National Convention

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In science fiction fandom, a national convention or natcon is a rotating convention designated as the year's official convention for a country, which may host annual award ceremonies and the like. Examples include Eastercon (the British national convention) and Swecon, the Swedish national convention.

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A convention designated as the gathering for all of the fans in a particular country. This is sometimes done by having a rotating convention (e.g., the British Eastercon) and sometimes by means of designating different regional conventions as the year's national convention (e.g., Canada's Canvention.) Natcons are nearly always bid conventions moving from site to site.

The Eurocon is of this latter type, but includes all of Europe.

America does not have a Natcon — Worldcon serves that purpose most years and, though a NASFIC is held when Worldcon goes overseas, it is not really a Natcon.

Examples

A list of Australian natcons: Australian Natcon - Fancyclopedia 3, Archived version [1]

While not called "natcons," a British Star Trek example is The British Star Trek Convention (series of cons).

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