Badge Rates
3-Day: $30
1-Day: $20
Badges available for sale at the convention.
Room Rates (per night)
One to four people:
$149.00 + tax
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Great Canadian Board Game Blitz
The Great Canadian Board Game Blitz tournament will be at Animaritime 2011! The top-ranked players will receive prizes. In addition, the top-ranked player will receive a weekend pass to FanExpo 2011 to participate in the 2011 GCBGB National Finals!The tournament is an all-day, multi-round, non-elimination tournament. Each round, players select which games they'd like to play in some order (randomly at first, and then by accumulated points). Everyone then plays their selected games simultaneously and earns a number of points based on the rank they achieved in the game. After a certain number of rounds, the player with the most tournament points is the winner.
Previous participants have said that the GCBGB feels a lot like "organized open gaming". The games are played competitively, of course, but organizers (and most participants) are open to explaining games to newcomers and answering questions that arise throughout the games. Since it is a blitz, the games are often shorter Euro-style games like, e.g., Puerto Rico, Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, Settlers of Catan, San Juan, Roll through the Ages, Saint Petersburg, Dominion, Power Grid, Tigris and Euphrates, etc.
For more information about the Blitz, please visit their website.