After a 2-year hiatus we're pleased to be able to announce that Britcon will be back again in 2022, taking place at Nottingham Trent University's city-centre campus, conveniently located in the heart of the UK's "Lead Belt" and still in our regular dateline of the 12th-14th August.
The Nottingham Trent venue is much bigger and brighter than before, and will allow us bring all of the gaming onto one floor, extending both the competition space and the trade show and demo game area as well as making it possible for us to run a series of entirely new parallel events alongside our traditional roster of competition periods.
We're also still offering onsite student-priced B&B accomodation and student-priced onsite bars in Nottingham too - allowing our games to run over a variety of different timelines and formats, ranging from the full the "Friday night + 8-8 gaming Saturday + more games on Sunday" timeline, as well as hosting 1 and 2 day events and formats too.
Another new initiative for players this year is that we are now offering everyone "free food".* OK, not quite... but in 2022 all tournament entry fees will include a daily "grab bag" packed lunch (sandwich, crisps, a drink and some fruit), cutting out the need to queue for food when you could be rolling (or buying) dice. We're also keeping the extremely popular Britcon Fiver - where all entrants get a "£5 off any £10 purchase with any trader" voucher as part of their entry fee too.
Nottingham is also well served by multiple transport links, especially for international players who can either fly into East Midlands Airport, or take the Eurostar to London St Pancras and changing there onto the mainline which runs direct to Nottingham. Both the airport and station have regular bus and tram conections to the venue in the city centre, with stops right outside the front door and only steps away from the accommodation block.
Periods already confirmed for Britcon 2022 include:
Mortem et Gloriam 15mm 5-games 3-day event Fri/Sat/Sun
Renatio et Gloriam 15mm 5-games 3-day event Fri/Sat/Sun
For more information on individual themes please visit the Gaming Periods Information page on our website
http://www.bhgs.org.uk/britcon---periods-being-played.htmlBookings are now open for pretty much all of these events on the BHGS website - fear not, we have ample space to accommodate everyone and more this year, so you won't miss out!
The new venue gives us much more room than we have had in previous years for gaming, traders and demo games, so if you are interested in helping us organise a competition which isn't already covered, staging a demo game or taking trade space please get in touch and we'll be delighted to work with you to try and make it happen.
Onsite Accommodation
In 2022, onsite accommodation will be bookable through the BHGS along with your gaming event ticket. It's not a requirement to book accommodation through us, but if you do we'd really appreciate it, mainly as we are committed to pay for a minimum number of rooms at the Uni as part of our venue contract - but also as we believe it's cheaper, closer and will have a better canteen-style breakfast than any other option anyway!
The COVID Stuff
All attendees will of course be required to adhere to any relevant Covid-related guidelines or regulations which are in place at the time of the event, including any set by the venue or the BHGS. Should the venue and the BHGS determine at any point that it is not possible to stage the event as planned due to Covid-related restrictions, all entry fees will be refunded in full.
Other BHGS Events
We've literally just had confirmation today from our regular venue for Roll Call that they are able to accept our booking for the weekend of 2nd/3rd April 2022, so we'll be contacting our regular umpires and theme organisers in the next week or so to firm up the themes and then will get tickets on sale as soon as we can.
We'll also be back at UK Games Expo over the weekend of 4/5th June with a roster of competitions, with tickets going on sale in the new year through the UKGE website.
Updated details for all of these events are now on the BHGS website - so we very much hope you too will be able to join us next year to start rolling some dice again at as many events as you can find time to attend.
And, of course.. Bookings are now open for Britcon on the BHGS website too.
http://www.bhgs.org.uk/britcon---how-to-enter.html 
