ISO branding for a new Convention

I don't have a stromg preference for any one particular name, but I would avoid names that could pigeon hole the con into being perceived as being targeted at a subset of gamers. For instance Meeples to me connotate Euros only, Fantasy may come across as just RPGs, Warhawks may scare away Euro gamers, etc.

Virabhadra wrote: If you called it the Hawkland Expo or Hawkland Analog Expo, you could abbreviate it HaX or HawX.

Still like Merlin Con though. If it were hosted where I grew up in southern PA, I would absolutely call it Yinz Fest.

That's pretty good. Our region LOVES their acronyms.

NOTE: I'm compiling everyone's suggestions and offering them to the President's Council. They'll most likely push back to me for a director's decision, and that's fine, but I'd like them to have a sense of agency.

I'll lean in on Hawkland Game Fest, Hawkland Analog Expo. I suppose partnering with the boys from Birds of Prey isn't out of the question.

And... My family still lives North of Pittsburgh. I should start Yinz Fest just on principle!

I was already thinking Hawk Con before I read your list. Reminds me of OwlCon here in Houston (for the Rice Owls).

Titles with "Fest" or "Expo" make me think of an event that's more like a carnival (like Ren Fest), where I associate gaming with Conventions. Yes, definitionally they have overlap, but that's just how it sits in my brain.

I always think of <something>Con as a comic book/media convention. Gencon of course being an exception.