Monday, March 16, 2009
Brimfrost '09
Alaska's only game convention concluded this weekend in Anchorage. Between Friday afternoon and Sunday afternoon I played close to 40 hours of games. After the convention closed on Friday and Saturday evenings we went to a buddy's home and played until 3 a.m. That's what I call a successful weekend.
My perception is that the convention as a whole is getting smaller but the boardgame contingent is getting larger. There wasn't much overlap between the Advanced Squad Leader contingent and the rest of the boardgame contingent, but if you add the ASL contingent there were quite a few boardgamers present. Even without the ASL guys, the boardgame contingent was bigger.
There was some concern that the convention would not be held this year, I suspect numerous people didn't show because they thought it was cancelled.
My perception is that the convention as a whole is getting smaller but the boardgame contingent is getting larger. There wasn't much overlap between the Advanced Squad Leader contingent and the rest of the boardgame contingent, but if you add the ASL contingent there were quite a few boardgamers present. Even without the ASL guys, the boardgame contingent was bigger.
There was some concern that the convention would not be held this year, I suspect numerous people didn't show because they thought it was cancelled.
# posted by Coldfoot @ 4:35 PM 
