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2019 EBGL Awards and Season End!

Nov 23, 2019

The 2019 Edmonton Board Gaming League season officially ended on November 8th and this year's award winners were announced during the November 22nd awards ceremony event. On behalf of the entire club and our sponsors, we'd like to congratulate the following members on their awards this year:

2019 League Champion (highest league rating) - Michael F
2019 Second Place (third highest league rating) - Rob D
2019 Third Place (third highest league rating) - Chris S
2019 Rookie of the Year - Adam A
2019 Most Outstanding Player (best demonstrates the qualities and behaviours of the League) - Lance P
2019 Most Achievements Earned (most club/game achievements earned) - Lance P, Michael F, and Shawn R
2019 Most Improved Player (most improved league rating) - Steven L
2019 Highest Win-Loss Percentage - Jim C
2019 Most Second Place Wins - Lance P, Patrick C, Randal P, and Shawn T
2019 Most Member Referrals - Rob D
2019 Best Snacks - (as voted by our members) - Shauna D

2019 was a challenging year for the board gaming industry, brick & mortar gaming stores, and even our league as this is the first season in almost 10 years that we haven't been able to keep a 100% full roster. Regardless, we still had a really fun year with lots of member support and strong attendance numbers. As always, huge thanks to our primary (gold) sponsor: Mission: Fun & Games for all the support!

2019 Century: Spice Road DOMINATION Tournament Results

Nov 09, 2019

For the second year in a row we managed to get poor weather and road conditions on our Domination Tournament night. This year we had 18 players enter the EBGL's 2019 Century Spice Road "Domination" (single elimination) tournament on November 8th and, as always, a couple winners emerged.

Congrats to 2018 League Champion Patrick C for winning first place and former League Champion Michael F for winning second place after just 3 rounds.

Both Patrick and Michael will earn some nice gift certificates to Mission: Fun & Games at the upcoming awards night. As always, thanks to all of our members who braved the weather, brought copies of the game, and ensured we had lots of snacks just in case we were stranded.

Architects of the West Kingdom Results!

Sep 29, 2019

The Architects of the West Kingdom tournament (and final focus game of the 2019 season) ended on September 27th with first place going to Michael F with 10 points (2W,0S,1P,2T,0L,0GW) over the three days. Second place as a 5-way tie between to Adam A, Chris F, Edward K, Lance P, and Rob D with 8 points each

As always, big thanks to all of our members who helped make the tournament successful!

2019 ThematiCON!

Aug 25, 2019

The EBGL's 4th annual ThematiCON event was held on Saturday, August 24th and we had 13 members show up to compete in a day of Civilization-themed games.

Congrats to Richard F for winning the grand prize draw of ThematiCON! As a result, Richard gets to select the games to seed the league's first focus game poll of 2020. Congrats Richard!

Also, congrats to everyone who walked away with gift cards and/or door prizes and thanks again to Mission: Fun & Games for allowing us to use their store for this event.