SCARAB Gaming Convention
Scottish Rite Convention Center
January 14-16, 2011 Columbia, SC |
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August 28, 2010
Now Taking - Game Requests for XCON World |
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Gamers, if there is something you want to see a demo of or just get in some playing of at XCON World, get your requests to us by email through facebook or via our forums. All of our demo teams will be at XCON. We expect to have the capacity to entertain over 100 gamers per session and will be running all four available sessions. Hope to see you there. Keep checking back here for the final list of games and the times they will run. |
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August 19, 2010
Dungeon Twister Tournament |
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August, 14, 2010
GenCon Report |
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After entertaining over 100 people, winning a slew of events and picking up brand new sponsors for SCARAB we are back in town long enough to get ready for DragonCon. We are also very busy gearing up for XCon World in Myrtle Beach, SC which should be a great event, hopefully made even better by SCARAB's presence. We have so much great news it is hard to tell where to start. The first hundred people at the door will receive concierge bags well over the $40 paid in registration, thanks to all of our awesome sponsors, the next two hundred are getting up there as well. Keep checking back for more good news. |
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July 29, 2010
XCON World and SCARAB |
It is with great pride that SCARAB announces that we are going to be teaming up with the fantastic people at XCON World to host the open gaming at the Third Annual XCON World Sci-Fi and Comic Book Convention. We are very happy to bring our sponsors great games to this wonderful convention in Myrtle Beach. For more information on XCON World check out their website and for more information on the games SCARAB is running at XCON World keep an eye on their website, and the SCARAB Forums and Facebook (Key Words: SCARAB Gaming Convention) sites. |
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July 24, 2010
Lexington County Library Games Day |
We have to make a huge shout out to the Lexington County Library for hosting this second Games Day event. It really is super cool to see all the families turn out for this great event. Today we got to meet over thirty next generation gamers (in elementary and middle school) and their parents. Way to go Lexington County Library! |
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July 11, 2010
Gearing up for GenCon |
GenCon is less than a month away, DragonCon is just over a month away and we are in high gear getting ready for both events. If you make it to GenCon be sure to come see the long running Queen of Geeks Costume Pagent, SCARAB is the official sponsor of this event and we are very excited to see all the fantastic costumes people bring. |
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June 29, 2010
Charleston - Special Continues - Play Testing and Publications |
We will be at Here Be Books in Charleston this weekend July 3, 2010 come by and see us. With Origins this past week and the July 4th Hoilday coming up we will leave the special discount up until July 11, 2010. As of this time we are only going to run another discounted registration one more time before the end of the year. We are proud to annouce that in 2011 you will begin to see SCARAB and SCARAB staff members on the play testing and demo team lists for numerous game companies. We are very excited about our partner alliances with gaming companies and are thrilled at the response from the gaming community in supporting us and our allied partners. |
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June 28, 2010
Non-Con and Origins |
Non-Con was another great event and we want to thank Green Dragon for hosting. Origins was a fantastic convention as always. We are now gearing up for GenCon and DragonCon in this busy Convention Season! |
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June 19, 2010
Happy Free RPG Day! Non-Con Registration Special. |
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Happy Free RPG Day to all the gamers out there! Another busy weekend and another registration special. This weekend we are in Toledo, Charleston and Columbia. We have been in Georgia, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and of course South Carolina this month. |
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June 16, 2010
Minor Tournaments - Not So Minor |
We have added several smaller tournaments to the roster. Some of them are not so minor in their prizes. The "I Drank What?" tournament has over $400 worth of prizes. The Ghoulash tournament and Timestreams tournaments are going to be great as well, both with fantastic prizes. We are looking for more sponsors of these tournaments and more swag sponsors for the concierge bags. Our goal is for the first one hundred people to show up at registration to have so much swag in their bags that it pays for their convention registration, and as of right now we are at $36 retail in those first one hundred bags. Have you ever been to a gaming convention that the swag in the Reg Bag was equal to or worth more that the registration itself? Neither have we, so we are going to try to be the first one to offer this level of STUFF to our guests. Keep up to date with us on facebook and in the forums. |
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June 15, 2010
Tournament News: Sad and Good |
Because of luke warm support for the Iron Kingdoms tournament we are having to remove it from the major tournament list and downgrade it to a minor tournament. This means it will still be played and will still have a prize, just not as much as we had hoped it would have. The good news is that we are replacing it with a game that we have been garnering much more support for: Paizo's Pathfinder. Keep checking the Tournaments Page for more details about tournaments, as we have added several more minor tournaments. |
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June 13, 2010
Summer Event Bookings |
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Retailers don't forget to book us for your upcoming summer events. Gaming companies don't miss this opportunity to get us your products for demo at the many events we already have booked to attend. You can contact us at public at s-c-a-r-a-b dot com to set up your requests. |
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June 6, 2010
$30 Special Registration |
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ConCarolinas was lots of fun we had a great time running games and meeting some fantasitc people and of course we left with some great stories. Many thanks to Ron McClung and all of his hardworking staff for making this a great event. Don't miss it next year. |
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May 28, 2010
Discounted Registration |
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We will be running a huge special the week of ConCarolina. Registration will be $30 that week online. This is a standalone special and does NOT qualify for any other specials or group discounts and does NOT qualify for the eternal membership. Game Masters MAY still earn up to $5 back for each approved game they run at the Con. Keep an eye on the site for the week of June 6th through the 12th for this awesome deal. |
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May 16, 2010
Augusta Book Exchange 40K and The Omniverse MTG |
Had a great time at the Augusta Book Exchange 40K Tournament and at The Omniverse MTG Tournament. There was a great turnout at both events. |
