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Good job everyone. Have an apple juice and some crackers while I get the poll and ribbons ready
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Draft lists for reference. Poll Will be up shortly. djfooboo Heroscape The Game Castles of Burgundy Exceed Pitchcar Mexican Train Dominoes Tanto Cuore Dune Arkham LCG The Quest for El Dorado The Resistance Spirit Island Magnetic North Gaslands Refueled High Society Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective Volt: Robot Battle Arena Pictomania Pandemic Iberia Demon Worker D&D This Guilty Land Lost Cities Codenames Duet Through the Ages silvergoose Starcraft Tichu Napoleons Triumph Potato Man Loopin' Louie Russian Railroads Mahjong Cribbage The Field of Cloth and Gold Traumfabrik Backgammon Dungeon Petz Jedit Cthulhu Wars Valley of the Kings Town Centre Where Am I? Alice in a Mad Tea Party Power On! Alubari: A Nice Cup of Tea Internal Affairs The Sorcerer's Cave Eldritch Horror Blue Lagoon King Thief Minister Fast Sloths DogCop Cosmic Frog Sticheln /Stick Em Antiquity Fresh Fish JamSumo Rolling Stock Remember Our Trip Conspiracy Advanced Civilization Blue Moon Legends For Sale Food Chain Magnate Dancer Mechs vs Minions Mafia/Werewolf Caylus Tulip Bubble Galaxy Trucker Brass Birm Hanamikoji Chess Dual Gauge Through the Desert Welcome to the Dungeon Pax Pamir 2e Chill la Chill Container Gudetama Go Nokosu Dice Paper Football Stephenson's Rocket Winner's Circle Shogi Bibi & Tina Samurai Airship City 1889 MizuZero Rising SUn Cockroach Poker Hansa Teutonica Quo Vadis? Klask Colt Express Android Netrunner Scopa La Boca Lost Cities Rivals Letter Jam The Estates Street Horrsing Eclipse 2e Dominion Blokus Push FIght Flick em Up DOW Transamerica Puzzle Strike Escape from Colditz Meltwater Schotten Totten 2 Oh My Goods Concordia El Fideo Dogs of War Bohnanza Ra Crash Octopus Junk Art Paris Connection Tragedy Looper Scrabble Crystallo LotR The Controntation Red7 Zendo Redundant Blood Bowl Arboretum Azul The Cave Men at Work Irish Gauge Bullet♥︎ Brag Lorenzo Il Magnifico Yellow & Yangtze The Crew Gloomhaven Breadnought Sol: Last Days of a Star Regicide Tigris & Euphrates Scape Goat Seal Team Flix Chicago Express Argent: The Consortium Acquire Santiago Modern Art Patchwork The Great Zimbabwe Bottom Liner fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Aug 11, 2021 |
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Aug 11, 2021 21:18
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https://forms.gle/YFE8RThjd47cq4CL6 For each of the round questions the top 3 responses will get 3/2/1 points respectively and I'll total up the results to definitively determine who the best board gamer is. Feel free to post your analysis, roasts, and especially Zendo dunks. Please don't pick your own selections. Lurkers please vote as well, not just participants. Poll will close 48 hours from this post Bottom Liner fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Aug 11, 2021 |
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Aug 11, 2021 21:27
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Bottom Liner posted:https://forms.gle/YFE8RThjd47cq4CL6 Do you want observers voting or just players?
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Aug 11, 2021 21:47
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rchandra posted:Do you want observers voting or just players? anyone can vote
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Aug 11, 2021 21:57
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You have some mix ups in the last two comprehensive lists 
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Aug 11, 2021 22:16
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Bottom Liner posted:anyone can vote Is this to try and make sure Jedit doesn't score 0 again.
