Board Game Olympics!

Yesterday I attended the single best event I have been to since I have lived the past year of my life in NYC. the Board Game Olympics!! A group created by a few guys residing in Brooklyn, known as MetroMetro. They set up shop back in 2002 trying to establish more playing and less working in their lives. Their main gig is setting up all extensive city scavenger hunts, but have since expanded trying to incorpate new ideas ultimately expanding the vision and smaller locations of NYC.

Not only did I get to compete in Board Game mania, but I spent my first real night in Park Slope. Good people, good vibe, and best of all, no hipsters. It was perfect.

The teams were designed 4 to a team, with 12 teams competing. The games were as follows:

2 on 2 Jenga
Team Trivia Pursuit
Team Pictionary (it is amazing some of the things we had to draw, just for fun, try drawing Don King, or shallow) what a great game!!!!
1 on 1 Connect Four
1 on 1 Battle Ship
2 on 2 Memory
and for the final Team on Team Operation

My team, "In the Observatory with the Candlestick" tied for 4th, a place I am content with. We dominated pictionary, I single handedly destroyed a Kiwi in battleship, overall it was a beautiful thing.

I was recently mistaken about a week ago, stating to a friend that I needed to spend more time with children because I was craving some good old board gamage, when it was explained how wrong I was. That what I really needed was a dose of adulthood, that is where I would find my board gameing, nerd loving, feast...how true those words were.

Board Game Olympics was was like a dream in heaven!