Gaming Tournaments Near Me

Game Dev Meetup (In-Person @Improving!!!)

PLEASE NOTE!!! This event will be In-Person at Improving! If you know the [Columbus Unity group](https://www.meetup.com/columbus-unity-user-group/) location, we'll be at the same place. There's paid street parking in the garages but on Sunday you can park for free. See image of [parking map here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mr9_LFIggbs-0_Zd3AJTGNqEhgMf2TzQ/view?usp=sharing). \-\-\- On the last Saturday/Sunday of the month, we're having our usual end-of-the-month social gathering with our GameDev Meetup meeting. There will be announcements and presentations followed by some social networking Let's continue the conversations with good vibes and friends. All are welcomed from all ages and backgrounds to this public event. If we can, we'll be streaming or uploading the video later via our COGG YouTube channel here: [https://www.youtube.com/@TheCOGG/streams](https://www.youtube.com/@TheCOGG/streams) (Also please do subscribe if you have not done so!) No game development experience required! If you are interested in doing a 20 minute game development related presentation, please fill out our form online here: [https://goo.gl/forms/lVdTJZiNJewlPJuj1](https://goo.gl/forms/lVdTJZiNJewlPJuj1) Or e-mail us at [info@thecogg.com](mailto: info@thecogg.com) with the following: Your Name, Company/Affiliation, Name of Your Game/Topic, Description, Tech Needs, and Your Contact. Be sure to check out our Discord for real time news updates: [https://discord.gg/NrBhuNQ](https://discord.gg/NrBhuNQ)

FANG Con board game marathon

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 26th from 11am - 10:30pm We're celebrating our SECOND year hosting game events for fem and non-binary folks in the Columbus, Ohio area! Come celebrate with us at our 11.5 hour board game marathon - it's co-ed! FANG is an all fem board game club, but on this day we're open for everyone! This is a co-ed open house celebration! ---- Registration This year we are registering people through Tabletop Events! A badge is $2! We normally have free events, but the $2 will cover a small portion of the venue fee and greatly help us! We also except donations. You can donate via Ko-Fi (ko-fi.com/fang_columbus) or Venmo (@FANG_Columbus). We also having a few raffles you can participate in to help us fund this event! Any donations beyond the venue go to our club. It funds our email blast, name tags, stickers, and cool things for our members and volunteers like T-shirts! Buy your badge here: https://tabletop.events/conventions/fang-con-2026 ---- The Venue FANG CON is held at the Gahanna Clubhouse on their Golf Course in Gahanna, Ohio. There is limited capacity and can accommodate up to 100 guests at a time. With that in mind, we ask that you only register if you're confident you'll be able to attend. If your plans change, no worries, just be sure to cancel your ticket so we can offer your spot to someone else who’d love to join us. More info about the venue: The parking lot is shared with the Golf Course and Pro Shop Non-smoking facility Pets are not permitted on-site ---- What To Expect * Open Gaming! * Events you can sign up for * Board Game Swap Table * Raffles * Making Friends :) We will not have a game library available. Please bring your own games to play. We will have "looking for players" signs to help you find a group. ---- Food and Drinks Alcohol is not permitted in the venue. You are welcome to bring your own food and drinks. If you would like to bring snacks to share you can add them to the pile in the kitchen. A microwave is available for your use, and while there is a refrigerator, bringing a cooler for your food is recommended. We are collecting pizza money if you would like in on pizza. We will pick up preordered pizza from Costco around 5 or 6pm. You can order your share of the pizza through our events. ---- About Us Fem All Night Gaming (FANG) is an all fem board game group in Columbus, Ohio. We are creating a space that celebrates gaming and the diversity of femininity. We are women, gender queer, & non-binary only. No cis-men. Currently, we meet every other Wednesday, Saturday, and the first and third Sunday of the month to play board games. We play a range of board games, from lite to medium-heavy, so there’s something for everyone to enjoy! Check out our website and come game with us! FANGColumbus dot com

