Scorecard Review – September 2014

In September I was able to get the number of games I played higher but I did not perform as well as I normally do.

September

In September I was able to play 25 games at 8 events for an average of 3.13 games per event.  I was able to achieve my goal of player an average of three games per event.  I was able to do this by playing more filler games in particular No Thanks.

After Action Report – Strategic & Adventure Game Association Game Day @ El Toro Public Library, August 9, 2014

I hosted the Strategic & Adventure Game Association Game Day at the El Toro Public Library on Saturday.  We had 22 people at the event with six to seven games being played at any one time.  The crowd was larger than I anticipated since the other events I have been attended recently.  Since the beginning of August all of those events have had lower than normal attendance so it was good to see so many people at this event.

We had a person that was heading out to the Ticket to Ride National Championships at Gen Con next week come to practice for that event as well.  We wish her good luck in her attempt at becoming the national champion and moving on to the world championship.

Scorecard Review – July 2014

July was another light month for me.  I missed two events because I was at Anime Expo early in the month.  I have still not been playing as many games as I had been.

July

In July I was able to play 17 games at 6 events for an average of 2.83 games per event.  I missed my goal of three games per event for the first time since March.

I won 5 games in July which was which was one less game than I won in June.  I came in second 4 times, third 4 times, fourth 3 times and sixth 1 time.  My average standing from July was 2.53 compared to the 2.11 I had in June.

I played 3 games more than once in July:  Empire Builder, Eurorails, and No Thanks.

I played 1 game for the first time in July:  Strozzi

My stats for July were:

Year to Date

I have played 148 games at 52 events for an average of 2.85 games per event.  The average number of games I have played per event remains the same as June

I have won 45 games year to date.  My current standing for the year is 2.30 which worsened 0.02 from the end of June.

My stats for the five games I have played the most this year to date are:

Lifetime

Since I started tracking my game plays in April 2013, I have played 296 games at 121 events for an average of 2.45 games per event.

I have won 76 games and have a lifetime standing of 2.39.

The five games I have played the most are:

I played Trans Europa for the tenth time in 2014 in July as I had expected.  This makes two games that I have played 10 time or more in 2014.  I expect that Empire Builder will join them in August.

There was no news on the event front in July but I expect that there will be in August.

After Action Report – Board Game Night @ Comic Quest, July 31, 2014

The attendance at this week’s board game night was again a little lighter than it had been previous to Comic Con. It makes me wonder if this is going to be an ongoing trend or it we will see an increase in attendance again.

There were 20 people at the event with five games being played at any given time.

I played three games at the event.

The first game I played was Trans Europa.  Trans Europa is a game that is deceptively easy to learn but is very difficult to master.  In Trans Europa, the players are required to connect up five different cities in different regions of Europe.  The players start building track from their starting post.  If they connect up to another player’s track, they can build off of that player’s track as well as their own.  In this way players wind up helping each other out while trying to achieve their own goals.  A round ends after the first player reaches their cities.  All of the other players reduce their scores, which start at 13 points, by the number of spaces they missed hitting their cities by.  The game ends when one of the players loses all 13 of their points.  The winner is the person who has the most points remaining.

After Action Report – Games Gathering @ Brookhurst Hobbies, June 7, 2014

I attended the Games Gathering event at Brookhurst Hobbies on Saturday.  The store was quite crowded as they had three events going on at once.  Amidst the Magic and Pathfinder players there were five tables board games being played with 25 players attending just for board games.

I was able to play three games at the event.

The games were all from the Empire Builder family.  To review, in the Empire Builder family of games the players own railroad companies that are competing to build rail lines and move freight from one city to another based on a set of demand cards that they have.  Once a demand on a demand card is completed the player discards it and draws a new one from the deck.  Included in the demand card deck are a number of disaster cards which include things like derailments and river floods which impede the player’s progress to victory.  In order to win the game, the player must be the first to have track connecting a number of major cities on the board and have at least $250 million dollars.

After Action Report – Strategic & Adventure Game Association Game Day @ El Toro Public Library, May 10, 2014

I hosted the Strategic & Adventure Game Association’s Game Day at the El Toro Public Library on Saturday.  The turnout was lower than I expected based on the RSVP’s that I had received at 14 people, but four games were being played at any one time.  It must have had something to do with Mother’s Day being the following day.

I played four games throughout the day.

The first game that I played was Lunar Rails from the Empire Builder family.  For those that are unfamiliar with the Empire Builder games here is a brief description of how they are played.