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Dancer posted:git gud scrub Anyone quoting git gud knows that in Dark Souls, it's not about whether you 1-shot Gwyn or not, it's how you played the true Fashion Souls game in getting there that matters. 
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ketchup vs catsup posted:I’m perfectly happy winning the audience vote for the second year in a row Who cares about audience vote, I'm aiming for making sure chill would trade lists with me at the end.
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silvergoose posted:Who cares about audience vote, I'm aiming for making sure chill would trade lists with me at the end. You have my vote.
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Jul 31, 2020 18:07
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silvergoose posted:Who cares about audience vote, I'm aiming for making sure chill would trade lists with me at the end. That's a bold strategy considering Donk/bottom/Jedit are back to back.
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Jul 31, 2020 18:11
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Casnorf posted:You saw this one coming: casnorf confirmed to be quintin "quinns" smith and therefore should be disqualified, as he already has a platform for having terrible taste on the internet. his pick should be forefeit, his seat reassigned, and his wealth redistributed.
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Jul 31, 2020 18:14
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Shadow225 posted:End of the day, all I do is make the Air Bud rules. The actual winner is voted on by the participants. You can vote however you would like using whatever criteria you want. While I obviously would prefer you to vote honestly, there's nothing stopping you from voting in bad faith. I don't even think that your interpretation is bad faith, just making the point that I don't care who wins and how. Can we vote for electors that then decide the actual winner?
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Jul 31, 2020 18:15
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Round 1: Pick 9 1889 Ok so admittedly 1830 was a better pick specifically for this round since it's more commonly played at 6 but hell if I'm going to miss getting the one other good 18xx in my lineup It's 30 but tighter, quicker, and based in Japan so you can convince weebs to play. Game is gonna blow up when the mass printing hits. 
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Gutter Owl posted:casnorf confirmed to be quintin "quinns" smith and therefore should be disqualified, as he already has a platform for having terrible taste on the internet. his pick should be forefeit, his seat reassigned, and his wealth redistributed. You wish I had a delightful accent.
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nimby posted:Can we vote for electors that then decide the actual winner? I'll allow it.
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Jul 31, 2020 18:20
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Round 1: Pick 10 Keyflower Keyflower is just the best game. It's aesthetically pleasing, the mechanics are fun and ingenious, it plays great at any player count, it doesn't last too long. It may very well be my personal favorite euro. The push and pull between saving workers for later or spending them early is just so, so good, and I've never played a euro where everyone is consistently at each other's throats in the final round.
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Jul 31, 2020 19:04
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Pseudoscorpion posted:Round 1: Pick 10 Do you play with or without the meeple shields/hidden info?
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Jul 31, 2020 19:11
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Suddenly Susan posted:Do you play with or without the meeple shields/hidden info? I could go either way. I generally don't like hidden trackable info but I find it's easier to have a general feel for how many meeples of a certain color each player has than a lot of other games.
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Jul 31, 2020 19:22
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if you play open Keyflower you're wrong
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Jul 31, 2020 19:36
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Bottom Liner posted:if you play Keyflower you're wrong
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Jul 31, 2020 20:17
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Bottom Liner posted:if you play open Keyflower you're wrong Indeed you are. Round 1: Pick 11 Roads & Boats Which I still haven't managed to table since last year, goddamnit. You'd never play R&B with six, but apparently that's not important. And Shadow said I can pick a different six-player game at the end to fit the category, so I can snaffle this one now and pick another sixer later on. Now all I need is to find myself a wife. Bottom Liner, you're up.
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Jul 31, 2020 20:51
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Round 1 Pick 12 Dominant Species  A brilliant game from the late great Chad Jensen. 6 players by design, and secretly one of the best worker placement games. The ebb and flow of the game is crushing but not defeating, and those cones and cubes just look so good moving around munching everything up. Chill is up Bottom Liner fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Aug 3, 2020 |
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Jul 31, 2020 21:07
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Round 1 Pick 13 MegaMegaMegaMEGA CIVILIZATION Large. Huge. Absolute unit. This game runs my house. /pic2702229.jpg) Six? Try Eighteen. This game should count for 3x this round and it's well worth the effort to assemble this many people in a crowded room in the Before Times. As the BGG entry helpfully states, this game is an 18-player Royal Rumble in the Iron Age. Heavy box capable of killing a small child ✔️ Can hold all your other games inside ✔️ Mediterranean euro theme ✔️ Trading & 4x? ✔️ Tracks, but not too many tracks? ✔️ Has historical baps * *Additional purchase necessary
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Jul 31, 2020 21:21
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Why is that small child allowed in the frame of the picture? They are TOO CLOSE to a box that could KILL THEM.
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Jul 31, 2020 21:44
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Memnaelar posted:Why is that small child allowed in the frame of the picture? They are TOO CLOSE to a box that could KILL THEM. That's not a small child, it's Chill. MegaCiv doesn't come in a small box.
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Jul 31, 2020 21:48
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Memnaelar posted:Why is that small child allowed in the frame of the picture? They are TOO CLOSE to a box that could KILL THEM. The game really should come with a warning not to operate while intoxicated.
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Jul 31, 2020 21:54
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Bottom Liner posted:Round 1 Pick 12 Amazed this went this long. Was pretty close to first-picking it, given the round theme.
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Jul 31, 2020 22:15
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rchandra posted:Amazed this went this long. Was pretty close to first-picking it, given the round theme. It's a great game, but I can think of at least five six-player games that I'd draft ahead of it. Not necessarily because they're better, but because they're more accessible or more to my taste.
