So I spent my Saturday on the campus of Guilford College at the wonderful What The Hell? Con. Let me first get something out of the way. This is a free convention. FREE! And the thing that gets me about it is theres another regional convention that charges money, that is way less organzied, and in comparison offers less. So great job WTHcon, you put on a great show.
The convention takes place between two buldings. It reminds me alot of Conbust at Smith College in Mass. Most of the space is classroom space, repurposed for the convention. In Duke the first floor is for the dealers, who carried a good amount of stuff. The second floor has lots of games rooms for the rpgers. If you like Role Playing, then most likely there was a game for you there. There is also a Anime room, which had good crowds most of the day, and something unique to WTH con for me was the Bad Movies Room. I stopped there a few times throughout the weekend and it was really really bad. It takes a hardy person to find these films i’m sure.
The third floor has two videogame rooms and more programming space.
Across the way in Dana was the auditorium where MC Frontalot had his concert and where the Artist Alley was. These artist, many of them from the webcomic world were all amazing, and I’m gonna try to join them next year.
I had to leave during the MC Frontalot concert so I could make the drive back to Asheville, but left with a very enjoyable day of conventioning behind me. Great job to the students and volunteers who put on WTH Con.