Re: 2017 Meeples Choice Awards - Let's Get Started!

The list looks good!  Everything I want to see is there.  Thanks for
kicking things off again!

Jacob

On 4 June 2018 at 18:30, [email protected] [spielfrieks] <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> So tell me, are you feeling a little pushed and pulled by the stresses of
> daily life?  Just another hamster racing on your own giant exercise wheel,
> as it careens madly, but pointlessly, in space?  Well, what you need is a
> little empowerment, my friend.  A chance to speak your mind, to make your
> opinions felt, to make them *count* for something.  Something important.
> Something that will outlive us all.  Something like, oh, I don’t know…the
> 2017 Meeples Choice Awards!
>
>
>
> Hi, this is Larry Levy and I see by the clock on the wall that it’s time
> to start the process for the Spielfrieks user group to select our three
> favorite games of the last calendar year.  We call it the Meeples Choice
> Awards and we’ve been doing it for close to 20 years.  And doing a damn
> fine job of it, if I do say so myself.  Check out the winners for the last
> five years if you don’t believe me:
>
>
>
> 2016:  Terraforming Mars; Great Western Trail; Yokohama
>
> 2015:  Codenames; Food Chain Magnate; The Voyages of Marco Polo
>
> 2014:  Roll for the Galaxy; Castles of Mad King Ludwig; Splendor
>
> 2013:  Russian Railroads; Bora Bora; Concordia
>
> 2012:  Terra Mystica; Tzolk'in; Keyflower
>
>
>
> If you want to check out all of the winners, here's a link to the Meeples
> Choice page on the BGG Wiki:  http://www.boardgamegeek.com/
> wiki/page/Meeples_Choice#.
>
>
>
> So let’s get to brass tacks, whatever the hell that means.  Everyone on
> the Spielfrieks user group is eligible to vote in this election.  If you
> know of someone who isn’t a member who’d like to participate, no problem.
> Just have them send an email to spielfrieks-owner AT yahoogroups DOT com
> and the powers that be at that address will get them enrolled in the ranks
> in no time.
>
>
>
> In order to come up with our three winning games, we employ a three-stage
> process.  First, we’ll decide which games will be part of our initial
> election.  The goal is to make sure every member can vote for all their
> favorites, so this list usually winds up with close to 200 games.  Then,
> we’ll conduct that election, with every voter choosing their 10 favorite
> games.  This will give us our list of nominated games, which will consist
> of the 25 games (plus ties) that receive the most votes from the first
> election.  Finally, we’ll vote one more time, with everyone picking their
> three favorites from the nominated games.  The three games that get the
> most votes from that second election will be declared the winners of the
> Meeples Choice Awards!
>
>
>
> So our current task is to come up with that initial list.  What games, I
> hear you say, are eligible?  Basically anything that was first released
> during 2017.  RPGs and video games aren’t included, of course, but board
> games, card games, dexterity games, co-ops, wargames, party games...pretty
> much any game that debuted last year and which is listed on Boardgame Geek
> can be voted for.  Pure expansions aren’t eligible, but standalone
> expansions are.  The games have to be published ones, so Print ‘n’ Play or
> web-published games are excluded.
>
>
>
> Because gaming has truly become an international hobby, we’ve recently
> expanded our eligibility rules.  If a game first appeared earlier than 2017
> in a form that limited its exposure (for example, a print and play game, a
> limited print run, or a non-English language release), but a more
> accessible version was published last year, it can be voted for.  The only
> restriction is that no games nominated for the second round of voting in an
> earlier year can be voted on this year.  But the initial list of games
> currently only includes 2017 designs, so if you can think of any titles
> that fit into what I’ve described above, please mention them, so that we
> can get them on the ballot.
>
>
>
> To ensure that no foreign powers will be influencing *these* elections
> (I’ve been told that Yahoo Groups is very big in Mother Russia), we will
> once again be using our exclusively designed app, created by our very own
> Wei-Hwa Huang.  Wei-Hwa’s generous contribution is feature-licious and
> folks really seem to enjoy using it.  I’ll discuss how to use the
> application once we’ve settled on the games for our first election, but
> it’s very intuitive, so I don’t expect any AP from these rules.
>
>
>
> So the next few days will be devoted to coming up with that first list of
> games.  I went to the Geek and came up with a group of 190 leading games
> from last year.  That sounds like a lot, but I’m sure there are some titles
> that I’ve missed, so I need your help.  The games are listed at the end of
> this note.  Please go through them and post any additional titles from 2017
> that have a good chance of making your top 10 from the year.  You should
> also include any designs that debuted before last year, but which you think
> haven’t been truly accessible until 2017.  List your reasons for why you
> feel that game should be included this year and I’ll make the judgement
> call on each of them.  But I’ll try to be accommodating, since the goal is
> to let everyone vote for their top 10 games of the year during the first
> election.  Either post your suggestions here or, for folks who don’t have
> access to the user group, send them to me at huzonfirst AT gmail DOT com.
> I’d also appreciate it if you could point out any of the games I listed
> that you don’t think should be eligible this year, and why.
>
>
>
> So those are our marching orders.  On Friday, I’ll add your suggestions
> and provide the list of games for our first round of voting.  I’ll also
> give the procedure for using our voting app.  If you want the current list
> in a form you can manipulate, check out the spreadsheet I’ve uploaded.  For
> each game, I’ve listed its Game Rank on the Geek, together with its Average
> Rating and Number of Ratings (based on what was showing a couple of weeks
> ago, when I gathered the stats from the Geek).  There are two tabs, one
> sorted by Game Rank, and one in alphabetical order of the games.  If you
> don’t want to be bothered with that, I’ll list the games in alphabetical
> order at the end of this note.
>
>
>
> It's that most wonderful time of the year, everybody—the Meeples Choice
> Awards voting!  I hope a whole bunch of you participate.  Thanks in advance
> and I look forward to your suggestions over the next few days.
>
>
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> 1754: Conquest
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> 1868
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> 5-Minute Dungeon
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> 878: Vikings
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> A Column of Fire
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> A Game of Thrones: Catan
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> A Handful of Stars
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> Aeon's End: War Eternal
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> Agra
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> Alicematic Heroes
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> Alien Artifacts
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> Altiplano
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> Amun-Re: The Card Game
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> Anachrony
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> Arcadia Quest: Inferno
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> Azul
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> Bärenpark
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> Battle for Rokugan
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> Betrayal at Baldur's Gate
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> Biosphere
