Tournaments
At LIL-CON we have LOTS of tournaments that everyone can jump right into.
ALL OUR TOURNAMENTS ARE FREE TO ENTER WITH YOUR PRICE OF ADMISSION
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All of our tournaments have AWESOME prizes in which winners can get trophies, medals, and prize boxes filled with LOTS of cool goodies!
All Tournaments and games have PRE-REGISTRATION sign ups for those who want to reserve their spot to be in a tournament/game.
ALL ONLINE REGISTRATION FOR TOURNAMENTS ENDS FRIDAY NOVEMBER 17, 2023 AT 7PM.
AT THE CONVENTION IN PERSON SIGN UPS FOR TOURNAMENTS WILL START AT NOON.
Check the end times of each Tournament in the info section.
BOOP Tournament
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The super fun Smirk & Laughter game “BOOP!”, is the cutest little strategy game where players battle to get kitties in a row, sliding them across a bed to get 3 in a row. The first player to get 3 kittens, then 3 cats in a row wins! The tournament has many players facing off where the player who gets first in the tournament gets an awesome prize! So be the crazy cat lady or cat daddy and get in on the fun!
Date: DAY 1 – Saturday November 18th, 2023
Time: 2:00 PM
Location inside convention: The Board Game Ballroom
Tournament style: Bracket Tournament
Max amount of players: Unlimited
Hosted by: Casual Dragon Games
PRIZES: 1st = prize box
HOW TO PLAY VIDEO
MONSTER MELEE
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Monster Melee is the LIL-CON staple and supreme meta-game that you thee player are one of 5 creatures: human, vampire, ghost, alien, or werewolf. Players will find out who is who by confronting one another, scratching off their card, revealing themselves if they are alive or not. The last creature standing wins! This game is played throughout the convention on Day 1, and then again on Day 2. Prizes are awarded to each winner! Sign ups take place at the Casual Dragon Games booth in the Board Game Ballroom.
EVENT DATES AND TIMES:
Date: DAY 1 – Saturday November 18th, 2023
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Casual Dragon Games in the Board Game Ballroom
Max amount of players: Unlimited
Hosted by: Casual Dragon Games
PRIZES: 1st Place = prize box
In Person registration end: Saturday November 18th, 2023 at 3:00
Additional Sign up at: Casual Dragon Games Studio in the Board Game Ballroom
N64 JAMES BOND 007: GOLDEN EYE TOURNAMENT!
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Calling all retro gamers, we are having a tournament of the game that helped kickstart an entire game genre into overdrive. We have an N64 James Bond 007 Golden Eye tournament!!!! Get those skills ready! Lots of prizes and a trophy up for grabs!
Date: DAY 2 – Saturday November 18th, 2023
Time: 3:00 PM
Location inside convention: The Video Game Area
Tournament style: Last player standing elimination
Max amount of players: Unlimited
Hosted by: Casual Dragon Games
PRIZES: 1st Place = Prize box
DIGIMON STANDARD TOURNAMENT
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Digi-evolve into an epic tournament!
LIL-CON is hosting a grand tournament for the extremely popular Trading Card Game DIGIMON! We are holding a standard Digimon tournament where players bring in their decks and compete for prizes. The grand prize is exceptionally awesome, a Booster Box of Digimon’s new upcoming set release “DIGIMON: Blast Ace”.
Tournament Date: DAY 1 – November 18
Tournament start: 5:00 PM
Tournament Location: Board Game Ballroom Area
Number Of players able to be accepted: No player maximum limit.
Hosted by: Casual Dragon Games
ENTRY IS FREE WITH PURCHASE OF YOUR ADMISSION
Requirements: Players must bring their standard constructed decks to participate.
PRIZES:
1st place = Booster Box of Digimon Blast Ace
2nd place = LIL-CON Prize Box
NOTE: More possible prizes may be available for players as well
The tournament will be best of 3 matches. We are still seeing if the tournament will be Single elimination or Double Elimination. Updates to follow shortly.
