ESSEN PHOTO CONTEST 2009 - 522 GG + x in the pot!
Daniel Danzer
Germany
Stuttgart
southwest
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THIS WAS ESSEN 2009.
< --- This is the "additional pot" for this list. Feel free to add a bit.
For the third time now, people have shown us the best pictures they made at the SPIEL fair at Essen.
The awards: All votes (thumbs to the entries) had to be done until midnight Nov 8th / Nov 9th BGG-time.
The pot this year was made up of the following:
522  from my account.
+ the "additional pot": All tips to this list.
The total was devided by 18 into equal "parts". 6 equal "1st places" got two of these parts and 6 equal "2nd places" one part. Prizes were only full . The rest I gave to the picture I like best from the pics not yet awarded.
PRIZES: 1st: 94 (6 x) / 2nd: 47 (6 x) / Rest: 4
The pot reached 850 total! 
Participants were free to submit as many items as they wish.
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[size=13]There were 6 categories:
1. The convention. The public, the people, the whole atmosphere, condensed in one single shot. Items 1 - 15.
2. Game: Bits and Boards. Show us the most beautiful NEW game, with the bits, the box, whatever, but concentrate on the pure game as it is. Items 16 - 36.
3. Game: Play. Present us the best shot from actual gameplay. The fun, the crazy people, the concentration. But still: Show us the game they play, please, too!Items 37 - 48.
4. Designers & Presentation: Show us the booth, costumes, designers, gadgets, 3D-giant games, but please: A good picture! Items 49 - 76
5. Funny stuff: Make us laugh. That`s all. Items 77 - 91.
6. Picture series: Show us a sequence that tells us a story - before & after, or the flow of a game in subsequent rounds, or whatever you like, in at least two pictures. Items 92 - 100.
Note: Votes by the photographers for their own images didn`t count ... 
This is ordered according to the categories for easier comparison. The winners are the first two items at the part of the list, where the category begins.
The WINNERS:
Henk Rolleman
Netherlands
Leusden
Utrecht
did a triple win! 2 x 1st prize, 1 x 2nd! Incredible!
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jeppe christensen
Denmark
got 1 x 1st and 1 x 2nd prize. Congrats!
Laszlo Molnar
Hungary
Budapest
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Ignacy Trzewiczek
Poland
Gliwice
Slask
got the other 2 1st prizes! Well done, indeed!
The other 3 2nd prizes are going to
and
Richard Mesaric
Austria
Wien
Great shots!
I managed to reach the second most votes in a category, but didn`t want to "pay myself", so the next highest votes pic (only one vote less) went up.
THANKS ALL FOR PARTICIPATING! This was a great, exciting time and my favourite Geeklist so far !!!
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Chief EGG Head
United States
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the chef at work
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Ignacy Trzewiczek
Poland
Gliwice
Slask
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5. Funny Stuff
Stronghold versus Dungeon Lords 
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jeppe christensen
Denmark
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Category: Funny Stuff
Entusiasm in a game, can make people do stupid things... She is looking into the gun to se, where the bullet went.
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Thomas Verstraete
Belgium
Ledeberg
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5. Funny stuff
Police Line up. Do you reckognize the person who attacked you with an axe?
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80.
Board Game: Tobago
[Average Rating:7.21 Overall Rank:206]
Henk Rolleman
Netherlands
Leusden
Utrecht
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5. Funny stuff:
On Thursday I met those 4 "Frence" Hobbits (that who the called themself) trying to play Tobago. They nearly come above the table but when their are treasures involved they really really wanted to play!
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Thomas Verstraete
Belgium
Ledeberg
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5. Funny stuff
realistic reenactment of the siege at the Portal Booth at Spiel 09
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Geoff Brown
United Kingdom
Manchester
Unspecified
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5. Funny Stuff
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Daniel Danzer
Germany
Stuttgart
southwest
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5. Funny stuff
I know this one`s blurry - so what? Have you ever encountered a kind of "orc/monster hybrid ober 7 feet tall with the head of his last victim on a stick? Shouting at you: "Go away, monster!"?
This is Essen, too - you better be aware of this before you are booking your family weekend at the Hotel ...
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Camelorn
Germany
Koblenz
Rheinland-Pfalz
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5. Funny Stuff
My friend lydon falling victim to the chainsaw wielding Munchkin!
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Daniel Danzer
Germany
Stuttgart
southwest
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5. Funny Stuff
My "braveheart"-meeple ( http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/517613) crossing the North Sea on a Longship full of goods. Or is it me travelling back with a whole lot of games ...?
