Out to Convention 

THE CONVENTION IS ON!!! WHY AREN'T YOU HERE? 

Aspiring artists and writers wanted 

Times 

Doors Open 2pm Friday - Close 6pm Sunday

Cantina Friday 3pm-11pm, Saturday 9am-Midnight, Sunday 9am-4pm

Swap Meet Sunday 4pm-6pm

Chat with SCARAB 

The drafts are going to be run by our merchant Game Theory from Raleigh, NC. They will run as many drafts as they can fill as quickly as they can fill them. The drafts will be standard, Swiss Elimination, with a 1.5 prize fund ratio. Cost for the draft will be $15 per person, per draft. This cost is above and beyond the SCARAB convention costs for a 1 day or weekend badge.

If you are coming to SCARAB #1 to experience the great role-playing events you will find the information you seek on the FORUMS under Event Info: Roleplaying Games. We are posting submissions as fast as we can and will update them with schedule information as we confirm with the game master for each event. Come on out and have some fun!

Registration News.    

Current preregistrations are well past our goal number. If you have an outstanding registration invoice, it will expire January 8th 2011 at 5pm. We are possibly going to close preregistration completely on the 8th. If that does occur we will give as much notification as possible, but that would mean that a 3 day badge would go to $50.  

The good news just keeps coming! Time Streams is back on! 

Huge thanks to Bucephalus CEO Dan TIbbles for coming through with the product for tournament and prize support.  The Time Streams tournament is back on and will be a great event. We are very humbled and thankful for all the awesome support. We are very happy to be bringing this company's great games to SCARAB #1 and throughout the year as we travel to other events.

Pathfinder Society coming to SCARAB big time! 

Do you like the Pathfinder Society? We love it! Thanks to our great sponsor Paizo Publishing we will be bringing all of season two (2) Pathfinder Society Scenarios to SCARAB Gaming Convention #1. We are hoping to work closely with Paizo to stay up to date on the future scenarios as they become available and that way, we will be able to bring these great adventures to you as we travel throughout the convention circuit this coming year. Again we are humbled and hopeful that this is the beginning of a beautiful and lasting friendship.

The good news just keeps on coming! 

Thanks to Catalyst's new Convention Manager, Catalyst is back on board with SCARAB #1. We have prize support coming and are happy to announce the return of Shadowrun as a major tournament event. Way to go Catalyst we look forward to bringing your great games to many future events!

New tournament announcement. Yikerz! 

We have some great news. We are adding a tournament to the roster of already amazing events we have to offer. Yikerz! is being added as a  tournament for SCARAB Gaming Convention #1. This tournament is not only a part of the larger Boardgame Tournament but is also a very good match for kids. This is a game for all ages, where the kids have just as good a chance to win as an adult. This competition should be exciting!

Bad news first. Both Bucephalus and Catalyst have failed to deliver on promised support for their events and therefore the Time Streams tournament will be canceled completely and the Shadowrun tournament will have to be downgraded to minor tournament status. Good news; Shadowrun and Battletech have been saved from being dropped completely by our super awesome sponsors, Noble Knight Games and Heavy Metal Pro Software. We hope to continue our relationship with both Bucephalus and Catalyst and hope they can provide support to us for the 2012 convention.  

Warhammer tournament awesomness! 

What’s better than a Warhammer 40K tournament with over $200 in prizes? Two Warhammer 40K tournaments and a Warhammer Fantasy tournament to boot, with over $300 in total prizes!  A second 40K tournament has been added on Friday to allow 40K players a chance to practice for the Saturday main tournament. Warhammer Fantasy wasn’t feeling any love so we’ve added a tournament on Saturday that we’re calling our Midnight Fantasy tournament.  Check out our website for complete details.  And who knows?  Something special might still be in the works for Sunday… 

Dealer's room open to the public. 

Just want to remind everyone that the SCARAB dealer's room (a.k.a. The Market Bazaar) will be at the hotel, next door to the convention and will be completely open to the public. No badge is necessary to take advantage of our dealers great shopping opportunities. If you don't have the time to come and enjoy the convention, you can still come out for a few minutes or hours to peruse the merchants' shops of the SCARAB Market Bazaar. Come on out and see what they have to offer.  

