The Geekie Awards

All right, we’ve submitted for The Geekie Awards and are up on their website! Submissions close May 31st, then nominations for each category (Cosplay, Short Film, Podcasts & Vlogs, Web Series, etc.) will be announced in July. The ceremony itself is in August.

Clicking the image below will take you to the LARPs page. Check out the other entries while you’re there! Lots of promising stuff!

Geekie Awards

Assorted LARP Media

Many thanks to Fair Escape for giving “LARPs: The Series” a shout-out!

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I still have some posts on Intercon (mostly PreCon) on the back burner. I seem to have gotten a bit sidetracked by describing other LARP projects and events. But I’ve just glanced at my calendar and found, much to my surprised, that I don’t have anything LARP related scheduled for this weekend. I think that’s for the best. I need a bit of a breather to catch up on all the things I want to write about before diving right back in. The next Shadows of Amun event falls on the next weekend, and Festival of the LARPs at Brandeis University is the weekend after that.

In the meantime, a number of LARP related media has popped up on the internet lately.

  • Some LARPers hosted a google chat panel titled “LARP as Therapy”, and you can watch it here. (I missed the actual chat, but I’ve seen most of…

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Episode 5 Review and “Defective Geeks” Podcast

Here’s the latest review from Jideobi Odunze:

LARPs: The Series “XP” Review

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POSITIVES

✔Balance between romance and comedy
✔Cute date
✔Ending hit you hard

NEGATIVES

✘ None

BOTTOM LINE

Episode 5 as well lives up to it’s name as you see how XP(experience) plays a role in their lives in character and out of character.

TOTAL SCORE
B+

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Charlotte and I did a podcast with the lovely ladies of Defective Geeks last week. It’s been posted on their website so now the universe can hear us talk about LARPs, our favorite geek pastimes, our ideal acting roles and complain about Montreal winters. Listen to it here!