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Test your mettle in one of Gamicon's many tournaments. While they are competitive, many times rules will be taught. Tickets will go on sale when event registration opens. Want to guarantee your spot? Event registration opens for sponsors one week before regular attendees.
Friday 7PM - 10PM - 16 players, 4 tables
A fast-paced game of strategy, negotiation, and pure hilarity - battle royale style. Craft your plan, convince the crowd to join in, then count down and draw your finger guns. Hand gestures show everyone’s actions and targets. Eliminate players with pistols, dynamite, and power shots, or stand to the side and lasso up an ally. Last player standing is the winner! The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, plus a seat at the final round of the Northern Regional Championship at Great Plains Game Festival 2025 (as well as a free badge to Great Plains Game Festival 2025)!
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Friday 9PM - 12AM - 16 players, 4 tables
You are head of a family in an Italian city-state, a city run by a weak and corrupt court. You need to manipulate, bluff and bribe your way to power. Your object is to destroy the influence of all the other families, forcing them into exile. Only one family will survive... In Coup, you want to be the last player with influence in the game, with influence being represented by face-down character cards in your playing area. The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, plus a seat at the final round of the Northern Regional Championship at Great Plains Game Festival 2025 (as well as a free badge to Great Plains Game Festival 2025)!
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Saturday 10AM - 1PM - 12 players, 4 tables
A beautifully crafted 2-player abstract strategy game from Smirk & Laughter. Your turn is in two parts. First, a player may move one of their stones up to two spaces in any direction, including diagonally, in what is called a passive (or set up) move. Second, they take a more aggressive move, which must be the same direction and number of spaces as the first move. It is this second move that allows you to push stones across the board - or off the board's edge. Remove all four of your opponent's stones from just one of the four boards to win. The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, plus a seat at the final round of the Northern Regional Championship at Great Plains Game Festival 2025 (as well as a free badge to Great Plains Game Festival 2025)!
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Saturday 12PM - 3PM - 16 players, 4 tables
Plant, then harvest bean cards in order to earn coins. Each player starts with a hand of random bean cards, and each card has a number on it corresponding to the number of that type of beans in the deck. You can't rearrange the order of cards in hand, so you must use them in the order that you've picked them up from the deck - unless you can trade them to other players, which is the heart of the game. The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, plus a seat at the final round of the Northern Regional Championship at Great Plains Game Festival 2025 (as well as a free badge to Great Plains Game Festival 2025)!
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Saturday 2PM - 5PM - 12 players, 4 tables
A deceptively cute, deceivingly challenging abstract strategy game for two players. Every time you place a kitten on the bed, it goes “boop.” Which is to say that it pushes every other kitten on the board one space away. Line up three kittens in a row to graduate them into cats… and then, get three cats in a row to win. The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, plus a seat at the final round of the Northern Regional Championship at Great Plains Game Festival 2025 (as well as a free badge to Great Plains Game Festival 2025)!
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Saturday 4PM - 7PM - 16 players, 4 tables
Snow White, The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, and many other fairy tale princesses are celebrating a five-day party. The prince charmings, who have not been invited, will try to infiltrate the ball to propose marriage to the girls. As a princess, you have to avoid marriage proposals and remain single and independent after the celebrations. The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, plus a seat at the final round of the Northern Regional Championship at Great Plains Game Festival 2025 (as well as a free badge to Great Plains Game Festival 2025)!
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Saturday 7PM - 10PM - 16 players, 4 tables
The quintessential quantum trick-taking card game for cool cats, where your card's color isn't defined until you play it! Hypothesize how many tricks you will win, and record your bid. Place tokens on the community research board as you play your hand, and connect large groups of tokens to score even more points. Plan your tricks carefully as you cannot claim the color of a card with the same number that has already been declared. Doing so would be pawsitively catastrophic as you have just created a paradox! The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, plus a seat at the final round of the Northern Regional Championship at Great Plains Game Festival 2025 (as well as a free badge to Great Plains Game Festival 2025)!