We are so thankful to our sponsors and advertisers for the first annual SCARAB Gaming Convention #1 January 14-16, 2011. We are now taking on sponsors and advertisers for SCARAB Gaming Convention #2, which will be at the Scottish Rite Convention Center January 13-16, 2012. SCARAB #2 will be a four day convention.

Thanks to you, we are giving one more week. 

Because the response from players and companies has been so great we are incredibly humbled and grateful. We are extending the registration special and the sponsorship/advertising deadlines by one more week. We hope everyone has a happy and safe Thanksgiving!  This special will end at Midnight on Black Friday.

MACE 

Mace was a great event and we at SCARAB hope that the relationship between Justus Productions and us is a long and fruitful one for both organizations. Huge thanks to the staff and volunteers of MACE, they really do a great job.  

Hotel Block Filling Up!

Hopefully you were able to take advantage of the AWESOME guaranteed rates we had arranged with the hotel, because they filled up and have now closed, and now only the $59 room block is available. You'll have to call and make your reservations and tell them you want the SCARAB rate. With prices for everything on the rise we are super happy to remind everyone that we locked in the $59 rate for the first three years of the convention.  Don't we look smart!

Last Registration Special of the Year! 

XCON is done - Gearing up for MACE 

XCON was a fun event, we made lots of new friends and had a really good time. The dealers room artists and vendors of XCON were probably the best we've seen in the South East outside of DragonCon. Sarah Douglas was very cool and funny. The evening/after hours festivities were a lot of fun as well. XCON is a differerent kind of convention and SCARAB is proud to support their future gaming needs. Look for SCARAB next at MACE in November, we'll be bringing our sponsors great games to this event Nov 12-14 in High Point, NC.

More Tournament Information - Excited about XCON World.

Ghoulash and Board Game Tournament information posted. Check it out here. Are you going to be at XCON World? Come see us and play some games. You can find our games list in the forums. Come on out to the beach and have some fun.

Tournament Information Posted - Artwork/Writing Submission Open

Battletech and Dungeon Twister official tournament information posted. Check it out here. Are you an aspiring artist or writer, we want to help you get noticed. We will published your material in our convention book. Find out more information here.

Did you book your hotel room? 

Did you book your room at the hotel? No?! Well the guaranteed rate has finally increased to $50.15 from the low, low rate of $47.20. If you missed out on the super low deal that ran for the past 6 months, don't miss this new opportunity to guarantee your room at this great rate. The $59 rate for a phone reservation still is in effect for this event, so if you don't want to guarantee your room you can still get a great rate.

XCON World Games Listed    

You can find a partial listing of games for XCON world published in our forums. Along with the great RPGs you will find at this event we are running boardgames all weekend and you can find a listing of the boardgames at Boardgame Geek. We are also running demonstrations of LARP Combat, Costuming and Make-up from the SOLAR: Shadowmoor LARP of King's Mountain, NC.

SCARAB Gaming Convention now has official theme music thanks to our wonderful sponsor Midnight Syndicate. From their most excellent album The Dead Matter: Cemetery Gates the songs "Forging the Scarab" and "Inside the Scarab" are our official tunes. In other news, we should have our schedule posted for XCON World this coming weekend. Keep checking back to get the schedule of all the games we are bringing to this great event.

The list of games we are bringing to XCON World is extensive. Here is a sneak peek:

Tune in tomorrow to That Computer Show Podcast to hear the Shadow Run Coordinator talking about SCARAB Gaming Convention from 1pm to 2pm EST. If you miss the show you can download it from the same location. Should be a great event.

We have said it before and we'll say it again. Thank you sponsors, your support is incredible! Dungeon Twister is now a major tournament and the competition is going to be fierce. We have been contacted from players from France and the UK as well as all over the US on this one. If you are flying in, make contacts on the Forums and let us know and we will try to arrange pick up and drop off to/from the airport for you.

Now Taking - Game Requests for XCON World  

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.

Dungeon Twister Tournament  

SCARAB is proud to announce another awesome tournament being added to our great tournament roster. Dungeon Twister, brought to you by the International Dungeon Twister League.  

GenCon Report   

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!

Happy Free RPG Day! Non-Con Registration Special. 

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.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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!

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.

Apr 26, 2010

Apr 14, 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.