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Jul 31, 2020 22:45
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Great question was asked that I am going to repeat and answer here. 'If the next theme is worker placement, at the end can Bottom Liner use Dominant Species for that as well as 6p, or do we need a distinct game for each theme?' You will need to nominate 5 distinct games at the end to represent the themed rounds. Bottom Liner in this example could not use Dominant Species as the nomination for two themes.
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Jul 31, 2020 22:50
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I think Zendo would have been a strong pick in the first round, since it can host a theoretically unlimited number of players.
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Jul 31, 2020 23:07
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Jedit posted:It's a great game, but I can think of at least five six-player games that I'd draft ahead of it. Not necessarily because they're better, but because they're more accessible or more to my taste. It's a game that I think is absolutely fantastic and does indeed play six players, but that I would never, ever want to play with six players (edit: again. Once was enough.)
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Jul 31, 2020 23:08
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Tekopo posted:I think Zendo would have been a strong pick in the first round, since it can host a theoretically unlimited number of players. yeah but the correct player count is zero so in summary 
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Jul 31, 2020 23:13
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Don’t worry, for anyone who by the end of the game didn’t pick a 6P Game, I’ve got you covered 
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Round 1: Pick 14 Zombicide To appeal to a wide range of tastes means looking beyond the standard goon favourites. Zombicide gives me a lot of versatility for use in later rounds while still being a pick that people would actually choose to play at 6P. Round 2: Pick 1 El Grande A classic Euro that didn't make it past round 2 last time, and I had to check there wasn't a 6P expac that would have made it eligible for round 1 this time.
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Jedit posted:It's a great game, but I can think of at least five six-player games that I'd draft ahead of it. Not necessarily because they're better, but because they're more accessible or more to my taste. You were going to pick Caverna, weren’t you?
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Aug 1, 2020 01:04
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Told Doctor Spaceman the theme for round 3 after he told me his round 1 pick so I can post. The theme for Round 3 is Games Rated Outside of the Top 300 of the BGG Overall Ranking. If any game in the game's family is rated 300 or above, it is considered ineligible. For example, rank 971 Mega Civilization would be ineligible because it shares a family with rank 290 Civilization. Games can move in ranking, so some degree of flexibility is expected if games somehow move a lot. As of writing this, Mythic Battles Pantheon is rank 301. If you were to draft it and it moves up to rank 299 before the draft concludes, it's still viable. Trusting you all not to game it with a bot farm or whatever.
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Round 2 Pick 2: The Great Zimbabwe Hands down the best midweight euro I have in my collection. Plays up to 5, has good scaling from 2-5, and has enough of that classic euro interaction. Look at this nice, satisfying gameplay and decadent wooden bits. /pic1818975.jpg) I didn't get to choose this last time during the mad early Splotter rush but some of the interesting bits of this draft is how the themed rounds affect picks. Chill la Chill fucked around with this message at 14:21 on Aug 1, 2020 |
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Round 2 Pick 3 Antiquity  The grandfather of Agricola; a game that hates you and wants you to fill your streets with graves. A game with so many bits to punch that you'll hate it before you even play, then spend $40 on bakelite tiles to replace them. And don't even think you're getting the box closed again.
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Aug 1, 2020 01:55
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Why did you post a pick of Tapestry
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Shadow225 posted:Why did you post a pick of Tapestry Trolling. Only possible explanation as to why such a vastly inferior game would be pictured in place of its better.
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Aug 1, 2020 01:59
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I'm grading BL as if he picked Tapestry this round.
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Aug 1, 2020 02:00
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Bummed to see my favorite three Splotters off the table before I could get a chance to pick one. V. sad.
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Shadow225 posted:Great question was asked that I am going to repeat and answer here. Why have theme “rounds” if you can fulfill its requirement whenever you want? Just list the 5 criteria you’ll be judging the lists by+overall. Or are you not even going to judge based on the themes you’ve chosen?
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Aug 1, 2020 02:37
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Yeah you're right picks aren't being affected at all totally normal for zombicide to be picked 14th best game in this community
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Round 2 Pick 5 Orleans Because I'm never not going to pick Orleans, especially with Trade & Intrigue added in. It's got a very comfortable and satisfying core gameplay loop which is simple enough for anyone to grasp - draw guys, make sets, do actions - but it still requires plenty of planning to make the most of your opportunities. And if it starts to feel uninteractive, switch to the Intrigue board and start killing and stealing from the other players and burn down their poo poo. pseudoscorpion is up. (BTW, guys, can you please remember that I'm on UK time. There's no point in @ing me on Discord at 11pm EST because it's 4am here. I'll get to it, don't worry.)
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Round 3 Pick 6 Twilight Struggle This isn't really a goon darling. "Wir sind das Volk is better!" is a cry I hear often in the Discord. Don't care. Twilight Struggle is a god drat magnificent game. By all accounts, it shouldn't work. An asymmetric wargame, based on a real-world map with relatively few affordances in the name of game design, with cards based on actual historical events, most of which are even reasonably thematic (the Pope going to space notwithstanding), and a gameplay loop that rewards the exact kind of brinkmanship that so closely brought us to nuclear oblivion in the past century? Despite all of these, the game is still balanced on a knife's edge. A masterpiece of design and one of the few games I could find myself playing forever. And counting digital plays, it very well may be my most played board game. I really should try Wir sind das Volk at some point though.
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