Tournament and Event Schedules

Convention goers can now go to eventeny and search for Rocky Top to pull up an easy to read event schedule filled with games and panels!
Or just click this link: https://www.eventeny.com/events/rockytopgamecon-5285/

Note: schedule is subject to Change as events are added or removed

To register for tournaments or or purchase your con badge search for links on Rockytopgamecon.com or go to the event tab on our face book page.

Some events are free and or you sign up the day of and may not have event links. For those events all you have to do is purchase your con badge and show up! 

Convention hours (Gaming Bottom Floor):

May 26th Friday: 10 am – 10 pm
May 27th Saturday: 10 am – 10 pm
May 28th Sunday: 10 am – 6:00 pm

Vendor hall Hours (top floor):

Friday: 10 am to 10 pm
Saturday: 10 am to 10 pm
Sunday: 10 am to 6pm

Table Top events:

NEW! – Rocky Top Game Con Friday AOS RTT

Entry 30 Dollars, Friday pass included with ticket sale. Player Cap 20. Material cut off and list due date May 25th at 11:58 pm. prize support in convention credit. This event will be for ITC points. Rounds are 2 hours and 30 minutes with hard stop/ Dice down. lunch is 30 minutes.

Event schedule:
Registration: 10 am
Dice Roll Off 11:00 am
Round 1: 11 am – 1:30 am
lunch: 1: 30 pm – 2pm
Round 2: 2: pm -4:30 pm
Round 3: 4:30 pm – 7 pm

Historical Gaming with Ed Bardill
Saturday 1pm – 4pm May 27th 2023 at the Jacobs building In Knoxville TN. Get your weekend passes at rockytopgamecon.com

Join Ed Bardill of the Historic Gamers of North Knox County as he hosts a Civil War battle in Epic Miniature scale.  Six players, ages 14 and older, will participate as a Brigade Commander leading three regiments of approximately 300+ models, only 13.5mm high.

Command either a Confederate or an Union brigade and see for the first time how a miniature battle involving over 2000 models captures the real look of fighting in 1863.  Choose a side and lead your brigade to victory or change a historic outcome.

Gaslands with Jason Snell: 
May 28th Saturday 1pm to 6 pm

Join the fun and excitement of Gaslands, a game of vehicular carnage on the wasted plains of a post apocalypse Earth.  If you like Death Race and Mad Max, you will love Gaslands.  

Open play demo.  Jason and Scott will be on hand to teach you all you need to know to enjoy the game and the hobby of modding out your own Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars to be arena ready!

Swap Meet: Saturday May 28th 7 pm to 930 pm

Area for pick up games: all weekend

40k Super Major Event Schedule:
Friday May 26th Day 1
Registration starts at 8 am
Round 1: 9am – 12 pm
Lunch: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Round 2: 1:00pm – 4:00 pm
Round 3:  4:10 pm – 7:10pm

May 27th Day 2
Round 1: 9am – 12 pm
Lunch: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Round 2: 1:00pm – 4:00 pm
Round 3:  4:10 pm – 7:10pm

May 28th Day3
Round 1: 9am – 12 pm
Round 2: 12:10pm – 3:10 pm

Warhammer 40k Sunday RTT

https://www.bestcoastpairings.com/event/7h4lp58b

Sigmar GT Event Schedule:

Friday May 26th Day 1
Registration starts at 8 am

May 27th Day 1
Round 1: 9am – 11:30 am
Lunch: 11:30 am – 12:30.pm
Round 2: 12:30pm – 3:00 pm
Round 3:  3:05 pm – 5:35pm

May 28th Day 2
Round 1: 9am – 1130 am
Round 2: 12:00 pm –  2:30 pm

Star Wars legion Event Schedule:

Day 1 May 27th
TO Brief and welcome 9:45 AM
Main Event Round 1 10:00 AM
Lunch 12:30 PM
Main Event  Round 2 1:30 PM
Main Event  Round 3 4:15 PM

Day 2 may 28th
TO Brief and welcome 9:45 AM
Main Event Round 4 10:00 AM
Lunch – Paint Judging 12:30 PM
Main Event  Round 5 1:30 PM
Awards and Prizes 4:15 PM

Warmachine:

Saturday – Day 1Registration: 9 am
Dice roll: 10 am
Round 1: 10 am to 12:30 pm
Lunch  12:30pm to 1:30 pm
Round 2: 1:30pm to 4:00 pm
Round 3: 4:05 pm to 6:35 pm 

Sunday – Day 2 
Dice roll at 9 am
Top 8 players will play for the Tournament Championship.
2nd 75pt Steamroller will be ran simultaneously

TCG Tournaments

Commander Point Quest:
Saturday May 27th 3 pm to 7 pm 
Ticket link: https://www.bestcoastpairings.com/event/6lf5t3p1

Paint competition

The Rocky Top Game Con Miniature Painting Competition is focused on helping to inspire local artists to get involved in their community. We want to provide an educational event where artists can learn how to improve their work and exchange ideas with like-minded talent.

