Events Spotlight!
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Charity
This year, one of our experiments will be donating money to a local
charity, SEARCH. At
this time, we are planning to donate 50% of our net proceeds.
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Painting Competition! (details subject to
revision, stay tuned!)
Bring all of your best painted figures and units for display and
recognition
Yes, another experiment for 2003, our first ever painting competition.
General Guidelines
- All submissions must have been painted by the submitting
contestant.
- All miniatures must be properly based. Those contestants
that mount their entries on more elaborate bases should
take note of the limits on base sizes by category (below).
- Prizes: There will be a first place prize for each category
as well as honorable mentions. The prizes will be based
upon the level of participation.
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Head-to-Head Miniatures Painting Competition
This competition will consist of thre simultaneous competitions
in the following categories:
- Best Single miniature: up to 54 mm or 1/35 scale, maximum
base size 5"x5".
- Best Vehicle/Monster: up to 54 mm or 1/35 scale, maximum
base size 8"x8".
- Best Unit*: up to 54 mm or 1/35 scale, maximum base size
8"x8", minimum of five models.
* - a "unit" can include basically any small combat
element that fights as one; this includes, but is not limited
to, standard military units as well as nonstandard units,
such as a Mordheim warband, or a mechanized infantry unit
with men and a vehicle (of course, the vehicle would not be
allowed to compete in the Vehicle category in that case).
If you are unsure if your prospective entry would qualify,
please contact us.
Please note that the "unit" competition is judged
in part upon the unit character of the entry. Having minis
that can simply be put together to make up a unit is not going
to take home the prize on its own. Basically, it needs to
look like a unit.
Important Details
- The categories may be broken down further into genre if
we have a large number of entries. Genre subdivisions may
include, but are not limited to, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and/or
Historical.
- Each contestant may submit up to three entries for each
category.
- No entries may compete in two categories at once - A given
miniature may only compete in one of the categories of the
Head-to-Head Miniatures Painting Competition. However, army-level
competitions outside of this competition do not affect this;
a miniature may compete in the Head-to-Head competition
as well as an army-level competition.
- This competition is completely separate from the army
level competitions, so individual miniatures, units, vehicles
from armies are valid entries for this competition.
- Storage: entries may be placed in a locked display case
at Registration, on a first come first served basis; later
entries will need to be brought to the Registration area
for judging Saturday between 1900 and 2000.
- Judging will occur Saturday between 1900 and 2000 (during
the break between game slots) and winners announced in the
Convention Party at midnight. You do not have to be present
during judging, but if your miniature is not secured in
the display case, you may want to be present for security.
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Best Army Used in an Event
This competition is separate from the Head-to-Head competition.
Entries may be any scale/size, but must be used in an event
at OwlCon XXII that does not already have built-in awards
for army appearance. Minimum of 8 units.
Judging will occur over the span of the convention as judges
wander about and look at the armies in play. As a result,
there is no special need to stage your army anywhere in particular
for judging. If you are concerned that a judge has not assessed
your army(ies), feel free to ask our staff to look into it.
Note: Some events, such as The Rogue Trader Tournaments
(RTT) include built-in contests for Best Appearance among
the armies used in the event. Therefore an army in such an
event is automatically competing for a Best Appearance award
(within the event) and thus cannot compete for the this prize.
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Sunday Swap Meet!
OwlCon XXII will see our first swap meet. Sunday afternoon we will
provide space for folks to get together and trade games, bits, whatever.
You don't have to sign up for the event. It will begin around 14:30
Sunday and continue through the close of the convention.
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Celebrity Gamemasters!
We will be having a few Celebrity Gamemasters this year
Pete is the former chief of the Military History Programs
at both the Army Infantry School, and West Point Prep School,
and is currently a US Army Infantry Major, and a Battalion Executive
Officer. Best known for his first book, Little Big Horn 1876,
Custer's Last Stand, Reed Books, International, and Plains War
Scenarios, Panzeri is now completing his third book: Sioux War
Strategy and Tactics, which was the topic for his 1997 Graduate
Degree in Military History at The Ohio State University. He has
also published some successful wargame systems including Catastrophic
Kill, Napoleon Rules, and "SANTA
ANNA RULES!: Warfare in Mexico 1820-1820" ( www.jodiepress.com)
(co-authored with Major Buck Surdu). For over 20 years Panzeri
has been a contributor and cooperative with many of the world's
premier board and miniature game designers such as John Hill (Designer
of Squad Leader and Johnny Reb), Frank Chadwick (GDW, Command
Decision), Jim Getz (Empire, Napoleonique, Stars and Bars) and
Bob Jones (Piquet).
A. Scott Glancy (Scott will be running Delta
Green events)
A. Scott Glancy is the President of Pagan Publishing and one
of the three co-creators of the award winning Delta Green role
playing supplements for the Call of Cthulhu role playing game.
He has also published two Delta Green short stories, contributed
material to the d20 Call of Cthulhu game, and his articles and
scenarios have appeared in The Unspeakable Oath, Dragon and Polyhedron.
A former assistant state attorney, he hopes you will not hold
his law degree against him.
Tyeron Hammontree (Ty will be running 7th
Sea and Spycraft events)
Tyeron Hammontree, has written for AEG beginning with the
"Frieberg Box Set" on through to the most recent "Midnight
Archipelago" source book for d20 and 7th sea. He has been
working on and play testing Spycraft, and has been the voices
of several characters on the Spy Craft/Shadow Force Archer online
radio show. Tyeron has also written for Fangoria, Vision's shorts,
and is currently working on short movies. In his spare time he
is a Ghostbuster, and works for Dell.
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Convention Party!
We will be having our usual informal gathering to socialize and
decompress Saturday night. We are taking over Willy's Pub this year,
mainly because it will be a lot easier for folks to locate. Any
valid convention pass will grant admittance. Affordable beverages
and some free light snacks will be available. We started this in
2001 and it's slowly becoming an OwlCon tradition. Come kick back
and get social with some fellow gamers!
Our Celebrity Gamemasters will be on hand
to sign books and hang out. Come hobnob!
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Special & Cool Events
We have all kinds of Special Events going on at OwlCon this year.
Basically, these events have more resources invested in them, often
in the form of prizes or trophies. Here is a summary with links
to the event listings (also take note of the Celebrity GM events
above).
Special Events
Cool Events
Not by definition a Special Event, these are events that
stand out as novel or very different.
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Anime & Movies
24-hour Anime
OwlCon Anime has returned to it's former 24-hour glory this year!
Rice University's Anime club, Jo
Mai Anime, is once again running our Anime room. Please not
these time are subject to change. Please verify times at the convention.
Friday
20:00 Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
22:00 Jin-roh
Saturday
00:00 Ninja Scroll
02:00 Combustible Campus Guardress
04:00 Slam Dunk movies
08:00 Hunter X Hunter OVA
12:00 Vampire Hunter D
14:00 Kenshin OVA
16:00 Lupin the 3rd, The Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure
18:00 Grave of the Fireflies
20:00 Akira
22:00 Macross Plus
Sunday
00:00 Ghost in the Shell
02:00 FLCL 1-6
05:00 Shamanic Princess 1-6
08:00 Inuyasha 1-6
11:00 Groove Adventure Rave 1,2
12:00 Shaman King
14:00 Lupin the 3rd, The Secret of Twilight Gemini
16:00 Escaflowne movie
Movie Lounge
There will be a random selection of your favorite fantasy, sci-fi,
horror, and action films showing in the Kelley Lounge for folks
that want to just hang out and kill some time.
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