The CoViD19 Corona Virus situation - upcoming show changes and/or cancellations

[levied troop]

SELWG update (with a change of venue):

“With the seemingly positive announcements in recent days around COVID vaccinations and unlocking, I wanted to drop you all a quick email to let you know that the SELWG committee will be making a decision by the end of March as to whether to proceed with planning our annual show this year or not.  We very much hope that the timetable set out by the Prime Minister a few weeks ago is maintained, and that we will be able to proceed, but want to wait a little longer before putting the wheels in motion.
 
We have already secured a booking for our show - to run at Lee Valley Sports Centre  (61 Meridian Way, Edmonton, London, N9 0AR) on 17th October 2021. Please do pencil us in to your diaries!!!
 
Whilst this year will take us out of South East London, and the usual home of both our show and club, it does mean we no longer have to deal with Crystal Palace Sports Centre, which SELWG members, traders, gaming clubs and punters alike agree is well past its best!”

Here’s hoping 🤞

[Fighting15s]

Tabletop Gaming Live 2021, 25 and 26 September 2021, has been cancelled.

Link: https://www.tabletopgaming.co.uk/news/tabletop-gaming-live-2021-cancelled/

[zemjw]

Carronade in Falkirk is normally at the start of May. However, having just checked their website they're moving it to September 25th this year

Fingers crossed

[Dags]

CRISIS 2021 UPDATE
It is with great regret that we have to announce that Crisis 2021 will not be happening. The pandemic situation without clear view on what will be possible in November and under which conditions such as, how many are allowed through the door, will there be a possibility to organise the kind of shows we had in the past where, let's face it, social distancing is not happening at all. Not knowing if any travelling will be able. Will catering be possible ? The simple calcullation between cost and worst case scenario revenue, make it unwise to organise a Crisis in 2021. On top of that the Brexit situation with more than 50% of the traders that are usually attending no longer able to do so without huge customs problems doesn't make it any easier either. Let's hope that 2022 is a better year on November 5th (I know Guy Fawkes night). And who knows a change in UK politics.
Keep safe
Johan

[Dags]

Colours 2021 cancelled


Dear wargamer,

It is with great reluctance that the club  has decided that it cannot run Colours 2021.

We have tried to hold on as long as we could in the hope that things would have normalised, but we have reached the point where we needed to make a decision to either proceed or not. Obviously, we have to make the safety of our attendees, our traders and our club members our highest priority. Government policy on large events is still shaping so we have no idea that a 1500 person attendance would be possible. We also have the challenge that we've not met as a club in over a year, and need to ensure we have sufficient members to roster the show.

For specific questions on trade bookings please contact our trade rep. who's details you should have. In short you will have the choice to a refund or can carry over your booking to 2022. We have made a booking for the Race Course in 2022 and really want to put on a show for you.

Sophie Parker on behalf of Newbury and Reading Wargames Society Committee

[OSHIROmodels]

The Salute show appears to be on for 2022...

The South London Warlords are pleased to announce that the 50th Salute Wargames show, will be held at the London Excel Exhibition Centre on Saturday 9th April 2022! The reason for this date is due to the fact that the South London Warlords are conscious of holding Salute in any other month, rather than it’s usual April date, will impact on the normal show calendar for 2022, and could impact on the running of other club shows. This will obviously mean that there will be 2 Salute shows within a 6 month period, which will put pressure on the Salute timelines, but it was felt that this would be a better option than holding a possible mid-year show in 2022.

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BRANDING - Due to the delays caused, the 13th November show is still branded as ‘Salute 2020’. In order to avoid such an occurrence in the future, it was decided by The South London Warlords to change the show name to the number of shows that have been hosted rather than the year that it is due to be hosted on. As this will be the 50th Salute (assuming November 2021 goes ahead). The branding will change to ‘Salute 50’. This will then continue in this format for future shows.

There's more in the email but it's just initial details for traders.

[Dags]

BRITCON cancelled....

May 2021:

Unfortunately, and despite our best efforts it now appears that we will not be able to stage an edition of Britcon this year.

Even with all of the positive news in recent weeks, and steady progress along the roadmap to lifting of the current restrictions "Covid uncertainty" has still eaten greatly into our normal planning and promotional cycle for Britcon such that by the time we are likely to have an official green light in mid June, the timeline will then be woefully short until early August.

