on November 3rd. Intercon signups run in rounds, letting you sign up for one more game each week so that things don't completely fill up instantly, but a few games from the most popular GMs will fill quickly anyway.

(As to the usual question -- "Why letters, instead of numbers?" -- suffice it to say that it used to be numbered, but the organization was rather split between the Boston-area and DC-area folks. We eventually decided to reorganize, with the DC area continuing to run numbered conventions, and us in Boston restarting at Intercon A.)

Anyway, check it out, and I hope to see you there!

Comments

[mneme]

Oh, don't forget the years in which one locale was doing .5 cons and one whole number cons.

And, of course, that after 2000 the DC area org lost some cohesion and has held IIRC 2 cons in the last 22 years.

[jducoeur]

Oh, sure. I could talk endlessly about the history and politics (heck, I was involved in some of it), and often enjoy doing so -- but if you're not already in the club that's just boring, and if you are you've probably heard me ramble about this stuff.

So I'm just reducing it to a concise FAQ here, and I can burble about the history elsewhere...

[mneme]

Fair, but the important point is that because the DC chapter is defunct (as far as running Intercons go) it's just letters now.