Casual Boardgames - make friends, then beat them in games

Welcome to Casual Boardgames, where we enjoy classic tabletop games and social deduction games while bonding over good food, drinks, and great conversations. 
We started this group to meet new people and make new friends, and bonding over games in a relaxed atmosphere is a great way to do that. We currently meet near route 23 and Polaris Parkway, and this is close to areas like Powell, Lewis Center, Worthington, and parts of Westerville and Columbus. 
Feel free to bring your own games or play one of the many games our members bring. If you are inexperienced, we will help you learn. 
Here are just a few examples of the kind of games we play. 
Tabletop/board games: Splendor, Catan, Azul, Dominion, 7 Wonders… 
Social deduction games: Code Names, Chameleon, Werewords… 
IMPORTANT: 
1. While we love playing a variety of games and competing, we are not just about the games. We interact and talk while playing, and this leads to a lot of laughter and fun. If you just want to compete and focus solely on the game, then this is probably not the group you are looking for. 
2. Many people join groups like this and never (or rarely) show up after weeks or months. If you join and never really come, we will eventually remove you from the group as a courtesy to our members. Why? Because limiting group conversations (on the app) to regular members makes communication and planning much easier. Also, while it may be rare, it protects members from people who join because they are interested in following a person instead of having a real interest in our group. If you get removed, it is just because you haven’t come, and we follow this protocol as a courtesy to our regular game players.

CABS Friday Boardgaming 9/25

CABS Friday Boardgaming 9/25 - your first visit is free. Join us for a day of boardgaming !!! We have 2222+ games onsite for playing ...

Bytes & Boards Ongoing event

Join us for Bytes & Boards First Thursdays at the Forge: \- fully hosted happy hour and your choice of food selections 5\-7PM at the Forge Tavern\, Columbus\. \- multiple game hosts ready to teach you fun board games or feel free to watch and join in when ready\! \- You can’t lose\! All of your friends are already coming\! Seriously\! If they aren’t coming yet- remind them! Everyone in IT careers around Columbus and any of their friends are WELCOME! We’re fully backed by harness.io- with the goal of bringing the networking community together. ❤️ This will be ongoing First Thursdays of every month for the foreseeable future! Block your calendars now and we’ll see you soon!

Columbus Chess Club

This is a time where players of all ages, and skill levels can gather and enjoy a nice Sunday full of Chess!

Columbus Verified Gay Professionals Speed Dating

An inviting virtual gay speed dating night for singles living in Columbus, held via Zoom. We are a supportive and inclusive group where local residents connect with authentic people nearby. Look forward to brief individual conversations, organized by age group, all while relaxing in your own space. Sign up here: [Reserve your place](https://theliveround.com/product?productId=636.0&productType=onlineSpeedDatingGay&city=Columbus&groupurlname=level-up-together-mobile-gaming-social&face_v=5.0) Clicking RSVP indicates your interest. To participate in the sessions, please complete your registration at the link provided above.

Sunday funday: let's play dodgeball at Scioto Audubon park

Dodgeball is back again! If you’ve been wanting to come out, this is an easy one to join. We’ll be playing for about 1.5 to 2 hours, you do not need to bring any equipment, and no experience is needed. We use a specific set of rules and equipment to make the games run better and keep them fun for everybody, not just people who already know how to play. If it rains, the event will be canceled.

Vineyard Intermediate Volleyball (Fridays) 🏐

PUGTOBERFEST

A Developer’s Guide to Running LLMs Locally- Alan Barber

**Important time note:** Please plan on arriving between 5:30 and 6:00 as the elevators lock after 6 and you'll need to message us and we'll need to come get you. The building address is 4450 Bridge Park The entrance is 6620 Mooney St, Suite 400 You will need to scan your ID at the door to get a visitor badge. **Abstract** *Tensors, Tokens & Too Much VRAM: A Developer's Guide to Running LLMs Locally* What actually happens when you send a prompt to an LLM? What are tokens, tensors, attention, quantization, and all those mysterious gigabytes of VRAM doing? And why does your GPU suddenly become the most important piece of hardware in the room? This talk takes a developer-friendly tour through the fundamentals of modern LLMs. We’ll try to demystify concepts like context windows, model quantization, and inference performance without requiring a PhD in linear algebra. Then we'll take those concepts out of the textbook and into the real world, looking at tools such as Ollama, LM Studio, and vLLM and what it takes to run useful models on your own hardware. By the end, you'll have a mental model for what an LLM is actually doing, how local inference works, and why sometimes the answer to "How much VRAM do I need?" is apparently "all of it." **YouTube Link** TBD

Happy Volleyball Club is back!