Collectors and gamers have been summoned.
Hundreds attended the second annual The Summoning Windsor’s Collectors and Esports Convention on Saturday at St. Clair College’s Saints Esports Nexus Arena for a day of esports, trading card games, and robotics.
“It’s all about growing this community,” said The Summoning co-host Jeremy Richard.
“It’s all about having fun, it’s all about getting new people into it. If I had this experience as a kid, it would have been amazing. We never had experiences like this, so now it’s my chance — because I have four kids — to make this happen for them.”
Richard said Windsor is quickly becoming a destination for tabletop and virtual gamers, some even competing for hefty cash prizes at the national level.
“Windsor is definitely a very large hub for tradable