Convention Timetable
Mio Shurui V-Tuber Panel
This will be an interactive panel for people to talk to a vtuber and get to know how life is like behind the screen! They can ask questions and get advice on how to get started as their own personas.
Trader Hall 1
Step into the geek shopping high street of your dreams at Q-Con's Trader Hall! Local stores will set up row after row of stalls offering everything from gaming accessories to handmade crafts!
Located in Whitla Hall
Blood on the Clocktower
Blood on the Clocktower is an up to 15 player social deduction game, akin to Werewolf or Mafia, that focuses on a town of characters as portrayed by the players with unique individual roles and abilities.
Cosplay Photo Studio
Join us at our free Q-Con Cosplay Photo Studio, where professional photographers will take photos of you (by yourself or with your friends) and give you the digital image!
Indie Developers
Never before seen game demos from indie developers making their debut at QCon.
Miniature Painting Competition
Q-Con is proud to host a miniature painting competition! We're excited to host your painting projects from the past year, allowing you to compete for a grand prize of £100 and bragging rights. Submissions are open all day Saturday until 3pm on Sunday, with results announced at 4pm on Sunday. Models must be painted wholly by yourself, and must be physically given to us for photography. Event submissions to be brought to the second floor or the Peter Froggatt Centre 02/018 as judging will occur aside from the main Warhammer 40k tournament.
Art Competition
Q-Con’s Annual Art Competition! No matter your level, showcase your talents to your friends with our Traditional and Digital categories. All submissions are physical and will be displayed in Artist Alley so be sure to come down and check out the pop up exhibition. The winner will be contacted via email.
KPOP Beginner Dance Class
Two dance classes ran by QUB's very own KPop Society, beginner friendly dance classes that are cosplay friendly and fun for all ages! This is to give people a taste and a sense of Kpop!
Freeplay PC Games
More into keyboard and mouse than a controller? We've got you covered with our gaming laptops set up in the Light Room
Trader Hall 2
Step into the geek shopping high street of your dreams at Q-Con's Trader Hall! Local stores will set up row after row of stalls offering everything from gaming accessories to handmade crafts!
Located in the South Dining Hall
Brindlewood Bay: Running of the Salmon
Brindlewood Bay is a game about elderly women,known as the Murder Mavens, solving mysteries in a small seaside town, while alo uncovering a dark eldritch conspiracy.
Dragonslayers Retro Consoles
A chance to play some old classics on the consoles they were made for, come play some multiplayer retro games in the Big Block
Ita Bag Competition
Collectors and trinket fiends visit us at the Artist Alley Competition table, for a chance to win our Ita Bag Contest. Show off your fandom interests with our categories Otaku and Pop Culture. During submission we will take a picture of the bag for our reference to help pick the winner who will be emailed a prize.
Board Games Free to Play Area
Come and immerse yourself in the vast selection of games available from QUB Dragonslayers' extensive library at Q-Con 2025. Over 80 board games available to borrow and play when visiting the Main Site Tower. Plenty of space to roll up and enjoy. Whether you are looking for a classic favourite or something refreshingly new, we have a wide variety available to play.
Base Arcade
Experience a first for QCon with our pop up arcade including arcade machines and pinball from Base Arcade
Charities & Associations
Stop by and meet the amazing charities working alongside Q-Con this year. Learn about their missions and find out how you can get involved in making a real difference in people’s lives.
https://www.q-con.org.uk/charities-and-associations
Battle Bots
A charity running two styles of robot fighting! "Beat-the-duck" try beat a pro driving the bot via the camera in the ducks eye as fast as you can. And "Fully destructive" walk up and have a go battling another attendee.
Registration
Acquire your wristbands to gain entry to Q-Con events. Home of Lost & Found and also the 2025 T-shirt collection point at the Whitla Hall.
Artist Alley
Support independent creators and discover unique, handmade treasures in our Artist Alley! Prints, pins, plushies and more, there’s something for every fandom here!
Modern Consoles
Modern favourites on PS5, PS4, Xbox and Switch Consoles, come on down and get your teeth into some multiplayer button mashing in The Cube in Student's Union
Light Guns
Get ready to test your shooting skills with our light gun set up in the Little Block. Go on, give it a shot.
Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game
We also have something for the exciting fans of the world of JRR Tolkien: this tournament for Middle Earth's premier wargame, the Strategy Battle Game by Games Workshop. Q-Con 25 will be hosting a 500 point tournament across Sunday ran in conjunction alongside our Age of Sigmar tournament.
Please click here for the tournament pack below for more information
Please click here for the signups which will be live until the 11th June 2025
Warhammer Age of Sigmar
We play host to a Spearhead tournament; a fast paced format with pre-built, thematic forces. No list building, just great fun in the Mortal Realms! Take part with a wide variety of forces, adapt to changing circumstances, score battle tactics and face opponents of all stripes in 4 games across the day. Located in the Peter Froggart Centre 02/018.
