Events at Gen Con

Looking over the schedule for Gen Con Indianapolis 2011 and seeing no VTES events planned. Anything happening off-book, or waiting to be made visible?

Jadasc wrote:

Looking over the schedule for Gen Con Indianapolis 2011 and seeing no VTES events planned. Anything happening off-book, or waiting to be made visible?

As GenCon has recently become increasingly expensive, unstable, and unfriendly, CCP and I (as I'm the guy that runs the VTES events at Origins) have made an effort to move *all* the VTES events away from GenCon and to the Origins convention. This allowed CCP to save money by not having any VTES presence at GenCon and not having any corporate presence at Origins, and a small amount of that savings was put into more prize support for Origins VTES events. An additional benefit is that the VTES community only "has" to attend one convention now, rather than two, so our Origins attendance has been steadily increasing, which is a big selling-point for Origins, which makes VTES at Origins lots more fun and competitive than it was in the ancient past.