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***EIRTAKON 2011 - 11th - 13th November***
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29-03-2011 11:08pm#1The dates for Eirtakon 2011 - Ireland's biggest anime convention - were recently announced. This year, it will be taking place on the weekend of 11th - 13th November. Pre-registration is already open, at a discounted price of E20 so it's time to get thinking about your attendance plans once again!
For those of you who don't know what Eirtakon is, or are thinking of attending for the first time, check out the site here. It'll give you all the information you need and they have an awesome forum for all your con queries and general chat.
The 7th year of Ireland's largest and longest-running anime convention will take place once again in The Helix, a purpose-built event venue 10 minutes from the centre of Dublin. Eirtakon was first held in The Helix in 2010 and proved to be a massive success; with 2011 the committee has secured use of the entire venue for the full weekend - guaranteeing this year to be the biggest anime event ever seen in Ireland!
So there ya go! Loads more info to be announced over the coming months of course, and we'll try and have a more successful forum meet up at it this year too
PRE-REG HERE!6
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Whoop thanks Konata for the thread
For everyone who probably doesn't know, I'm the PR-type person for Eirtakon so if you need anything or have any questions I'll try my best to answer for you all
Most importantly though, I'm all but demanding a proper forum meetup this time around! It's not like there's not enough notice 0 -
Most importantly though, I'm all but demanding a proper forum meetup this time around! It's not like there's not enough notice
Let me just let the record show that the one that was attempted to have been held last year did not fall apart because of me being too busy on the top floor!
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Bit of an update:
- We have a confirmed guest of honour in none other than Liam O'Brien! More info here
- The early bird pre-reg is selling out ridiculously fast, I'm not 100% if it will be open until the end of May so try get in on this now before it's too late
- More guests, along with traders, panels, unique events and late night revelries are bubbling away n the pot, and will be announced over the coming months 0 -
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Does any one know a decent and not to expensive hotel near the con location?Im from Greystones but still i cant imagine going there every day with full gear for photos, so i would prefer to stay as near as possible.
http://eirtakon.com/accomodation
I'll need to ensure that that page gets updated soon, there's also the Travelodge in Ballymun that I don't think is listed.
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karaokeman wrote: »Does anyone know how we pay the 25 Euro because I don't have a credit card.
What would happen if I sent the form and payed when I got my confirmation email?
You can also pay by cheque or postal cheque if that helps: http://eirtakon.com/prereg
It will also be €25 on the door at the weekend, but the only way to guarantee a t-shirt is by pre-regging.
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I've never been to a con before but I think I will check it out this year. I think I will just go for 1 day though, get the train up and back. I don't really have anybody to go with but thats grand I'm sure there is plenty to keep me occupied. The thing that I like the sound of most is the trading hall and manga library (I assume you can buy the manga too?)
Just a quick question, aside from the t-shirt, what benefits would there be for me pre-registering?0 -
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There was Rock Band last year set up for the whole weekend, just for casual play like. Instuments were in pretty bad shape though but I'm sure MarkM16 will be able to find out if they have it this year.
Helix actually is that close to the centre! It's more 15mins on a bus to DCU but you could be lucky and be up in 10 0 -
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Deleted User wrote: »Can anybody organising it or anybody in the loop tell me if there's be Guitar Hero and Rock Band at it this year? It's not mentioned on the site, but the site lists what tournaments are being organised so I didn't know if it might be there anyway.
There's always something set up, usually for freeplay. The full schedule and full complement of game tournaments is not yet confirmed, there's still room for more to come in!Helix actually is that close to the centre! It's more 15mins on a bus to DCU but you could be lucky and be up in 10
15? If even, minimum 25 from Westmoreland St. :P
Maybe 10 if you're going by car and driving at 6am!
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Yep 10mins is entirely do-able, especially at 10am on a Sat/Sun morning! Rush hour is more like 20/25.
We'll be announcing all the gaming tournaments in the coming weeks, we have most of them confirmed but we need to double check and make sure so we're not passing around bum info Will be posting an update here next week but check the main site for all our recent announcements re guests, new events, competitions and more 0 -
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They had numerous anime related events and screenings though and as far as I recall, they advertised it as a "gaming and anime con". I was at it and it wasn't much different to Nom Con or Eirtakon in terms of events.
It's the same sort of deal with Brocon and Q-con as well. Just because they're not solely anime conventions shouldn't disqualify them from being counted.
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cocoshovel wrote: »How much would a taxi from Heuston station set you back?
The taxi regulator's fare calculator estimates between a tenner and €15.
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Ok, here's a huuuuuge update!
- Firstly, if you didn't know already, cosplay arist/model Yaya Han is coming to Eirtakon! We really can't wait to show her Ireland's cosplay scene
- Our guest artist this year is DestinyBlue, who will be giving two panels over the weekend (you can check em out in the link).
- our Saturday Night Entertainment schedule is online and looks killer - Eirtafortunes (our version of Family Fortunes), followed by Cosplay Blind Date (no Cilla Black cosplays please), followed by Movie Monsters Night, and if you want to dance til your feet fall off we have Moshi Moshi in the Nu Bar from 8pm til whenever they kick us out
- Our gaming schedule has been released and is by far the biggest we've ever had, we have tournaments coming out the walls at this stage.
- The anime screening schedule is mostly complete and will be fully online with times in the coming days Over 50 hours of anime will be screened over the weekend, including a few exclusives.
- There will be a photoshoot run by crack photographer Kieran Broderick on the Saturday and Sunday afternoons, and on Sunday afternoon he'll be giving a special workshop with a limited number of places available (sign up at our reg desk for it).
- We'll be selling Eirtakon hats, mugs, hoodies, badges, maybe some other stuff.
- Over 40 artists confirmed for the artists alley, it's going to be massive
- We're running a t-shirt mods competition, you can read about it here.
- Info on AMV, cosplay, modelling and art competitions are all available on the website.
I think that's it for now! We'll be putting up the full schedule, including all panels, workships and events, within the next 2 weeks. It's 95% complete and I've seen the Excel file, it's absolutely gigantic. It's kinda scary
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