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May 12, 2010
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Hotel - Online Advanced Booking - Major Discount |
Guaranteeing your room has a huge benefit. If you guarantee the hotel room online at Magnuson Hotels website, for the next few months, you can get your room for $47.20 per night for a single king or two double beds or $52 a night for a single king or two double bed suite. Conditions are you have to guarantee payment for the room and there is no refund. This makes the price of the room for the entire weekend less than the price of one night at just about all of the other cons in the whole of the southeast. You are not actually charged for the room until you check out of it or, if you miss the con, the day you were supposed to check out of the room. You may change your payment option at the time you check out, if you guaranteed with credit card, you can pay in cash or a different credit card, split it up, etc. Check the FORUMS for more information. If you're planning on coming to SCARAB, you're crazy if you miss this opportunity! |
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April 28, 2010
Hotel News |
The Days Inn is now owned by Magnuson Hotels and has been renamed to Plaza Inn and Suites. Now for the great part of this news - they have lowered our rate from $65 a night to $59 a night. If you have already made reservations there is nothing for you to do, your rate will automatically be adjusted, we have confirmed this with the hotel. This great rate is being offered from Thursday to Monday for all SCARAB attendees in the event you would like to arrive a day early or depart a day late to see some of the sites Columbia has to offer. The wonderful staff at Plaza will be happy to direct you towards the many attractions of this area and so will we. If you need to know what is available to do in the area, check the forums. |
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We had a blast at TurboCon, everyone had a really good time. We are so excited to support these types of events, please contact us if you need help with a gaming event. If our fantastic staff is available we will do everything we can to help you put on a great event. Based on all the great feedback we are getting, we are working on a Gamer Widows' Track. If you have an event, such as, Making Chainmail, Wire Jewelry Making, Learning Henna Tattooing, Cross-Stitching or Asian Ball Joint Dolls, that you would like to hold for the widows of gamers or widowers of gamers then by all means submit that event through the open gaming page. |
Apr 14, 2010
Advertising Space in the Convention Book. |
The level of excitement revolving around our convention book has been astounding. We have sold out on the Inside covers and the back cover and are taking on advertisers on the inside as fast as we can. If you have submitted a request for ad space, please be patient as we are answering the requests as fast as we can and will get to all of them. If you are an aspiring writer, poet, artist or just someone with a great gaming story and are interested in getting your work published in the convention book, we will have the rules and forms up soon. |
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Apr 11, 2010
Classic BattleTech tournament added. |
We have picked up an incredible sponsor for a Classic BattleTech Tournament. This is going to be a great event and we are very proud to be able to add this awesome game to our list of tournaments. Keep checking back for more details on all of our tournaments. We are taking open gaming submissions and are working through those already submitted and hope to have a list of approved events and the kids track list very soon. |
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Apr 8, 2010
Easter & Spring Break Update.
Blitzkrieg Games Monsterpocalypse and Hillside Games Pokemon. |
Happy Easter. The staff scattered to the four winds of the southeast this past week and just want to say thanks to everyone they met, for all the support and enthusiasm. Your energy and excitement is the reason we are doing this. We have decided that the writing submission for the convention book will also include funny gaming stories. Had a bunch of fun watching Monsterpocalypse at Blitzkrieg Games in Ashville and the kids loved the Pokemon at Hillside Games in Ashville. Both stores had awesome discounts on gaming supplies. |
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Mar 23, 2010
Convention Bookings |
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Mar 20, 2010
Heroes and Dragons 40K Tournament, Columbia, SC. |
Had a great time at the Heroes and Dragons 40K Tournament. It was awesome to see such a great turnout and such a great variation of armies. How can we at SCARAB support your event? Find us on Facebook or the Forum and let us know what we can do to help your retail location host a gaming event. |
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Mar 13, 2010
Green Dragon NonCon, Charleston, SC. |
Tons of fun at Green Dragon in Charleston. Lots of good people having lots of fun with board gaming, role-playing games and miniatures. |
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Mar 1, 2010
Looking for writers and artists. |
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We want to make our Convention booklet different from the rest. We'll have all the standard stuff of course, but not only are we looking for advertisers; we are looking to publish short stories, poems and artwork from the community at no cost to the artists. This is your chance to get your work published and circulated to hundreds of people and companies in the gaming world. Keep checking back for more details. |
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Feb 21, 2010
SCARAB now on Facebook. |
Check out our fan page on Facebook. Keep up to date with what is going on with the convention planning and chat with our hardworking staff. |
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Feb 11, 2010
The Second and Third annual conventions have dates and venues. |
We are pleased to announce that we have booked the Scottish Rite Convention Center in Columbia, SC to host the second and third SCARAB events on Martin Luther King weekends of January 2012 and 2013. Each of these events will be 4 day events. Continue to check back on this website for more information. |
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Feb 1, 2010
The first annual convention has a date and a venue. |
We are pleased to announce that we have booked the Scottish Rite Convention Center in Columbia, SC to host the very first SCARAB event on the weekend of January 14th through the 16th of 2011. This first event will be a three day event, but we hope in the future to make this a four day event.
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Mission Statement
To support the roleplaying and boardgaming community and industry by hosting an annual convention that brings gamers together in the spirit of competition and fellowship.
SCARAB stands for: South Carolina Area Roleplayers and Boardgamers. We are a group of gamers based in the Columbia, South Carolina region. We game! That's what we do. We travel to retailers, conventions and meetups to demo a variety of games. We travel to as many events as we can throughout the year. Annually, we will host a gaming convention that we hope is a great experience for everyone who attends and we will work very hard to make it so. We will strive to keep the convention rates and fees as low as possible, to give our guests the best return for their money that we are able to deliver.
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