A poke in the eye con?

Seeing as Necronomicon is not running this year another group decided to run their con at Easter, Eyecon. From their FAQ they intend to run it each year. Will it be the new Easter convention in Sydney?

I went and signed up to see how their registration process works, and to see if there was anything worth registering to play.

It was interesting to note that their site tracked how many places in games were available each session, and displayed them to people registering. And that while a couple of game were full, many were very empty.

Hopefully they will get more people turning up tomorrow morning to fill out some of the games. But is begs the question…

Has the Sydney RPG convention scene died and some people just don’t want to accept it? With what seems to be a change from all the Sydney cons being run by one set of past BNGs to another, are they just moving the deck chairs on the Titanic?

(See below for game spaces available at the time I checked tonight, the night before the con.)

Sat 22 Mar 08 9:00am – 12:00pm
INT7-03 A Dead Man’s Job (0/6)
PER8-01 Waves of Tidal Fury (16/18)
Die With Honour Version 3.1 (2/5)
So You Wanna be a Rock Superstar? (5/6)
Sat 22 Mar 08 1:00pm – 4:00pm
INT7-04 Ritual of the Damned (2/6)
COR7-15 Taking Flight (0/6)
PER8-02 The Greatest Show on Oerth (15/18)
Werewolf: The Forsaken (12/30)
Black Mountain (4/5)
Die With Honour Version 3.1 (3/5)
Sat 22 Mar 08 5:00pm – 8:00pm
COR7-16 Divided We Stand (1/20)
COR8-01 Machinations (15/18)
Changeling: The Lost (21/30)
Exterminatus (0/6)
Black Mountain (2/5)
The Primogen Council (0/6)
So You Wanna be a Rock Superstar? (5/6)
Sun 23 Mar 08 9:00am – 12:00pm
CORS8-01 Whispers of the Obsidian Citadel (6/18)
PERIS7-03 – Mathias’ Missing Materials (3/6)
Black Mountain (4/5)
Sun 23 Mar 08 1:00pm – 4:00pm
CORS8-01 Whispers of the Obsidian Citadel (6/18)
Soap Opera, the freeform (23/40)
Exterminatus (1/6)
Black Mountain (3/5)
Sun 23 Mar 08 5:00pm – 8:00pm
SinCity: The World of Cynn (13/20)
COR8-03 Aspirations (13/18)
COR7-19 Wrath of the Slave Lords (0/6)
Black Mountain (0/5)
Die With Honour Version 3.1 (2/5)
Mon 24 Mar 08 9:00am – 12:00pm
PER I8-01 My Big Fat Perrender Wedding (20/36)
Exterminatus (1/6)
The Primogen Council (0/6)
Die With Honour Version 3.1 (4/5)
Mon 24 Mar 08 1:00pm – 4:00pm
PER I8-01 My Big Fat Perrender Wedding (17/36)
Digital Ghosts (15/16)
Exterminatus (3/6)
Black Mountain (1/5)
The Primogen Council (3/6)
Six Years Gone (4/5)

 

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