Scott Alden
United States
Dallas
Texas
Aldie's Full of Love!
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The winners of the 2011 Golden Geek Awards were announced Saturday night at BGG.con. Here is the complete list of winners in all categories.
Congratulations to all the winners!
Winners can use this image to show off their award: Official 2011 Golden Geek Award Winner
Thanks to everyone who voted, and congratulations to the winners!
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Barad The Dwarf
Belgium
De Haan
Got some sanity left?
Come over to the RPGG Tavern, I buy you a drink.
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Congratulations to the winners!
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Rui Serrabulho
Portugal
Lisboa
Lisboa
"Become what you are."
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Congratulations to all winners.
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Jim O'Neill (Established 1949)
Scotland
Motherwell
I aten't dead yet...
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Congratulations to the winners - nice to see Merchants and Maurauders getting something. And well done to the hexless wargame for getting a hat trick!
Jim
Est. 1949
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Ronald Chavez
United States
Hacienda Heights
California
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Great stuff here.
Looks like I need to try some new games.
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Rick
United States
Burnsville
Minnesota
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I've never heard of Paris Connection until now, so forgive my ignorance. How is a "railroad game" an abstract? I mean, obviously all games are an abstraction of what their theme, but it would seem that "abstract" games wouldn't have a theme...
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Jon K
United States
Sacramento
California
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Congrats to all the winners. Glad to see a GMT Game winning GotY!
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Russ Williams
Poland
Wrocław
Dolny ÅšlÄ…sk
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RiffRaff14 wrote: I've never heard of Paris Connection until now, so forgive my ignorance. How is a "railroad game" an abstract? I mean, obviously all games are an abstraction of what their theme, but it would seem that "abstract" games wouldn't have a theme...
Abstract strategy game in the sense of no chance and no (low? it's been a while) hidden information. Analogous to Through the Desert.
EDITED TO ADD: OK, it seems it has some hidden information. So it's indeed dubiously an abstract both by the "themeless" notion and by the "no chance, no hidden info" notion. 
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For the Love Noble Knight and GM Lady Kristin
United States
MO
Natural 20!
Level 25 Dungeon Master
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Congrats to the winners! Especially to my own personal favorites. But now I for sure need to try Dominant Species and 7 Wonders.
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Bob
United States
Nebraska
Don't squat with your spurs on.
Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction.
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Congratulations to the winners - nice to see Dominant Species, A Few Acres of Snow and Merchants/Maurauders win something!
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Scott Hinze
United States
Arlington
Texas
Fanboy Radio - the voice of comics and gaming - fanboyradio.com
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Congrats to the winners.
Sorry I stole the Award list after my set, Aldie.
Thanks for the time and the great crowd, sirs.
FANTASTIC CON - AWAITING 2012!
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Kristof Bodric
Serbia
Novi Sad
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Oh, I am so pleased by this. Dominant Species is my all time favourite! Congratulations to Chad and all the other winning game designers!
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Joakim Schön
Sweden
Huskvarna
Sverige
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Congratulations!! And two times to Dominant Species, 7 Wonders (and Minecraft) and three times to A Few Acres of Snow. Surprised that 7 Wonders didn´t won Game of the Year.
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Shayne Gray
United States
Akron
Ohio
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Congrats to all the winners!
Nice to see Minecraft on there
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Denmark
Check out papskubber.dk - the number one danish site about board gaming
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RiffRaff14 wrote: I've never heard of Paris Connection until now, so forgive my ignorance. How is a "railroad game" an abstract? I mean, obviously all games are an abstraction of what their theme, but it would seem that "abstract" games wouldn't have a theme...
I was wondering that myself.. Here's the BGG definition of Abstract Strategy games:
"Abstract Strategy games are often (but not always):
theme-less (without storyline)
built on simple and/or straightforward design and mechanics
perfect information games
games that promote one player overtaking their opponent(s)
little to no elements of luck, chance, or random occurrence"
Apart from the theme part, I suppose it fits the bill.
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Jason Lott
United States
Cheverly
Maryland
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A hearty congrats to all. I loved 7 Wonders this year, but got to play Dominant Species for the first time yesterday, and I agree that it's pretty fantastic!
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Ken B.
United States
Fayetteville
Tennessee
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I think this is the first year where I've looked at the entire list of winners and went, "Hmm, yeah, alright, cool." A very agreeable list.
EDIT: Okay, well, I have no idea what Paris Connection is, but you can't win them all.
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∞
United States
Saint Louis
Missouri
"No matter where you are in life or what you have on your plate, never lose sight of the importance of play in your daily life." - Matt Robertson, BGG user: Bixby
"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
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Congratulations!
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United States
Missoula
Montana
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Nice to see Dominant Species win out over the cute diversion of a game.
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Clint Herron
United States
Elkhart
Indiana
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Congratulations to the winners, and especially congratulations to Mark for winning the Print and Play category!
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Curt Carpenter
United States
Washington
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It would be great if we would all quit using the word "abstract" to mean so many different things. Best would be if the word were gone completely, and instead we used more descriptive words that at leaast people agree what they mean, e.g. no real-world theme, deterministic. Not sure how to make traction on that though.
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Rick Thomas
United States
Ohio
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Congratulations to everyone
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Abraham Drucker
United States
San Francisco
California
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Love Dominant Species, just ordered the Thing from Artscow - very excited to try it out. Congrats to all the winners.
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Trey Chambers
United States
Texas
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Wow, a game of substance won out over a retheme of a game several years old.
Great job BGG. You might have the best board gaming awards out there with these selections.
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Chris B
Canada
Victoria
British Columbia
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Congratulations to the winners!
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