Ubergeek
United States
Camas
Washington
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All very good lists. One of the few I voted for that didn't make it was Last Night on Earth, the Zombie Game. Not enough exposure since it's recent release I guess. Oh well, there's always next year.
May the best games win! 
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Robert Wesley
Nepal
Aberdeen
Washington
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Walt Mulder wrote: All very good lists. One of the few I voted for that didn't make it was Last Night on Earth, the Zombie Game. Not enough exposure since it's recent release I guess. Oh well, there's always next year. May the best games win!  screw THAT! may the 'ones' that I prefer WIN! 
"you're ALL worthless and weak! now gimme 20!  that is!"
"there's NO 'place' for the cowardly and weak... in the Golden Geek Awards Cap'n!"
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Oh! Look at my wrist! Gotta go.
United States
Central Point
Oregon
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Interesting nominations. I just wish I'd played all of them before now. So many games, so little money.
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Sure.
Netherlands
Rijen
Noord Brabant
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Some old games in here... I should've nominated Chinatown and El Grande.
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GROGnads wrote: Walt Mulder wrote: All very good lists. One of the few I voted for that didn't make it was Last Night on Earth, the Zombie Game. Not enough exposure since it's recent release I guess. Oh well, there's always next year. May the best games win! screw THAT! may the 'ones' that I prefer WIN! "you're ALL worthless and weak! now gimme 20! that is!"
"there's NO 'place' for the cowardly and weak... in the Golden Geek Awards Cap'n!"
 Sounds almost like you are suffering side effects from the talk like a pirate day Robert 
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Steven Chen
New Zealand
Auckland City
Auckland
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Thats a lot of nominations for each category...
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Scott Alden
United States
Dallas
Texas
Aldie's Full of Love!
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Stevve15 wrote: Thats a lot of nominations for each category...
It's the same number as last year. I think 15 nominations gives a very good coverage of each category.
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Scott Alden
United States
Dallas
Texas
Aldie's Full of Love!
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BaSL wrote: Some old games in here... I should've nominated Chinatown and El Grande.
The only one I see that's somewhat old is Bang! - which is kind of suprising - did it get a reprint recently?
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oskari
Finland
Helsinki
corals... yummy!
I'm a blood-sucking fiend! Look at my outfit!
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Aldie wrote: The only one I see that's somewhat old is Bang! - which is kind of suprising - did it get a reprint recently?
There are Jambo and Citadels as well.
Attacktix is an old game too, and separating its different themes is quite artificial, especially for the purposes of the voting process.
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Paul Boos
Spain
Falls Church
Virginia
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And I thought Hive was a bit older... I think my nominations may have been too narrow.
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Scott Alden
United States
Dallas
Texas
Aldie's Full of Love!
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pmboos wrote: And I thought Hive was a bit older... I think my nominations may have been too narrow.
A majority of people did pick from the 2006-2007 titles - which left some slots available for some of the older games to fill in. I'll have to run some stats to see how many people used up all their slots.
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Eric Clark
United States
Holyoke
Massachusetts
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No artwork nomination for Kutschfahrt zur Teufelsburg or Celtica? What's wrong with you people?
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Alfred Das
Netherlands
's-Hertogenbosch
Noord-Brabant
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Aldie wrote: A majority of people did pick from the 2006-2007 titles - which left some slots available for some of the older games to fill in. I'll have to run some stats to see how many people used up all their slots.
I didn't use more than about half of the slots available. Having so many available is good if you play lots of different games.
All in all I think the selection of nominees is excellent and quite representative of boardgaming today.
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I didn't even think nominating older games was possible. And, uh . . . well, it would see a little odd if Hive (2001) won the 2007 Award.
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JonMichael Rasmus
United States
Madison
Wisconsin
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Aldie wrote:
Now I understand what they mean when they say an honor just be nominated. These are some really good games to lose to.
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Randy Cox
United States
Clemson
South Carolina
1024x768 works just fine - Don't Wide the Site!
