MonCon 2011

MonCon 2011 was Team Covenant's second annual Monsterpocalypse exclusive convention that was held in Tulsa, Oklahoma on May 19-22, 2011.

The convention had 31 attendees, some from as far away as Canada, making it the first internationally attended MonCon event.

Details were also revealed that MonCon will now expend to the west coast via MonCon West.

Masters Tournament
There were 25 competitors in the Masters Tournament that competed over 8 swiss-style rounds, followed by a Wildcard Round for the 7-10 seeds, and finally a single elimination bracket after a cut to the Top 8.
 * Tournament Match-Ups

The champion was Kevin Storm.

Double Monster Tournament

 * Tournament Match-Ups

There were 20 competitors in the Double Monster Tournament that competed in 4 swiss-style rounds before being cut to the Top 4 where they then faced single elimination.

The champion was Josh Gremillion.

Cowboys & Indians

 * Tournament Match-Ups

There were 21 competitors across 7 teams in the Cowboys and Indians Tournament that competed in 3 swiss-style rounds with the best performing team being declared the winner.

The champions were from Team Tulsa, consisting of Joseph Leib, Issac Hutchins, & Tyler Pippin.
 * Monsters of Midway: Austin Portillo, Bilal Muhammad, Nate Parks
 * Team Awesomesauce: Jace Thomas, Kaitlin Graff
 * Team Bear and the Brothers Grim: Josh Gremillion, Jeremy Gremillion, BJ
 * Team One of Them: Jonathan Wooley, Luke Mayne, Lars Mallach
 * Team Team Covenant: Zach Bunn, Tim Bunn, Philip Rowland
 * Team Tulsa: Joseph Leib, Issac Hutchins, Tyler Pippin
 * Team Spazz: Kevin Storm, Spazz Fist, Sam Collins

Faction Only

 * Tournament Match-Ups


 * Standard Monsterpocalypse rules, however, your force can only consist of FACTION units.
 * Neutral units are not allowed.

Burning MonPoc
Burning MonPoc was a role-playing game run by Steven Wooley using the Burning Wheel system where the participants played one of a troop of G.U.A.R.D. members who were sent to parley with a representative of the Shadow Sun Syndicate.
 * Monsterpocalypse-themed role-playing scenario.
 * Quick 1-shot with players playing GUARD troops.
 * Players chose their character from a stack of pre-made to save time.

The Characters

 * Alabaster Dandy - Young, attractive, highly skilled pilot. Very witty and sarcastic. Loves getting under people's skin. Posh tart.
 * Boris Grishenko - Young prodigy. Brilliant. Fighting addition to American women. Russian. Computer hacker/expert.
 * Cletus Conrad - Redneck/Hick spy. Everyone underestimates his intelligence but he's brilliant. He can be charming with his souther accent.
 * Clydesdale Pracht - Angry. Been known to curse and yells often. Thinks no one else is competent. Demolition expert.
 * Eli Porter - Has an alcohol problem. Also enjoys sipping cough medicine. Has a good heart and a natural expert at putting bodies back together.
 * General Gavin DeGaar - An old general on the brink of retirement. Beaten down by war and violence. Tired of seeing all the pain. A caring man.
 * Hal Smith - Seen by most as insane, yet effective. Gruff. Laughs a lot and always happy... sometimes too happy.
 * Montgomery Valo - Trained sniper. Calm. Cool. Loves animals more than humans. Vegetarian.

Exclusive
Much like MonCon 2010, the attendees of MonCon 2011 recieved an exclusive Monsterpocalypse item available only to them.

For 2011, the item was the first of a line of custom Covenant Maps, Mayhem on Memorial.

It was also revealed that the map will be part of a greater campaign where Covenant Map subscribers will be able to contribute to scenario-based story telling that will chain from map to map and unfold into a saga that the community itself writes as they play the game.

Surprises

 * During the opening ceremony, the The Team Covenant World Championship Belt was revealed. It will hence forth serve a the title prize for any TC hosted Masters Event for Monsterpocalypse. In the buildup to MonCon 2011, it was frequently said to be "Gold for a reason" and though there were many reasons, including gold dice, shirts, and cri-cuts, the belt was the ultimate reason and the source of the theme as a whole.
 * Attendees were also treated to the first and only look at a special video from Privateer Press featuring DC and Will Schick about the six new Quantum forms due out by GenCon 2011.
 * A new system for managing events and ranking players was also revealed. The system, designed by Philip Rowland, enables users to host and run events and allows the players who participate in those events to be ranked against people who they not only play against directly, but players all over the world.
 * Team Covenant also announced that MonCon West will be inaugurated at the So-Cal Smackdown event in the summer of 2011.