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Scott Alden
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And the winners are......

Game of the Year
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Winner - Shogun
First Runner Up - Imperial
Second Runner Up - Thebes

Gamer's Game
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Shogun

2 Player (tie)
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BattleLore
Commands & Colors: Ancients

Card Game
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Caylus Magna Carta

Family Game
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Zooloretto

Children's Game
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Zooloretto

Party Game
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Wits & Wagers

Wargame
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Combat Commander: Europe

Artwork/Presentation
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BattleLore

Congratulations to the designers and publishers of this year's winning games.
Jeff Cramer
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Congratulations Dominic on the W&W victory!

This would be a great Christmas gift for anyone looking for an idea for their family.
T. Nomad
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Congratulations from me too, Dom. We're flying to Ireland for a wedding next summer, and we'll be sure to pick up a copy of Wits & Wagers before we go!
Tom Hilgert
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Nice!!! The Borg twins :) win the 2 Player Award . Congratulations to Rich and Richard Borg.

Scott , will there be a more detailed statistics ?
Mark Zielinski
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Congrats to Dom & Satish on the nod for Wits and Wagers! If it were not for Wits and Wagers the Anti-Vasel League would never had risen at Origins 2007! :D

I am very happy to see that Zooloretto gathered two victories. It is a really good game and I enjoy playing it with my kids as well as other gamers.

I was sorry to see that Battlelore did not win game of the year, but two wins is not too bad. Congrats to the DoW team! Battlore is a lot of fun and was very, very well done and deserved the recognition.

Thanks for running the Golden Geeks Aldie! It was fun being able to participate in the process.

Last edited on 2007-11-19 14:23:32 CST (Total Number of Edits: 2)
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I'm curious about the two player tie - was there literally exactly the same number of votes or was there some 'rationalizing' of the results?
Interesting that Game of the Year equates to Gamer's Game of the year (both the GoY winner and runner up were from that category).

Also interesting that the third billed GoY was Thebes, from the "Family game" category, which it didn't evey win!

My main suggestion: clean up the children's game category. I don't see the SdJ winner being the SdJ, GG Family, and GG Children's games of the year. I don't think the designer was hoping to produce the best kiddie game on the market.
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Cleitus the Black wrote:
I'm curious about the two player tie - was there literally exactly the same number of votes or was there some 'rationalizing' of the results?


And isn't the tiebreaker Most Cash? Days of Wonder must have an advantage there.
Randy Cox wrote:
My main suggestion: clean up the children's game category. I don't see the SdJ winner being the SdJ, GG Family, and GG Children's games of the year. I don't think the designer was hoping to produce the best kiddie game on the market.

As explained elsewhere, Geeks took it to mean "Game I Most Like To Play With Children", and that's what I'm interested in.
Matthew M. Monin
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Both BL and C&CA were ranked higher than every other game in the lists with the exception of each other. Of people who ranked both there were exactly as many people that put BL above C&C as there were people who put C&C above BL.

-MMM
generalpf wrote:
Randy Cox wrote:
My main suggestion: clean up the children's game category. I don't see the SdJ winner being the SdJ, GG Family, and GG Children's games of the year. I don't think the designer was hoping to produce the best kiddie game on the market.

As explained elsewhere, Geeks took it to mean "Game I Most Like To Play With Children", and that's what I'm interested in.
I haven't seen this "elsewhere" official announcement. Anyway, if that's just "what geeks took it to mean," I'd love to hear official word from Scott and I'd prefer that official word be "Best Children's Game," not Best Otherwise Non-Kid Game that you can play with kids.
Last edited on 2007-11-19 14:47:53 CST (Total Number of Edits: 1)
Randy Cox wrote:
I haven't seen this "elsewhere" official announcement. Anyway, if that's just "what geeks took it to mean," I'd love to hear official word from Scott and I'd prefer that official word be "Best Children's Game," not Best Otherwise Non-Kid Game that you can play with kids.

Why is it so important to you? Can Aldie really solidify the definition after the award is given out?
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