 | LexiCon and CinCityCon comes from 6 gamers who really enjoy playing games and probably own more than 3,000 games between them. We also have enjoyed attending many boardgaming conventions over the years.
LexiCon Tabletop Gaming Convention was founded, in Lexington KY in 2014. LexiCon has grown in attendance and quality over the last 9 years and has been praised frequently for its friendly staff, organized events, and adult gaming parties sponsored by Wes Sixth Brewing.
We held our first CinCityCon in 2016, a one-day event that exceeded our expectations. CinCityCon 2018 saw a turnstile of over 2,000 people attend and has continued to grow throughout the years.
Our first step was to contact Larry Estep, avid gamer and technological whiz to join us. And then we asked one of our most social buddies, Rob Slevin, who has helped make the Lexington area gamers Meetup exceed over 1,500 people! We have since added Travis Reynolds from CharCon, and super volunteers Scott Cox and Mandy Johnson have joined the formal team.
Chris Grzywacz is known for his enjoyment of popular games and gaming conventions, his daughters who regularly dominate games they play, and his wife who thinks he is a Big Old Nerd (but not so big if you have seen him lately). He spends a lot of his free time working on CinCityCon and LexiCon, when he is not playing co-ops, deck builders, biking, or reading.
Larry Estep loves table-top gaming in all its forms. He began playing RPGs in the early 1980s, has made forays into miniatures gaming, and has become an avid fan of board games. The core of his regular gaming group has been together for over 30 years. Due to this, he hasn’t always gotten out much, but he’s trying to correct that by working with LexiCon and CinCityCon where he coordinates tournaments, RPGs and miniatures events.
Rob Slevin has been hard at work to grow the Learn to Play events at LexiCon and CinCityCon. He has been working on building his personal library of games which he often shares at one of the many local gaming events he coordinates, and is known as the current face of the Boardgame Enthusiasts of Lexington (KY), a group started by Greg Franseth.
Due to the incredible success of LexiCon, we decided to expand. We invited board game insider and operator of Charleston, West Virginia's CharCon, Travis Reynolds, to join us and we started up CinCityCon, Cincinnati’s largest boardgame and RPG convention, happening every October at the Sharonville Convention Center just off I-75 north of Cincinnati.
We also added Scott Cox, organizer extraordinaire and Mandy Johnson, are awesome Volunteer Coordinator. They bring lots of energy to our team. |
