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Spiel Des Jahres Nominations for 2019
- Wohlf 7y agofyi, Spiel des Jahres means Game of the Year. Seems a bit early in the year?
- marktani 7y agoFrom the article: [T]he jury focuses solely on games released in Germany within the past twelve months. From my understanding, a game needs to be available in a German edition prior to the end of March to be considered.
- Wohlf 7y agoInteresting, I think this might actually be better than calendar year. In video games there's a very quick zeitgeist, but with board games it's much slower. So this is less "games released in 2019" as "games you can play in 2019".
- jtms 7y agoInteresting that all 3 nominees this year have such a relatively mediocre bgg rating
- scj 7y agoI'd hypothesize a self-selection bias. Casual players (the targets of the SdJ) are probably less likely to rate games than connoisseurs (who have their own category, the Kennerspiel des Jahres). Notice that the Kennerspiel des Jahres nominees have higher ratings.
- jtms 7y agoI didn’t notice that or even realize the other category was for the more serious gamers, thanks for pointing that out.