Parting Glass.

After a year of making a go of this blog, to little or no effect, I find that it is time to “give up the Ghost” and simply shut it down. I so wish to thank all who have contributed and who have expressed to me over the past year how much they enjoy the various articles on Boozing and Gaming. However, they are the minority and as I have found out, the majority, has not the attention span for blog articles, and would rather listen to a Podcast (which I have toyed with some) or watch a video blog (Vlog). As I am technologically inept neither of those two mediums are viable options for me to explore anytime in the near future. This old dog has neither the inclination, nor the patience, to learn old tricks let alone new ones.

 However, though I will not be adding any new content except a quick recipe or two for my own reference, we will continue to focus our efforts on our Facebook page. This is not to say the blog has been removed from the web. It will remain in place to peruse and look back upon as an endeavor, noble but undesired. Alas such is the way of things in general.

Thanks again to everyone; I do hope that for the thousands of hits we received at least some of you took the time to enjoy reading the madness of our collective minds. In any event I must away, for pursuits of more earthly matters tug at my sleeve.

Is fhearr fheuchainn na bhith san duil
Cheers
AL

Guild Stats Q1 2014: Out of the comfort zone.

Booze & Board Games had a rather busy first quarter of the year, and like all geeks we enjoy statistics, so we thought it might be interesting to share with you all what we have been doing. We have broken our activities down into a couple of categories with a few numbers thrown in. It is rather impressive for such a small group of players and I personally was a little taken aback by the volume. These stats entail activity from January 1st through March 31st of 2014. (Just in case any of you didn’t know what a quarter was).

 Category #1 Game Sessions:

We attended two Conventions, Snow Con in January for a single day, and Total Con in February for four days. Outside of this we also held eight Guild game days for a total of 10 gaming events attended. If we were to break down each day of Total con we could essentially say we had 13 game sessions. Cons being what they are (large events) we decided to leave the number at 10. The average of game sessions for each month pans out to a little over 3. We also went public by hosting all but one of our Guild game days at a local hobby shop. This helped to boost the next category “Attendance”.

 Category #2 Attendance:

The number of people who attended either a game day, or who we as a guild played with at a Convention comes to 22 individuals. I list them here in order of frequency i.e. attended most sessions to least. I also have included the names (if remembered) and or the names we gave to other people who joined us at some point. If you don’t see your name it means you suck, and have not made any time for the awesomeness that is Booze & Board Games or you are simply forgettable. Attendees: Mike, Al, Tuna, Kurt R., Therin R., Valerie, Anthony, Left Coast Jon, John S., Justin the Hippie, Eric Summerer of the Dice Tower, Rob a very old Hippie, Random Guy from CT., Flip Florie and Chris the Moderator from Flip the Table, Colin the Spaz and his greasy fingered friend, and five others who I have forgotten completely due to Convention exhaustion.

Category #3 Games played:

We as a guild played 32 different game titles and a total of 55 games overall, I have listed the Titles and number of plays below. Some games were very long like “What's He Building in There? and Dread Fleet” while others like “Eight Minute Empire and Zombie Dice” were rather quick. The top three games played were; Zombie Dice (8), Marvel Legendary (6), and Star Wars: X-Wing (4).

Games List: Zombie Dice x8, Marvel Legendary x6, Star Wars: X-Wing x4, Magic the Gathering x3, Eight Minute Empire x 2, Forbidden Desert x2, Pathfinder the Card Game x2, Quarriors x2, Tsuro Seven Seas x2, What's He Building in There? x2, 1775: Rebellion x1, ApocalypZe x1, Axis & Allies War at Sea x1, Can't Stop x1, Carrier Strike x1, Coffins & Tombstones x1, D-Day Dice x1, Dread Fleet x1, Galaxy Trucker x1, Love Letter x1, MacDonald’s x1, Machi Koro x1, Marvel Dice Masters x1, Mega Zombicide x1, Midgard x1, Nothing Personal x1, Panzer Blitz x1, Scalawag x1, Star Trek Cataan x1, Ticket to Ride x1, Zombicide: Prison Outbreak x1, Zombicide: Toxic City Mall x1.


Not bad numbers for us if I do say so myself. Lots of new games played with lots of new faces. Ten separate sessions, twenty two people engaged thirty two different game titles on the table and fifty five total games played. Now to see if we can’t get some decent numbers for Q2 who’s with us?


Cheers
AL