The contest continues to find the best Gateway games. In Round 1 210 nominated games intro-d it out with over 500 users voting.
Gateway Game: n. A game with simple rules that are easy to teach non-gamers in order to attract new players into boardgaming as a hobby.
Gateways are the kind of game that will open someone's eyes to a new kind of game and make them want to play again.
The right choices will build the non-gamer's trust in your ability to select other games they will enjoy playing in the future.
The voting process is simple. Rate as a gateway game all the games you have played and then upgrade a single game in each bracket from "Awesome" to "Best". If you don't have an "Awesome" in the bracket you won't have a "Best".
The average rating for each game and determine a shortlist for the next poll - maybe a Top 50.
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So what happened in the first round? The main measure used for qualification for this round was Average Rating. To calculate this points were awarded for each rating: Best (4), Awesome (3), Great (2), Good (1), Okay (0), Bad (-1), Awful (-2). I don't publish the results of the average ratings to retain some mystery to the contest.
This list is a straight count of the games getting the most 'Best' ratings in the last round. Six of these are also in the best by Average Top 10.
All of these make the cut for this round.
This list is a straight count of the shows getting the most 'Awful' ratings in the initial round.
Only one of these makes the cut for the Top 100: Dominion.
This is a straight count of ratings. Dominion was assisted by being in the first bracket. Two games on this list don't make the cut for the Top 100: Citadels and Bang!.
So these are the games to watch and have on your radar. 7 Wonders appears here as a result of being a late wild card entry.
A quick note on how the brackets work. Firstly the games have been allocated to the brackets based on their performance in the last round to equalise the brackets.
Also I won't be limiting the number of games that can come through from any one bracket, so a bracket that has loads of great games will not be greatly penalised. I will look at the average scores across all the games to determine the cut for the next round.
The game selected for each geeklist item is the least well known game in the bracket.