Boardgames To Go

Go vote for the championship! (And the 3rd/4th place consolation match) https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/328714/boardgames-to-go-season-20-2024?itemid=10561730&commentid=12087718#comment12087718  

It's the Final Four. Go vote now at https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/328714/boardgames-go-season-20-2024?itemid=10561730&commentid=12083072#comment12083072

It's the Elite Eight! Get your votes in before March 24 at https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/328714/boardgames-go-season-20-2024?itemid=10561730&commentid=12079786#comment12079786  

Get your Sweet Sixteen votes in now! https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/328714/boardgames-go-season-20-2024?itemid=10561730&commentid=12074798#comment12074798  

Please join us on the  Boardgames To Go discord server  where you can chat online with other podcast listeners.   Play along and predict the winners at  https://challonge.com/3abpsej6 Predictions must be submitted by March 12 to be in the contest Mark Johnson @MarkEJohnson Patrick Pence @Farsol Last year I ran my first "March Madness" style, 64-game, single-elimination vote, with a contest to subm...

Micro-episode for the next round of voting.    Vote here! https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/328714/boardgames-go-season-20-2024?itemid=10561730&commentid=12070025#comment12070025

Please join us on the  Boardgames To Go discord server  where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. Opener:   Daybreak       Last year was a great year of boardgaming for me. Apparently I played more games than ever, whether you include online plays or not. In this episode I go over the ones I played the most, the ones I liked the most, and some topics other than titles themselves. Lik...

Please join us on the  Boardgames To Go discord server  where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. Opener:  Welcome to  Season 20 (!!!) of this little podcast I didn't make it to BGGcon last November, but several of my buddies did. Two of them, Greg Pettit and Dave O'Connor, join me on the podcast to talk about their experience there. For almost half the time we talk about about every...

Please join us on the  Boardgames To Go discord server  where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. Opener:   Sea Salt & Paper eryn roston @baditude Darryl Boone @booned I'm a pretty positive guy, and I hope that normally comes through on my podcast. While I have distinct preferences for the kinds of games I play, I try to be willing to play  most  things. Or at least, when I turn some...

Please join us on the  Boardgames To Go discord server  where you can chat online with other podcast listeners.     Openers: • Mark:  Basketboss • Dave:  Istanbul David Arnott @Arnott After hearing Ken Tidwell in last month's podcast, both Dave Arnott and I were impressed with his enthusiastic, optimistic, and forward-looking perspective on the boardgame hobby…despite being an old timer like us. E...

Please join us on the  Boardgames To Go discord server  where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. Opener:   Hammer of the Scots Ken Tidwell @Ken Tidwell If you entered the hobby as I did pre-2000, you didn't have BGG, podcasts, YouTube, or even a good way to buy games online. You often didn't have English rules in the box for what games you had in your small collection. But what you ...

Patrick Pence @Farsol Eric Brosius @Eric Brosius Joe Huber @huber   Opener:   Britannia Once again, I've been fortunate to gather a panel of smart gamers from my Discord server to chat on this episode. Patrick, Eric, and Joe joined me to discuss game conventions. We talk about large ones, small ones, and how I think "invitationals" and games days are something slightly different. Certainly related...

Joe Berger @arnodestang Adam Brocker @abrocker @Gregarius   Opener:   Stockpile Closer:  Ennui about the SdJ, which is surprising/disappointing Solo boardgaming is big, and getting bigger. At least, that's my impression. It's not something I know a bunch about myself. I've dabbled in solo boardgames for many years, and I've done solo  wargames  extensively, but there are euro boardgamers who play...

David G. @davebo Openers: • Mark:  Maquis  and  Canopy • Dave:  Earth     My friend Davebo has been on the podcast many times, but not for a while. During the time he's been away he decided to sell his California home and relocate to North Carolina, both to be by his oldest kid, now married, as well as to start a new chapter in life. In the podcast he talks a little about those reasons, and what i...

Opener:  Ark Nova...on BoardgameArena I feel like most of this year--really everything since BGGcon last November--has been about me embracing the fullness of this hobby in a post-pandemic way. Along with the realization that no one can really embrace ALL of it. There's just too much. I've simultaneously been maximizing my hobby and realizing the unavoidable limitations involved. This episode cert...

Opener:   Votes for Women What is "normal" in our hobby? For a while I've realized that what I felt most comfortable & familiar with in boardgaming is a little but stuck in the past, not coincidentally the times when I was first diving in deep with it. This is about the 10-year period from 1996-2006, give or take. The hobby today feels different. It  IS  different. Not better or worse (I try to co...

Nonsense Junkie @elschmear Opener: • Mark:  Caesar's Empire • Steve:  Trendy My friend Steve Paap joins me again, but this time he turns the tables, interviewing ME on my own podcast. We talk about the history of the podcast, what I think about wargaming, and some of my curmudgeonly tendencies in boardgaming. It was fun to talk about with him, and he claims we only got through half of his question...

We're just about finished now. Azul emerged victorious from the SdJ division voting, Terraforming Mars from the Kenners, The Crew Mission Deep Sea from the A La Cartes, and Brass Birmingham from the Golden Geeks. Now that I step back and look at those, they seem like wonderful, fantastic, even inevitable champions from each of their respective divisions...not that I was smart enough to predict the...

This micro-episode shares some overview of the Rounds 1 & 2 voting, such as blowout wins and close calls. I get to share the Sweet 16 and imagine which of the four games in each of the four divisions will emerge victorious to battle against the others. Hint: don't bet against The Crew (any version!) Please remember to keep voting. Each round of voting is open for a few days, and I keep adding to t...

The third micro-episode of the podcast talks about the predictions that are now locked-in and the voting that we're all just starting. Follow the link below and subscribe to that geeklist where it happens. https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/312399/boardgames-go-madness-2023-battle-award-winners Quick Links Get Embed Player Download Audio File  

The SECOND micro-episode of the podcast that spreads the news and encourages folks to enter predictions & make votes in a 64-title, single-elimination contest between award-winning boardgames.  https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/312399/boardgames-go-madness-2023-battle-award-winners

The first micro-episode of the podcast that spreads the news and encourages folks to enter predictions & make votes in a 64-title, single-elimination contest between award-winning boardgames.  https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/312399/boardgames-go-madness-2023-battle-award-winners  

Please join us on the  Boardgames To Go discord server  where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. Openers: Mark -  BGTG Madness! Greg -  LLAMA on BGA @Gregarius Longtime friend of the podcast Greg Pettit returns to talk about thrifting boardgames. What is that? It's a hobby-within-a-hobby about finding used games at thrift shops, garage sales, and other sources of secondhand titles....

Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. Openers: Ark Nova , Zoo Vadis Nonsense Junkie @elschmear In between big, national cons like GenCon or BGGcon and your local Games Days are regional conventions. Some folks think these can be the best of all, focused on just playing games in a group all weekend long. EsCon is one of those i...

Please join us on the Boardgames To Go discord server where you can chat online with other podcast listeners.   Mike Siggins @sumo Welcome to 2023, which happens to be the 19th season of my little podcast, Boardgames To Go. I'm as surprised as anyone to still be around, still with listeners. I do enjoy this, and greatly appreciate my small & loyal following. I'm thrilled to start the new season wi...