October 16, 2014 Session Report

Big turnout of 14 for this week's session.  Mike, Patrick, Doug, Ben A, Lina, Neville, Andrew, Jeff, Rich, Evan, Rembert, Rouslan, first-time attendee Moshe and myself were the participants.  We had three tables of games going for most of the session.  Games played were Coup:  Reformation, Black Fleet, Praetor, Concordia and Love Letter.

Coup-Reformation was played while waiting for folks to show, and we actually wound up with eight players.  In order of finish, it was Ben winning, ahead of Jeff, Mike, Lina, Andrew, Neville, myself and Doug who was first knocked out.  Thanks to Andrew for clearing up a couple of rules I had messed up.

We then split into three groups for the rest of the evening.  At one table, Black Fleet was played, with Evan winning.  He had the only positive score (+6) while the three other players (Patrick and Rich at -10 and Rembert at -15) had negative scores.  Later on, the group was joined by Moshe and played Love Letter, with Moshe winning (3 to 2 for Rembert and 1 each for Evan and Rich).

Doug had brought Praetor, and Rouslan, Lina and I joined him.  Lina and I battled for the lead, but in the end I pulled away.  Final scores were John 110, Lina 87, Doug 67, Rouslan 58.  I believe we had to pick up the game a round earlier, and everyone thought Rouslan was in a good position to improve his standing if the game had lasted longer.

Finally, a five-player Concordia game barely made it to the finish line.  Final scores were Mike 126, Neville 98, Andrew 96, Ben 93, Jeff 83.