Adepticon Has Been Cancelled

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**Azreal13**

Since the very first AdeptiCon, held eighteen years ago, we’ve made it clear that the highest priority, in any consideration, would always be the attendees. Over the years, we have done our best to be loyal to this principle. With our incredible staff, volunteers, organizers, and instructors, AdeptiCon has been proud to host our annual hobby celebration with a continued emphasis on creating an amazing experience for our attendees. It is with that priority in mind that we have decided, after many hours of internal conversation and consultation with the venue, hotels, and various local authorities, that the health and well-being of our attendees and the public must come first. While we continued planning and did everything in our power to see AdeptiCon run as normal, we are now following both government guidance and our own judgement concerning the COVID-19 virus in cancelling the 2020 convention scheduled for March 25th-29th.

We understand that this will impact all of you. It also impacts our exhibitors, staff, the venue, and the local community. It is not a decision we have made lightly; it is a decision based entirely on keeping people safe and healthy. It goes without saying that no one is more heartbroken about this situation than the AdeptiCon team. We look forward to seeing all of you every year, sharing our love of the hobby and revisiting friendships cultivated over years of the convention.

The AdeptiCon staff is already vigorously working on details around issuing requests for credits/refunds, the handling of prepaid merchandise, badge upgrades and other related items. We will provide to our attendees and exhibitors final plans to address the unprecedented circumstances that the COVID-19 virus has thrust upon us by April 15th or sooner. Your patience is appreciated during this time as we finalize the necessary details and logistics.

It is important to understand that the AdeptiCon team remains committed to this event. With your help, we will be able to return to providing you with the greatest tabletop gaming event experience around. We are very determined to see AdeptiCon return, thrive, and run long into the future. And we will remain focused, as always, on our most important priority, the attendees.

Sincerely,
AdeptiCon Staff
“For Gamers, By Gamers”

https://www.adepticon.org/2020/03/12/adepticon-2020-has-been-cancelled/

Probably not a surprise given the conditions, but the confirmation has been a while in coming.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Well.

Bugger.

Previews, how will we get our previews? WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE PREVIEWS!

**Not Online!!!**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Well.

Bugger.

Previews, how will we get our previews? WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE PREVIEWS!

He gramps, you realize that gw has a Website they use Sally only as a one Way communication tool?
Yeah maybee they do something there with interactivity hopefully.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

I’m not that far gone, you cheeky young scamp

**BrianDavion**

maybe this means previews sooner as GW won't needlessly wait for a con!

**Overread**

BrianDavion wrote:
maybe this means previews sooner as GW won't needlessly wait for a con!

Not all that likely since GW's previews are tied into their release structure. Plus that is tied into their shipments from China, which relies on the factories being open. Whilst GW produces their models in-house all the print material comes from overseas. So it might be that instead of quicker info release, it might all slow up again like last year with Sylvaneth - only this time hitting more ranges across the board for GW.

We might even see them forced to release some products in the "white box" if they've enough stock of them, but not of new containers for new products.

Of course such things are very hard to predict and there's a whole chain of things that could happen. Eg the factories might run but the shipping firms or import/export shuts down etc...

**Kid_Kyoto**

Probably the right call.

**Thargrim**

BrianDavion wrote:
maybe this means previews sooner as GW won't needlessly wait for a con!

I wish, kinda surprised we haven't seen the next blood bowl team, thought for sure we'd see it at GAMA.

**queen_annes_revenge**

Damn. Hope they don't squash whfest too.. Hopefully they might rearrange it once this mess has all blown over.

**Grot 6**

The best part of Adepticon was the afterschool pub crawls... Just Saying.

**GoatboyBeta**

queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Damn. Hope they don't squash whfest too.. Hopefully they might rearrange it once this mess has all blown over.

The UK government has just moved into the "delay" stage of its response plan for Covid-19, where they are hoping to flatten out the infection curve over a longer time period. So I wouldn't want to bank on any large event due in the next two to three months going ahead.

**Ghaz**

GoatboyBeta wrote:
queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Damn. Hope they don't squash whfest too.. Hopefully they might rearrange it once this mess has all blown over.

The UK government has just moved into the "delay" stage of its response plan for Covid-19, where they are hoping to flatten out the infection curve over a longer time period. So I wouldn't want to bank on any large event due in the next two to three months going ahead.

Warhammer Fest is May 2nd and 3rd, so it's too early to cancel it just yet.

**Danny76**

This is true, but stage three Research, still has all the key plans from stage two in place, so the cancellations would continue (and stage 4, Mitigate / End of the World is where Italy has been heading. We’d have troops on the streets, so I doubt a con would go ahead then either..

**Ghaz**

Danny76 wrote:
This is true, but stage three Research, still has all the key plans from stage two in place, so the cancellations would continue (and stage 4, Mitigate / End of the World is where Italy has been heading. We’d have troops on the streets, so I doubt a con would go ahead then either..

And what if it all blows over by the middle of April? It's still too early to cancel Warhammer Fest. You don't pull the plug until there is no chance of having the event and as of right now that time has not come.

**Ordana**

Ghaz wrote:
Danny76 wrote:
This is true, but stage three Research, still has all the key plans from stage two in place, so the cancellations would continue (and stage 4, Mitigate / End of the World is where Italy has been heading. We’d have troops on the streets, so I doubt a con would go ahead then either..

And what if it all blows over by the middle of April? It's still too early to cancel Warhammer Fest. You don't pull the plug until there is no chance of having the event and as of right now that time has not come.

