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Plattecon XXXI

Plattecon XXX

Year of the Boss Monster

A weekend of fun led by the Platteville Gaming Association. While our focus is tabletop games, we also have videogames, space simulators, an anime room, costume contest, vendors, special guests, and more!

Ullsvik Hall 1 University Plaza Platteville, WI. 53818

Badge sales are open. Our front desk can accept cash /check, or you can purchase a badge online and then pick it up at the front desk. The prices of the convention are: Weekend Pass: $15 Friday Only Pass: $7 Saturday Only Pass: $10 Sunday Only Pass: Belegarth (Medieval Foam Sword Fighting) Only: $5 -the $1.20 'convenience fee' may still apply, I'm not quite sure how the website works-

Features and Special Events

Tabletop Gaming Rooms

View the events: Schedule of Events

View the simplified schedule: Final Plattecon Simplified Schedule

View a pdf of the convention booklet: PlatteCon XXX Booklet Final Draft.pdf

Convention Hall Map

Dungeon!

The Dungeon makes its return to Plattecon! Find your friends, grab your pointy sticks and throwing stones, and descend into the depths for treasure and fame! Designed to be fast, fun, and easy to learn, Dungeon is suitable for gamers of all persuasions!

Video Game Room

The video game room is open to all convention attendees with an itch to play video games. As in past years, the video game room will be ran with a check-out system. In order to check out a game from the video game room, you must leave a form of legal ID with the desk worker. It will be returned to you as soon as you return the game to the desk. If you are under the age of 16 you must have a parent or guardian hand over their legal ID instead. By attending PlatteCon and paying the entry fee, you agree to be held responsible for whatever damages you might cause to the vid- eo game, system, or television. Tournaments and other games will also be held in this room, but the other consoles will still be available to play on.

Costume Contest

The Costume Contest will be on Saturday, at the following times: Registration (See Map)— 9am-11:30am Introductions (Stage)— 12pm Voting (Front Desk): 12pm—4pm Winners Announced (Stage) — 5pm

The costume contest will consist of two portions: official judging and the popular vote. All entries that wish to enter the costume contest must sign up at the costume contest table for a time on Saturday morning to be judged. Judging will take 5-10 min and will be based on: Authenticity, Craftsmanship, Presentation, and Level of Difficulty. Preference will be given to hand-made costumes and each costume should have at least one hand-made aspect. Please bring a reference picture if one is available. At 12pm every costume will be introduced on Stage and tickets for the popular vote will be collected at the front desk. Anyone with a con badge that is not participating in the contest may vote for their favorite costume at the front desk. Rules: 1. Do not bring any live or realistic looking weapons to the contest as there could be trouble stemming from their authenticity. 2. Nudity is not allowed, we reserve the right to insist on costume alterations 3. To participate in the contest you must have your con badge on your person. 4. Dressing rooms will not be provided, however there are public restrooms which you are free to utilize. 5. Do not use anything in your costume or presentation that will leave stains, use liquid, explode, or create bright flashes of light. This is private property that we are renting, so please don’t make us ask you to cover charges due to damage. 6. We may tape or photograph contest entries at our discretion. Entry into this contest constitutes an agreement by the entrants to allow PlatteCon to use their likeness/image, etc. in any current or future advertisement, promotion, or product. 7. There will be 2 parts of the contest: the Staff Judging and the Popular Vote. To participate in the contest, entrants must be present for both parts, and must register at the Registration Desk.

Anime Room

Courtesy of the Society of Platteville Anime and Manga Maniacs. Through every hour of the con anime will be playing for your viewing pleasure. The S.P.A.M.M. is hosting a Mystery anime box raffle Thee Grand prize has a $40+ retail value Five 2nd Place prizes with $5-20 value's

$1-1 ticket

$5-7 tickets

Drawing will be held at 10 pm Saturday Winners will be able to pick up prizes or arrange for there delivery

Friday 4:00 Amaama to Inazuma

6:00 Boku no Hero Academia

8:00 Omioide no Marnie

10:00 Nobunaga

Saturday

8:00 3-Gatsu no Lion

10:00 Noragami

Noon Flying Witch

2:00 Sky Crawlers

4:00 Break

5:00 Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju

7:00 Flip Flappers

8:00 Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge

10:00 Blue Submarine No. 6

Sunday

9:00 Dennou Coil

11:00 Bakemono no Ko

1:00 Haikyuu!

3:00 Hibike! Euphonium

Silent Auction

Bidding hours are from noon to 5pm on Saturday. If you wish to sell an item at the auction, please see the silent auction desk worker before noon on Saturday. There will be a $1 fee to put an item on the auction table regardless of whether it sells or not. As with most silent auctions, there will be a sheet with the item description/name in front of the item, and on that sheet there will be a spot for your auction number and bid. At the end of bid- ding hours, the number with the highest bid will win the item and is expected to show up and claim the item during pick-up time (5-6pm) to pay for and receive what they have won. People selling items at the silent auction desk should arrive around that time as well. After 6pm unclaimed items will be moved to the Registration Desk and can be claimed there until 9pm. Sellers will not receive their money until the item sold has been paid for. If an item does not sell, sellers may also pick up their unsold items until this time. If you have a time conflict, please let someone at the Registration Desk know and we can work out a better time for you.

Smash Tournaments

Platteville Smash Club will be holding several tournaments with cash prizes starting on Saturday at 2pm. These tournaments include Project M, Wii U, and Melee. The tournaments will be located on the stage.

