I'm Geek Of The Week!

Hey, I've been chosen as the Geek Of The Week over on BoardGameGeek! Thanks to my friend Alison George for inspiring the tiara and sash in the cartoon above.


For those that don't know, BoardGameGeek is a wonderful Web site founded in 2000 by Scott Alden ("Aldie") and Derk Solko ("Derk") as a resource for the board gaming hobby. Their database holds reviews, articles, and session reports for over 30,000 different games, expansions, and game designers, plus a community forum, marketplace, several online boardgames, and a gamer database to help gamers find each other in the same location. BGG recently launched geekdo.com, a new site which is now the parent to the already existing BoardGameGeek, and the brand new RPG Geek.

My favourite part of BGG is the community, which has over 250,000 users from all over the world. I've really enjoyed getting to know other boardgamers online and in person.

Some of you will be raising an eyebrow at this point and thinking, She's PROUD of being a geek? My more nerdy friends will understand why I'm so tickled at being given this honour. :-)


Above: At TABScon yesterday afternoon.

Anyway, being Geek Of The Week means people can ask me questions on BGG all week. Feel free to lurk (or join in!) in my GotW forum thread:

http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/470229

Meanwhile, I have to choose my successor. The rules: the next Geek of the Week can't be someone I know personally, and has to be someone on another continent. As I'm combing BGG for candidates, I'm once again floored by how international BGG's membership is.

Speaking of gaming, Jeff & I had a ton of fun at TABScon yesterday. You can see my pics from TABScon online. One of my highlights: gaming with Sonja, who was one of BGG's first Geeks of the Week (2005) and the first Canadian female GotW. I'm the second!

Comments

[Andrea]

Debbie, love your comic! My daughter and I are currently hooked on "Ticket to Ride" and hoping for a different verison for Christmas. We tend to go on "game binges" - before this it was Boggle. I've used BoardGameGeek reviews when making game purchasing decisions several times.