Oh for sure there is no reason to cancel it yet.
But the odds of it actually going through are slim at best.

**GoatboyBeta**

Oh its definitely to early to cancel an event due in May. But don't be surprised if there is some kind of disruption. Unlike the open days WH fest doesn't take place at a GW owned venue, so rescheduling could be tricky. But fingers crossed

**Agamemnon2**

Ghaz wrote:
Danny76 wrote:
This is true, but stage three Research, still has all the key plans from stage two in place, so the cancellations would continue (and stage 4, Mitigate / End of the World is where Italy has been heading. We’d have troops on the streets, so I doubt a con would go ahead then either..

And what if it all blows over by the middle of April? It's still too early to cancel Warhammer Fest. You don't pull the plug until there is no chance of having the event and as of right now that time has not come.

There is little to no chance of this blowing over anytime soon. I'd wager everything up to June at least is very unlikely to happen, if not beyond.

**Jidmah**

Agamemnon2 wrote:
Ghaz wrote:
Danny76 wrote:
This is true, but stage three Research, still has all the key plans from stage two in place, so the cancellations would continue (and stage 4, Mitigate / End of the World is where Italy has been heading. We’d have troops on the streets, so I doubt a con would go ahead then either..

And what if it all blows over by the middle of April? It's still too early to cancel Warhammer Fest. You don't pull the plug until there is no chance of having the event and as of right now that time has not come.

There is little to no chance of this blowing over anytime soon. I'd wager everything up to June at least is very unlikely to happen, if not beyond.

This. It took China about three months to go from the first infections to getting the virus back under control. Feel free to multiply these three months with how good your government is at handling a crisis, how willing they are to take drastic measures to slow infections and how fast they can inflate your countries' health system to handle ~15% of the infected lying in hospital for multiple weeks compared to a government that can do whatever the hell they please with nigh-infinite manpower.
Warmer temperatures might slow the virus' activity (and that's good!) but it will not "blow over".

**Modock**

My country already took drastic measures, schools, kindergardens, public libraries and other public institutions are closed or will be on monday...

**tneva82**

Here we aren't that far yet but 500+ people events are out, heavy suggestion for smaller ones to not be held(this has already started to affect local miniature tournaments as well) and work from home is recommended where possible(so our company went to that mode as well).

It's only matter of time before schools close here as well I guess but atm they don't want to shut down society completely only to see virus resurface quickly after restart.

Makes one think current plan is more of controlled exposure. Not even try to get rid of the virus and accept it will go through majority but keep hospitals not overloaded by stringing out cases over longer period of time.

**Agamemnon2**

Hopefully the Adepticon organization can weather the financial hit this entails. A lot of events and businesses will be forced to shut down permanently because of this epidemic.

**Jidmah**

Agamemnon2 wrote:
Hopefully the Adepticon organization can weather the financial hit this entails. A lot of events and businesses will be forced to shut down permanently because of this epidemic.

If they can't they should start a gofundme campaign. The community should have enough expendable income to save such a long-living institution.

**Yodhrin**

Ghaz wrote:
Danny76 wrote:
This is true, but stage three Research, still has all the key plans from stage two in place, so the cancellations would continue (and stage 4, Mitigate / End of the World is where Italy has been heading. We’d have troops on the streets, so I doubt a con would go ahead then either..

And what if it all blows over by the middle of April? It's still too early to cancel Warhammer Fest. You don't pull the plug until there is no chance of having the event and as of right now that time has not come.

That's not going to happen. Against WHO advice, the UK government are attempting a "managed epidemic" that will keep the virus circulating through the population until either they develop herd immunity on our own by survivors of the virus developing antibodies(something there's very little evidence is actually happening) or a vaccine is developed(which will take a minimum of a year and more likely 18 months to 2 years). Their absolutely mind-bendingly callous decision could mean as many as 3 million will die, and the virus will almost certainly still be a major factor all through the summer - forget cancelling stuff, anyone who willingly goes to a large public gathering in the UK until the government backs down from their lunacy is themselves utterly mad, you're literally rolling the dice with your family's lives.

**LavuranGuard**

Totally narked off - This year Adepticon was part of my first proper holiday since 2009, and now I'm having to cancel all of it - £1500 lost so far, unrefundable and still cancelling bits of our trip.

**StraightSilver**

LavuranGuard wrote:
Totally narked off - This year Adepticon was part of my first proper holiday since 2009, and now I'm having to cancel all of it - £1500 lost so far, unrefundable and still cancelling bits of our trip.

Sorry to hear that, that's awful news.

With regards to Warhammer Fest I think it will be a wait and see but I think it will definitely get cancelled.

It looks as though Glastonbury Festival will be cancelled and if that's the case I think any other event over 500 people will be the same - but Warhammer Fest is indoors so even more likely. Plus with the demographic I think it would be bad press if GW didn't pull it.

**Warhams-77**

Sad news, but the right decision

**Lord Damocles**

So how will GW work out that Flyrants are OP now?

**tneva82**

Their sales figures which are what direct their decisions anyway

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Agamemnon2 wrote:
Hopefully the Adepticon organization can weather the financial hit this entails. A lot of events and businesses will be forced to shut down permanently because of this epidemic.

One would imagine there's insurance for this sort of thing.

**timetowaste85**

Most airlines, hotels and car companies are fully reimbursing lost money due to the virus. Nothing should be 100% nonrefundable.