Episode #153: The Dice Tower Awards 2008
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2009
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In this show, the Dice Tower gang, along with friends, announce the winner of the Dice Tower Gaming Awards, for the best games from 2008. We announce the most innovative game, best game from a new designer, best art/design in a game, best small publisher game, best family game, best reprint, best expansion, and Game of the Year!
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| 0:00.0 | The Best Games of 2008. |
| 0:05.0 | The Best Games of 2008. Welcome to a special edition of the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them. |
| 0:27.0 | In this episode, we present the Dice Tower Gaming Awards, honoring the best in board games over the past year. |
| 0:33.0 | And now, here are your hosts for the evening |
| 0:36.0 | wearing Georgio Armani and Vera Wang, |
| 0:39.0 | Tom Vassal, and Ben Forgard. |
| 0:42.0 | All right, folks, welcome back to the Dice Tower. |
| 0:44.0 | We're glad to have you with us. |
| 0:45.0 | This is a special episode. |
| 0:46.0 | This is why our music changed briefly. |
| 0:48.0 | This is our award show. |
| 0:50.0 | This is a second Dice Tower Gaming Awards. |
| 0:52.0 | Actually, technically it's a third since we're following up on the... This is the second Dice Tower Gaming Awards. |
| 0:52.5 | Actually, technically it's a third since we're following up on the |
| 0:54.9 | Podcaster Gaming Awards. |
| 0:56.8 | And we're talking about the best games from 2008 in this show. |
| 1:01.4 | Now there's a lot of great games and we're going to get right into |
| 1:04.2 | that in just a moment but I don't really have anything else to say do you? |
| 1:10.0 | No, we've been playing games non-stop here and we have lots of things to talk about playing game-wise |
| 1:15.0 | but we'll get to that later. Let's get to the beginning. We'll explain how the voting process worked and then we'll get right into the awards themselves. |
| 1:23.0 | From the accounting firm of Price, Waterhouse, and Giles, here's Giles. |
| 1:28.0 | Today, Giles here. |
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