Various national card and board game tournaments are run throughout the weekend! Win prizes and a chance to go participate in a Regional or National competition!

• Located in room 316
• All tournaments are free unless otherwise noted.
• Most tournaments will have a teaching session scheduled beforehand to teach you how to play the game.
• Some tournaments may have an age requirement. Winners of qualifiers or championships will require adult accompaniment for the next step of the tournament.
• Confirmed Tournaments:
  • 2024 CATAN National Qualifier ($5 entry fee)
    • Saturday 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
    • 24 players maximum
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    • Kawaii Kon is hosting an official CATAN United States National Championship Qualifier Tournament.
    • The Qualifier Winner will win a guaranteed seat at the 2024 Catan United States National Championship Tournament, location and date to be announced.
    • The 2024 CATAN United States National Champion will be sent to the CATAN World Championship (location to be determined), courtesy of Catan Studio.
    • In CATAN (formerly The Settlers of Catan), players try to be the dominant force on the island of Catan by building settlements, cities, and roads. On each turn dice are rolled to determine what resources the island produces. Players build by spending resources (sheep, wheat, wood, brick and ore) that are depicted by these resource cards; each land type, with the exception of the unproductive desert, produces a specific resource: hills produce brick, forests produce wood, mountains produce ore, fields produce wheat, and pastures produce sheep.

• 2024 Hawaii State Championships:
  • Finger Guns at High Noon
    • Friday 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
    • 16 players maximum
    • A fast-paced game of strategy, negotiation, and pure hilarity – battle royale style. Craft your plan, convince the crowd to join in, then count down and draw your finger guns. Hand gestures show everyone’s actions and targets. Eliminate players with pistols, dynamite, and power shots, or stand to the side and lasso up an ally. Last player standing is the winner! The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, plus a seat at the final round of the West Coast Regional Championship at RAGECON 2024 (as well as a free badge to RAGECON 2024)!

• Coup
  • Friday 7:00 pm – 10:00 am
  • 16 players maximum
  • You are head of a family in an Italian city-state, a city run by a weak and corrupt court. You need to manipulate, bluff and bribe your way to power. Your object is to destroy the influence of all the other families, forcing them into exile. Only one family will survive… In Coup, you want to be the last player with influence in the game, with influence being represented by face-down character cards in your playing area. The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, plus a seat at the final round of the West Coast Regional Championship at RAGECON 2024 (as well as a free badge to RAGECON 2024)!

• SHOBU
  • Saturday 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
  • 12 players maximum
  • A beautifully crafted 2-player abstract strategy game from Smirk & Laughter. Your turn is in two parts. First, a player may move one of their stones up to two spaces in any direction, including diagonally, in what is called a passive (or set up) move. Second, they take a more aggressive move, which must be the same direction and number of spaces as the first move. It is this second move that allows you to push stones across the board – or off the board’s edge. Remove all four of your opponent’s stones from just one of the four boards to win. The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, plus a seat at the final round of the West Coast Regional Championship at RAGECON 2024 (as well as a free badge to RAGECON 2024)!

• Bohnanza
  • Saturday 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm 
  • 16 players
  • Plant, then harvest bean cards in order to earn coins. Each player starts with a hand of random bean cards, and each card has a number on it corresponding to the number of that type of beans in the deck. You can’t rearrange the order of cards in hand, so you must use them in the order that you’ve picked them up from the deck – unless you can trade them to other players, which is the heart of the game. The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, plus a seat at the final round of the West Coast Regional Championship at RAGECON 2024 (as well as a free badge to RAGECON 2024)!

• boop.
  • Saturday 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
  • 12 players
  • A deceptively cute, deceivingly challenging abstract strategy game for two players. Every time you place a kitten on the bed, it goes “boop.” Which is to say that it pushes every other kitten on the board one space away. Line up three kittens in a row to graduate them into cats… and then, get three cats in a row to win. The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, plus a seat at the final round of the West Coast Regional Championship at RAGECON 2024 (as well as a free badge to RAGECON 2024)!

• Silver
  • Sunday 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
  • 16 players
  • Your village has been overrun by savage werewolves, which are represented by the number on each of the cards that make up your village. To get rid of these fanged fiends faster than the neighboring villages, use your residents’ special abilities and your powerful secret weapon: A silver amulet. Call for a vote when you think you have the fewest werewolves, but be careful; everyone else gets one more turn to save their own village first… The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, plus a seat at the final round of the West Coast Regional Championship at RAGECON 2024 (as well as a free badge to RAGECON 2024)!

