2026 wrapup

We are done and dusted for another year, thank you so much everyone for all you did to make it a great con, volunteers, GMs and players and all those who participate.

We had at least 157 come through this weekend, which is a solid turnout.

We had issues with the Massey parking. We have spoken to the school about some tickets already, but if you have received one and not already provided a photo to Scott, please send an email with a photo of the ticket to kapcon@gmail.com.

While Kapcon isn't about prizes and ranking it's nice to celebrate those that have contributed and made the con fun for people. Baz Clarke and his company Cold Robot Design has created multiple trophies for us to remember and celebrate some of these people. We don't have a trophy for every prize yet but it's a lovely new element. So with that lens:

Best overall GM: The GM that has run multiple games over the convention, been scored multiple times in at least 2 rounds and has the highest overall average: Mat 'Tigger' Brunton ran Western Cthulhu, Grind House Cthulhu and Regency Cthulhu that people enjoyed across the con. Congrats and thank you.

Best Single Game GM: This award goes to the GM that had the highest score in a single round (that is scored), and this can be very close but with some fantastic games of Brindlewood Bay, and Disney on Ice it goes to David Easley. Fantastic feedback on some fantastic games thank you.

Most nominations across the con: Nominations can be for great GMing or play, or just being a great person and helping others, and nominations are given by the other players and GMs. This year it went to Ciaran with consistent showing across the convention and multiple years. Always great to have you here.

James Plunket Memorial award for new GM: This award remembers one of our own who contributed a lot to Kapcon and is no longer with us. This celebrates a new GM to Kapcon who has done amazingly well. Evelyne Go ran a brilliant game of Aliens in the Pentagon. Hopefully we see you back GMing at Kapcon and other cons.

Jonathan Tailby Memorial award for new Player: This award remembers one of our own who contributed a lot to Kapcon and is no longer with us. This is based on nominations across the weekend and was a very close and this year went to Manuel Kolb, welcome to Kapcon Manuel.

The Kapcon organisers award is something that we give to someone who has contributed to the Con, made our jobs easier, or we have seen helping others. This year was a tough year to call, I had 4 people I was considering as you are all so great. This year the award went to Paul Wilson, who helped bringing stuff to Kapcon, setting up, helped with the desk and making sure Scott was eating, got milk and ice each day and ran multiple games across the convention and was helping people new to the con. Thank you for all you do Paul (and Cat <3 ).

The adventurers league award goes to a member or recent graduate from Adventure Squad. After discussion with the Facilitators there was one young attendee who helped the other children, helped the games run smoothly and will soon enter the General Population. Eleanor Fouhy impressed all with her energy and confidence yesterday.

The award for runner up GM, a GM that has run multiple games across the con goes to Baz for his Shadowdark games that were really well received. Baz who is no newbie to run multiple games at the con and brings plenty of experience and energy and the GM battle was very close this year. Thank you for your efforts Baz.

This is just a small sample of our attendees, but there were many amazing players and games. I saw nominations for high adventures, derring dos, sacrifices, laughter and horror. So thank you all.

Next start thinking about what exciting games that you want to bring and run next year ;).

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