Geekway to the West started in 2005 in board game designer Jay Little’s basement. The first year, about fifteen people showed up to play games for a long weekend. A few short years later, the annual tradition had grown into hundreds of people gathering in a convention center to play their favorite games. 

Over the years, the convention has added a vendor hall with publishers hawking their wares, and contests where gamers can compete for trophies in popular games. But the core activity is always the same: friends both old and new getting together to play board games for a few days a year.

Geekway LLC is a partnership of three owners and around a dozen volunteer board members. Geekway LLC puts on two large board game events each year, with a number of smaller one-day events scattered in between.