Please click here for the tournament pack for more information
Please see the link attached for signups which will be live until the 13th June 2025
Prejudging for Cosplay Masquerade
Prejudging for the Cosplay Masquerade (sign up in advance is required)
Nintendo Wii
Come relive the joy of motion controls with the Nintendo Wii, it's a classic for a reason!
Located in the Sunset Room
Sharrdos: The Red Hand Rebellion
Welcome to the city of Great Falladon where industry, innovation, and revolution are in the air! Choose your alliance in the debut campaign of industrial-fantasy roleplaying system, Sharrdos – back for its second year at Q-Con.
Disney's Lorcana
Format: Standard (best of 1)
Date: Sunday 15/6/25
Sign up time:9am
Start time: 10am
End time: 12.30pm
Pathfinder: Menace Under Otari (Beginner Box) The Lower Level
Something lurks under the peaceful logging town of Otari. Uncover a plot that threatens the Isle of Kortos and possibly the world.
TRACK DOGS: The Make And Break Men
Come and playtest TRACK DOGS, a Powered By The Apocalypse RPG about train pirates in a forest sea!
PFC 01/005, 3-5 players
Warcrow
We are proud to host Ireland's first narrative event for Warcrow, a brand new fantasy skirmish game from Corvus Belli. Set in the world of Lindwurm, you'll be fighting over resources in the Poisoned Glen and facing horrors untold as you battle for dominance!
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe | Switch
| 16 Players | 4-Player Heats, 4 Race GP |
The only friend you need on the road is a blue shell!
150cc. Items enabled. First place of each GP moves to the top 4.
CLUE Random Dance Panel
It will be a K-Pop Random Dance panel with prizes. A K-pop random dance is a social activity where participants, often K-pop fans, come together to dance to random songs or parts of songs. A song (or part of a song) is played, and anyone who knows the choreography for that song joins in the dance.
DISNEY LORCANA COMPETITIVE EVENT
Price: £15.00 per player
Sign Up Time: 11:00am
Start Time: 12:00pm
PURCHASE EVENT TICKET HERE
Dragonscale Card Gaming - Digimon
We are very happy to welcome the return of Dragonscale to Q-Con this year as they host Digimon, run by themselves in the Peter Froggatt Centre. Hope you all have a wonderful time at the event!
Sign ups start at 10am and close at 12pm.
POKEMON Q-CON WIN A BOOSTER BOX
Price: £15.00 per player
Sign Up Time: 10:00am
Start Time: 12:00pm
PURCHASE EVENT TICKET HERE
YU-GI-OH! COMPETITIVE EVENT
Price: £15.00 per player
Sign Up Time: 10:00am
Start Time: 12:00pm
PURCHASE EVENT TICKET HERE
Magic: The Gathering
Format: Two-Headed Giant
Date: Sunday 15/6/25
Sign up time: 9am
Start time: 12.30pm
End time: 3pm
Banlist: https://tappedout.net/users/Qcon2025/lists/qcon-2025-mtg-banlist/
Guilty Gear -Strive- | Playstation 5
| 16 Players | Double Elimination / Top 16 Best of 1 > Top 8 Best of 3 |
Blame the Beasts & R.I.S.C it all!
-Controller adapters available!-
Cosplay Masquerade (Safety Briefing)
Mandatory Safety Briefing for Cosplay Masquerade participants before the event doors open to the audience.
SUPERCOPS
The year is 1984 and Miami Florida
Is alive and well with glamour, music and sweet sweet smell of corruption and crime.
Outgoing chief of police Raymond Bolt has vowed to cleanup the streets and "Legitimate bussinesses" BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
He's created the world's first SUPERCOPS unit - (Special Uniformed Protection Enforcement and Response) cops and he needs new recruits!
Join the SUPERCOPS and be thrust into the glitz and blood pumping adrenaline that is a city on the brink.
Cosplay Craft Workshop
A workshop on the basics of getting into cosplay and an intro into sowing fabrics together. From making granny squares to sowing a sleeve!
Cosplay Masquerade
A showcase of a combination of homemade and purchased costumes of all of your favourite characters! (NB. Mandatory Safety Briefing at 13:00 for stage participants!!!)
Star Trek Adventures - Where No Dog Has Gone Before
Players new to the system will learn the basics of the Star Trek Adventures 2d20 game engine. Seasoned players will get to try out some of the new second edition mechanics. If you’re new to the Star Trek universe, you will get a feel for what it’s like to explore strange new worlds together. Let’s fly!