• Cat in the Box
  • Saturday 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
  • 16 players
  • The quintessential quantum trick-taking card game for cool cats, where your card’s color isn’t defined until you play it! Hypothesize how many tricks you will win, and record your bid. Place tokens on the community research board as you play your hand, and connect large groups of tokens to score even more points. Plan your tricks carefully as you cannot claim the color of a card with the same number that has already been declared. Doing so would be pawsitively catastrophic as you have just created a paradox! The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, plus a seat at the final round of the West Coast Regional Championship at RAGECON 2024 (as well as a free badge to RAGECON 2024)!
• Skull King
  • Saturday 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
  • 16 players
  • Brent Beck’s Skull King is a trick-taking game similar to Oh Hell!, Wizard and Spades, with players needing to state how many tricks they think they’ll win each round. Pirates and other special cards add to the strategy. The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, plus a seat at the final round of the West Coast Regional Championship at RAGECON 2024 (as well as a free badge to RAGECON 2024)!

• Dimension 
  • Sunday 10:00 am – 1:00 pm 
  • 16 players
  • A fast-paced, innovative puzzle game that takes place in three dimensions with 60 colorful spheres. All of the players play at the same time. Everybody tries to position the spheres on their trays to earn as many points as possible. The task cards indicate how the spheres must be placed to earn points. Complete these tasks while racing against the timer. You get a point for each sphere you use and a bonus token for using all five colors, but you lose two points for each task card you don’t follow correctly. Prove to your opponents that you are the master of multi-dimensional thinking! The winner of this tournament will get a trophy, a copy of the game, plus a seat at the final round of the West Coast Regional Championship at RAGECON 2024 (as well as a free badge to RAGECON 2024)!

• 2024 U.S. National Championship Qualifiers:
  • The 2024 U.S. National Bicycle Spades Championship Qualifier
    • Friday 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
    • 16 Players
    • The United States Playing Card Company and Double Exposure present an official qualifier for the U.S. National Spades Championship at Gen Con 2024. Strict Hoyle rules will be used for partnership Spades. Two preliminary rounds followed by Elimination rounds. The winning team will receive trophies and a free entry into the first elimination round of the U.S. National Spades Championship at Gen Con 2024 (plus a free 4-day badge for Gen Con 2024!). You can enter with an established partner or find one at the event.

• The 2024 U.S. National Bicycle Euchre Championship Qualifier
  • Saturday 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
  • 16 Players
  • The United States Playing Card Company and Double Exposure present an official qualifier for the U.S. National Euchre Championship at Gen Con 2024. Strict Hoyle rules will be used for partnership Euchre. Two preliminary rounds followed by Elimination rounds. The winning team will receive trophies and a free entry into the first elimination round of the U.S. National Euchre Championship at Gen Con 2024 (plus a free 4-day badge for Gen Con 2024!). You can enter with an established partner or find one at the event.

• The 2024 U.S. National Bicycle Hearts Championship Qualifier
  • Sunday 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
  • 16 Players
  • The United States Playing Card Company and Double Exposure present an official qualifier for the U.S. National Hearts Championship at Gen Con 2024. Strict Hoyle rules will be used for single-player Hearts. Two preliminary rounds followed by Elimination rounds. The winner will receive a trophy and a free entry into the first elimination round of the U.S. National Hearts Championship at Gen Con 2024 (plus a free 4-day badge for Gen Con 2024!)

• The 2024 U.S. National Munchkin Championship Qualifier
  • Saturday 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
  • 24 players
  • Steve Jackson Games and Double Exposure present an official qualifier for the U.S. National Munchkin Championship at Gen Con 2024. Slightly modified tournament rules for standard Munchkin play, no expansions. Two preliminary rounds followed by Elimination rounds. The winner will receive a trophy and a free entry into the first elimination round of the U.S. National Munchkin Championship at Gen Con 2024 (plus a free 4-day badge for Gen Con 2024!).

• Fire Tower Tournament
  • Friday 4PM – 7PM
  • 16 players
  • There will be a teach session first to ensure everyone is familiar with the rules of the game.
  • While manning your fire tower you notice smoke in the distance and pull out your radio to report a blaze growing somewhere in the forest. You must protect your tower with all the resources at your disposal: dispatch fire engines to combat the blaze, order air drops of water, and plan the building of firebreaks. Competing fire departments will complicate your work, using the unrelenting winds to their advantage in an attempt to safeguard their own towers and threaten yours. The chaotic Firestorm also stalks the deck and will dramatically swell the flames each time it is drawn. Will you effectively use your forces to outwit your opponents and survive the inferno? Can you be the last tower standing?
  • Fire Tower is a competitive game where players must fight fire with fire. Most fire fighting games have a cooperative aspect with players working together to beat back the flames, but in Fire Tower your only objectives are to protect your own tower and spread the blaze towards your opponents. The game plays 2-4 players, ages 12+, and takes 15+ minutes. Action cards allow players to alter the direction of the wind, and add varying patterns of fire, water, and defensive barriers to the board. The skill comes in effectively directing the resources in your hand and using sound spatial planning to deploy them.
  • The game incorporates an intuitive play structure that takes minutes to learn and requires negligible set-up. Each card includes a grid that visually explains the ways it can be used, saving new players from having to constantly refer to the rulebook. Although the core mechanics are easy to grasp, an ever shifting environment forces players to switch up their tactics and experiment with varied strategies, making Fire Tower a difficult game to master and each play through a fresh experience.

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