Registration sign ups located at our registration booth and preregistration online coming soon. Players submissions end at 4:45 PM on Saturday Nov 19, which all tournament players must be present by 5:00 PM for roll call and pairings. Those who are not present are disqualified.
KIRBY MINI-GAME MADNESS TOURNAMENT!
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Come one and all to the mini-game showdown of a lifetime! We present a fun fast paced event of furious mini-games featuring the iconic puffball Kirby. This tournament will feature a multitude of Mini-Games, where the winner will get a great grand prize! Kate Mattison, will be your wonderful hostess, ready to dish out the fun. Come on in and join the smorgasbord!
Tournament Date: DAY 1 – November 18
Tournament start: 5:30 PM
Tournament Location: Video Game Area
Number Of players able to be accepted: No player maximum limit.
Hosted by: Kate Mattison
Prize: LIL-CON PRIZE BOX
THE ULTIMATELY FILTHY PEACOCK BLOCK TOURNAMENT
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The deviously hilarious and worldly known game from Ichiban Games is throwing the most fowl mouthed tournament around! If you like to party, THIS is where the party is at! PEACOCK BLOCK is a hilarious party styled card game that is extremely fast, and very easy to learn. In this tournament players will battle for glory and prizes by flirting, growing tail feathers, or presenting the ring. With 3 ways to win, and massive amounts of hilarious bad pick up lines and insults, this tournament will be one you don’t want to miss!
PEACOCK BLOCK IN ACTION:
PEACOCK BLOCK HOW TO PLAY
Date: DAY 1 – Saturday November 18th, 2023
Tournament start: 6:30PM
Tournament Location: The Ichiban Games Studio Booth in the Board Game Ballroom
Tournament Style: 1 Winner vs many
Number Of players able to be accepted: Unlimited
Hosted by: Mark Miller
PRIZES: 1st Place = Prize box and can make a flavor text on a new card for a future game expansion! More prizes may be added depending on participants.
Ages: 18+
SUPER SMASH BROS. ULTIMATE TOURNAMENT
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It’s time to SMASH! The party has started, and now it’s time to be the champion of the night in the latest edition of Nintendo’s epic series SUPER SMASH BROS. Fight as all your favorite characters on the Nintendo Switch edition! Sharpen those skills for some epic combat, and get ready for lots of fun with the chance to take home lots of prizes and unique trophies! Time for some Smash Bros. glory!
Date: DAY 1 – Saturday November 18th, 2023
Tournament start: 7:00 PM
Tournament Location: Video Game Area
Number Of players able to be accepted: Unlimited
Hosted by: LIL-CON staff
PRIZES: 1st Place = prize box and First place Trophy
KATAMARI DAMACY TOURNAMENT
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The strangest game ever to grace a video game console is getting it’s very own tournament, and it’s going to be EPIC! Compete against other players in a show down style of who can roll up more stuff in your Katamari ball. Boats, cities, people, you name it, just roll it up! The biggest Katamari wins awesome prizes!
Date: DAY 1 – Saturday November 18th, 2023
Time: 10:30 PM
Location inside convention: The Video Game Area
Tournament style: High Score Tournament
Max amount of players: Unlimited
Hosted by: Kate Mattison
PRIZES: 1st = Prize box
ULTIMATE BOARDGAME CHAMPIONSHIPS
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THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE TOURNAMENT TO CROWN THE BEST BOARD GAMER! The Ultimate game championship of board games has returned to LIL-CON and it shall be glorious. The tournament is an a gauntlet of 4 selected board games which will put different board gaming skills to the test! This year the tournament will feature these 4 games: Long Shot, Don Quixote, Splendor, and Walk The Plank. Winners win fantastic prizes and receive a special prize being the master gamer! INFO ON ALL GAMES COMING SOON!
Each game is about 30 minutes to play in total.
Points are awarded to players that come in first to last in the following amounts:
1st place = 4 points
2nd = 3 points
3rd = 2 points
last = 1 points
EVENT DATES AND TIMES:
Date: DAY 2 – Sunday November 19th, 2023
Tournament start: 11:00 AM
Tournament Location: Board Game Ballroom Area
Tournament style:
Number Of players able to be accepted: No player maximum limit.
