Casino Del Sol Conference Center
5655 W. Valencia Rd. Tucson, AZ 85757
Convention hours:
Friday 10/2: Doors open at 10AM, Friday scheduled programming 11AM – midnight
Saturday 10/2: Doors open at 8AM, Saturday scheduled programming 9AM – midnight
Sunday 10/3: Doors open at 8:30 AM, Sunday scheduled programming 9AM – 6PM
RinCon is an annual 3-day tabletop gaming convention hosted by the Southern Arizona Gamers’ Association, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. RinCon 2026 will be held at the Casino Del Sol Conference Center on tribal lands of the Pascua Yaqui people. Our theme this year is Myth and Legend, so get ready for some gaming of epic proportions!
BUY YOUR RINCON 2026 BADGE
Click here to go to our sales website. Online badge sales are available until Sunday September 27th, so don’t delay! After that point, you’ll have to wait to buy your badge at the door. If you want to be able to sign up for games ahead of time, get your badge before the deadline! If you’re buying badges for more than one person, be sure to use a different email address for each one – that’s the only way the system will recognize you both as attendees.
CHECK OUT OUR SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Click here to peruse all the legendary games, panels, and special events we’ve got going on! We’ve got board games, TTRPGs, our Artemis spaceship bridge simulator with missions blasting off all weekend, Kids’ track for minigamers ages 6-12, a Women’s Space, Play-to-Win board games, an amazing lineup of vendors and exhibitors, industry special guests, AZ State board game tournaments that can send you to RageCon or GENCON, a mobile escape room, a murder mystery LARP, Blood on the Clocktower all weekend long, and so much more!
SIGN UP FOR GAMES AND OTHER EVENTS
Once you’ve purchased your badge, you’ll get an email that evening with instructions on how to register with sched.com, which is the site we use for game sign-ups. PLEASE be sure to use the same address where you receive this invite email to set up your sched account. Otherwise, it won’t associate your badge purchase, and you won’t be able to sign up for anything. The schedule opens on Sunday, September 20th at 2PM – set yourself an alarm! It will stay open for sign-ups from then through the end of the convention.
VOLUNTEER BEFORE, DURING, OR AFTER THE CONVENTION
RinCon is a 100% volunteer-run event; we truly appreciate how the community comes together to make it all happen! For every four hours of volunteering, you’ll get one day of your badge free, whether you help out before, during, or after the convention. You can also accrue hours for a badge for a friend or family member, so the sky’s the limit! There are still several shifts available, especially at Games HQ and the registration desk – click here to go to our volunteer sign-up page and accrue hours towards a free badge, as well as the undying gratitude of us and the rest of the gaming community.
RUNNING GAMES AT RINCON
This is the other way to support the convention. Submissions are now closed, but if there’s something you’re itching to run, feel free to bring a game and set up at one of our many open gaming tables throughout the weekend.
RESERVE YOUR HOTEL ROOM
Our special block rates are now closed, but there are still rooms available at both towers. To make a reservation at this point, it’s best to call Casino Del Sol at 1-855-765-7829 (especially if you want to book extra nights before/after the event, you need an ADA-compliant or other specific room type, you can get better rates from casino membership, etc.) PLEASE make sure that your reservation is associated with the RinCon/Southern AZ Gamers’ Association block. We get contract benefits for each room booking associated with our event. Thank you!!
RINCON 2026 SPECIAL GUESTS
We’ve got a great lineup this year, some familiar faces and some new ones:
- Kenna Alexander of Coyote & Crow Games
- James Ernest of Crab Fragment Labs and Cheapass Games
- Michael Eskue (Council of Verona, Trash Pandas, Titan Dice, and many more titles)
- Members of the Magpie Games crew
How to get to RinCon
This map shows how to get to the free parking garage adjacent to the conference center. The Del Sol hotel tower is the orange building, and the Estrella hotel tower is the pink. If you have hotel reservations, make sure to check which tower your reservation is for; their systems are separate, and you can only check in at the tower where you’re staying.
To get to the conference center: after parking in the free garage, enter the casino through the covered walkway, turn left, go through the glass doors next to the coffee shop, and you’re there! The registration desk is just inside.
What to bring to RinCon
Prioritize self-care! It’s important to make sure you’re taking care of yourself at a weekend-long event. Here are some things you don’t want to forget:
- Items to manage your own needs:
- A water bottle
- An extra layer of clothing or a blanket (it gets chilly in the rooms)
- Any medications you might need
- Comfort seating like lumbar support or cushions
- Headphones if you need them
- Mobility devices (even ones you use infrequently – the conference center is large and spread out)
- Comfy shoes (ditto)
- A handheld fan if you tend to overheat
- Glasses (the print size on game materials can be obnoxiously small)
- Gaming supplies (dice + tray, writing implements + paper, games you want to get to the table)
- A small rechargeable clip light/book light, if you have one – the overhead lighting is not fantastic, especially in the main gaming hall, and it might help you and your fellow gamers to see better.
- Your sense of fun and excitement to play games together!