AMERICA's Cup, 6-8th July (& Regency LARP)

Auckland
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America’s Cup is the premier convention run by the AMERICA Club, run as a tournament. It is characterised by its challenging systemless games, variety of styles and genres, and relying on the adaptability of players and gm’s, imagination, and interaction of characters. The games are designed to be enjoyable, emotionally connecting, and entertaining. Each year, the cup is awarded to the player voted best by the GMs of the games.

This year we have several new faces helping to write and GM the games, it would be great to see a good deal of other faces participating!

Cost $25/weekend, $15/day with a $5 discount for current America Members.
Larp cost included in weekend/day price or $5 if only attending the larp.

Larp - Friday night - 6th July.
Games - Saturday 7th July and Sunday 8th July 2011.
Registrations from 8:30am each day.

Programme:
Friday:
LARP - 7pm to 10:30pm

Saturday:
Session 1 - 9am to 1pm
LUNCH
Session 2 - 2pm to 6pm
Evening board games and casual gaming if enough players

Sunday:
Session 3 - 9am to 1pm
LUNCH
Session 4 - 2pm to 6pm
CLEAN UP
Prize Giving at Nandos on Queen St from 7pm onwards.

#2

The larp we’re aiming to run this year is outlined below, I’d very much like to see some of you excellent roleplayers and costume makers there! To sign up, PM me or drop me an email on alwayspaladin@gmail.com. Each AMERICA event is usually a great way to meet some of our newer members who don’t yet know exactly how awesome a world Larping is, we need help showing them! And, you get to have a good time.

The Congress of Vienna

In the wake of Napoleon Bonaparte’s disastrous Russian Campaign and subsequent exile to the tiny Mediterranean island of Elba, representatives of the great powers of Europe have gathered together in Vienna to decide the fate of the continent. Brilliant generals, mighty princes and beautiful women dance the night away together - celebrating the long-awaited peace brought by the end of Napoleon’s wars. However, all is not as it seems! For there are rumours of a Bonapartist spy, clandestine treaties, illicit love affairs, and all manner of secrets seething beneath the glittering surface of this magnificent occasion…

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The Congress of Vienna is a social/political live action game set in 1815. For general costuming, think Regency, Jane Austin style and Napoleonic uniforms and regalia. Many of the characters are royalty of one nationality or another, so this is a great opportunity to go as over the top on fancy costumes as you like. This is not an occasion short of bling - medals, gold braid, feathers - go wild!

(Films to watch for inspiration might be Waterloo, Vanity Fair, War and Peace, Pride and Prejudice, Napoleon, Onegin…)

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THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA CAST LIST
Austria:

  1.    The Austrian Chancellor, Prince Clemens von Metternich

  2.   Count Adam von Neipperg,  Austrian general and advisor to the Chancellor

  3.   The Duchess of Palma, Marie-Louise, former wife of Napoleon I and Empress of the French

  4.   Lady Julie Zichy, young lady in waiting to Marie-Louise

England:
5. The Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley
6. The Duchess of Wellington, Catherine Wellesley
7. Lord James Hay, diplomatic aide to the Duke

Prussia:
8. The Prussian Prime Minister, Karl August von Hardenberg
9. Lady Alexandra von Humboldt, Hardenburg’s mistress
10. King Frederick William of Prussia
11. Wilhelmina de Biron, Duchess of Sagen

France:
12. The French Foreign Minister, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
13. Countess Jubille, a Fashionable Lady from Paris

Russia:
14. The Tsar of Russia, Alexander I
15. The Russian Foreign Minister, Count Karl Robert Nesselrode
16. Count Kristopher Lieven, diplomatic aide to Tsar Alexander
17. Countess Dorathea Lieven, wife of Count Lieven

Sweden:
18. The King of Sweden and Norway, Karl XIV Johan, formerly Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France
19. Queen Desideria of Sweden and Norway

Italy:
20. Cardinal Ercole Consalvi, representative of Pope Pius VII
21. The King of Naples, Gioacchino I, formerly Joachim Murat, Marshal of France
22. Queen Caroline of Naples

Spain:
23. Pedro Gomez, Marquis of Labrador, representative of Spain

Switzerland:
24. Countess Chantal Pictet de Rochemont, representative of the canton of Geneva

The Duchy of Warsaw: (Poland)
25. Prince Józef Antoni Poniatowski

#3

I’m presuming its still in Commerce A at Auckland Uni again? Your post is missing the venue details :stuck_out_tongue:

#4

That is correct. Commerce A, University of Auckland

#5

America’s Cup Inn has a great location and we found the staff to be nice and very helpful.I know about this Games are very enjoyable and gives pleasure to me.The world’s best sailors arrive in Portugal next week to prepare for the inaugural America’s Cup World Series competition in Cascais, the opening event on the path to the next America’s Cup in 2013.

venues for hire auckland

#6

Would you look at that. ^^^

The post above is a classic example of what happens when you hire people to boost your Google rating, as Mt Smart Stadium has apparently done. They set spambots on the world and clog up forums with rubbish. Shame on you, marketers at Mt Smart Staduim.

Have deleted the user and will be deleting the post, I just wanted to make an example of it seeing it’s so close to home. But before that I may get in touch with Mt Smart Stadium and let them know their “search engine optimisation” consultants are engaging in unethical practices, and point them to that post.