Even more importantly our venue at Manchester Uni may not be in a position to confirm our booking even by mid June, with the venue management team who handle our booking all having either been temporarily redeployed to support testing of the student population or in some cases furloughed or made redundant.

Taken together this means that even with the best will in the world we do not see how we can stage an event of the size and quality we would wish to deliver this year.

For 2022, with the Manchester venue still on track to be demolished in the Spring/Summer we have been looking at a number of other similar venues around the country to stage a residential weekend-long gaming event and trade show.

As a result of this process we're now pleased to report that we now have a shortlist of two suitable venues for Britcon 2022, both of which are in Nottingham and both of which are holding dates for us on our normal "2nd weekend in August" dateline. Once Covid restrictions allow (hopefully in June) we will be making site visits to both and signing a contact with one of them as soon as possible so we can start the process of planning for a much more normal Britcon in a new venue in 2022.

For the rest of the calendar, the latest status is as follows:

Bookings are open for the BHGS Teams Competition @ the London GT over the weekend of 25/26th September, where we will be staging competitions for DBM, DBMM, To the Strongest, L'Art de la Guerre and Field of Glory under the BHGS banner.

Updated details for all of these events are now on the BHGS website and we already have almost 100 players signed up at what looks to be a keenly anticipated set of competitions this September - and we very much hope you too will be able to join us in London to start rolling some dice again!

We are hoping to hear back soon from our regular venue for Roll Call to confirm some dates for Spring 2022, and will publish these dates and competition detailsas soon as possible.

We hope to see you at the LGT in September, and in both Cranfield and also in Nottingham next year.

The BHGS Britcon Team

[zemjw]

No big surprise, given Glasgow is still in lockdown, but the Glasgow Games Gathering at the end of June has been cancelled again this year - facebook link

Hopefully next year 

[Dags]

IMPORTANT Hammerhead Show Update 15th June 2021

“It is with great frustration that we have little choice but to announce that Hammerhead 2021 can no longer go ahead on the 31st July in response to the government’s decision to extend Covid restrictions for another 4 weeks and possibly even longer.

Since Hammerhead 2020, no traders or game presenters have attended a wargame show for what will be 16 months, and therefore need a minimum of 6 weeks to organise transport, accommodation, their trade stand or participation game, manufacture, and order stock etc. For this reason, the decision must be made now and not in 4 weeks’ time.

Over the last few weeks, the increasing spread of the Covid Delta variant has piled uncertainty upon more uncertainty for event organisers across the country. Unfortunately, working crystal balls are in very short supply at the moment, so nobody really knows what will happen next.  We had a vision of Hammerhead being the last wargame show before the first Covid lock-down and the first show to re-commence after the pandemic – leaving go of this vision is not easy after so much preparation.

 A massive thank you to all the traders, game presenters and everyone who has offered so much encouragement and support for Hammerhead. We will organise a full refund for all the traders and give them the first option for trade space at the next Hammerhead scheduled for 5th March 2022 when hopefully ‘normality’ will have returned to all our lives.”

[Citizen Sade]

BOYL 2021 and COVID-19
UPDATE - 27 June, 2021:
We’ve taken the decision to POSTPONE Bring Out Your Lead 2021 to its backup date - 01-03 October.

Bring Out Your Lead 2021 rescheduled to October.

https://www.bringoutyourlead.co.uk/

[Derek H]

Claymore 2021, a wargames show due to be held in Edinburgh on August 7th, is now officially cancelled.

It's a shame but the big Covid relaxation that's been announced by the Scottish Government is just a few days too late for us.

[Dags]

2022 Salute 'postponed' until April 2023 - the Trade has been told. Won't reprint the email here as it contains contact details.

[OSHIROmodels]

Was just about to post that 

November this year was just a one off and there’s not really enough time to sort a show out for this coming April.

[syr8766]

Apologies if posted elsewhere: Here in the US, HMGS announced that Cold Wars (April 1-3) was cancelled (Ocean City Maryland). Historicon is still on for the summer so far (July 2022, Valley Forge PA).

[zemjw]

The Falkirk Carronade show normally takes place in early May. However, it has been postponed, probably until September.

More details here - http://www.falkirkwargamesclub.org.uk/Carronade_2022_Home.php