Despite the availability of free food and the opportunity to tempt fate in the Car Wars arena, the crowd at this month's event was a bit sparse, but we still had a blast. With only 18 people present (five of whom had never been to an event before!), the odds of winning a game were pretty good. The pizza, ice cream sundaes and delicious caramel or mint brownies (provided by Heather) were a huge hit, so we'll plan on doing the sundaes again next month (especially since there was ice cream and toppings leftover).

The sweet odds for the door prize drawing fell in Dani's favor and she picked up a copy of the latest Cranium party game. As mentioned in the previous post, we added Dominion this month, which we picked up at BattleZone Games. We'll stick a new party game into the Vault for next time.

Since Car Wars was well-received, but would be even better with more players, I'm planning to have another Death Match at the January 2011 event. That gives you plenty of time to block off your calendar and invite your friends! I'd also like to see the 40th event (June 2011) be another special event, with free food and stuff; I'll try to do better with preparation and promotion for that event (since it'll be planned further in advance), but at least now you've been warned so it won't be a surprise.

Finally, I'd like to announce a new way to get an extra entry in the door prize drawing: if you bring someone with you to an event that has never been to GAMES! before, you get to put your name in the drawing twice. We'll still just give away one game (except at special events, like the 40th maybe), but you'll have better odds of winning it. Since our events thrive on participation, this seemed like a good way to motivate word-of-mouth advertising.

Thanks for reading this unusually long post and we look forward to seeing you again at our next event, September 11th, from 3-9pm.

I enjoyed Car Wars. Anytime you want to pull it out Bob, I'm willing to play.