The folks at RushCon announced the location and dates for this year's convention earlier today. RushCon X1 as it has been dubbed will take place the weekend of June 24-25th at the MGM Grand/Hooters Hotel in Las Vegas and coincide with the Rush concert on June 24th. From the RushCon website:

Ahhh 2011. Where has the time gone?

So, here at RushCon camp we've been doing a lot of thinking. Where to have this year's convention? What to do?

We have the Time Machine tour embarking in weeks, and we know we needed to make some decisions. As always, we want to give our attendees the best possible convention, filled with the best events. We have found, over the past years, that we usually get a great turnout when our event coincides with an actual Rush concert. It's the perfect way to celebrate this band that we love, with the fans that we cherish.
Without a Toronto show this summer, combined with the incredible time we had in Las Vegas last year, we thought it would be best to keep the con around the same time as a concert.

So we are back in Vegas this summer.
We will do 2 days of events: Friday, June 24th after the concert, and a full day of events Saturday June 25th.

What does this mean for you, dear Toronto? It means that in 2012, we will be coming back at you in a MAJOR way. RushCon will explode onto Toronto next summer.

But this year... here's looking at you, Vegas...

More details to come.

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