FallCon - A Cornucopia of Gaming

From Wikipedia:

The Spiel des Jahres (German for Game of the Year) is a prestigious award for board and card games.

The award was created in 1978 to reward excellence in game design, and to promote top-quality games in the German market. It is thought that the existence and popularity of the award is one of the major drivers of the quality of games coming out of Germany. A Spiel des Jahres nomination can increase the typical sales of a game from 500-3000 copies to around 10,000; and the winner can usually expect to sell 300,000 to 500,000 copies.

This year's nominations were announced on May 23rd:

• FITS
• Dominion
• Finca
• Fauna
• Pandemic

Our Sunday schedule currently has a slot allocated to the Spiel des Jahres Winner or last year's winner Keltis. As Dominion and Pandemic are already on schedule elsewhere, the Sunday slot will be filled by one of the other nominees. Since designer Reiner Knizia won last year for his design of Keltis, it's highly unlikely he would get the nod this year for FITS. Should the winner be Fauna or Finca, we will pick a game to slot into the Sunday schedule based on game availability. At this point, I'd say the slot will either be filled by Finca or Keltis.

For more info on the Spiel des Jahres and its past winners, head over to the BoardGameGeek Wiki entry.

2 of our own, Ian & Dave Blizzard were featured in the Sun today. Both of the guys qualified to go to Montreal to play in the Canadian Monopoly Championships but only Dave will be representing the Blizzard clan (and FallCon as a whole).

To read up on Dave's fail safe strategy, head over to Canoe to read the full article (photo Darren Makowichuk, Sun Media).

After a few months of research and a few months of web design, we're proud to release the new look for the FallCon website. Our hope is that you'll see a greater value in this reincarnation and that you'll be inclined to check up on us on a more regular basis as we cover off local events, as well as the occasional game review and "deep thoughts" on gaming.

As the site is still fairly new to us, we'll be changing and updating things over the next couple of weeks. Please feel free to let us know what you think either through the contact form or via the forums.

Looking forward to hearing your feedback!