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| SaveDrLucky | 6 | Brad 5 Whendy -1 RussW -1 Jeffles -1 JP -1 Clayton -1 |
| Tichu | 2 | ( Marty Dan ) 1 ( Daniel Whindy ) -1 |
| Metro | 6 | RussD 5 PJ 3 BobK 1 Fina -1 JeffF -3 Steve -5 |
| Zero | 5 | Marty 2 Daniel 2 Whindy 2 Fred -2 Dan -4 |
| Exxtra | 4 | Dan 3 Marty 1 Fred -1 RussD -3 |
| WhatsThatOnMyHead | 5 | Whindy 2 Brad 2 Daniel 2 Fina -2 PJ -4 |
| Ra | 5 | Jeffles 4 Fred 1 Dan 1 William -2 Marty -4 |
| HighSociety | 5 | Clayton 4 JonathanC 2 Jeffles 0 RussW -2 Whendy -4 |
| Vampire | 3 | Leslie 2 Whendy 0 Fina -2 |
| Tichu | 2 | ( JP Steve ) 1 ( BobK JeffF ) -1 |
| Bluff | 4 | Jeffles 3 Whendy 1 Ben -1 Leslie -3 |
| Evo | 3 | BobK 2 JP 0 Fina -2 |
| StephensonsRocket | 4 | JonathanC 3 RussD 1 RussW -1 Clayton -3 |
| Tichu | 2 | ( Fred Marty ) 1 ( William Dan ) -1 |
| OutburstII | 2 | ( JeffF Jeffles Ben ) 1 ( Whendy Leslie ) -1 |
| Can'tStop | 4 | William 3 JeffF 0 Marty 0 Dan -3 |
| Canasta | 2 | ( Whindy Daniel ) 1 ( Brad PJ ) -1 |
| Carcassonne | 5 | RussD 4 Clayton 2 RussW 0 JonathanC -2 Steve -4 |
| Tichu | 2 | ( Whendy JeffF ) 1 ( BobK William ) -1 |
| Carcassonne | 3 | Dan 2 JP 0 Marty -2 |
| Metro | 4 | Clayton 2 JonathanC 2 Steve -1 RussW -3 |
4 more games of Tichu... it is rapidly climbing the RussCon popularity charts! Metro is continuing to prove popular as well.
Fortunately Carcassonne continues to be played. If it stops being played, the entropic heat death of the universe cannot be far behind.
Speaking of chaos, Sea Biscuit won our weekly Stephensons Rocket contest. What's up with that!?
Note the awesome flexible power of our ratings system, handling teams with differing numbers of players for Outburst II! Thanks again JeffF for updating the ratings software to handle teams a while back.
Confidential tip: be sure to play Save Dr Lucky with Whendy -- she really enjoys that game!
Meta Party Game ResultsPJ was the Meta Devil. Here is the Meta Party Game he emailed out:Bad is GoodI did indeed supply a table of the 100 most popular RussCon games as of the beginning of the evening's festivities. This chart shows a game's popularity rank, # times played, and title:
In hindsight, I wish I'd asked people to compute their own meta points for me. Failing that, I should have made PJ compute the meta points! Whendy is the Meta Devil, which should make her happy since she felt robbed by last week's meta technicality! Here are how the scores came out. If I made any mistakes, tough noogies. Note that JP & Brad played a game of go which would have made Brad the meta devil, but PJ ruled that non-RussCon-scoring games were not meta-eligible either. But Brad shouldn't feel too deprived.
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Ennio Morricone, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Nada Surf, Popular
Michael Nyman, Drowning by Numbers
Timbuk3, A Hundred Lovers
101-Xmas
Again a meta theme, albeit more free-association than normal. (For those who haven't seen the excellent Peter Greenaway film Drowning By Numbers, the numbers 1 through 100 are an important recurring motif.)
Rank ratings: 0.6000 Brad (3) 0.4667 RussD (4) 0.4118 Jeffles (5) 0.4000 Daniel (4) 0.4000 Whindy (4) 0.3571 JonathanC (4) 0.2105 Clayton (5) 0.1111 BobK (4) 0.0000 Ben (2) 0.0000 JP (4) -0.0556 Dan (7) -0.0556 Marty (7) -0.0833 Fred (4) -0.1111 William (4) -0.1818 JeffF (5) -0.2000 PJ (3) -0.2500 Whendy (6) -0.3333 Leslie (3) -0.3684 RussW (5) -0.5385 Fina (4) -0.6923 Steve (4) |
New Win ratings: 0.6000 Brad (3) 0.4667 RussD (4) 0.4000 Daniel (4) 0.4000 Whindy (4) 0.3529 Jeffles (5) 0.2143 JonathanC (4) 0.1579 Clayton (5) 0.0000 Ben (2) 0.0000 Dan (7) 0.0000 Leslie (3) 0.0000 Marty (7) 0.0000 William (4) -0.0909 JeffF (5) -0.1111 BobK (4) -0.2000 JP (4) -0.2308 Steve (4) -0.2500 Whendy (6) -0.3158 RussW (5) -0.3333 Fred (4) -0.4615 Fina (4) -0.5000 PJ (3) |
RussCon's favorite craftsman Dan Becker has outdone himself with his homemade glowing Sauron eye project! The final photo is truly awesome.
"It's only the wind" is a nice essay about government conspiracies.
I'm not entirely sure if this article about meat is for real or a spoof...
Those who are not Civil War buffs may not be aware that there were women who lived as men to fight as soldiers. Here's a Chicago Tribune article about an Illinois woman soldier who maintained her male identity for 50 years after the Civil War.
