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News from Italy: Asterion Gaming Days and much more
For the Italian market it is really something new. The convention will take place in September from Friday 13 evening to Sunday 15 at the Admiral Park Hotel, near Bologna. All the gamers attending the Con will get special gifts (promo materials from Asterion).
The access to the event is free (of course you need to pay the room and food if you want to sleep/eat at the Hotel).
The program of the event include a huge free play area with 20 demonstrators explaining Asterion’s games, three days of Asterion Games tournaments, including the national finals of 7 Wonders Cities and Seasons and the final stage of the first Italian Twilight Struggle Tournament.
The Twilight Struggle tournament has been an huge success with more than 25 qualification stage all around Italy and the prize for the two finalist is a two days travel in New York or Moscow (the first one choose the destination, the second one take the other). The last qualification stage will take place in August and the 1st of September will be ready the list of the 32 finalists.
Probably it is something common in US or France but it is the first time for an Italian publishers organizing a such event and there is a lot of trepidation in Italian gamers community.
The podcast usually start with discussion about a specific theme like “dice games”, “kickstarter” or something similar and usually includes the review of two games, a gateway game and a gamers games.
The organization (I’m part of staff) is working on special opportunity both for foreign gamers and publishers.
I’m collecting news about Italian’s Essen releases and soon I’ll be back again here with News from Italy.
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About Andrea "Liga" Ligabue
Andrea "Liga" Ligabue is a game expert contributing to many games related international projects including Gamers Alliance Report, WIN, ILSA Magazine and Boardgamenews. Member of the International Gamers Awards Committee is coordinator of Play - The Games Festival and founder of the project Ludoteca Ideale.