July 21, 2011 Session Report

Thirteen gamers turned out for this week's session, one of our biggest turnouts of the year. Neville, who was new to our club, was here for the first time, as well as Alex, who was making his first appearance at our club since last fall. We also had three Dougs (Doug G, Doug H and Doug M) plus Mike, Patrick, Paul, Eric, Derik, Kyle, Rembert and myself to make up the Baker's Dozen for this week. Games played: 7 Wonders (with the new Leaders expansion), Egizia, Power Grid-Benelux, Glen More, Ra, For Sale.

First up was 7 Wonders with the new leaders expansion, and we had a full table of seven. The winner was Patrick, with 76 points, who won with very balanced scoring of at least 5 pts. in all seven categories. Other scores: Paul (67), Eric (66), Neville (65), Doug H (62), Mike and John (46) with Mike forcing me into last on the money tiebreaker.

A game of Egizia broke out as more and more people began to arrive. Derik kept his undefeated streak alive, in a fairly close game: Derik (96), Doug M (91), Doug G (85) and Kyle (78). This game finished fairly quickly and they proceeded to the next game, which was Ra. Derik won again, with 60 to 44 for one of the Dougs (scoresheet doesn't say which), 42 for the other Doug, 19 for Kyle. Then, one final game between these four, and finally Derik tasted defeat at the club for the first time, as Kyle was the winner in a game of For Sale: Kyle 72, Doug G 70, Derik 54, Doug M 51.

Rembert and Alex had arrived and joined in once the 7 Wonders game was concluded. Rembert joined Eric, Mike and Paul in a four-player game of Power Grid on the Benelux map that just beat the 9 o'clock witching hour. No need for tiebreaks, as the number of powered cities at game-end was Eric 18, Mike 17, Paul 15, Rembert 13.

Alex joined Patrick, Doug H, Neville and myself in a game of Glen More, which Neville had brought. The game was quite warm from sitting in the car on a hot day! Doug ended the game but suffered a 15-point penalty for having more tiles than anyone else. The winner wound up to be Alex, who had only 10 tiles in his village but made the most use of them. Final score counts: Alex 39, John 35, Patrick 32, Neville 27, Doug H 20. Lesson: more tiles in the city isn't always a good thing!

Thanks to everyone for coming, beat the summer heat and join us for our next session!