From: Jim Williamson <woodshop@w...>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 02:10:54 -0400
Subject: DEXCON 5 Announcement.
DEXCON 5
The National Gaming Extravaganza! Home of The ARENA!!
July 10 - 14, 1996
At the Sixteen Acre Atrium Park in Somerset, New Jersey, hosted by The
Doubletree Hotel Somerset!
(http://www.io.com/~doublex/)
The Lineup of Flagship Events for 1996...
* The World Cosmic Encounter Championship * The U.S. National Star Wars Role
Playing Championship * The U.S. National Dragon Dice Championship * The U.S.
National Blood Bowl Championship * The U.S. National Talisman Championship *
The U.S. National Othello Championship * The U.S. National Amazing Science
Fiction & Horror Trivia Contest
* 14 First-run Rpga Network Events, Including 6 New Living City
Modules!
* An All-new $2,500 Badge Puzzle, More Devious Than Ever!
* The 4th Annual $1,000 Live Space Hulk Tournament! * The 3rd Annual $1,000
Ad&d Team Tournament! * The 3rd Annual Double Exposure M:TG Summer
Championship! * The 2nd Annual Underwater Dragon Dice Tournament! * The 1st
Annual Gaming Industry Excellence Awards! * The Battle Of Tatooine In 25mm
Star Wars Miniatures!
* An All-new Incredible Star Wars Capital Ship Battle!
* Tabula Rasa, A Weekend-long Live Role Playing Game!
With TEN Tracks of non-stop gaming action...
* RPGA Network Gaming * Role Playing * Wargaming * Board Gaming * Card Gaming
* Computer Gaming * Pencil Puzzles & Word Games * Miniatures * Tradable Card
Gaming * Outdoor Sports
Join thousands of gamers at a gaming convention like no other in the
nation! Non-stop action from Thursday night through Sunday night in
over 600 Events...plus all the free snacks and refreshments you can eat all
weekend long, including our special annual events, SUGARFEST 1996, featuring
25,000 Pixy Stix and over 50 other types of confections all night long
Saturday night, and the Ghirardelli Chocolate Fondue, with our huge VAT of
chocolate for dipping all night long Friday night!
Plus unique Double Exposure events, including the Improv, the Pun
Contest, the Trivia Contest, the Freestyle Frisbee Face-Off, the Tennis
Championship, and the Pinball Tournament (we have pinball machines running
FREE all weekend long!
This year, a special interactive, science-fiction/espionage/amnesia
live role playing game will be happening all weekend long called Tabula Rasa.
Click here for details about the game and how to join it!
All for one low price of $50.00 for the entire weekend, with NO ADDITIONAL FEE
FOR ANY TOURNAMENTS OR EVENTS!!!
WARGAMERS! YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS THE 1996 ARENA, Double Exposure's 50' x 20'
Gargantuan Battlefield, the largest convention Miniatures spectacle in the
country! PLUS, the return of the Star Wars Capital Ship Combat System, the
wargaming highlight of GEN CON 1995 and DEXCON 4! Sci Fi Supply's incredible
SIX FOOT LONG STAR DESTROYER, along with dozens of other ships built in scale!
COLLECTIBLE CARD GAME PLAYERS! You won't want to miss our incredible 3,300
Square Foot Collectible Card Games Room, run by Arcane Circle, featuring
dozens of CCG's and thousands of dollars in prizes!
PLUS! The Continuation of the Avatar System! DEXCON 5 will have over 100
sanctioned events for which experience points will be awarded,
including the first-ever advanced level games. The Nexus Computer
will be set up all weekend long for character creating, updating and
experience point tallying! All of the Council Members will be there, so be
ready for political intrigue all weekend long!
Even the flyer has a $500 puzzle hidden in it!
Join us for the #1 convention in the country! Minutes from Newark
International Airport and centered between Virginia and Maine!
We have designated American Airlines as the official airline of the
convention. All attendees travelling on American Airlines will receive a 5%
discount off the lowest published fare. To receive this discount,
call the American Airlines Meeting Services Desk at 800-433-1790,
and mention star file S 4276MB. The 5% discount is applicable to travel
between July 8, 1996 and July 16, 1996 into Newark Airport, from anywhere in
the contiguous 48 States (and Canada), and may not be combined with any other
promotional offer.
For more information, call the Double Exposure hotline at (718)
881-4575!