{"id":30607,"date":"2013-07-29T16:02:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T20:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2013\/07\/29\/necc-club-hosts-gaming-marathon\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:11:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:11:04","slug":"necc-club-hosts-gaming-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2013\/07\/29\/necc-club-hosts-gaming-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"NECC Club Hosts Gaming Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6584\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2013\/07\/Bacon-Board-Gamers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6584\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2013\/07\/Bacon-Board-Gamers.jpg\" alt=\"NECC Club Hosts Gaming Marathon\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6584\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured from left to right are Mike Cross, Elizabeth Bromm, and Ian Schade<\/p><\/div>\nNorthern Essex Community College\u2019s Bacon Board Gamers, a student club, will host their 2nd semiannual all-day gaming marathon on Friday, August 9 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on the Haverhill campus, 100 Elliot Street. <\/p>\n<p>This event is free and open to the public and everyone who enjoys board games is invited to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Diversion Puzzles and Games, located on Congress St. in Portsmouth, NH, is sponsoring the marathon and will provide games as well as door prizes.  <\/p>\n<p>The college has a large selection of board games, according to Mike Cross, faculty adviser to the club, and those attending are also invited to bring their own games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll have tables set up for tournaments as well as cooperative board games,\u201d says Cross, who calls the event \u201cthe largest and most exciting bacon-themed board gaming event in the history of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Board Game Convention will be held in room 260 in the E Building on the college\u2019s Haverhill Campus.<\/p>\n<p>The NECC Bacon Board Gamers Club was founded two years ago in response to a growing student interest in playing board games. The club meets the first and third Friday of every month from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. on the Haverhill Campus.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Professor Mike Cross, <a href=\"mailto:mcross@necc.mass.edu\">mcross@necc.mass.edu<\/a> or 978 556-3362 or visit their website at<a href=\"https:\/\/baconboardgamers.com\/\"> www.baconboardgamers.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Essex Community College\u2019s Bacon Board Gamers, a student club, will host their 2nd semiannual all-day gaming marathon on Friday, August 9 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":30609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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