5-round Swiss style tournament. Players bring 330 points or less of figures from 1 general and 150 points or less from a second general. 24 figure limit. No Marvel allowed. Prizes awarded.
Description:
Open to all players, 40 positions, 5-round Swiss style tournament. Players bring 330 points or less of figures from one general and 150 points or less of figures from any one other general. NOTE: Utgar and Valkrill are considered the same general for this event. The entire army has a figure limit of 24 figures. No Marvel allowed. Prizes awarded.
Geopolitics in the College Classroom: A Middle East case study
Summary:
We use Hegemony: The Competition for the Contemporary Middle East as a case study to demonstrate the educational applications, opportunities and challenges using board games in the classroom.
Description:
Board games offer us opportunities to explore complex topics, nuance stereotypes, and increase our understanding of multiple perspectives. These tools are especially relevant in the classroom as a way to sidestep entrenched opinions and facilitate critical thinking.
The event focuses on Hegemony: The Competition for the Contemporary Middle East, a card-driven game we designed that covers geopolitics in the region. The game covers the 1979-2019 period and includes events such as 9/11 and the Syrian Civil War. Players balance their regional objectives within shifting international realities and their ideologies.
We discuss the historical perspective underlying Hegemony and analyze it as a cultural object. We also contextualize the game through investigating the tension between games and simulations while considering board games as potential tools for discussing contemporary geopolitics.
Played on 3 3-D grids each 7 squares long X 5 squares wide X 5 squares high. The 3 grids represent past, present, & future. Robots travel through time & the 3 spatial directions.
Join us as we present board games from Germany unknown in the U.S. - & help us decide which ones should be brought into the HABA USA line in 2020!
Description:
Join HABA USA as they present board games from Germany unknown in the U.S. - and help them decide which ones should be brought into the HABA USA line in 2020!
Play down-on-their-luck deadbeat roommates that share a "pad" with the Grim Reaper. What can go wrong, does goes wrong, as we try to kick out the immortal deadbeat! Plays with a Jenga Tower.
Description:
You're about to have a really bad day in the most ridiculous and hilarious way possible! Fill the shoes of a deadbeat roommate that happens to share a "pad" with none other than the Grim Reaper. THE GOAL: Kick Death (AKA the Grim Reaper) out! That's right, get that immortal DEADBEAT to leave once and for all. THE PROBLEM: What can go wrong, does go wrong. This is a game about difficult friendships and bad days.