ConCarolinas 2011
June 3-5, 2011
Charlotte Hilton University Place - Charlotte, NC
Attending Fan Groups/Clubs
3rd Battalion 1st Brigade Starfleet Marine Corp
Costuming Fan Group
3rd Battalion 1st Brigade Starfleet Marine Corp, a Star Trek costuming and fan group
501st Carolina Garrison
Costuming Fan Group
ConCarolinas will be pleased to welcome members of the 501st Carolina Garrison to our con, a full-costumed squad of Stormtroopers.
Buccaneers of the Atlantic Coast
Costuming Fan Group
Hide your loot and your women! The pirates of BotAC have claimed ConCarolinas their home port!
CAPS - Charlotte Area Paranormal Society
Paranormal Group
Charlotte ghost hunters
Carolina Filk
Filk Group
Filking has grown to become a welcome feature of ConCarolinas and Filk Carolina has selected CC as its home con.
Carolina Ghostbusters
Costuming Fan Group
Are you troubled by strange noises in the night?
Experience feelings of dread in your basement or attic?
Have you or your family seen a spook, specter, or ghost?
If the answer is yes, then don`t wait another minute!
Call the professionals!
Charlotte Browncoats
Costuming Fan Group
Charlotte Browncoats are the local Firefly/Serenity fan club. They are a big part of the Can`t Stop Serenity! charity drive.
Charlotte Geeks
General Fan Club
Zombies? Vampires? Gyro-pyro levitating ectoplasm alien anti-matter? We can help.
Empire Games
Gaming Company
Makers of "I Drank What?" card game
Justus Productions/MACE
Convention
The group behind the largest and best gaming con in the Carolinas - MACE
Klingon Assault Group
Costuming Fan Group
Klingon and Alien Warriors of KAG`s Dark Star Quadrant will be invading our con for the glory of the Klingon Empire.
Mandalorian Mercs
Costuming Fan Group
Mandalorian Mercs have set their eyes on ConCarolinas for invasion this summer.
Maquis Forces International
Costuming Fan Group
The Maquis have infiltrated our con. The Cardassian Union has asked us to report any sightings to them.
Nero Piedmont
Fantasy LARP
NERO is an acronym for New England Role playing Organization. It is the name of two fantasy Live action role-playing games (LARP)
North Carolina Rowan County Anime Group
Anime Fan Group
The fine people of North Carolina Rowan County Anime Group help CC with our anime track, amoung other things. We are proud to be the home con to their group.
Rebel Legion Blue Ridge Base
Costuming Fan Group
The good guys of the Star Wars Costuming Universe
SG-12 Airsoft Group
Specialty Fan Club
Airsoft with a Stargate twist. We love to welcome these guys to ConCarolinas every year, because well... they have scary guns!
Shadowmoor LARP
Fantasy LARP
The Shadowmmoor LARP - a sword and sorcery live action role play group, a division of SOLAR
Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA)
Costuming Fan Group
The SCA is a long time supporter of ConCarolinas. They have demos, a table and sometimes host a drum circle for willing participants.
South Carolina Area Roleplayers And Boardgamers (SCARAB)
Convention
To support the roleplaying and boardgaming community and industry by hosting an annual convention that brings gamers together in the spirit of competition and fellowship.
STARFLEET International
Costuming Fan Group
Representatives of several ships of the STARFLEET International fleet will be attending, recruiting and holding events: USS Yorktown in Rock Hill, the USS North Carolina from Hickory, NC, USS Hornet of Charlotte as well as a few others.
Stargate Operations
Costuming Fan Group
SG-SOCOM has graciously accepted ConCarolinas as their home con. Representative of the Stargate Special Operations Command fan group will attend our Con to help us with costuming panels, Stargate programming and having a group recruitment table. Chevron Seven Engaged! Step through the gate! The only easy day was YESTERDAY!
Stormcrows Motorcycle Club
Specialty Fan Club
An AMA chartered Motorcycle Club dedicated to Sci Fi, all forms of Gaming and Motorcycles.
TALAN
Fantasy LARP
TALAN is a live-action role-playing game or LARP, to abbreviate. Live-action role-playing games come in two forms: Interactive Theatre and True Live-Action. In Interactive Theatre, you act out what your character would actually do, excepting violent or otherwise invasive actions. In True Live-Action, you still act out everything you want your character to do, but really draw a sword (actually a safe, foam and tape boffer weapon) and strike your target when the time is right. Naturally, your target might be wielding similarly safe weapons for defense, and you would not be guaranteed to win. Hence, there is an inherent do it theme to TALAN.
The Guild, UNCC Sci-Fi/Fantasy Club
General Fan Club
One of Charlotte's oldest and longest running fan groups, the Guild is a gaming and sci-fi fan club that started on UNCC campus in 1988/1989 as a class project.
Vile Pirates Productions
Other LARP
Vile Pirate Productions is just three folks near Raleigh who spend a lot of time writing LARPs mostly for Technicon.
Rob ("The Vile One") is a long-time LARPer. In fact, he's the only member of the team who's ever played in a LARP.
Janet ("Jynx") is Rob's wife and provides the "that's just too complicated" perspective that keeps Rob in line.
Beth(ie) is the crazy friend who drives down from Wake Forest every week to write plots. She and Janet are big fans of Puzzle Pirates from which "Vile Pirate" emerged.
In 2004, Technicon didn't have a LARP and so the three of them decided to run one in 2005. Heart of Arcadia was a huge success (just read their press releases) but after a year of working on it, the team was ready for a break. That lasted until they'd been in the car about twenty minutes and somebody suggested a Victorian-themed LARP, and so was born, in 2006, The Flight of the Daedalus. On the way up to Technicon in 2006, the team developed the pitch for the 2007 LARP: Space Pirates (because, hey, what could go wrong?) By this time, they knew they were hooked.
Since then, they have been running LARPs for ConCarolinas.
