To be clear, we're not giving or receiving any awards this week--rather we're discussing their use, possible abuse, and impact on the hobby. Were we to deserve an award for this episode, though, clearly it would be for the quality and quantity of top-notch segues. Play style leads to play style, mechanism to mechanism, all flowing as naturally and as smoothly as a natural and smooth thing. Note that while our segues are stellar, are metaphors are often less so.

AYURIS: Pandemic: Fall of Rome 1m28s (Matt Leacock & Paolo Mori, Z-Man, 2018)

Games Played Last Week:
-Commands and Colors: Napoleonics 4m00s (Richard Borg, GMT Games, 2010)
-Kemet 6m37s (Jacques Bariot & Guillaume Montiage, Matagot, 2012)
-Twilight Struggle 11m13s (Ananda Gupta & Jason Matthews, GMT Games, 2005)
-Blood Rage 15m00s (Eric Lang, CMON, 2015)
-Teotihuacan: City of Gods 15m57s (Daniele Tascini, NSKN Games, 2018)
-Gaslands: Refuelled 20m58s (Mike Hutchinson, Osprey Publishing, 2019)
-Maharaja 24m53s (Michael Kiesling & Wolfgang Kramer, Cranio Creations, 2020)

News (and why it doesn't matter):
-Reiner Knizia's Whale Riders 30m53s
-Infinity CodeOne and 4th Edition 31m35s
-Warhammer 40,000 9th Edtiion 33m43s
[EDIT] Early reports indicate that 9th Edition will not, in point of fact, obsolete codices. We apologize for the error.
-X-Wing Solo Rules 34m33s
-Pokémon Battle Academy 34m44s
-CMON's Masters of the Universe 35m23s
-Hope for the world: rubber ducks in dice 36m40s
-BGG selling more games 37m20s
-Upcoming GMT Games 37m54s

Topic: Awards 39m07s