Friday, June 24, 2011

Mind sports!

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.

3 comments:

Chris D. in Stockton-on-Tees said...

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.

same Chris D. said...

Seems remarkably nearly appropriate to post a link to this review of a new game at this point.

Zoomy said...

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!