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SB-Boardgamers 5th anniversary
Last night was the fifth anniversary of SB-Boardgamers. This is also my first attempt at a blog post using my iPhone from end-to-end. It was a fairly typical night at SB-Boardgamers, perhaps a little low on attendance and most people left a bit earlier than usual (morning meetings), but that happens now and again. I took some quick snapshots (see below) to give an idea of the evening.
Eugene Huang gave a short speech about the history of the group and awarded prizes to the people who had played with the most different people (thus fostering the group’s goal of evangelising gaming) and there were pies, cake and cookies to munch. Ted Alspach’s table were surprised that I did not win the award; they thought it was a given for me and not by a small margin. So goes perception bias. It may have been close but Randy Farmer and John Yeager took the prizes instead (a copy of Tadsch Mahal and one of Knizia’s Lord of the Rings games) which seems reasonable (I’ve no interest in either game).
I played 5 player Imperial (won) and two 3 player games of Army of Frogs (won both). Apparently it was my night. Adam Kao (my primary opponent in all of the night’s games) was excellent competition. I had to (surreptitiously) muster and coordinate all three other players against him while also playing tempo hard against him, pushing him to decelerate when he really needed to keep accelerating the game in order to win Imperial. It was an excellent game!
Observations:
Army of Frogs does not suffer the uncontrollable blocking problem with 3 players as it does with 4.
My iPhone camera skills need improvement.
The native camera application on the iPhone is poor. Darkroom does image stabilisation and is much better.
Lack of cut’n'paste support on the iPhone is a problem.
Lack of integration between the iPhone’s WordPress application and the NextGen gallery module I use on this blog is unfortunate. I will probably end up post-processing all iPhone posted entries with pictures to move them over to better gallery product. Bah!
Lack of easy cite support (partly a function of the lack of cut’n'paste support) for AREFs and the like (mostly for boardgamegeek links) is annoying. It is tempting to write a WordPress module to extend the markup language for Boardgamegeek links.
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I’ve moved the images to a gallery.
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