Hosted by: Casual Dragon Games
In Person registration end: Sunday November 19, 2023 at 10:45 PM
GAMES DESCRIPTIONS FOR EACH GAME PRESENTED
Long Shot
Game type: Roll & Write
It’s off to the races! Long shot is a Roll & Write styled game where players will roll dice and use actions to buy horses, bet, collect gear, and win races to get cash and points. Player with the most points wins!
Don Quixote
Game type: Tile Laying
Don Quixote is a tile and path arranging game where knights protect castles and borders, and roads connect windmills and churches. Each player has an identical set of 24 tiles which they will place in their own, at the start empty, principality. The order of the locations to fill is also identical. The player who can fill his principality the best with roads and protects its castles and borders with knights will get the most points and win the game.
Splendor
Game type: Engine Builder
Become the greatest jeweler of all time! In Splendor the first player ot get 15 points wins the game. You will be getting Tokens to use to buy card which will buy more cards that have points, and also gain favor of the Nobles, which are also big points.
Walk The Plank
Game type: Pre-programing action game
YARRR!!!! You control a cast of pirates that are on the plank of a ship. You are shoving and running back to not fall into the sea where the hungry Sea Monster resides, who will eat you pirates. Use cards to do actions and your wits to anticipate what other players might do, as they will try to shove you off and eliminate you, all the while you do the same to them. Last player standing wins
MONSTER MELEE
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Monster Melee is the LIL-CON staple and supreme meta-game that you thee player are one of 5 creatures: human, vampire, ghost, alien, or werewolf. Players will find out who is who by confronting one another, scratching off their card, revealing themselves if they are alive or not. The last creature standing wins! This game is played throughout the convention on Day 1, and then again on Day 2. Prizes are awarded to each winner! Sign ups take place at the Casual Dragon Games booth in the Board Game Ballroom.
EVENT DATES AND TIMES:
Date: DAY 2 – Sunday November 19th, 2023
Time: NOON
Location inside convention: The Board Game Ballroom
Tournament style: Last player standing elimination
Max amount of players: Unlimited
Hosted by: Casual Dragon Games studio
Extra Sign up at: Casual Dragon Games in the Board Game Ballroom
PRIZES: 1st Place Trophy and prize box
FUBAR TOURNAMENT
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IF YOU LIKE SPLATOON YOU WILL LOVE THIS!
FUBAR is a multiplayer battle game developed Midnight Blue International, where players are coating their color all over the arena board for the win. This rager of a tournament will have some awesome prizes and swag up for grabs. Last player standing wins!
Come say hi at the MBI booth in the game room, jump in the tournament, and have a blast!
EVENT DATES AND TIMES:
Date: DAY 2 – Sunday November 19th, 2023
Time: 2:00 PM
Location inside convention: The Video Game Area
Tournament style: Last player standing elimination
Max amount of players: Unlimited
Hosted by: Midnight Blue International
PRIZES: 1st = Prize box
LORCANA STANDARD TOURNAMENT
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Calling all Lorcana players!
LIL-CON is hosting a tournament that of epic proportions! We are holding a standard Lorcana tournament where players bring in their decks and compete for prizes, especially for a Booster Box of Lorana’s new upcoming set release “LORCANA: Rise Of The Floodborn”.
Tournament Date: DAY 2 – Sunday November 19, 2023
Tournament start: 2:00 PM
Tournament Location: Board Game Ballroom Area
Number Of players able to be accepted: No player maximum limit.
Hosted by: Casual Dragon Games
In Person registration end: Sunday November 19, 2023 at 1:45 PM
PRIZES:
1st place = Booster Box of Lorcana: Rise Of The Floodborn
2nd place = LIL-CON Prize Box
NOTE: More possible prizes may be available for players as well
The tournament will be best of 3 matches. We are still seeing if the tournament will be Single elimination or Double Elimination. Updates to follow shortly.
Registration sign ups located at our registration booth and preregistration online coming soon. Players submissions end at 1:45 PM on Sunday Nov 19, which all tournament players must be present by 2:00 PM for roll call and pairings. Those who are not present are disqualified.
