I'm seriously tempted to go to the Stratego World Championships in Newcastle on August 3-7. This will only be possible if I've got any money left in the bank by that point (because that's well past the deadline of needing-to-get-a-job and I really don't want to run up too big a credit card bill before I even start job-hunting), so we'll just have to see how my many and varied sources of income in July pan out.
But it sounds like a great event, five days of different kinds of stratego in the company of board-game-weirdos like me! And although I'm a pretty poor player, and only a couple of the regular players are even nodding acquaintances of mine, they seem like a nice bunch. Facebook page here for anyone who might be interested.
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Huh! That's really, really interesting, and I hadn't heard about it. I live only about 35 miles south of there, but it wouldn't really be a convenient commute at all (the best I could suggest would be train to Sunderland, Metro to South Shields - with a change, then the Shields ferry, probably not much less than two hours each way). You have also introduced me to www.mindsportsworld.org ... interesting stuff.
Seems remarkably nearly appropriate to post a link to this review of a new game at this point.
Cripes, is Robert Abbott still alive and creating games? That one looks fun, if just a little bit unnecessarily complicated...
I'd never heard of mindsportsworld.org either, it's obviously a brand new thing, but I'm all in favour of it!
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