Monday, March 5, 2012

March 1, 2012 Session Report

Attendance-wise, this was one of our best sessions in a long time. We had 12 people total, including just about all the "regulars" and several recent and sporadic attendess. The list for this week: Patrick, Tim, Mike, John, Doug H, Neville, Greg, Ron, Rembert, Eric, Alex, Jay (back for his third session) and myself.

Started with a game of TransAmerica that broke up after one round. Then, it was literally a three-ring circus as we split into three groups, three games at once, all 4-player. First game to finish was JetSet, won by Greg. Players and scores: Greg 30, Eric 25, Jay 16, Rembert 15. I was in the Helvetia game, and the scores there were Alex 23, Mike 20, John 19, Doug 10 (Mike and I had played once before, Alex and Doug were new to the game). Alex was randomly drawn as the first player, don't know if there's a built-in edge to going first or not, there could be.

The other group played Power Grid-First Sparks, the winner was Patrick (15), followed by Tim 12, Ron 12, Neville 11. The JetSet group was already wrapping up a game of 7 Wonders, scores were Eric and Greg 54 (Eric winning on the tiebreak which is most money), Jay 46, Rembert 31. Then there was another game of TransAmerica, won by Neville, scores were Neville 13, Patrick 6, Eric and Tim 4. Looks like from the scores that Neville won every round, although time ran out before the game could finish.

The rest of us got in a couple of plays of a trivia-line game Doug had brought called Time Line, Greg won the first game, Doug the second. We made Doug go last which was kind of a disadvantage, the second game he still won going next to last.

I was pleased to see the strong attendance, hope we can keep it up. GCOM will once again be running a booth at the Laurel Main St. Festival, Sat. May 12th.

Also, condolences to Patrick who lost his father recently.

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