Re: Re: 2018 Meeple Choice Awards - Final Results

Larry, I did not mean the MCAs were necessarily affected by those trends -
I was more wondering more if I am.



On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 10:39 AM [email protected] [spielfrieks] <
[email protected]> wrote:

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> I'm not all that sure that the MCA's have changed that much over the
> years, Jonathan.  They really don't seem to be affected that much by the
> trends you mentioned.  We still seem to favor meatier Euros of about 2 hour
> duration, just as we always have.
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> I decided to check that theory out by putting each of our nominated games
> this year into a broad category.  Here's the breakdown I came up with, more
> or less in order of weight (keeping in mind that these categorizations are
> more art than science):
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> Euro Strategy - 10
> Heavy Thematic - 1
> Shorter Euro - 4
> Middleweight - 6
> Super Filler - 2
> Filler - 3
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> Not much in the way of roll 'n' writes, nor of thematic games or those
> teeming with miniatures.  So some changes, but much the same focus that the
> MCA's have always had (which is quite similar to what the Geek ratings
> focused on 10 or so years ago).
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> Larry
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