Scott Alden
United States
Dallas
Texas
Aldie's Full of Love!
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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.
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Jeff Cramer
United States
Littleton
Colorado
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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.
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T. Nomad
New Zealand
Winnipeg/Auckland/Cheonan
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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!
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Tom Hilgert
Germany
Unspecified
Bavaria
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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 ?
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Mark Zielinski
United States
Ohio
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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!
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.
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Andrew Carlstrom
United States
San Marcos
California
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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?
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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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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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Justin Green
United States
Des Moines
Iowa
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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.
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Matthew M Monin
United States
Branford
Connecticut
8/8 FREE, PROTECTED
That guy
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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
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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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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.
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Jeroen van der Valk
Netherlands
Gouda
Zuid Holland
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Very little I agree with here... Well, I hope next year sees a better crop!
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Colin Hunter
New Zealand
Auckland
Stop the admins removing history from the Wargaming forum.
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These resulut make want to cry... hopefully next year we get a better crop of games. Anyway well done to CC:E and Wits and Wagers.
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Christen
Canada
Toronto
Ontario
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Shogun!!!! I'm so excited!!!
amazing. 
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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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generalpf wrote: 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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Mark Zielinski
United States
Ohio
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Quote: 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.
I don't think they care as long as they are selling lots of games!
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Kevin Williams
United States
Davis
California
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I'm very happy with these picks overall
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An extra kudos to W&W which has quickly replaced all other trivia/party games with my game group.
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Paulo Soledade
Portugal
Caranguejeira
Leiria
Madeira - Pearl of the Atlantic - The Boardgame
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Excelent. My two favorite games of the year, although changing positions, were Shogun and Imperial. If we're talking about something really new, Imperial is the best as you may agree.
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Robert Zurfluh
United States
Cranbury
New Jersey
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Do I get thumbs-up for my cool GeekBadge now?
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Joe Casadonte
United States
King of Prussia
Pennsylvania
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Wow. I think I had more in common this year with the SdJ Jury (and I hated Zooloretto).....
The only 2 I agree with are Wits & Wagers and CC:E. It seems that I'm outside of the mainstream of the fringe. But I guess I'm used to that....
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Kevin Goldenbogen
United States
Unspecified
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Yeah...that deserves a thumbs up.
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Douglas S
United States
Torrance
California
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SubtlyArtistic wrote: Shogun!!!! I'm so excited!!! amazing.
Yep. Excellent!
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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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Wow. I did not match up well with the voters this year. I picked Shogun last among the nominated gamer's games (I have some real issues with it). Zooloretto was next to last in my family game picks (it's not a bad game, but I like the other ones much better). I didn't even vote for it as one of my children's games (as I don't consider it close to being a kid's game; guess I didn't get the memo redefining this category). I haven't played BattleLore, C&C:A, or Wits & Wagers, so couldn't vote for them, although none of them sound like games I tend to like. Really, the only result that fit my voting was Caylus Magna Carta (I picked it first), but what the hell else was ever going to win best card game? I also picked BattleLore for best artwork, but I don't even own the game--it just looked good the one time I saw it set up. So precious little agreement with the rest of the site. Oh well, there's always next year.
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Neil Carr
United States
Barre
Vermont
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Hmm... weird. I guess I'm Mr. Average Gamer, as everything I voted high for was at the top.
Oddly enough, I wish other titles had won, as I've already seen all of this stuff and want something new and shiny to surprise me.
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Arden Nelson Jr.
United States
Novelty
Ohio
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Octavian wrote: 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
I know I ranked both BL and C&C:A highly ... I believe my #1 and #2 or if not they were #2 and #3. My guess is that people who like the game system probably have played both games and like both pretty much equally as I do. Yes, they are similar but each one has pluses and minuses.
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Myke Madsen
United States
Salt Lake City
Utah
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I still don't get the Children's Game category. IMHO it shouldn't be "games that can be played with children" but rather "games designed FOR children." Big difference and the Golden Geeks missed the mark entirely.
Edit: I think the category should be more like the SdJ's children category: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Kinderspiel_des_Jahre...
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