Favorite Game Tournament 2012 (Chess wins! Condorcet Bonus!)

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More people need to play Cards Against Humanity. It's clearly superior.

Match 1:
Backgammon

Match 2:
Cards Against Humanity

Match 3:
Connect Four

Match 4:
Dungeons & Dragons

Match 5:
Dominion

Match 6:
Euchre

Match 7:
Power Grid

Match 8:
Clue (Cluedo)

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Special bonus match, just for MoS...

I almost voted for Game of Thrones, cuz that's pretty tragic. Still, Cards Against Humanity ftw.

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Except that Munchkin blows.

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pffft

Which one has you offended?

Risk, Cheat, Bridge, Guillotine.

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Guillotine is an ok game if you hate playing games that require critical thinking and strategy.

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This tournament is rigged. The best game already lost. Also, why the fuck did the best two games in this entire set of matches have to go against each other?

Race for the Galaxy
Spades
Life
Mornington Crescent
Hungry Hungry Hippos
War
Checkers
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I've never played Mornington Crescent. This is an anti-vote.

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I prefer the more open play it allows for, less restricted overall and much more newbie friendly.

Yea, but I read that the Weisburg rules make the game too easily broken if you understand the Lyre dynamic theory. That's why the competitive standard has shifted to the Tabitha ruleset.

...or so I've heard.

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You guys are both out of your minds. Are you talking about the World Mornington Crescent Association? Those guys are steeped in their own dusty standards and can't get out of their own way. The only sanctioning body worth listening to is World Association of Mornington Crescent, and they firmly back the Yardsman Variation.

Actually, I disagree. The International Mornington Crescent Association quite clearly is the most reliable source of rulings on the game, ever since they were formed from the merger between AMCA and EMCA. The Yardsman Variation is more of an alternate competitive format that is used in some tournaments as a sideshow. After all, there's a reason it's called a variation.

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Guys, guys, guys. You're not thinking this through. Ever since the Hypy Feint was invented back in 2001, Gilman's has been practically obsolete at international competitions. That's why Stewart Dunbar has had 6 world championship victories in the last 8 years...he figured out how to combine Hypy with the Protheus Swap to double his guardian tokens by the third turn and just completely dominate the mid-game with swarm tactics. By the time they reach endgame he can just go on autopilot by locking into the Sol Pattern for a finishing sweep. It's almost to the point where I think we need a new standard altogether. Have any of you heard of the Maher Proposal yet? They're trying to mitigate the time dilation factors in the current standard by introducing a clockwise reduction in supply every third turn. It really looks promising but I haven't actually gotten a chance to play it yet.

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Yea, it was a loophole in how Gilman's allowed tokens to be gained through bypassing the building phase.

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Magic: The Gathering
Balderdash
Puerto Rico
Cribbage
Battleship
Ticket to Ride
Boggle
Hearts

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None of the games left in Bracket 2 deserve to win this tournament. That's pretty sad.

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Betrayal at House on the Hill
Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer
Battlestar Galactica
A Game of Thrones: The Board Game
Solitaire
Stratego
Sorry!
Operation

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Seriously, why do all the best games have to go up against each other? BHH, 7W, SoC, and GoT are clearly the best of this group. Also, Operation over Chess for the lulz.

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If Apples to Apples gets more votes than Cards Against Humanity did, I might shoot somebody. Preferably MoI cuz he's conveniently right about me.

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Risk
Connect Four
Dominion
Bridge
Texas Hold'em Poker
Scrabble
Hungry Hungry Hippos
Trivial Pursuit

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...and yes, most of those are anti-votes. I could care less for Risk (the original, anyway), Connect Four, Scrabble, Hungry Hungry Hippos, and Trivial Pursuit. However, all of the games they're going up against either deserve to lose or it's too funny to let them win (ie Go).

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Hungry Hungry Hippos over Go

really

trolllolololol

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Balderdash
Puerto Rico
Blackjack
Hearts
Betrayal at House on the Hill
The Settlers of Catan
Stratego
Chess

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If Apples to Apples wins against a really good game when Cards Against Humanity lost to a pretty bad game...I might flip my shit.

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Why are people even thinking of voting Balderdash fjsopfaw

Buggered if I know, I'm selling all my Magic cards, and yet I'd still say it's the better game by a mile and then some.

Because Balderdash is a really good game.

So is MTG, but at the end of the day I voted for the game I have gotten the most enjoyment out of. I have played both a lot, but MTG has a lot of limitations (the monetary downside of being a TCG is one of them, obviously, but there are others) that made it less enjoyable for me. I grew up playing Balderdash with my family, and it has a special place in my heart. It's a really great game for both intellectuals and people who just want to mess around and have a good time. It's a beautiful concept.

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MoS: I agree that magic and balderdash are really close, that was the toughest matchup this round I think, I just have been playing magic for so many years that I had to vote for it. As far as apples to apples goes, if it wins this week, it will easily lose to chess, so I am not too worried. I am still upset the ticket to ride and the running asians game are both out.

How can you like Chess and NOT like Stratego?

I'm disappointed in you.

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MOTHERFUCKER. ARKHAM HORROR IS SHIT COMPARED TO BETRAYAL.

fuck we got trolled so hard

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Puerto Rico
Hearts
The Settlers of Catan
Stratego

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I agree with shea on this one, we really voted out some great games way too early.

This. Not a single one of the games remaining is actually the best game in the whole tournament.

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Risk
Dominion
Texas Hold'em Poker
Go

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Match 53 is a match of hate. I love roleplaying games, but D&D is perhaps my absolute least favorite, and I refuse to play it. I love most of the Risk expansions (2210, Godstorm, etc), but the original Risk game is godawful. The only thing that gave it the win is that Mith somehow decided that the Risk expansions were equivalent to regular Risk in terms of this tournament. Very saddening, since they are comparable in quality AT ALL.

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Dominion
Texas Hold'em Poker
Magic: The Gathering
The Settlers of Catan

What a shitty quarterfinal...

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Welp, there's only one game left that deserves to win, because 3 of the best 4 games left just got outed.

Texas Hold'em Poker
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Risk beating Dominion is pretty much a travesty, since it was by far the best game in the top 8. Only Hold'em could compete, really.

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Thank god Risk lost...

Texas Hold'em Poker
Magic: The Gathering
Dominion

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because screw you chess, that's why.

This.

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11-3 over Hold'em is making me wonder where all our Poker voters went after the final...

No worries, I got this.

Dominion
Texas Hold'em Poker
The Settlers of Catan
Bridge
Hearts
Magic: The Gathering
Go
Risk
Pokémon Trading Card Game
Diplomacy
Twilight Struggle
Chess