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 – Board Game Night @ Comic Quest, September 11, 2014

Thursday night I went to the Board Game Night at Comic Quest.  There were 20 – 25 people at the event with five games being played at any one time.

Over the last few events I have been having a hard time with the games I am playing.  The trend continued at this event.  I played three games at the event and did not win a single game.  Let’s look at the games.

The first game I played was No Thanks.   No Thanks is a simple quick play card game that is a great filler game.  It consists of a deck of cards that a numbered in sequence 3 to 35 and 55 red plastic chips.  At the start of the game each player is given 11 chips.  The deck of cards is shuffled and nine cards are removed from the deck face down.  The remaining cards are placed in the center of the playing area.  The players then turn over one card.  The first player decided whether to keep the card or pass it on to the next player.  If the player passes on the card they place one of their chips on it and play continued on to the next player. 

After Action Report – Board Game Night @ Comic Quest, August 7, 2014

I attended Board Game Night at Comic Quest on Thursday.  There were around 20 people at the event with five games being played at any one time.

I played two games at the event.

The first game I played was Bohnanza.  Bohnanza is card game where the players are farmers that are planting and growing beans in their fields.  Each player starts the game with two fields to plant beans in and five cards that represent the beans that they currently own.  There are 11 different types of bean cards.  There is a varying number of each card in the deck.  The types of beans with the fewest bean cards in the deck are more valuable than the types of beans that have more cards in the deck.

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.

Scorecard Review – June 2014

June was a light month for me.  I missed two events that I normally would have attended and played fewer games at those events.

June

In June I was able to play 18 games at 6 events for an average of 3 games per event.  I was able to hit my goal of an average of 3 games per event again even though I played only two games per event at the last two events of the month.

After Action Report – Strategic & Adventure Game Association Game Day @ El Toro Public Library, June 14, 2014

I hosted the Strategic & Adventure Game Association game Day at the El Toro Public Library on Saturday.  There were 18 people in attendance and up to five games were being played at once.

I decided that starting with this month’s event that I would institute a score keeping protocol for the group where we would start keeping track of the results of the games that were being played at the event with the idea of providing prizes at the end of the year for the best players.  This used to be done as part of the Orange County Board Gamers group until the organizers did not have time for it so I decided to institute it on a smaller scale.  The plan is to do this across the So Cal Game Connection meetup group which I and another event organizer started.  Participation is voluntary so any information I get from it will most likely be incomplete but I still think the exercise will still be worthwhile.