In this video discuss the games officially nominated for the 2023 Spiel Des Jahres which is the German Board Game of the Year announced the nominations as well as the Kennerspiel Des Jahres which is the connoisseurs game.
Spiel Des Jahres and Kennerspiel Des Jahres Nomination Predictions 2023 https://youtu.be/bCHnhCcW0W8
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0:00 Intro
0:54 – Spiel Des Jahres Nominees and commentary
23:41 – Kennerspiel Nominees and Commentary
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I hope you enjoy our commentary. Sorry about the mics malfunctioning but due to the time sensitivity of the news in this video, we wouldn't have time to re-shoot as we didn't find out until when edition after Greg left. Good thing we had backup mics running!
For me, this is an odd SdJ year, leaving me cold. I agree: Challengers is an absurdly odd choice for KdJ; but, it's also a game that I don't care for, having few (if any) meaningful decisions. I would never introduce Challengers to my family or non-gamer friends, whereas other SdJ nominees have been hits with them. I think Sea Salt & Paper is fantastic and would have been in the Scout vein. I don't get your criticism of the game, but you did only play it once. It's full of Cathala's clever design bits. I also agree: I don't understand Fun Facts, when So Clover was not nominated – So Clover is great! I have not played Planet Unknown, but have had my eye on it. So, it's all a mild shrug from me. Thank you for the discussion!
Really amazed at how fast you managed to produce such high quality coverage.
I highly enjoyed the video, thanks for the Shoutout to Mindbug, I was as surprised as you 🙂
2 points of clarification:
You have to send your games to the jury to be considered.
You can jump in and out of the Dorfromantik campaign. The added rules are not that complicated that you couldn't skip some games in a running campaign and come back later.
All German commentators are all in agreement that it is going to be Dorfromantik. The other games are just there for decoration.
Earth, Revive and Heat have not yet released in German or at least were not released in time to be considered.
Thanks for making this and the last video. Would love to see it every year 🙂
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Thanks for the discussion. I do feel a few caveats need to be given when you keep bringing up game weight. For instance you compared Iki and dune imperium. Technically same weight score but iki has 180 votes, dune has 1200. Same with fantasy realms and challengers. I definitely use game weight to assess games for my collection, but not sure they are as helpful here without considering vote count. Just my 2 cents. Really hoping Planet Unknown comes back in stock soon!
Last few years it seems like the batch of nominees have one clear winner, one meh, and the last is unknown or a dud