EC Game of the Month - On Holiday

[PaulW]

True, but RA and Clans are not very popular games in EC and they did not get a lot of play in EC last month.  About 7 to 9 games of RA and less than that for Clans (Assuming the games played was between Munchkins).  When we started, a GOTM would be in top 10 of games played.

I love the GOTM idea, but it people don't want to follow it, then it might be time for a new idea...

[Elttil]

I like the game-of-the-month idea, but I agree that it hasn't had a huge effect lately. Learning older games can be a challenge because there are few people around who want to play and/or teach them so gotm helped with the opportunity to get some play. I've learned 9 new games purely because they were gotm. It's helped me get closer to my casual goal of playing every game on BSW -- 4 to go!

I still like the concept, even if it doesn't get used a lot, but if someone has a better idea or a different way to handle it, let's hear it.

[Prisoner6]

I think there would be more people playing the GotM if there were some kind of reward.  I'm not exactly sure what the reward could be, but I don't think it should base on wins and losses since GotM is about playing new games - not necessarily about winning.

Maybe we should reward the person who plays the most GotM games in any given month.

[PaulW]

I think there would be more people playing the GotM if there were some kind of reward.  I'm not exactly sure what the reward could be, but I don't think it should base on wins and losses since GotM is about playing new games - not necessarily about winning.

Maybe we should reward the person who plays the most GotM games in any given month.

Part of the trick is how to reward someone.  Cities\Guilds can not directly give Talers to people.  I don't think random lotteries within cities are allowed (but I will dlb check).  Too many ways around it.  Taler rewards for tournys are usually given to the city and not to the player.

The council is working on a few new ideas.  One day tournaments, for example.  I'm going to give the GOTM idea a break.  I'm sure this will come back someday.