SHOOT EM UP TOURNAMENT
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All your base belong to us… and that makes it the perfect opportunity to grab a controller and compete in the ultimate SHOOT ‘EM UP tournament for big prizes! The genre that defined gaming, The Shoot em Up, is highly acclaimed by many to be one of the most interesting and skillful where whether it be enemy waves or bullet hell craziness, we will have multiple stations for each player to play games and we will record their procedure for points.
EVENT DATES AND TIMES:
Date: DAY 2 – Sunday November 19th, 2023
Time: 3:30 PM
Location inside convention: The Video Game Area
Tournament style: Overall gaming points
Max amount of players: Unlimited
Hosted by: Mark Miller Festival Director
PRIZES: Prize box
In Person registration end: Sunday November 19, 2023 at 2:50 PM
THE ULTIMATE VIDEO GAME CHAMPIONSHIPS
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Come One Come All!!! High Score Crushers, Puzzle Solving Geniuses, Fighting Game Gurus, Ultimate Speed-runners, and all other proclaimed Masters of all things video gaming, now is the time to show your ultimate skills in video games in the biggest badest, video game tournament returning to THE GLITCH CUP once again on a crowned victor.
Players will battle head to head in multiple games over multiple rounds in levels of skill, high scores, wave of enemy survival, driving, fighting, and so much more! With games of platforming, dexterity, puzzlers, and so much more, ultimate prizes are up for grabs in this tournament of iron gaming will.
As per usual all games are secret until revealed, and players will play across multiple intense levels of various games from different eras.
Do you have the skill to be crowned the ruler of The Glitch Cup?
Git Gud and find out!
EVENT DATES AND TIMES:
Date: DAY 2 – Sunday November 19th, 2023
Time: 5:30 PM
Location inside convention: The Video Game Area
Tournament style: Bracket styled, last player standing elimination
Max amount of players: Unlimited
Hosted by: Mark Miller Festival Director
PRIZES: 1st Place Trophy and prize box, 2nd place Medal
In Person registration end: Sunday November 19, 2023 at 1:45 PM
THE ANIME GALLERY ART CONTEST!
Bring your colored pencils, pens, markers, and more to draw up whatever your heart desires for the anime gallery wall! The Anime Gallery with it’s Art Contestis returning for another triumphant year. We love our fellow artists and want to give them time to shine where they are able to flex their skills. In this event we will display your art on our Anime Wall and judge it DAY 2 of LIL-CON at 7:00 PM. We will supply 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper for those in need of paper.
START date and Time: DAY 1 – Saturday at NOON
JUDGING date and time: Sunday November 19th, 2023 at 6:30
Location of judging: The Anime Gallery Walls
Tournament style: Art skill Contest
Max amount of participants: Unlimited
Hosted by: Mark Miller Festival Director
PRIZES: 1st Place prize box
In Person submissions end: Sunday November 19, 2023 at 6:15 PM
NOTE: No nudity allowed in any art piece. We don’t mind some fan service of boobs and butts, but all art must be covered like any type bathing suit would on a human (basically how our cosplay policy).
Grab your brushes and your pains because the miniatures painting contest is back! Paint a miniature and submit it to be judged at LIL-CON to win not just a prize box, but a wonderful miniature figure we like to call the “Cake Myconid”. Its scary face, it’s menacing stature, it’s….glistening hind quarters? Well then… anyways, this little creature is perfect for an RPG you wish to use him, and is one of a kind designed from Mark Miller of Ichiban Games and developed by Jon Usiak of Usiak Games & Designs / Fantasy Flight fame. Time to paint!
START date and Time: DAY 1 – Saturday at NOON
JUDGING date and time: Sunday November 19th, 2023 at 6:30
Location of judging: The Anime Gallery Walls
Tournament style: Art skill Contest
Max amount of participants: Unlimited
Hosted by: Mark Miller Festival Director
PRIZES: 1st Place prize box and “Cake Myconid” miniature.
In Person submissions end: Sunday November 19, 2023 at 6:15 PM