TRACK DOGS: The Last Watch
Come and playtest TRACK DOGS, a Powered By The Apocalypse RPG. In this scenario, your crew guide an old train on its final journey to be broken up. But is there yet hope for this crew and machine of unwanted relics?
PFC 01/005, 3-5 players
Chaotic Cosplay Make Up Panel
Do you have problems with your makeup melting halfway through the con? Do you feel like a wig washes you out? Have you ever needed hacks on how to put on lashes AND to make them stay? Well, Welcome to Chaotic Guide to Cosplay Makeup. The host, Cosplay By Chaos has theater makeup experience and does consider understanding stage and photo makeup as their forte and Is ready to answer all your questions.
Located in One Elmwood Hall
Public Access: The House on Escondido Street
Public Access is a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of people in 2004—the Deep Lake Latchkeys—who find themselves investigating strange mysteries in and around the town of Deep Lake, New Mexico. In the ‘80s and early ‘90s, Deep Lake was the home of a notorious public access television station called TV Odyssey, the history and fate of which—the station literally disappeared—is the source of much speculation in certain corners of the internet. As the Latchkeys conduct their investigations in Deep Lake, they will become increasingly aware of the central role TV Odyssey plays in everything that’s going on, and will have to face whatever terrible truth lies at the heart of the infamous station.
Tekken 8 | Playstation 5
| 16 Players | Double Elimination / Top 16 Best of 1 > Top 8 Best of 3 |
I ain’t gonna sugarcoat it. Finish the weekend off with a few rage arts!
-Controller adapters available!-
Cosplay Group Photo
A group photo for all in Cosplay to be apart of on the Social Stairs at the front of the One Elmwood Building
Pathfinder: In the Footsteps of Horror
A group of powerful Pathfinders had to abandon the exploration of an underground complex after defeating a powerful lich and stopping a devatating ritual by the skin of their teeth. The PCs are tasked with exploring this complex now cleared of threats and cataloguing what's there.
Pathfinder: The Swordlord's Challenge
An Aldori swordlord who fought alongside Pathfinders years ago is looking for a way to push her students harder. She issues a challenge to Marcos Farabellus, the Master of Swords, boasting that her most promising young pupils can defeat any Marcos has trained.
The Cosplay Gameshow
NI Cosplay Community and West of Ireland Cosplay Community pit two teams of cosplayers against each other to show off their knowledge & prowess as cosplayers, for the fun and entertainment of the crowd
Located in One Elmwood
CPAI Photogragher of The Year Award
We'll be hosting the finale of this years Ireland's Cosplay Photographer Of the Year at Qcon (Like we did last year). This will be a panel with a powerpoint presentation going through the judges choices and the winner.
Located in Elmwood Hall
Pathfinder: Lions of Katapesh
Goblin patriarch, merchant, and Pathfinder Society ally Yigrig Moneymaker needs help! The cunning goblin merchant has big plans to build a bridge that will connect two promising trade partners, but something is stirring up the local wildlife and convincing the lions and other predators of the Katapeshi plains that goblins are more tasty than can possibly be true.
Q-Karaoke
Q-Con Karaoke is a lively and entertaining event where fans of comics, anime, movies, and pop culture take the stage to sing their favorite songs—often in costume!
Club Q-Con
Club Q-Con will follow the Pub Quiz, join us and our resident DJs in the Union bar for some drinks and tunes!
Pub Quiz
Q-Con's annual Pub Quiz! Hosted by our fantastic Quiz Master Marc, it's sure to be a fun time! Make sure to grab your ticket and come test your nerdy knowledge!
Dice & Drinks
Don't finish your Q-Con Saturday early; come join us for a chill night of dice, drinks and boardgames in the Mandela Hall.
Anime Quiz
A fun for all ages anime quiz hosted in the annex bar with a prize of Amazon vouchers for the winner!
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves | Playstation 5
| 16 Players | Double Elimination / Top 16 Best of 1 > Top 8 Best of 3 |
A new fighter has hit the stage! Can you survive the city of the wolves?
-Controller adapters available!-
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
A screening of the film Puss in Boots: The Last Wish in Mandela Hall.
The Between: The St James Ghost
The Between is a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of mysterious monster hunters in Victorian-era London. These hunters learn about various monstrous threats in the city and conduct investigations, or “hunts,” in order to neutralize them. They gradually become aware of the machinations of a criminal mastermind who is sometimes connected to the threats, but always scheming to bring the Crown to its knees. The hunters will ultimately be forced to reckon with this criminal mastermind in order to save the country.
Pathfinder: Menace Under Otari (Beginner Box) The Upper Level
Something lurks under the peaceful logging town of Otari. Uncover a plot that threatens the Isle of Kortos and possibly the world.