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Wrap Up and Results! I think we had a great draft this year, even if it was more chill and less spicy or meme heavy. The categories turned out mostly great and accomplished the main goal I had for this: to encourage new picks that don't always show up in these drafts. Some inspired creative picks without trying to bend the rules, some were maybe too limiting in scope and required either boring shoe-ins or hypothetical picks, but that's ok. Here's my thoughts on your drafts: djfooboo Dune/Arkham LCG/The Resistance were a solid base in the goon hivemind, but SI really put you over the top and redeemed your shameful pick. El Dorado and Pitchcar were very solid choices in their respective rounds as well. Pretty wholistic and broad appeal in your list. Magnetic North One of my favorite lists. Gaslands, High Society, Iberia, TTA, and Pictomania are all games I love and fit the rounds really well. Lost Cities was a snooze pick for all of Knizia but I get that a lot of people have sentimental histories with the game. D&D was my least favorite here because it felt like easy brownie points and beyond the scope of board games. Silvergoose Yeah that's a SG draft alright. You caused me to get really frustrated tracking down the Golden Age Hollywood edition of Traumfabrik so thanks for that! Petz, Starcraft, and Tichu are your best picks here. Loopin Louie doesn't get enough love either. Jedit I thought you would have the most unique draft and you delivered. You only picked 2 games I'd consider meta (Cthulhu Wars and Blue Lagoon) and every other pick stuck to the round theme well while also being something fresh. Fast Sloths is kind of a snooze pick for the free round, even in the slot you said it fills for you. DogCop We have a lot of overlap in taste and your draft always reflects that. You won me a free beer for a bet that you wouldn't take Blue Moon in round 1 so you get bonus points for that. Antiquity/FCM/Blue Moon are all near the top of my favorites, but about half your list are games I haven't played so not quite #1 spot for me. And I'm still not convinced Rolling Stock is much of a game. Dancer Another well rounded list with a lot of goon favorites, but also some good sleeper picks like Tulip Bubble and Welcome to the Dungeon. Chess was a boring choice for the oldies round but again, I know a lot of people have love for that beyond board gaming. MizuZero Good mix of left field picks and popular games. HT, Netrunner, Estates, and LC Rivals are all great picks, and Klask is the superior Crokinole for casual play. Vadis, Scopa, and La Boca are all new to me. Rising Sun is your weak link. Street Horrsing Classiest list aside from the Sirlin pick. Eclipse, Dominion, Blokus, Concordia are all well loved classics, and Meltwater/Schotten Totten 2/ Flick Em Up are good choices to round out the list. El Fideo I think this is my favorite list. Dogs of War was a great choice for minis round, Ra is a GOAT auction game, Junk Art is my favorite dexterity game, and Tragedy Looper was top seed for anime round. Too bad you had to go and ruin it in the end. Redundant Pretty friendly and approachable list but then you have Blood Bowl and Gloomhaven to balance the scales. Pretty solid approach, though I think draft order may have gotten you in a few spots where you got the slightly worse version of a few picks. Azul and The Crew are new classics so bonus points for that. Breadnought Another forerunner IMO. T&E, Scapegoat, CHEX, Modern Art, Patchwork, and TGZ are tough to beat. Sol is your weakest pick by a good bit, with a better round one you probably win for my choice! Poll Results Best minis Gaslands + Container. Odd pick in container, but expected as the only euro most goons know here to balance out the traditional minis stuff. Gaslands was my favorite pick followed by Dogs of War (a really great euro). Card Only Dominion - duh. Best pick clearly, though High Society and Valley of the Kings are great contenders. No Cards Azul - not exciting, but understandable. Go and Ra were the Correct Answers. >2000 Rank Fresh Fish + Exceed. Another interesting tie between euro and non-euro. Surprised to see Exceed get this much love though. Fresh Fish as well though, I'm surprised 5 people have played it. Dexterity Galaxy Trucker ran away with it. Good unconventional pick. I wasn't sure if I should let real time count as dexterity but being inclusive to let more creative picks worked well I think. Junk Art was my pick and the one I thought would win. Rust Buckets Brass Birmingham won because you all like the bad game