Title: Events: Sci-Fi Con 2015 - The Power of the Schwarma
Author: NiteFenix
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Published Date: 2015-11-16
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Categories: Events
Tags: 925 rebellion, adele horn, doctor who, dune, firefly, john crofts, lexx, sci-fi con 2015, star trek, Star Wars, stargate

- NiteFenix

- 1 year ago

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Pixie and I attended the inaugural Sci-Fi Convention organised by our friends at 925 | Rebellion and Adele ‘Neko’ Horn this past Saturday and in the words of the Ninth Doctor, it was absolutely fantastic! Every sci-fi geek in attendance had a geekgasm at some point in the day as the organisers catered for a lot of sci-fi fandoms. From the ever popular Star Wars and Star Trek, to Lexx, Firefly, Doctor Who, Dune and many more.

The day started off with an awesome multi round battle in Robo Wars, which continued throughout the day until an ultimate victor was crowned. This was followed by an entertaining display of lightsabership (swordsmanship?) by the guys from Knightsabers Academy .

One of the highlights was of course the cosplay competition, with popular cosplayer Devin Green as MC (dressed as Star Lord from the Guardians of the Galaxy). The winners were as follows:

1st Place – Samantha Fouche – Genderbent Boba Fett from Star Wars

2nd Place – Natasha Badenhorst – Kitana from Mortal Kombat

3rd Place – John Murray & Chris Visser – Soldiers from the Warhammer Universe.

Judges Choice – Marissa Horn (TARDIS) and Dalia Chalmers -Dalek

Audience Favourie – Fanus Esterhuizen -Dalek

In a bit of a twist though, Devin managed to get hurt during a small demonstration by one of the Warhammer cosplayers and ended up having to go to the hospital and get 2 stiches, ouch! We hope you’re on the mend buddy. Injuries in he line of duty are not fun.

During the course of the day there was also an X-Wing Miniature board game tournament in progress, but Kharrak will update you on the details on that. As far as we are aware, he managed to win all 3 of his games and the tournament, so good going man!

Sci-Fi Con 2015 also had a raffle in which a Ewok Bow could be won, and the winner of that raffle was one Tristan Bowman.

Unfortunately we do not know who won the auction for the TARDIS Door nor how much it went for, so if you won it or you know who did, please let us know and we will update this article accordingly!

Aside from the activities on display, they were quite a number of awesome stallholders including Eye Voodoo , our friends The Dark Carnival , Powered by Fandom , Fairy Fountains (who 3D Printed an amazing Sub-Zero mask for me for Geek Fest), The South African Zombie Apocalypse , Sin Bin and The Vertical Space (who deals n Virtual Reality Headsets for your Smartphone and other gear).

We will (hopefully) be running a few features on some of these exhibitors soon so you can get a better idea of what they are about.

We had a rather fun time at this brand new con, and as you will see in the video above, John Crofts and Adele Horn assures us that it was successful enough that they would be willing to run another one next year. So for those of you who did make it, we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. For those of you who didn’t, we hope the pictures below and the video above is enough to convince you to attend the next one!

As a last note, we would like to extend our thanks to 925 | Rebellion and Adele Horn for having us at their con and we wish you guys the best of luck with all your future events.

Photos and video by NiteFenix and Mindless Pixie . High Resolution versions are available purchase. Contact NiteFenix on Facebook for further details.

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Article Tags:
925 rebellion · adele horn · doctor who · dune · firefly · john crofts · lexx · sci-fi con 2015 · star trek · Star Wars · stargate

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