Yep, congrats to all the winners, and everyone who turned out for the event.    Also, thanks for everyone's patience during the first couple of rounds while we beat our computer system into submission for giving us issues with the DCI Reporter.   

We're planning on a lot more events next year, and are already in talks to expand Magic at the con quite a bit.   

Thanks for coming, everyone.   

Yep, Planar Chaos is allowed.   

Only a few days away...   

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to post a notice here to let you know that we've extended the pre-registration deadline to January 31st, as we still have new last-minute events coming in. The numbers are looking good, so pre-reg now if you haven't already.

http://www.templecon.org/prereg.htm

Also, we had a couple of questions about mail-in pre-registration. We *do* have mail-in pre-registration, and the form for that can be found on the pre-registration page, or by clicking below (PDF format).

http://www.templecon.org/registration.pdf


Oh, we also have a couple of dealer's tables open too if anyone would like to take advantage of that.   

One more month!

Thanks, Demonic.  Added the pricing information for the weekend to the original post. 

Cool.  Yeah, we have a bunch of other sanctioned and unsanctioned Magic stuff going on too, including a sanctioned Standard 2HG event on Saturday, a ton of drafts, and some old-school Chaos Melee group events (one of them standard, one vintage) that should be a lot of fun.   

We also managed to have the majority of the convention space literally steps away from the Westin's bar/lounge.    :lol:    Should be one hell of a weekend....

TempleCon 2007 is hosting a Vintage tournament during the weekend of February 16th-18th 2007, in Providence Rhode Island, at the beautiful Westin Hotel in downtown Providence.

The Grand Prize for this event is a Mox Ruby, with a convention trophy awarded as well.  Additional prizes (to be announced) will be awarded to finalists.  Admission to the event is open to anyone attending the convention, at no additional cost after con membership.

Registration for this event starts at 9 am on Sunday, the 18th.  Five proxies will be allowed, in a standard Swiss format.

TempleCon features a variety of additional gaming events throughout the weekend, including Vintage and Standard Magic events, and constant Magic drafts, as well as other games.  TempleCon also features a full Dealers' Room and Art Show, with guest Magic artists Lars Grant-West, Rebecca Guay, and Cyril Van Der Haegen.

Pre-register for the convention now at a discounted rate, at our official website:  http://www.templecon.org/

We look forward to seeing you there!

Convention Registration Prices are as follows:


Pre-reg (By January 17th):  $12 per day, $30 entire weekend
At the door: $15 per day, $40 entire weekend
Group Reg (pre-register with a group of 5 or more): $25 entire weekend.

Check out our pre-reg page at http://www.templecon.org/prereg.htm

- Grant "Evewalker" Garvin
TempleCon Convention Director
http://www.templecon.org/

P.S.  If perchance the link to our site doesn't play nicely with your browser, or you wind up Googling us later, please be sure to go to templecon.org instead of templecon.com, as a rival convention is cyber-squatting on our old domain, and we are definitely not the same animal... 

I just wanted to give a quick update here as to the status of our Vintage events a TempleCon.


We have decided to not sanction them due to popular demand, so 10 proxies will be allowed in any non-sanctioned T1 event at TempleCon.     


Entry fee to the convention at the door is $15 for one day, or $35 for the entire weekend.    Tournament tickets during the weekend can be purchased for $3.     Prize support is engraved trophies for first place finalists in tournaments, and in some cases other prize support will be fronted by the people running the specific event.    Event times and information can be found on our schedule here:


http://www.templecon.com/offered.html



Hope to see some of you there.

I wanted to make a quick update letting people know that artists Cyril Van Der Haegen and Dave Seeley are now both confirmed to be on hand for the convention.     Both will be in the art room signing cards and selling their pieces.

I should be able to make it.    I'll see if I can bring one of two people with me, as well.

Yeah, we decided to spring for actual engraved trophies for most of the bigger events, and even for many of the smaller ones.     This is because we noticed that many cons tended to give out those crappy paper certificates as prizes, which in my opinion is just lame.     We figured it be worth the cost, simply because I can't bring myself to hand out dumb printed pieces of paper to winners at the awards ceremony at the end of the weekend. 

I'm working on drumming up some additional prize support too.

Yeah, unfortunately we've had the date set since this time last year since space has to obviously be booked well in advance with the hotel, and it was rather difficult to make sure we didn't conflict with any large area conventions if possible.    We also have a lot of dealers and guest artists locked in for the weekend, so rescheduling obviously isn't possible, as much as I would love to make the Waterbury event myself.    There is always Friday at TempleCon for those looking to head to Waterbury, as well.    In fact, I'll do what I can to make sure as much of the Vintage stuff is scheduled to run on Friday as possible if anyone is interested. 

All the Magic events are trophy winning events at the con, and we're actually discussing some options to provide some prize support beyond that for the sanctioned Vintage stuff at the moment, which I'll fill you guys in on as I find out about it.    We're expecting a large turnout, so it should be a pretty solid weekend. 

Hey everyone.

I have a bunch of Vintage events running at TempleCon 2006 taking place at the Providence, Rhode Island Holiday Inn coming up this January 27th through the 29th.   I hope some of you will be able to attend.     We have 4 Vintage events scheduled right now, and I'm planning on adding at least two more sanctioned vintage events to that number by the end of the year.     There are also a lot of other Magic events that I'm running that weekend, including some standard stuff and a few wilder formats.    The vintage events at the con are not going to be allowing proxies, with the possible exception of one or two events that I'll update this thread with later.

Check out the TempleCon website at http://www.templecon.com/ for more information on the weekend, registration, directions,  and to see what else is going on.    If anyone has any other questions, feel free to drop me a line at thewhitecrow@speakeasy.net.      There is also a ton of food/entertainment within walking distance in the area, and plenty of hotel parking.   

Hope to see some of you there!