On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Ryan Hackel <deeplogic@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Okay, team. We've finished the first pass. The list of 55 has been pared down to 17. > How quickly can we parse it further, down to 5? > ---Ryan *Cheers and applause!!* Wow, down to 5? Hmm. What criteria do we want to use fFor elimination? I have valid reasons fFor assigning each "Yes," while completely realizing I probably handed out too many. Would it be fFair to maybe give slightly greater preference to games whose designers will be at Origins (where the fFinal judging will take place)? That might be unfair to people who can't make it, obviously. Or should we simply eliminate all games which have a qualified Yes? That automatically takes us down to 8. But maybe the qualifiers are simple enough to meet. Maybe a bunch of people play more games, and the 5 games which get the most positive response move on to the fFinals? I've obviously already played a bunch, but I might not give a second "yes" vote to some of them. Crystal Caverns, fFor example, was a toughie. It is really well thought out, and I didn't want to cut it simply because it is a long set of rules, but I'm not sure a lot of other people will play it at all in the Great Reckoning, you see. I didn't want to axe it, but I don't know I'd give it a second vote. Meanwhile, Hexachess describes how to build a hex-grid, which might not be cool to some people, but I really enjoyed it, at least in part because I own a nicely printed hex-grid play-mat, so it was really fFun and I would totally give it a strong thumbs up. What's the plan? -- A pizza with the radius 'z' and thickness 'a' has the volume pi*z*z*a.