Britcon 2022 13th & 14th August

[petedalby]

As Dave Ruddock has kindly confirmed, Britcon will be moving to a new venue in 2022 and we have a date that we get on the calendar.

The question of 5 games or 6 games has arisen and it would be helpful to get a steer from those who are planning on attending please.

A 6 game timetable could like this:

Friday 6.00 pm to finish

Saturday 9.00 am to 12.00 pm / 1.00 pm to 4.00 pm/ 4.30 pm to 7.30 pm

Sunday 9.30 am to 12.30 pm / 1.30 pm to 4.30 pm

If we drop a game on the Saturday, we can have an early finish and / or extend the games. Please only vote if you are planning on attending.

[Barclaydetoll]

My preference would be for 5 games.

[madaxeman]

After a 2-year hiatus we're pleased to be able to announce that Britcon will be back again in 2022, taking place at Nottingham Trent University's city-centre campus, conveniently located in the heart of the UK's "Lead Belt" and still in our regular dateline of the 12th-14th August.

The Nottingham Trent venue is much bigger and brighter than before and will allow us bring all of the gaming onto one floor, extending both the competition space and the trade show and demo game area as well as making it possible for us to run a series of entirely new parallel events alongside our traditional roster of competition periods.

We're also still offering onsite student-priced B&B accomodation and student-priced onsite bars in Nottingham too - allowing our games to run over a variety of different timelines and formats, ranging from the full the "Friday night + 8-8 gaming Saturday + more games on Sunday" timeline, as well as hosting 1 and 2 day events and formats too.

Another new initiative for players this year is that we are now offering everyone "free food".* OK, not quite... but in 2022 all tournament entry fees will include a daily "grab bag" packed lunch (sandwich, crisps, a drink and some fruit), cutting out the need to queue for food when you could be rolling (or buying) dice. We're also keeping the extremely popular Britcon Fiver - where all entrants get a "£5 off any £10 purchase with any trader" voucher as part of their entry fee too.

Nottingham is also well served by multiple transport links, especially for international players who can either fly into East Midlands Airport, or take the Eurostar to London St Pancras and changing there onto the mainline which runs direct to Nottingham. Both the airport and station have regular bus and tram conections to the venue in the city centre, with stops right outside the front door and only steps away from the accommodation block.​

We will have one FoGAM event at Britcon in 2022:

To book in visit http://www.bhgs.org.uk/britcon---how-to-enter.html

(we are also planning FoGR too for the first time in a while)

For more information on individual themes please visit the Gaming Periods Information page on our website http://www.bhgs.org.uk/britcon---period ... ayed.html

Onsite Accommodation
In 2022, onsite accommodation will be bookable through the BHGS along with your gaming event ticket. It's not a requirement to book accommodation through us, but if you do we'd really appreciate it, mainly as we are committed to pay for a minimum number of rooms at the Uni as part of our venue contract - but also as we believe it's cheaper, closer and will have a better canteen-style breakfast than any other option anyway!

The COVID Stuff
All attendees will of course be required to adhere to any relevant Covid-related guidelines or regulations which are in place at the time of the event, including any set by the venue or the BHGS. Should the venue and the BHGS determine at any point that it is not possible to stage the event as planned due to Covid-related restrictions, all entry fees will be refunded in full.

Other BHGS Events
We've literally just had confirmation today from our regular venue for Roll Call that they are able to accept our booking for the weekend of 2nd/3rd April 2022, so we'll be contacting our regular umpires and theme organisers in the next week or so to firm up the themes and then will get tickets on sale as soon as we can.

We'll also be back at UK Games Expo over the weekend of 4/5th June with a roster of competitions, with tickets going on sale in the new year through the UKGE website.

Updated details for all of these events are now on the BHGS website and we very much hope you too will be able to join us next year to start rolling some dice again at as many events as you can find time to attend.

[Caliph]

Is there suitable parking within a short walk of the venue?

[azrael86]

Are you talking about Britcon or Rollcall? There is at Rollcall.
If you mean Britcon then there is an NTU Car park onsite (so it would be nice if someone advised if we can use it). There is a Q-Park which is about 0.1 miles according to Google, but it is £50 for friday afternoon to sunday evening. It looks comparable to charles street in Manchester
There is a premier inn nearby but its not clear if it has a car park

[madaxeman]

Is there suitable parking within a short walk of the venue?

Weekend and Daily parking for Britcon is at the car park on Talbot Street, Nottingham NG1 5GG, which is 2 minutes walk from either the venue and our onsite accommodation block at Byron Hall.

We have arranged a discounted rate of £7 for up to 8 hours or £9 for 24 hours for Britcon attendees in this car park. To claim this discount, tickets need to be purchased from reception.

For the more economically minded, Park and Ride stations outside the city centre allow you to park and catch the tram to the Nottingham Trent University tram stop. Clifton South Park & Ride is just off Junction 24 of the M1, and offers 1,000 free parking spaces and is served by a direct 27 minute tram service to the Royal Centre stop, which is just 2 minutes walk from the venue.