THIS WEEK AT TSUNAMICON

The Voyage to TsunamiCon rolls on, and there’s plenty happening this week! First up: come play with us this Saturday!

🎲 TSUNAMI GAMEDAY AT WIZARD’S ALLEY
📅 Saturday, August 15 • 1–10 PM

We’re taking over the tables at Wizard’s Alley for an afternoon and evening of gaming—and attendance is FREE!

A handful of games are already listed on the event page, with two gaming sessions from 1–5 PM and 6–10 PM. Sign up for something that catches your eye, bring a game of your own, or just drop in and see what hits the table!

Wizard’s Alley is getting in on the fun, too:

10% off food & drinks for GameDay guests
10% off board games all day
$5 off TsunamiCon badges when you buy from us at the event!

GameDay itself is free to attend. Reserving a seat online requires a $2 virtual badge.

🐙 DISCOUNT TSUNAMICON BADGES ARRIVE AUGUST 15

Beginning Saturday, you’ll also be able to pick up $5-off TsunamiCon badges at Wizard’s Alley and The Burrow. Support the local businesses that support TsunamiCon and save a few doubloons while you’re at it!

⚔️ VIG EVENT REGISTRATION OPENS SATURDAY

VIGs, it’s almost time to start building your TsunamiCon weekend! Early event registration opens August 15, giving our VIG supporters first crack at the games already appearing on the schedule.

🎲 THERE’S STILL ROOM AT THE TABLE

Want to run something at GameDay? Have an adventure, board game, miniature battle, demo, or other gaming experience you’d love to bring to TsunamiCon? We want your games! Game submissions are open, and there’s still plenty of room for more great experiences at the convention.

🌊 10 weeks to TsunamiCon. Five days to GameDay. The voyage is picking up speed.

Come play with us Saturday—and we’ll see you at the tables!

📅 TsunamiCon 2026 • October 16–18
📍 Hyatt Regency Wichita

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New for TsunamiCon 2026 — The Gamer Garage Sale!

Every gamer has that shelf.

You know the one.

The board game you’ve played a hundred times.
The RPG books you’ve outgrown.
The miniatures you’ll totally paint someday…
The dice you forgot you owned.

This year, instead of taking them home again, bring them to TsunamiCon’s very first Gamer Garage Sale!

Browse tables full of pre-owned tabletop treasures all weekend long. You never know what you’ll discover:

🎲 Board games
📚 RPG books and supplements
🧩 Puzzles
🛡️ Miniatures
🎨 Gaming accessories
…and plenty of unexpected gems from fellow gamers.

Looking to Sell?

Turn your old favorites into spending money for your next favorite!

If you have gaming items collecting dust, we’ll help connect them with someone who’s been looking for exactly what you’re selling.

Selling is simple:

• Bring gaming-related items to the Gamer Garage Sale.
• Fill out a Seller Form and price your items.
• We’ll display them throughout the convention.
• When your items sell, you’ll receive 85% of the sale price, with a 15% commission helping support TsunamiCon and future conventions.

Looking to Buy?

Stop by throughout the weekend to see what’s new! Inventory will change constantly as attendees add new items, making every visit a new treasure hunt.

Whether you’re searching for an out-of-print RPG, an affordable board game, a handful of miniatures, or that expansion you’ve been missing, you never know what you’ll find.

🕒 Garage Sale Hours
Friday: 3:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Saturday: 9:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Sunday: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Whether you’re clearing some shelf space, hunting for hidden treasures, or just browsing between games, the Gamer Garage Sale is another great reason to explore everything TsunamiCon has to offer.

Happy hunting… and happy selling!

Announcing TSUNAMICON 2026!

TsunamiCon 2026 will take place October 16th thru 18th at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Wichita!

We’re excited to be returning! We’re just getting started on the details of this year’s event with many exciting updates on the horizon. Early VIG tickets are now available! Prepare yourself for a new adventure this fall in the great city of Wichita!

Another Change of Venue

So we’ve had another change of venue for TsunamiCon 2025. We thought we had a really good deal in place, but there were just too many concerns regarding available space for both our vendors and our gamers, and we had to make the difficult decision to relocate. Again.

I’m happy to say that a resource in our community pulled together an offer to help get us on our feet, and we took it. Last change, we promise. This year’s event will now be hosted at the Hyatt Regency Wichita in and around the Redbud Ballroom and Upper Gallery.

It’s been a struggle, but the support of the community has kept us laser focused on making sure we get to host this event and spend a weekend with our gamer community immersed in our favorite hobby. Thank you for sticking with us, and just know that TsunamiCon will continue to provide a top-tier experience for our friends and fans in the community.

