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2006 Media coverage
- Boardgame News: My Australian Games Expo Experience
- The Wide World of Games
- Planners ask 'Are you game?'
- It's all fun and games at Expo
- Albury scores Games Expo
- Media Update & personalities attending
Australian Games Expo 2006 media coverage:
My Australian Games Expo Experience
(Boardgame News, 12 June 2006)
"What a fabulous inaugural Expo! Congratulations and thanks to the organisers, and the Albury Wodonga gaming community, for making it a very enjoyable, rewarding and welcoming experience for all the visitors."
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The Wide World of Games
(Border Mail, 6 June 2006)
"Thanks to the imagination and effort of a local Albury businessman, Australia will be represented for the first time at the next World Championships (held in Germany) of not one, but two rapidly growing games - but there won't be a ball in sight."
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Planners ask 'Are you game?'
(Border Mail 5 May 2006)
"It really will be all fun and games in Albury this June long weekend"
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It's all fun and games at Expo
(Twin Cities Post, 11 May 2006)
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Albury scores Games Expo
Albury will be host to the inaugural Australian Games Expo for board games on the June long weekend (June 10 and 11, 2006).
The Expo is a first for Australia and will include the first Australian championship tournament for the internationally known board games of Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne.
Thanks to the Expo, Australia will now be represented at the World Championships of these two Euroboard games, which will be hotly contested at the huge Essen Games Fair in Germany later this year. There will be two expenses paid trips to Europe, one for the winner of Settlers of Catan and the other for the winner of Carcassonne.
The Expo has been organised by Albury's Phil Davies, operator of the Mind Games outlet in Albury.
Mr Davies said the event would include over 150 different board and card games with a group of volunteers from Canberra and Albury on hand to show people how to play.
"There will be the opportunity to meet games designers, find out about games clubs in the area - and learn how to play," Mr Davies said.
Mr Davies said the Expo would be a family friendly event, with not one digital game in sight.
"Play is important to a healthy society and it is getting left behind in today's world. According to the Chicago Toy & Games Fair, games are not just fun - they're a recognized teaching tool and can raise a child's IQ by up to 16 points! Children as young at 10 can learn such valuable life skills as negotiation, decision making, probability, competitive problem solving, value and risk assessment from playing games," he said.
Wednesday, 03 May 2006
Media update and personalities attending
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