Convention handbook
Last year the demand for these was so great we had to print
more. If you want to see what all the fuss was about it is
still available for download
in duplex PDF booklet format. This means you will need Adobe
Acrobat Reader to view it, then a duplex printer to print
it (or you could just print both sides manually).
You will need to print the map
off separately. The key to the locations on the map is
on the back page of the con handbook.
The best reason for printing off the convention handbook is
so you can contribute updates to it. If you found a
particularly good restaurant or a free place to park or you
have a nugget of information that would be useful to other
attendees, please send details to
us.
Peter Berlin, Richard Beattie
& John Harrington leave a French restaurant in Birmingham,
the name of which escapes me ...
Real beer
We went to a lot of effort last year to get some ale
available and despite heroic efforts by many of the MidCon
committee, we ended up with dozens of pints left over.
This was partly due to poor publicity on the Friday (the big
"hello, how are you?" drinking day in my experience)
but probably more likely due to a slight difference in profile
between MidCon attendees and those who attend
other cons such as ManorCon. We're not saying you are all a
bunch of wine-drinking dilettantes but the average number of
pints consumed per MidCon attendee is lower than
that of your average ManorCon attendee. As a result, we may
have to scale down and only get one barrel in this year.
Bring & Buy Sale
The Bring & Buy sale was a bit too successful
last year, with a few gamers inconvenienced by the amount of
space the stall took up and the number of punters milling
around. This year we have rented a syndicate room which will
be purely for the Bring & Buy sale which, as in previous
years, will take place over two sessions on the Saturday on much the same
lines as before. Please note, however, that if you want to sell brand
new games, you may not sell products that are being offered by
the "official" games stall of MidCon.
If in doubt, contact the committee via the Queries button in
the left hand margin.
If you'd like to help ...
Just make sure you make yourself known before the event to
John Harrington (short chap, wearing glasses and probably
other things - such as clothes - besides). You can even e-mail
him before hand: you can find his e-mail address on http://fbgames.co.uk
Games that will be on offer
If you want to give punters advance notice of the games you
will be bringing along, contact John via http://fbgames.co.uk
or, if you can't be bothered to visit that web site you can
probably work out his address by rearranging the following
elements into the right order:
- @
- john
- fbgames.co.uk
Clue: Put them in the following order: 213, with no spaces
in between!
Since the Diplomacy
tournament died, convention supremo Jeremy Tullett has had to
console himself with registration duties
Will there be a Diplomacy tournament?
The short answer to this is "Only if there is enough
demand."
The format of any tournament will depend on how many people
want to play but there will probably only be rounds on the
Saturday and Sunday.
In the mood for a quiz?
There will be just one quiz this year as we will be
jettisoning the Pop Music quiz on the Friday. However, I am
sure the General Knowledge quiz on the Saturday, run by the
charismatic Dan Lester, will have some music in it.
If only you did T-shirts
Hard though it is to believe, we did not sell out our
entire stock of MidCon T-shirts last year so
they will be on sale again.
These are high quality jobbies, because we know you like to
make your clothes last for decades ... The cost will be £12
each. The shirts will be available in navy blue, cardinal red,
olive and charcoal in sizes ranging from Small to XL. 
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Beer and T-shirts. What more could you ask for?