Pathfinder: The Second Confirmation
A Pathfinder Society initiate goes missing on their Confirmation mission to become a fully-fledged field agent. With no update on the initiate’s whereabouts, the Society assembles a group of initiates into a rare group Confirmation in order to spearhead a rescue. It’s up to a new generation of heroes to save one of their own, and potentially make a few big discoveries along the way!
Chess
Chess tournament run by Belfast Social Club supporting up to 30 participants. Apart from the tournament you can join for casual play or spectate.
Vampire the Masquerade
“Your life has ended. Your heart stopped beating, you stopped breathing, your body is cold, dead flesh; and yet here you are, hungry.”
Hive Tournament
Hive is a great 2 player strategy game played with Black and White pieces with no board. You must construct clever approach in order to surround the enemy Queen Bee piece and win!
The Necropolis - Call of Cthulhu
Venture into Call of Cthulhu, a horror TTRPG that plays on the psyche of the investigators as they tackle the horrors that lurk within forgotten parts of the world, as they tread the fine line between the reality they comprehend and the madness that dwells in the dark.
PFC 03/010, 18+, 4-6 players
Fabula Ultima - PFC/01/023, 3-5 Players
FABULA ULTIMA is a Tabletop Roleplaying Game inspired by JRPGs like Final Fantasy, Genshin Impact and many more of that genre. In Fabula Ultima, you play through epic stories of would-be heroes or adventurers facing off against fearsome villains and monsters, set in fantasy worlds brimming with magic, wondrous locations, and bizarre creatures!
Posing 101 Panel
Over their 10 year partnership Amy (@well_dressed_dinosaur) & Sarah (@petite_titan) have learned a lot about the art of posing for cosplay photography, and want to share their experience with you! This is an introduction to posing for cosplay photography in association with CPAI (@cpai_official), intended for beginners
Cosplay Variety Show
A showcase of talented preformances and skills, from Kpop dances to some stunning singing performances! (NB. Mandatory Safety Briefing at 12:30 for performers!!!)
Street Fighter 6 | Playstation 5
| 16 Players | Double Elimination / Top 16 Best of 1 > Top 8 Best of 3 |
Hit the streets with a few hadoukens before lunch!
-Controller adapters available!-
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Format: Standard Constructed
Date: Saturday 14/6/25
Signup time: 9am
Start time: 12:30PM
End time: 3pm
Banlist: https://www.yugioh-card.com/en/limited/list_2025-04-07/
YU-GI-OH! COMPETITIVE EVENT
Price: £15.00 per player
Sign Up Time: 10:00am
Start Time: 12:00pm
PURCHASE EVENT TICKET HERE
Dragonscale Card Gaming - Yu-Gi-oh!
We are very happy to welcome the return of Dragonscale to Q-Con this year as they host Yu-Gi-Oh, run by themselves in the Peter Froggatt Centre!
Sign ups start at 10am and close at 12pm.
DISNEY LORCANA FREE PACK RUSH EVENT
Price: FREE
Sign Up Time: 10:00am
Start Time: 12:00pm
MAGIC THE GATHERING: COMMANDER
Price: £20.00 per player
Sign Up Time: 10:00am
Start Time: 12:00pm
BAN LIST WILL BE IN EFFECT (Link Below)
https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/replays-ban-list/
PURCHASE EVENT TICKET HERE
Speed Friending
An activity for Con goers to make friends using guided prompts and questions!
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate | Switch
| 24 Players | Double Elimination / Best of 1 |
Start the weekend off with a Super Smash Beatdown!
3 Stock. No Items.
CLUE Idol Show
Idol media is making a comeback and we want to give people the chance to show off their passions! We want to offer a judgement free performance space where people can dance, sing, act or even lipsync to their favourite Idol media. This can include, K-Pop, C-Pop, J-Pop(etc) and Idol games/shows such as Love Live! Enstars, Project Sekai, Vocaloid, and many more.
LANCER
LANCER is a mud and lasers tabletop role playing game in which the titular lancers are skilled pilots of large mechanised combat suits.
Infinity
Take part in this fast paced, tactical tournament using a 300pt force in Resilience Operations, where no two games are ever the same! Infinity is a unique sci-fi skirmish wargame with plenty of counter play options during your opponents turn and beautiful miniatures. Located in the Peter Froggart Centre 02/025.
Star Trek Adventures - All Outta Bubblegum
Join the crew of the USS Challenger as they try to rescue a lost Starfleet officer on Satnar 115. Its inhabitants have been taught to watch the skies in fear of an alien invasion. But little do they know the danger may be much closer... Players new to the system will learn the basics of the Star Trek Adventures 2d20 game engine.
Depictions will be moderated in an age-appropriate manner. We will use the X-Card safety tool. 4-6 players, 3-4h