February 9 2000 RussCon Report

15 of us.

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Game Results:

BuriedTreasure 4 William 3 Bob 1 RussW -1 JeffF -3
GhostParty 4 Alfred 3 Jerrie 1 Fred -1 JonathanC -3
Hare&Tortoise 4 JeffF 3 William 1 Curt -1 Alfred -3
Andromeda 5 Clayton 4 JP 1 Tim 1 KevinH -2 Marty -4
Frank'sZoo 5 Curt 4 William 2 Fred 0 Alfred -2 JeffF -4
Frank'sZoo 5 Clayton 4 Tim 2 Marty 0 KevinH -2 JP -4
StephensonsRocket 4 Bob 3 Jerrie 1 JonathanC -1 RussW -3
Can'tStop 4 JeffF 3 William 1 WendyWhe -2 Alfred -2
BananaRepublic 4 JeffF 3 RussW 1 JonathanC -1 Alfred -3
Hare&Tortoise 6 WendyWhe 5 KevinH 3 Marty 1 JP -1 Bob -3 William -5
BuriedTreasure 4 KevinH 3 JP 1 William -1 RussW -3

Buried Treasure is a new Sid Sackson game! Shiver me timbers it's fun.

I was crushed horribly in Stephensons Rocket, and only had 3 stations on tracks (and one of them got there on the last turn), so I think this pretty convincingly demonstrates the importance of stations. Bob & Jerrie, who hadn't played before, defeated Sea Biscuit and me, who had played before.

I liked the idea of Banana Republic a lot more than the actual playing of it. I don't know if Sea Biscuit even liked the idea of it. Midway through we decided to play to 125 points instead of the suggested 200.

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Evening's Soundtrack:

Artificial Joy Club, Melt
King Missile, Happy Hour
Jill Sobule, Happy Town
Sun60, Headjoy
Roger Waters, Amused to Death

Forget your troubles, come on, get happy...

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Rank ratings:
 1.0000 Clayton (2 games played)
 0.4286 Curt (2)
 0.3750 WendyWhe (2)
 0.3750 Tim (2)
 0.3333 Jerrie (2)
 0.1250 JeffF (5)
 0.1250 KevinH (4)
 0.0909 Bob (3)
 0.0476 William (6)
-0.1429 Fred (2)
-0.1875 JP (4)
-0.2308 Marty (3)
-0.4375 Alfred (5)
-0.5000 RussW (4)
-0.5556 JonathanC (3)

New Win ratings:
 1.0000 Clayton (2)
 0.5000 WendyWhe (2)
 0.4375 JeffF (5)
 0.4286 Curt (2)
 0.0909 Bob (3)
 0.0000 KevinH (4)
-0.0625 Alfred (5)
-0.0952 William (6)
-0.2308 Marty (3)
-0.2500 Tim (2)
-0.2500 JP (4)
-0.2857 Fred (2)
-0.3333 Jerrie (2)
-0.3333 RussW (4)
-0.3333 JonathanC (3)

Clayton is the Devil! Wendy & Curt are Co-Vice-Devils!

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Links:

This could be the Salon magazine of board game sites:
http://www.thegamescafe.com/
I found the battleship puzzles to be rather enjoyable.

Silly game geek purity type test:
http://www.interlog.com/~kerwy/games/

Another game group with ratings. I like our devil point system better:
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/PLOPS.htm

This ironically named site has various fundamentalist Christian rants, including a goofy essay against yoga:
http://www.letusreason.org/NAM1.htm

It's rather longwinded and semiliterately written, so to save you wading through it, here are some amusing excerpts:

"The practice of Yoga is pagan at best, and occult at worse."

"The fact remains the positions are worshipful poses, it is Hinduism which makes it Religion. Anyone, especially a professing Christian entering into this practice of yoga should not do it with his eyes closed to the Hindu philosophy that underlies the practice. And if they are practising it they should renounce it immediately."

"People are literally teaching themselves how to be demonized..."

"Yoga is an idolatrous practice which leads one away from the one true God and into the spiritual realm of false gods and demonic spirits, there are consequences?"

"What would Bob do?" (Oh wait, William said that.)

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...you better chase all your cares away!

Russ