Tennessee Game Days 2008 Weekend Details
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9:00 am - Games Days 2008 Begins!
 10:00 pm - Wits and Wagers Game Show 12:00 am - TGD Night Cap Prize Drawing 12:30 am - Game Library closes for checking out games 1:00 am - Game Room Closes |
9:00 am -
9:30 am - 10:30 am - Flea Market 11:00 am - TGD Gameathon begins 1:30 pm - Math Trade swap 3:00 pm - Prize Drawing 9:00 pm - TGD Gameathon ends, results are tallied, and winners declared 12:00 am - TGD Night Cap Prize Drawing 12:30 am - Game Library closes for checking out games 1:00 am - Game Room Closes |
 12:30 pm -
12:45 pm - Take it Easy Tournament 7:00 pm - Die Hard Prize Drawing 7:30 pm - Game Library closes for checking out games 8:00 pm - Game Days 2008 comes to a close! |
Notable Details
The Tennessee Game Days 2008 Game Library houses a large number of gaming titles for attendees to check out over the course of the weekend. These games are loaned to the event by local gamers, so please handle them with care. To check out a title, a guest merely has to go to the library desk, select a game to play, and sign it out by leaving a driver's license. When you're done playing, return the game and check out another, and another, and another - all weekend long. To browse the contents of the Tennessee Games Day Library, please visit here.
Grab two other people, come up with a goofy team name, and get ready for the fast and furious Wits and Wagers Game Show! Wits and Wagers is the new, award winning trivia game that is taking the gaming community by storm and that includes Tennessee Game Days. Teams will compete to score the most points by answering off-beat trivia questions. Not a trivia buff? It doesn't matter! Players can win by making educated guesses or by playing the odds (it's Wits AND WAGERS). The event will last about an hour and the winning triumvirate will each take home a brand spankin' new copy of the game. What are you waiting for? Start lining up some teammates! In the meantime, you can learn more about Wits & Wagers by visiting here.
We're trying something new this year - an all day gaming tournament. However, the unique aspect of the Gameathon is that it won't cut into your open gaming time because it is built around open gaming! If you desire to participate, you'll pick up a Gameathon Score Sheet when you are ready to begin. Each player has 6 games that they can record their performance in during the duration of the tourney. Each game can only be recorded once - you can play Settlers of Catan 4 times, but it's only going to count once. After the completion of a game that you wish to score, you'll need to get a judge to come over before packing up the game. You'll need to record the game name and # of players, and the judge will verify your finish and mark your score sheet appropriately. At the end of the contest the sheets will be turned in, we'll tally up the results and give prizes to the top three finishers. Final details and rules will be available here soon.
Take one part Bingo, one part strategy and a helping of prizes and you have the Annual Tennessee Game Days Take it Easy Tournament. Even if you've never played Take it Easy before, you can join in on the tourney and still do well! We play one round, tally our scores, and award some prizes to the three highest finishers. It's a light, fun game that you can kibitz while playing and still have time to heckle our illustrious caller, Clint, who always picks out the tile you want to see the least. We'll have a quick rules rundown before hand, but you can always take a peek at the rules ahead of time by visiting here. We'd like to have room for everyone that wants to join in the tournament to play, so if you have a copy of Take it Easy, please bring it along! If space looks like it will be limited, we'll have a sign up sheet for spots - with preference going to those that preregistered, and, if we need another tie breaker, those that preregistered earliest. Anyone that brings a copy of the game is guaranteed a spot, of course. Plan on joining in the fun!
Thanks to the support of our sponsors, we'll be giving away more door prizes than ever before. Throughout the weekend, we'll be giving away dozens of games and the stylish TGD 2008 baseball caps. Prizes include Brass, Galaxy Trucker, Portobello Market, Mu and More, Hollywood Blockbuster, Cineplexity, Antler Island, Niagra, and many more. Some of those games will be door prizes and others will be tournament prizes, but regardless you have to be present to win, so get here early and stay late!
Is your game closet overflowing? Do you own a game or two that never sees table time? Have you taken advantage of one too many "great deals" on the internet? Now's your chance to recoup some cash for those games - all without dealing with eBay or shipping. The Tennesse Game Days Flea Market will be held Saturday morning starting at 9:30 a.m. For about an hour, any attendee that wants to offer some games for sale will be given some space to display their wares and hopefully sell some games - and other attendees can hopefully find some great deals! Besides, what would a Saturday morning in the Spring be without a flea market or yard sale to attend?
We will be running a no-ship Math Trade at TGD 2008. What is a Math Trade? It's a great way to trade games that you might no longer want for something you do want. Here's how it works: first, attendees post games that they want to trade away onto a list on Boardgamegeek. Then, after the deadline for submissions, participants in the trade make a list of all the games up for trade they would be willing to accept for their game. Once those lists are submitted, a computer program analyzes the want lists and creates "trade chains" that allow for the most possible games to be traded. Finally, you bring your games to the event and swap them. The great thing about a math trade is that it allows for trades to be made where a 1 for 1 trade doesn't make sense, but a three way trade makes all the parties happy. You can find the list to participate by visiting here.