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> Bob Ross: Art of Chill Game
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> Bunny Kingdom
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> Calimala
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> Can't Stop Express
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> Carthago: Merchants & Guild
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> Cat Lady
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> Caverna: Cave vs Cave
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> Century: Golem Edition
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> Century: Spice Road
>
> Charterstone
>
> Chimera Station
>
> Clank! In! Space!
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> Clans of Caledonia
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> Codenames Duet
>
> Colonial Twilight
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> Commands & Colors Tricorne: The American Revolution
>
> Custom Heroes
>
> Cytosis
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> Dark Souls
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> Deadball
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> Deckscape: Test Time
>
> Dice Forge
>
> Dinosaur Island
>
> Downforce
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> Dragon Castle
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> Dragonfire
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> Element
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> Ethnos
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> Ex Libris
>
> Exit: The Game – Dead Man on the Orient Express
>
> Exit: The Game – The Forbidden Castle
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> Exit: The Game – The Forgotten Island
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> Exit: The Game – The Polar Station
>
> Fallout
>
> Fantasy Realms
>
> Fast Forward: FEAR
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> Fast Forward: FLEE
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> Fast Forward: FORTRESS
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> Fate of the Elder Gods
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> First Martians
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> Flatline
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> Flip Ships
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> Fog of Love
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> Fugitive
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> Gaia Project
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> Gentes
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> Gloom of Kilforth
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> Gloomhaven
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> Heaven & Ale
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> Herbaceous
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> High Frontier (3rd edition)
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> Holland '44: Operation Market-Garden
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> Iberian Gauge
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> Iberian Railways
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> Illimat
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> Immortals
>
> Indian Summer
>
> Indulgence
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> Istanbul: The Dice Game
>
> John Company
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> Jump Drive
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> Karuba: The Card Game
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> Keyper
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> Kingsburg (Second Edition)
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> Kitchen Rush
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> Legacy of Dragonholt
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> Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game
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> Lisboa
>
> London (second edition)
>
> Lords of Hellas
>
> Lovecraft Letter
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> LYNGK
>
> Magic Maze
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> Majesty: For the Realm
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> Masmorra
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> Massive Darkness
>
> Meeple Circus
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> Memoarrr!
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> Merlin
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> Mini Rails
>
> Mint Works
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> Monopoly Gamer
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> Montana
>
> Mythic Battles: Pantheon
>
> Near and Far
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> Nemo's War (second edition)
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> New York Slice
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> NMBR 9
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> Noria
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> Nusfjord
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> Okanagan
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> One Deck Dungeon: Forest of Shadows
>
> One Night Ultimate Alien
>
> Otys
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> Outlive
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> Pandemic Legacy: Season 2
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> Pandemic: Rising Tide
>
> Photosynthesis
>
> Pioneer Days
>
> Pioneers
>
> Pixie Queen
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> Plague Inc.
>
> Planetarium
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> Pulsar 2849
>
> Q.E.
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> Queendomino
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> Quests of Valeria
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> Rajas of the Ganges
>
> Reworld
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> Rhino Hero: Super Battle
>
> Riverboat
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> Rum & Bones: Second Tide
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> Sagrada
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> Santa Maria
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> Sentient
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> Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures
>
> Sid Meier's Civilization: A New Dawn
>
> Sidereal Confluence
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> Sol: Last Days of a Star
>
> Spirit Island
>
> Spyfall 2
>
> Stop Thief!
>
> Storm Hollow
>
> Sub Terra
>
> Sword & Sorcery
>
> Tak
>
> Tao Long: The Way of the Drago
>
> That's a Question!
>
> The 7th Continent
>
> The Castles of Burgundy: The Dice Game
>
> The Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game
>
> The Expanse Board Game
>
> The Fox in the Forest
>
> The Game: Face to Face
>
> The Godfather: Corleone's Empire
>
> The Lost Expedition
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> The Palace of Mad King Ludwig
>
> The Quest for El Dorado
>
> The Ruhr
>
> This War of Mine
>
> Ticket to Ride: Germany
>
> Time of Crisis
>
> Tiny Epic Quest
>
> Too Many Bones
>
> Tortuga 1667
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> Transatlantic
>
> Twenty One
>
> Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition
>
> Tybor der Baumeister
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> Unearth
>
> Unfair
>
> Unlock! Squeek & Sausage
>
> Unlock! The Formula
>
> Unlock! The House on the Hill
>
> Unlock! The Island of Doctor Goorse
>
> Valletta
>
> Vikings Gone Wild
>
> Villages of Valeria
>
> Viral
>
> Voodoo Prince
>
> Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire
>
> Wasteland Express Delivery Service
>
> Welcome to Centerville
>
> Wendake
>
> Werewords
>
> Whistle Stop
>
> Whitehall Mystery
>
> Wordsy
>
> XenoShyft: Dreadmire
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> Yamatai
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