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Planning is in full swing for AdeptiCon 2008, to be held April 11-13, 2008, at our new venue, the <st1:placename w:st="on">Crowne</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Plaza</st1:placetype> hotel in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Rosemont</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">IL</st1:state></st1:place>.  But before we take a look at the future, let’s take a look back at AdeptiCon 2007: the winners, the miniatures, and the excitement. 

 

AdeptiCon 2007 Retrospective

AdeptiCon 2007 brought hobbyists from around the country to take part in the event of the year.  See the action and some of the amazing work done by our AdeptiCon attendees in our 2007 Retrospective (9.6 MB), downloadable from the link below:

 

http://www.adepticon.org/files/07retro.pdf

 

AdeptiCon 2008 Registration Opening In October

Registration for AdeptiCon 2008 begins in October, with online registration for all our signature events, from old favorites like the 40K National Team Tournament to new challenges like our lineup of Warhammer Ancient Battles events.   Registration for all of our events will be on a first-come, first-served basis, so get ready to sign up for the can’t-miss event of 2008 for the Games Workshop hobby. 

 

Reserve Your Hotel Room for AdeptiCon 2008 Now!

For the convenience of those who need to make their travel plans in advance, here’s the link to the hotel reservation site: http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/cp/1/en/advancedsearch?whichtype=room&roomResult=none&hotelCode=chiok&quickRes=city&_GPC=ADT&_requestid=23794

Or you can call their reservation line at: 1 800 972 2494  

 

Our AdeptiCon code (ADT) should automatically appear in the “Group Rate” field, giving you the AdeptiCon rate of $99/night.   Parking will be available for $10/day, and in addition, a free shuttle service to and from O’Hare Int’l Airport will be available for our out-of-town guests.    

 

Please make sure that when you reserve your hotel room, you use the AdeptiCon code (ADT).  AdeptiCon’s staff have worked to get the best possible rates for our attendees, and we need to make sure that our block of room is filled. 

 

<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Join the AdeptiCon 2008 Staff! [/b]

Become a part of the AdeptiCon 2008 team!  We’re looking for volunteers who are excited and passionate about the hobby to help us continue AdeptiCon’s tradition of excellence.  Volunteers can earn free event tickets by helping us put together the greatest fan-run convention in the Games Workshop hobby. 

 

We are looking for volunteers in the following areas:

• Operations Staff (Setup, Registration, Tech Support, Breakdown)
• 40K Tournament/Event Staff
• Fantasy Tournament/Event Staff
• Specialist Games Tournament/Event Staff
• Hobby Seminar Instructors
• *Communications/Marketing
• *<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Terrain</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Building</st1:placetype></st1:place> (Chicago-area residency required)
• *Web Staff (Website maintenance experience required)

*These groups perform the majority of their work before AdeptiCon.  All other groups do their work during the AdeptiCon weekend itself.

 

Note that with one exception (the Terrain Group), Chicago-area residency is NOT required, so no matter where you live you can help make AdeptiCon 2008 happen!      

                                 

E-mail awc_nfp@yahoo.com today with your name, contact info, and areas in which you’d be particularly interested in volunteering.  A member of the AdeptiCon Council will get in touch with you.   

You must have the fastest server in the world. I downloaded that whole file in 33 seconds.

When's your giant team tourney and/or Gladiator BatRep document going to be ready?

BYE

Very nice to see that the AdeptiCon staff not only take the time and effort to hold the convention, but they follow it up with a very nicely put together "retrospective".

Myself and a few friends will be loading up and making the long drive south (from Canada) to attend this years event. Should be a blast!

Where in Canada will you guys be coming from?

Probably helped by the fact you downloaded it at 4:15 AM EST.



I'm not doing one this year - I didn't do the Iron Man (since I was running the BFG Championships on Sunday), and didn't take enough pictures as it was. Plus I decided to take the proverbial knife to a gun fight in the Gladiator and got my head handed to me.

I am thinking of trying to organize an AdeptiCon After-Action Report contest for 2008...

I thought Ragnar won the 40K codicer?

By the way, the BFG portion was aces. Very cool.

Ragnar won the Codicier award in the Championships, not the Loremaster/Codicier Challenge. Sort of confused me too...

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Great writeup!

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Those are very good video retrospectives. You should really make a separate thread highlighting them.

Its interesting to hear an interview of Jervis directly as opposed to second hand.

I am scratching my head at the consideration of the third edition of the chaos codex to be a landmark. Not really surprising considering what we have now though.

Still enlightening and the people that took the time to make the videos deserve a huge round of applause.

That was a little funny, actually, because he said second edition chaos codex, but they showed the art from the first third edition codex. So I'm not sure if he actually meant the Chaos codex used in the second edition of the game, or whether he was referring to the first codex used in the third edition of the game (maybe he wasn't counting Realms of Chaos and Slaves to Darkness as 'codices').