PLAY: The Games Festival
Introduction '''PLAY: The Games Festival''' is an Italian gaming convention organized by gamers. The 2015 editions got 30,000 attendees. It focuses on playing with hundreds of tables and events devoted to gaming.
History '''The Italian Gamers''' Con started in 1982.It moves year after year between Pavia, Padova, Modena, Verona, Roma and so on. After a few years, few cities/associations were able to manage a big event, such as The Italian Gamers Con, so The Gamers Con found a place in Modena in 2002 with the name of ModCon organized by the local game association Club TreEmme.From 1999 to 2007 in Modena, ModCon focused on organizing tournaments with the gamers as main characters. It attracted names like Jervis Jonson, Gary Gygax, Poul Bonner, Andrea Seyfarth, William Attia and Cristophe Boelinger.From 2008 ModCon moved from Polisportiva Sacca to ModenaFiere and became PLAY: The Games Festival. The first edition was able to attract more than 10,000 visitors with more than 500 tables dedicated to games, more than 40 clubs/associations were involved in the 2008 edition with more than 150 games events including several national championships finals.The 2019 edition got more than 44.000 visitors with 4 halls dedicated to board games, role-playing.games, miniature games, LARP and more.PLAY includes Board games, Role-playing games, collectible card games, 3D games, Live games, War-games, Puzzle-Games and Video games. There is a Modelling sector and the biggest Games Hall in Italy.Some more recent games are yo-kai watch, Pokémon sun and Pokémon moon.
Editions  Edition  Name  Location  Date  Guests  Nr. Visitors 1  Play 2008  Modena Fiere  27-28 September 2008  Andreas Seyfarth, Karen Seyfarth, Christophe Boelinger, Riccardo Crosa, Ennio Peres, Riccardo Albini  4.400 2  Play 2010  Modena Fiere  13-14 March 2010  Reiner Knizia, Friedemann Friese, Francesco Moser  17.600 3  Play 2011  Modena Fiere  26-27 March 2011  Cephas Howard, Luca Giuliano  19.700 4  Play 2012  Modena Fiere  24-25 March 2012  Martin Wallace, Andrew Sheerin, Ignacy Trzewiczek, Matthijs Holter  22.200 5  Play 2013  Modena Fiere  6-7 April 2013  Mac Gerdts, Peter Doersam, Ignacy Trzewiczek, Emiliano Sciarra, Marco Donadoni, Calssara, Elffi  25.100 6  Play 2014  Modena Fiere  5-6 April 2014  Gary Chalk, Mac Gerdts, Peter Doersam, Giada Robin, Ivo de Palma, Francesco Sanseverino, Anna Sanchez, Angelo Di Chello, Olga Zimina, Giuseppe Palumbo  27.600 7  Play 2015  Modena Fiere  11-12 April 2015  Angelo Porazzi, Mac Gerdts, Shane Lacy Hensley,  Charles Bo Nielsen  30.800 8  Play 2016  Modena Fiere  2-3 April 2016  Jason Matthews, Richard Shako, Malik Hyltoft, Roberto Fraga, Sunita Sunymao Zucca, Mac Gerdts, Luigi “Bigio” Cecchi, Riccardo Crosa, Andrea Angiolino  33.000 9  Play 2017  Modena Fiere  1-2 April 2017   35.000 10  Play 2018  Modena Fiere  6-8 April 2018   40.000 11  Play 2019  Modena Fiere  5-6-7 April 2019  Jason Carl, Mac Gerdts, Eric M. Lang, Asger Sams Granerud, Luke Crane, Vladimír Suchý, Richard Breese, Olivier Zamfirescu, Mikkel Bertelsen, Angel Giraldez, Raffaele Du Marteau 44.000
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