Our next 24 hour event will be held on the weekend of the 14th of August in The Space, Queen's Students' Union.

Featuring:
* Dramatic Battle NI '10, Northern Ireland's qualifier for this years Super Versus Battle.
* Rock Band Live, now with over 1100 songs to choose from
* Guest appearances by a variety of Shmup games
* Retro console gaming
* A more eclectic mix of console games than our regular Tuesday nights
* Warhammer 40k battles
* More board games than you can shake a really big stick at
* CCG freeplay
* RPG gaming
* Zombies, Pirates and Ninjas, oh my!

There will be console game tournaments, and other tabletop gaming events running all weekend. With 24 hours to play - you should try a little bit of everything!

Now for the important stuff:

• When: Noon Saturday 14th - Noon Sunday 15th August
• Where: The Space, Queen's Students' Union.
• How Much? £5 for Dragonslayers members, £8 for non-members for the entire weekend. Over 18s only.
• Note: Entrants to Dramatic Battle NI only have to pay for entry to the competition,  separate entry to the 24 hour event will be offered at a reduced rate to Dramatic Battle participants once the competition is finished.

Read on for more information about our 24 hour events and important info about our strict over 18's policy for the event

Dramatic Battle NI '10 is Northern Ireland's qualifier for this years Super Versus Battle. Courtesy of QUB Dragonslayers and Neo Empire.

Date: Saturday 14/08/10
Location: QUB Students Union, The Space, 1st Floor

Times:

• Casuals; run all day from 1200
• BlazBlue Continuum Shift (PS3); from 1300
• Super Street Fighter IV (360); from 1530

Entry Fee:

• £2 entry, covers casuals only
• £3 per tournament

Tournament Format: Group qualifiers into an 8/16 man double elimination
Tournament Prizes: Winner takes all per game.

• Vouchers equal to the prize pot from a place of the winners choice.
• Group seeding at SVB 20-X
• Free entry into SVB 20-X
• Free tournament entry at SVB 20-X

- It is not required of participants of the event to attend SVB 20-X.
- All proceedings from the casual zone will be donated to a TBA charity.
- Button binding is acceptable.
- Participants are advised to bring a controller of choice.

QUB Dragoslayers will soon be purchasing society t-shirts and hoodies due to overwhelming interest from our members. We hope to take orders for these items at the start of the new academic year, however before we can begin taking orders for new merchandise we require a new logo to appear on all our branded goods.

As such QUB Dragonslayers is announcing a competition to design a new logo for all our society garments and related merchandise. The logo will be printed on all society t-shirts and hoodies and will appear on the QUB Dragonslayers and Q-Con websites.

If your a talented graphic artist and want your work to be seen by a multitude of gamers and Anime fans then read on for details on what we're looking for and how to submit your design.

There's less than a fortnight left until the start of Q-Con XVII. That's less than a fortnight left until the beginning of the largest gaming and anime convention in Ireland.

Pre-registration closes this Friday, if you haven't yet pre-registered do so now as the 18th is our hard deadline for closing pre-reg.

You can still take your chances and try to sign up on the day but we're expecting to sell out again this year and once we're full that's it.

Pre-registering is the ONLY way to guarantee your place at Q-Con, head to the Q-Con XVII website now and pre-register while there's still time.