The Back Alley gets no respect.
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jmsr525 wrote: Aldie wrote: Now I understand what they mean when they say an honor just be nominated. These are some really good games to lose to.
How Bang, Cash 'n' Guns, and To Court the King are party games is beyond me. They're light games, no doubt, but I just can't see building a party (particularly with non-gamers) around these games would ever pan out well (except for a party of game geeks only, of course).
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Chapel
United States
Round Rock
Texas
Only for the love of the game...
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Drew1365 wrote: well, it would see a little odd if Hive (2001) won the 2007 Award.
But you can pretty much rest assured that it will not.
The list included all of my top picks, and minus a few of my tertiary picks i.e. (Canal Mania and Phoenicia), but overall a great selection.
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Huzonfirst
United States
Manassas
Virginia
For the second time in five years, the G-Men are Super Bowl champs! Woo hoo!!!!!
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Randy, last year the category was called "Light/Party Games". I don't play party games (the occasions just don't come up), so I treated this as "light games", since that's a useful category which no longer existed. I imagine quite a few other people did the same, since there's very few true party games nominated. Maybe they should change the name back to the original one next year, but in the meantime, we have this kind of a mishmash category. (Then again, there's no hard guidelines for any of these categories, a situation which Aldie seems perfectly content with.)
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Steven Mitchell
United States
New York
New York
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How is War of the Ring eligible? It's three years old by now...
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Tom Vasel
United States
Homestead
Unspecified
Top 100 Games of all Time
Dice Tower Convention, July 2012!!!!
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Randy Cox wrote:
How Bang, Cash 'n' Guns, and To Court the King are party games is beyond me. They're light games, no doubt, but I just can't see building a party (particularly with non-gamers) around these games would ever pan out well (except for a party of game geeks only, of course).
On the other hand, I easily see how Bang and Cash 'n Guns can be considered party games - they fit well in almost every situation I've brought them out.
And with folks who would firmly not be considered geeks.
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Daniel Karp
United States
Rockville
Maryland
I mean it!
100 geekgold for OverText, and all I got was this stupid sentence.
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Eligibility has been determined more or less by the users. We don't go strictly by the publication year, because sometimes a game doesn't make it into wide distribution until significantly after it was first published. I think of this as the prize for games that had their first (probably English language) major release in 2006-2007.
Having said that, a couple games slipped in that still shouldn't qualify, even with those less stringent requirements. If there are still there to vote for once the final voting starts, I know i wouldn't vote for them.
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Steve Bernhardt
United States
saratoga springs
Utah
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dakarp wrote: Eligibility has been determined more or less by the users. We don't go strictly by the publication year, because sometimes a game doesn't make it into wide distribution until significantly after it was first published. I think of this as the prize for games that had their first (probably English language) major release in 2006-2007.
Having said that, a couple games slipped in that still shouldn't qualify, even with those less stringent requirements. If there are still there to vote for once the final voting starts, I know i wouldn't vote for them.
Well, I think you guys need to make a command decision and drop games that make no sense. War of the Ring is a fine game, but it was released widely years ago. I'm seeing some other old favorites besides that one.
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David G.
United States
Moorpark
California
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Aldie wrote: BaSL wrote: Some old games in here... I should've nominated Chinatown and El Grande. The only one I see that's somewhat old is Bang! - which is kind of suprising - did it get a reprint recently?
yeah... what was the criteria here? Bang!, Citadels (2000), Jambo (2004), Tier auf Tier (2005), Wits and Wagers (2005), and I'm sure there's more.
It really dilutes these awards if 'just any old game' can get in.
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David G.
United States
Moorpark
California
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Randy Cox wrote: How Bang, Cash 'n' Guns, and To Court the King are party games is beyond me.
My exact thought. What kind of parties do BGGers have? Don't they ever invite 'mortals'? Although Ca$h 'n Gun$ I can see, maybe.
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