Sign up is free. You sign up in advance through this ticket link or show up Friday May 26 between 10 am and 7 pm.

More details at this link: https://www.bestcoastpairings.com/event/y06892a2

New! – Rocky Top model competition 2023

RPG Sessions

RPGs with the Chattanooga RPG Society
Saturday May 27th 10 am – 10 pm

Game System: multiple TTRPGS available.

Sign up link: https://www.bestcoastpairings.com/event/1qve0u3n

Join the Chattanooga RPG Society and their Games Masters through various adventures throughout the day. Tables are free to join, just walk up and grab a character sheet.  No experience required, rules taught during the game.

RPGs with the Chattanooga RPG Society
Sunday May 28th 10 am – 6 pm

Game System: multiple TTRPGS available.

Sign up link: https://www.bestcoastpairings.com/event/wxuvwq76

Join the Chattanooga RPG Society and their Games Masters through various adventures throughout the day. Tables are free to join, just walk up and grab a character sheet.  No experience required, rules taught during the game.

Contraband Games Legendary Demo

Schedule – All sessions host 6 seats and all players receive a free d20 and character sheet to keep. Please sign up at the booth to reserve a seat!

Friday May 26
10:30am – 12:30pm
1:00pm – 3:00pm
3:30-5:30pm
5:30-7:30pm

Saturday May 27
10:30am – 12:30pm
1:00-3:00pm
3:30-5:30pm
5:30-7:30pm

Sunday May 28
10:30am – 12:30pm
1:00-3:00pm
3:30-5:30pm

Open tables for guests to host their own games

Board Game Sessions & Tournaments

Deadwood Games: All weekend 
DeadWoodGames will be joining us to demo their new Game all weekend!  The game is called Get F***ed in the Wild West! 

The Game Lady
Friday

  • [2 PM – 3:30 PM] Flourish
  • [4 PM – 5:30 PM] Wok Star (3rd Edition)
  • [6 PM – 8 PM] Lacrimosa
  • [8:30 PM – 10 PM] The BoardGameGeek Game

Saturday

  • [2 PM – 4 PM] Meadow
  • [4:30 PM – 6 PM] Kitchen Rush (Revised Edition)
  • [6:30 PM – 8 PM] Vinyl
  • [8:30 PM – 10 PM] ESSEN The Game: SPIEL’13

Sunday

  • [11:30 AM – 12:30 PM] Papillon
  • [1 PM – 2 PM] Hibachi
  • [2:30 PM – 4:30 PM] – Roll Camera!: The Filmmaking Board Game
  • [5 PM – 6 PM] Shelfie Stacker

Free to play Board Game Library
Open to play board games all weekend long brought to you by rocky top.

Kinson Key Gaming

Duration all weekend open to close 
Join Kinson Key Gaming as they demo their new game all weekend long!

Galactic Cruise
Galactic Cruise is a 1-4 player heavy euro worker placement where players take on the role of supervisors of the company to help build and launch shuttles to send guests on luxurious space flights. The game plays at 90-150 minutes and also implements modular board, resource management, action selection, and tableau building. Designers T.K. King and Koltin Thompson plan to launch the game on Kickstarter early 2024 through their publishing company Kinson Key Games

Drake Gaming
Duration all weekend open to close

Board games included but not limited to:

Return to Dark Tower
Foundations Of Rome 
Mosaic
Car Wars 6th Edition
Ark Nova 
Dune Imperium
Village
Letters From Whitechapel
XCOM
Quacks Of Quendilburg,
Anno 1800
Tenpenny Parks

Panels

Cosplay karaoke 

Friday & Saturday 7pm to 10 pm
Free karaoke sign ups for Rocky top game con guests. Cosplay is not mandatory but welcomed!

Pop culture sculpting
Making Monsters Saturday May 27th. Duration: 1 hour.  Learn how to create your own monsters or creatures with easy to follow instructions using  Monsterclay, a reusable sulfur free oil based elastic clay.

Blake best 
Composing Music for Film-30 minutes
Composer and touring guitarist (ex-Bridge to Oblivion) Blake Best gives insight into his composing process, with live performances of a few of his hit songs.