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Episode 8 – Tournament Game Master Basics Part 4: Scary Being the GM!
In this episode, I conclude the series covering the basics of running a game tournament. Rob Kircher co-hosts and my son Rich joins us as we review how GMing can go wrong based on our WBC 2015 adventures and misadventures. The stories are true, but we won’t name names. It isn’t easy to be a…
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WBC 2015 Puerto Rico Tournament
115 different people played 60 games of Puerto Rico to determine that Ben Scholl is the 2015 champion. Congratulations Ben! Here I am with the finalists:
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Episode 7 – Tournament Game Master Basics Part 3: Be the GM!
In this episode, I conclude the series covering the basics of running a game tournament.  Rob Kircher co-hosts and my son Rich joins us as we explore the problems that can come up when running a tournament. Alas, we discuss cheating and the more common errors and what to do about it. We talk about…
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Episode 6 – Tournament Game Master Basics Part 2: Sadly, Paperwork
In this episode, I continue the series covering the basics of running a game tournament.  Rob Kircher co-hosts as we explain the nuts and bolts and documentation aspects of running a tournament. Below are links to example documents we reference in the podcast. Feel free to copy and modify them for your own use. Be…
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Episode 5 – A New Beginning: Tournament Game Master Basics
In this episode, I restart my podcasts with a series covering the basics of running a game tournament. I realized that only a handful of people know how to organize and run a board game tournament. We learned by apprenticing and osmosis, but that is not an effective way to spread competitive play. I asked…
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