The Dice Tower Awards a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them.

This is a special episode in which we present the winners of the Dice Tower Gaming Awards.

Join the Dice Tower regulars,

as well as some special guests,

as we celebrate the best games from 2009.

I'm Eric Sommerer, here's your host performing a musical medley based on the

rule books of the Game of the Year nominees. It's Tom Vassal.

Well even though I lead the singing at our church,

I really am thinking that singing here would bring back some maybe memories,

Captain Kirk or, you know.

He's a rocket man.

I'm not sure we want to go there.

But we do have some exciting things to talk about folks I'm Tom

Vassal and I'm Eric Sommerer now on our show we talk about board games all the

time and we started a few years ago the Dice Tower Gaming Awards. We invited other podcasters and prominent bloggers and people

who played a lot of games and we wanted to go through and simply pick the most fun games of each year.

We have lots of categories that we're going to be giving out awards during the course of the show,

including best reprint, best production, best party game, best new designer, best expansion for an existing game, best

artwork, best war game, best small publisher, the most innovative game, best family game, and our big award for a game of the year.

Lots of exciting games to talk about coming up.

Now you might want to wonder how we picked these games and the process is pretty simple.

We wait till each year is well over so that we can play games because a lot of games that

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