Come game with us October 24th thru 26th at the Hyatt Regency Wichita!

TsunamiCon 2025 Kickstarter is LIVE!

Our Kickstarter campaign for TsunamiCon 2025 is live and kicking! We encourage everyone to pledge even a tiny amount to help boost the signal and get us on track for success this October.

As a “grass roots” convention, TsunamiCon requires a committed investment from our community each and every year. This week we launched our most ambitious Kickstarter to date, modeled to collect enough capital to cover venue costs alone with our minimum goal. Convention costs are rising every year, with everything from event space to office supplies seeing a steady increase in cost, and some of those costs have to paid well in advance of the actual event.

This is where you come in. Every badge or vendor booth selected via our Kickstarter campaign puts cash in our coffers that will go to good use. While the capital raised by meeting our goal will cover the venue, we still need revenue for printing costs, equipment, supplies, promotion and marketing, travel and lodging, and so much more! The final price tag is frankly staggering… but every year we work tirelessly to get it all covered.

So let’s talk about the crowdfunding campaign. Here’s a breakdown of available reward levels:

Additionally, selecting a reward level from the Kickstarter campaign provides you with access to several Add-On products:

TsunamiCon 2025 Dice ($10)
TsunamiCon 2025 T-shirt ($25)
TsunamiCon 2025 Pint Glass ($25)
Additional Weekend Pass ($60)
Jonikka’s High Tea ($25)
Ad in the Event Program ($60)
Table Sponsorship ($30)

With more add-on features on the way!

Our funding goal is $9500. We’re off to a good start, but this voyage has some dangerous waters to tread before we get to port. So hoist the colors and come about! Let every gamer know what’s happening this October in the great city of Wichita, and we’ll right celebrating along with you when we cross into safe waters!

Announcing TSUNAMICON 2025!

It is time once again, fellow travelers, to set sail to the glory and grandeur of our annual tabletop gaming celebration in the great city of Wichita! TSUNAMICON 2025 returns triumphantly October 24th thru 26th to the hallowed halls of the Wichita Scottish Rite Center! For 12 long years we have toiled, braving the sea and the salt and monsters aplenty, to ride the wave of gaming excellence and call to quarters those who would seek peril and adventure with dice firmly in hand! Prithee hoist the mainsail and gather ye amidship for the news of the day, me hearties!

It has been seven years since we’ve visited the Scottish Rite, and it truly feels like a homecoming. I will not equivocate; negotiations have been challenging, but productive. A game con is an unusual monster in the public event space. Gaming requires a lot of square footage, even for smaller conventions like ours, and we must balance costs – which continue to rise – against the needs of our community. But TsunamiCon has always been a labor of love and never driven by profits. Prices will see a slight increase above the previous year, but I am committed to keeping the costs for attendees reasonable and keeping nearly all of our events free to enjoy once you’re past the gate.

That being said, early VIG tickets are currently available for those who want to get in early on the action, and early vendor registration is also available. These offers will be available for a limited time. Soon we’ll launch our crowdfunding campaign, during which ticket sales will be suspended while we work to ensure the necessary capital to make the convention successful. And speaking of VIGs… wait ’til you see what we have planned for the VIG Lounge this year! We’re opening a completely new section of the building and going all out!

Keep yer eyes locked on the horizon and our website and social media pages for updates!

Yours in Gaming,

~ E. “Captain” Carl

A Note from the Director

It was about 10 years ago, summer of 2013, when I first uttered the word “TsunamiCon” to my fellow podcasters on Metagamers Anonymous. We’d been casting pods about gaming for over a year at this point, and I had been inspired by a show I listened to out of Chicago to connect with a local game store – The Burrow – and launch our Tsunami GameDays. We were working on our second such event, and I remember telling my crew about a con in St. Louis that had been constructed by the hosts of a podcast. And I said… “I see TsunamiCon in our future.”

It got a good laugh.

We weren’t the kind of people who launched major events. Those took money. And vision. And a lot of work. It wasn’t until after we met Shaun and Eli at one of our early GameDay events that a plan started to take shape. I had more than a decade of experience planning events when I was in radio, but I’d never even been to a game con. Shaun and Eli, on the other hand, had helped run the gaming at several conventions over the years, and the idea of building one from the ground up was appealing. Jonikka helped me run the numbers and we started working on a game plan.

In the spring of 2014 we launched our startup. I had seen another convention out of Waco, TX, launch a Kickstarter campaign to pre-sell tickets, and I realized that we had finally (potentially) solved the last big problem: raising capital. None of us had much money to put into the endeavor, and it would take a large injection of cash up front to secure a venue, print programs, merchandise, promotional materials, pay for hotel rooms, catering, equipment, signage – the list went on and on!

