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The Dice Tower episode 614, the Dice Town. Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games and

especially the people who play them. On today's show we're live in Orlando for the Dice Tower Gaming Awards.

Tom Mandy and I, along with a bunch of special guests,

will present the awards for the best designers, publishers, artists, and games from 2018.

I'm Eric Sommerer, and here's your host,

The Dick Tracy of Board Gaming, Tom Vassal. All right. Well, welcome to Dystau-Con 2019. Tonight I am joined by Eric Sommer and Mandy Hutchinson and we are not quite halfway through the

con which would be sad so we're like on the upswing still.

We're still still ascending the hill yeah. Well if you stay to wake to like three at night

and you have a long way to go that's true you won't no all right no no no so this is the

Dicestower awards we do these each year. I think this, you know what, it would probably be useful if I knew how many years we did this, but it's been at least two, maybe like nine. Something along with the line.

Somewhere between two and nine years annual Dice Tower Awards.

Yeah, so what we do each year and this is what the show is going to be tonight

there's not and if you're listening to this in the podcast later this is just going to be going through this pretty quickly.

We're going to be talking about the awards. We're going to have different folks from the Dice Tower Network come up and present the awards.

Many of the people who have won these awards may or may not be here.

If they're here, they'll come up and you know say a few words about their game or

whatever. Four is theirs. And if they're not here, we have a few pre-recorded videos to watch in that regard.

So the DICE-SAR awards was I wanted something halfway between a few elite people picking awards,

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