and CHEX should have gotten 100% of the votes here. Anime Tragedy Looper was the clear favorite, though cool to see Bullet get so much love. I'm eager to try that one. Old Games D&D + Dune. Dune was the clear favorite here I think, but D&D has broad enough appeal I guess. Not Binary Male Designed Arkham wins by default of awareness I think. I think everyone will agree this category was the hardest because sadly there just aren't many non-male designers. Knizia Happy to see Modern Art win though I suspect it would be a different result if so many Knizia classics weren't taken in earlier rounds. Surprised El Dorado got second too. Cheap I think The Crew was probably the best pick here followed by Resistance and For Sale. Patchwork is my favorite in the list but kinda sliding by the rules because of mass market retail economics. Free Pick Not surprised SI won, but surprised FCM didn't perform better. Overall Points: Each round awarded 3 points for 1st, 2 for 2nd, and 1 for 3rd. Ties split points. 1st - djfooboo 14.5 2nd - Magnetic 10 2nd - dancer 10 Redundant 8.5 breadnought 5 dogcop 5 Street 5 Chill 3.5 el fideo 4.5 Jedit 3 Mizu 2 silvergoose 1 Best Overall Draft 1st - Djfooboo 2nd - Dancer 3rd - Chill 3rd - Breadnought Pretty consistent at the top for individual rounds vs overall list, though Chill obviously won a lot of favor for sticking to his schtick. Best List to Take to a Public Game Night Djfooboo - again consistent with the above results. List You'd Most Like to Add to Your Collection Dancer - I think MvM, Birm, and Pamir 2 are the muscle here, but Tulip Bubble is the one I most want from your list. Favorite Round >2000 BGG Rank - like I said, best part of these is learning about new to you games and this round did that well. Worst Single Pick Tanto Cuore - It's bad, but it's no Zendo Best Single Pick Zendo - It's good, but it's no Bibi & Tina Best Meme Zendo Dune Box with 7 out of the 11 votes Worst Meme DogCop got 5 different votes for 4 different memes  but the correct answer is L?tt?r JamRound Themes You'd Like to See in Future I'm just going to highlight a few stand out ones here: Goon designed Not listed on BGG BIPOC designers Kickstarter exclusive soloable mechanic specific rounds war games non victory point win cons best MTG replacement good for kids + adults high player count historical Thanks again for everyone participating, here's your trophy  feel free to post your thoughts and recaps too
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I get the coveted worst draft trophy like in one of my picks so there you are. And no, the hardest was anime, because anything by Amabel Holland works for the designer round and she's got a number of solid choices. silvergoose fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Aug 13, 2021 |
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Aug 13, 2021 23:21
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Tied for second? I'll take it! I thought Dancer's list was the best for all three categories. That list is all killer, no filler (except for some nice filler games, of course). When Chess and Mafia/Werewolf are the 'bad' games on your list, your list kicks rear end. If you look at the stats for the no-cards round, it's crazy. 6 for Azul, 5 each for Go, HT, and SHCD, and 4 for TE & Caylus. This has given me a huge pile of games to consider trying. *eyes over to his towering, quarantine-induced-retail-therapy shelf of shame towering over him* Maybe in a couple of years. Thanks for the fun few weeks, Bottom.
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Bottom Liner posted:Here's my thoughts on your drafts: Well of course it was a snooze pick. They're sloths.
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Wow! Definitely didn’t think I’d be competitive, let alone “win”. So many good lists and games on my wishlist and to research list. Good times.
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Aug 14, 2021 01:50
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+1 in the “learned about a lot of interesting-sounding games” column. Thanks for the draft, all!
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Aug 14, 2021 04:55
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Gg wp djfooboo, long may you reign! Also gg donk that's some quality meme-ing. Ive also discovered a bunch of games that I am putting on my already too long list. One day I'll make use of at least some of the information I've gained.
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Spirit Island was what swayed my hand.
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