And that’s how we did it. Kickstarter.

I know it may be hard believe if you’ve never been in the business, but in 10 years we’ve never made a dime on TsunamiCon. As we grew the convention became more expensive, and any money we made – which wasn’t much! – went right back into the event. In a very real sense, it’s a labor of love… and we know that our community gets that. Because so many of our friends and fellow gamers volunteer their time, energy, and yes, CASH, into helping make TsunamiCon an amazing place to spend a weekend in Wichita.

The Pandemic hit us hard, of course. The costs of running an event have skyrocketed, while our attendance numbers took a dive. It took everything we had and then some to make 2021 happen… we gave until it hurt, and in some ways we’re still reeling. But there was never a question that we’d made a run at Year 10. This event means a lot to us and our community, and we owe it to ourselves to keep on giving.

But we need money. It’s been a few years since we turned to Kickstarter for help, but we want more than anything to make this year’s event successful, and the cost of entry is daunting. Kickstarter represents our first best chance at putting together the bare minimum funds to kick things into motion, and we the community to pull together.

So pledge. Get your friends and family on board. If you’re not sure about how Kickstarter works, ask us. Share the campaign. On Facebook. On Twitter. To your Instagram followers, on TikTok – wherever you can! It’s important. Not to line anybody’s pockets or make anyone feel important, but just to help provide our local gaming community a place to get immersed in gaming fun and frivolity for three amazing days!

This campaign has been a grind, but it’s far from over!

TSUNAMICON 2022 | We’re Back!

It has been nearly three years since we’ve gathered en masse to celebrate our unique and amazing hobby. We’ve weathered numerous cancellations, venues shutting down, a massive shift entirely into cyberspace (with all the hiccups that naturally extend from that grand endeavor), and a fine-tuned existential dread that some things will never be what they once were… And yet, we still gather around tables in our homes and local hobby shops to adventure, rabble-rouse, skirmish, and trade wood for sheep with reckless abandon.

So it’s official: TsunamiCon is back again for another round of gaming goodness this October 21st, 22nd and 23rd. This year we are descending on the historic Drury Plaza Hotel Broadview in downtown Wichita, just across from Century II. We’ll be filling their grandiose 9,000-square-foot ballroom to the brim with gaming tables and special events, and using the adjacent Riverview Room – with it’s picturesque view of the east bank – as our Marketplace and Guild Hall. We have also secured a special hospitality room for our VIGs, and will be working with the hotel restaurant and caterers to provide excellent food and snack options throughout the con.

Early VIG badges are now available, and tickets will go on sale soon enough. We’ll be making announcements in the weeks ahead regarding featured events and special guests. As always, if there is a special game, panel, or event you would like to bring to the con, reach out to us at events@tsunamicon.org to discuss the particulars. If we can fit it in and it feels like it belongs at our event, we will. We will also open game registration soon, allowing GMs to list games and events for attendees to join. It’s never a bad idea to plan your convention experience in advance to get the most out of the experience.

Stay tuned, friends. And be sure to spread the good news! TsunamiCon is back for 2022!

Announcing TsunamiCon 2021 Virtual Con

Are you ready for the main event? Join the crew of TsunamiCon, Wichita’s premiere tabletop gaming convention, for our fall convention. In the wake of the continuing public health crisis, TsunamiCon 2021 will once again be entirely virtual.

TsunamiCon attendees can enjoy a number of fun and exciting events throughout the weekend – brought right to your computer and/or mobile device! Including a variety of tabletop games and RPGs, Featured Events, Demos, Special Guests, Organized Play, Live Entertainment, Panels, Contests and Giveaways, and more…!

TsunamiCon 2021 Virtual Con is scheduled for the weekend of October 22nd thru 24th, and registration and event submission is now open! Keep an eye on our website (www.TsuanmiCon.org) and our social media feeds for updates and information.

Announcing our Spring 2021 Virtual Con!

Join the crew of TsunamiCon, Wichita’s premiere tabletop gaming convention, for our newest gaming adventure. In the wake of the continuing public health crisis, our 2021 events will be entirely virtual – starting with our very first springtime convention!

Tsunami GameFaire attendees can enjoy a number of fun and exciting events throughout the weekend – brought right to your computer and/or mobile device! Including a variety of tabletop games and RPGs, Featured Events, Demos, Special Guests, Organized Play, Live Entertainment, Panels, Contests and Giveaways, and more…!

Our inaugural Tsunami GameFaire event is scheduled for the weekend of April 30th thru May 2md, and registration and event submission is now open! Keep an eye on our website (www.TsuanmiCon.org) and our social media feeds for updates and information.