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Saturday 9PM - 12AM - 16 players, 4 tables
Brent Beck's Skull King is a trick-taking game similar to Oh Hell!, Wizard and Spades, with players needing to state how many tricks they think they'll win each round. Pirates and other special cards add to the strategy. The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, plus a seat at the final round of the Northern Regional Championship at Great Plains Game Festival 2025 (as well as a free badge to Great Plains Game Festival 2025)!
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Sunday 10AM - 1PM - 16 players, 4 tables
A fast-paced, innovative puzzle game that takes place in three dimensions with 60 colorful spheres. All of the players play at the same time. Everybody tries to position the spheres on their trays to earn as many points as possible. The task cards indicate how the spheres must be placed to earn points. Complete these tasks while racing against the timer. You get a point for each sphere you use and a bonus token for using all five colors, but you lose two points for each task card you don't follow correctly. Prove to your opponents that you are the master of multi-dimensional thinking! The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, plus a seat at the final round of the Northern Regional Championship at Great Plains Game Festival 2025 (as well as a free badge to Great Plains Game Festival 2025)!
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Friday 8PM - 12AM 16 Players
The United States Playing Card Company and Double Exposure present an official qualifier for the U.S. National Spades Championship at Gen Con 2025. Strict Hoyle rules will be used for partnership Spades. Two preliminary rounds followed by Elimination rounds. The winning team will receive trophies and a free entry into the first elimination round of the U.S. National Spades Championship at Gen Con 2025 (plus a free 4-day badge for Gen Con 2025!). You can enter with an established partner or find one at the event.
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Saturday 1PM - 5PM 16 Players
The United States Playing Card Company and Double Exposure present an official qualifier for the U.S. National Euchre Championship at Gen Con 2025. Strict Hoyle rules will be used for partnership Euchre. Two preliminary rounds followed by Elimination rounds. The winning team will receive trophies and a free entry into the first elimination round of the U.S. National Euchre Championship at Gen Con 2025 (plus a free 4-day badge for Gen Con 2025!). You can enter with an established partner or find one at the event.
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Saturday 8PM - 12AM 16 Players
The United States Playing Card Company and Double Exposure present an official qualifier for the U.S. National Hearts Championship at Gen Con 2025. Strict Hoyle rules will be used for single-player Hearts. Two preliminary rounds followed by Elimination rounds. The winner will receive a trophy and a free entry into the first elimination round of the U.S. National Hearts Championship at Gen Con 2025 (plus a free 4-day badge for Gen Con 2025!).
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Saturday 10AM - 2PM 24 players
Steve Jackson Games and Double Exposure present an official qualifier for the U.S. National Munchkin Championship at Gen Con 2025. Slightly modified tournament rules for standard Munchkin play, no expansions. Two preliminary rounds followed by Elimination rounds. The winner will receive a trophy and a free entry into the first elimination round of the U.S. National Munchkin Championship at Gen Con 2025 (plus a free 4-day badge for Gen Con 2025!).
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Saturday 4PM - 8PM 16 players
Doomlings, LLC and Double Exposure present an official qualifier for the U.S. National Doomlings Championship at Gen Con 2025. Slightly modified tournament rules for standard Doomlings play, no expansions. Two preliminary rounds followed by Elimination rounds. The winner will receive a trophy and a free entry into the first elimination round of the U.S. National Doomlings Championship at Gen Con 2025 (plus a free 4-day badge for Gen Con 2025!).
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Saturday 10am-Noon
In this unofficial tournament, players collect cards of various types of train cars they then use to claim railway routes in North America. The longer the routes, the more points they earn. Standard basic rules. Winners of the first round will compete in the finals. Prizes and trophy for winners.
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In this unofficial tournament, players are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to their networks of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions). Winners of the first round will compete in the finals. Trophy and prizes for winners.
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TBD
More info coming soon.