2:00pm Project M singles

3:00pm Wii U singles

4:00pm Melee singles

The Final Encounter: Belegarth at Plattecon

Time: 10am-6pm Day: Saturday

(foam weapon combat)

Belegarth (medieval combat) based event hosted by the realm of Nogrod in UWPlatteville. Running from 10 am to 6 pm Saturday (March 5th) with a lunchbreak from 1-2pm. Play awesome games such as: Murder ball, Kill the Killer, Necromancer, tournaments, and more! Location: Markee Pioneer Student Center (PSC) North and South Conference Rooms. Meet by the Registration Desk and look for the people with foam weapons. They will be travelling back and forth between locations and will lead you to the event. Foam weapons will be supplied by the realm of Nogrod, but personal weapons are allowed as long as they pass the weapon check. A legal ID is required to attend.

Here are a couple new Plattecon Events that we are especially excited about:

Cardboard Box City Destruction

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to destroy an entire city?.Now you can find out! Take on a role of a Godzilla-like monster and destroy an entire city constructed out of cardboard boxes. There will be raffle tickets sold through out the con. Every day a ticket will be drawn to determine the lucky winner who gets to become a terrorizing monster. (The winners will be drawn at 8pm on Friday and Saturday, and 3pm on Sunday)

Massive Group Zombicide

Team up with some friends to conquer our mega-map of Zombicide (combining 5 game sets and expansions!). There’s over thirty characters each with their own unique set of skills to choose from. Teamwork, cooperation, intelligence (and quite a bit of luck) are needed if your group is to survive the impending undead apocalypse.

Brat Sale

Time: 11am-2:30pm Day: Saturday Located outside by the library, buy some food and support the PGA. Meal Deals:

$3: Brat $0.50 Chips

$6: 1 Brat, 1 hot dog, drink, chips, 2 cookies

$2: Hot Dog

$1: Drink

$7: 2 Brats, drink, chips, 2 cookies

$0.50: 2 Cookies

Special Guests

Unapologetic Geek Out-Podcast

Have you ever loved something so much you just had to geek out about it to the person next to you? Only to have to apologize later when you realize you just spent the last hour telling some random stranger about the latest episode of Doctor Who? Well head on over to “UGO: Unapologetic Geek Out”, where you can geek out with us every week and never have to apologize. Every week we pick a subject and geek out about it. We cover movies, TV, cartoons, comics, anime, and games (both video and tabletop)
We also cover the latest trailers in our episode of “Trailer Talk” We love interacting with our fellow geeks. Send us a question and we will answer it on the air. Have a suggestion for something we should watch, play, read, consume we would love to hear those as well. Are you a fellow "unapologist"? Subscribe to us on itunes. Or download the podcast directly from our webpage at www.unapologeticgeekout.libsyn.com.
Have a suggestion for us or a question you want us to read on the air? Leave it on our Twitter @UGOpodcast or our Facebook page or at unapologeticgeekout@gmail.com

Battlerock Studios

Battlerock Studios is an Indie Development company based in Galena Illinois and Austin Texas. We are passionate about music and creating new worlds within our games.

Vendors

Chimera Hobby Shop

Plattecon is happy to welcome back Chimera, which has been a part of PlatteCon since its origins. Chimera offers a wide selection of games, cards, dice, and gaming accessories. www.chimerahobby.com

Angry Fox

Back once again to Plattecon, Angry Fox LLC (formerly Anime Klub and Angry Fox Studios) will be selling figures, toys, keychains, snacks and unique gifts to fulfill your anime needs! www.facebook.com/AngryFoxLLC

Vault0

Creating and providing for your costuming needs, offering a variety costumes, gadgets, and accessories. Selling costumes, jumpsuits, shirts, corsets, wings, wigs, dice bags, dice, make-up, and other accessories. Brought you by fans for fans. www.vault0.com

Artists

Unlikely Heroes Studios

We are an independent comic book company with a team spread out all over America who creates, prints, and publishes high-quality comics. Our current piece de resistance is Super!, which follows a ragtag team of amateur heroes as they struggle to make a name for themselves in a universe dominated by more popular, established teams. In the grand tradition of "the Venture Bros." and "Mystery Men", "SUPER!" is a loving homage to the genre that knows when to laugh at itself and isn't afraid to poke fun at comic tropes along the way. Check out super-comic.com for more details and a steamy free preview of Super!

Ginger Kitten Enterprises

I’m looking forward to another year at PlatteCon, selling bead art, jewelry, and more, handmade by me! Check out gingerkittenenterprises.com, or follow me on Facebook or Instagram @gingerkittenenterprises for photos of my work (and sometimes cats)!

tentacle-made studios

(www.tentaclemadestudios.com) is a mixed media, conceptual studio practice creating a variety of goods from original and fandom illustrations and buttons and prints to small-scale sculpture and art dolls to everyday goods like hand-collaged tote bags and pillows with original artwork upon them. where to find tentacle-made studios-- quixotism and curiosity: from tentacle-made studios tentacle-made studios on instagram tentacle-made studios on twitter online portfolio (housed on flickr) tentacle-made studios on tumblr tentacle-made studios' facebook fan page tentacle-made studios and projecTransparency on youtube

Haley Anderson

My name is Haley Anderson, a local Milwaukee artist, who paints full art magic cards and hand etches fan art into pint and shot glasses. Your encouraged to follow my facebook

Haleyandersonartist@facebook.com

Caleb Klais

I am from South West Wisconsin. I like to draw cartoon-style characters and original artwork. Most of my artwork is of catgirls, bunnygirls, as well as other related things. I also draw chibis. Facebook.caleb.klais

Sara Mosher

I plan on selling nerdy pillows along with dice bags. I also will be getting measurements for people who want to purchase corsets or cloaks from me.