Re: 1996 Results

"Jacob Lee [email protected] [spielfrieks]" <[email protected]>
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I feel like checking out Expedition now.  I'm surprised a game I know
nothing about got the most votes amongst us.

Jacob

On Monday, 25 September 2017, [email protected] [spielfrieks] <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> 86 on '96!  The vote is over; thanks to the 46 people who participated.
> For the first time, there was a significant number of folks who voted for
> fewer than 3 games.  Not surprisingly, many of us are finding fewer games
> worthy of our vote.  Anyway, here’s the top 10, with the vote totals
> listed, along with the game’s original rank in parentheses, and n/a
> indicating that the game wasn’t originally nominated:
>
>
>
> 1. Expedition - 16 (2)
>
> 2. Entdecker – 11 (1)
>
> 3. Carabande – 10 (3)
>
> 4. Detroit-Cleveland Grand Prix – 8 (5)
>
> 4. Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage – 8 (n/a)
>
> 6. Iron Dragon – 7 (13)
>
> 7. Bamboleo – 6 (19)
>
> 7. Quandary – 6 (6)
>
> 7. Serenissima – 6 (4)
>
> 10. Netrunner – 5 (n/a)
>
>
>
> I don't know about you, but I'm pretty surprised to see the same three
> games on top.  Not that they're bad games, but none of them are evergreens,
> so I thought we'd see at least a little movement at the top.  There really
> wasn't that much change from the original election.  Hannibal makes a nice
> showing and Bamboleo (which only got 1 vote originally) gets a lot more
> love this time.  The big loser is Serenissima, which missed grabbing an MCA
> by only one vote in the original election, but did considerably worse this
> time around.
>
>
> Only three games were shut out:  Campanile, Grand National Derby, and
> Yucata.  You can check out how each game did, together with who voted for
> them, on the app.
>
>
>
> So were you surprised to see a repeat of the top 3, or was that fairly
> predictable?  Tell us what you think!
>
> Larry
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