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Richard Mesaric
Austria
Wien
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Category 5: Funny Stuff
Actually hardly anybody payed attention to this presumably sweating guy...
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"Hey, what are you doing man! You've just closed my coffeeshop!"
Hotel Amsterdam is a fun little game, which was explained by the Dutch football fan Ilse.
Some Germans said when they saw our orange promoter of the game: "great performance, but we'll beat you with football!" We'll have to see about that first
CATEGORY: 5. FUNNY STUFF
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88.
Board Game: Supers
[Average Rating:6.00 Unranked]
Stefan Pietraszak
Germany
Aachen
Unspecified
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5. Funny stuff
Three super heroes (and two villains) with a copy of "Supers", the super hero board game.
This wasn't a PR shot or anything - the people dressed as heroes and villains took a break from their duty on the "Memory" benches close to our booth.
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Jesse
Norway
Stavanger
Rogaland
Tis the season...
...to be gaming!
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5. Funny stuff
Essen loot after day 2!!
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Daniel Danzer
Germany
Stuttgart
southwest
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5. Funny stuff
Some surprised staring people at Essen had a look at this poster at the "Surprised Stare" booth for their game "Fzzzt!", since "Spanner" means "peeping Tom" here. 
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Blinky The Tree Frog
Australia
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5. Funny stuff:
Security was tough this year...
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Henk Rolleman
Netherlands
Leusden
Utrecht
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6. Picture series:
This is a serie of Photo's of a well known story. 
The picture are a presentation of the Collector's Edition of War of the Ring. I only took the pictures cause the game cost a fortune. Much more than my yearly budget for games
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Richard Mesaric
Austria
Wien
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Category 6: Picture series
Here are some folks wearing telling t-shirt labels...
1. German for "Ask me". These people at the Ravensburger stand helped to explain rules of games.
2. What a nice invitation!
3. A cliquenabend.de interview of Uwe Rosenberg
4. No comment... the man himself
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Thomas Verstraete
Belgium
Ledeberg
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6. Photo Series
hey look at this, what a nice axe
OH MY GOD SHE HAS AN AXE !!! RUN, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE
AAAAAAARGH !!!
I'll get you all !!
FLEEE !!!!
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Henk Rolleman
Netherlands
Leusden
Utrecht
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6. Picture series:
On Wednesday I made some pictures of Stronghold presentation on the booth of Portal
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Thomas Verstraete
Belgium
Ledeberg
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6. Photo Series
Report on the Mexican Flu at Essen 09
Despite all the safety measurements the organisation took
There are still some people who risk their and other peoples lives
The outcome could already been seen
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Mike B
Netherlands
Utrecht
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Category 6: photo series (I doubted too much between game & presentation & funny stuff anyway)
On friday I saw a magnetic game. It's not in the database, it's called "Kuhlschrankschach" (Refrigerator checkers), and they made it on the spot!
It's use was demonstrated on a real refrigerator. Quite an unusual eyecatcher for an ordinary fridge. (I doubt if this the same game, I think the top one is one of their others)
The fun part is: the fridge doubles as a good holding box as well!
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98.
Board Game: Jump!
[Average Rating:5.16 Overall Rank:6832]
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Category 6. Picture series:
Essen has more than games & comics.
That's me taking a break from gaming marathon in the hall with the bouncy castle. One of my backflip attempts turned into a mixture between headfirst downward dive and a Mission: Impossible style descent. By the time the last picture was taken i realized that something was going not the way i planned (as you can see in my face)
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Richard Mesaric
Austria
Wien
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Category 6: Picture series
"Expressions of Love"
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Thomas Verstraete
Belgium
Ledeberg
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6.Photo series
without words
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Posted Sun Nov 1, 2009 9:38 pm
!! Ik dacht de donderdag rond 15:30 in zaal 6 !!
Stuttgart
southwest
Marcellus
New York
Melbourne
Victoria
Rijnsburg
Zuid-Holland
Helsinki
HEL
California
Beverwijk
's-Hertogenbosch
Noord-Brabant
Santpoort-Zuid
a nice small town near the sea
Arlington
Virginia
Bucharest
Alphen aan den Rijn
Unspecified
Macedon
New York
Sesto San Giovanni
Milano
Wendeburg
Germany
First picture submitted. Thanks for your support in advance!
Budapest
As it's a huge prize I decided to award 1 GG to some non-awarded entries I liked for any reason.
Leusden
Utrecht
Special thanks for Duchamp how created this list.
I was surprised to win to categories of this list.
Three cheers for duchamp for hosting a great contest!