Andrea “Liga” Ligabue - Best of Show 2005 to Siena and Heroscape

Hi gamers

it’s not really a new but I think that probably, outside Italy, still few people knows about that ... so, why not an article about it ? I’m talking of the Lucca’s Best of Show. This is, probably, the most important game award in Italy. The competition is between games published in the last year (2005) and present in the Lucca’s Fair (here all the info - Italian only!)
Here is the official announcement:

The Best of Show is the prize that Lucca Games awards to the best production launched during the fair: an award for role-playing games, card games, simulation games and board-games. The award consists of two separate sections: Best Italian Game and Best Translated Game.

The year 2005 has been an important year for the Italian gaming industry, both for the increased quality of national productions and for the importance of the internation licenses acquired for the introduction in Italy of the most important mainstream foreign products. As a consequence, this year’s award has seen an amazing number of contestants and and increibly high overall quality. For each category three nominations have been granted as Best Card Game, Best Role-Playing Game and Best Board-Game; the tiltes thus selected then disputed the award for the best of the best,. with a board-game winning in both categories: Heroscape (MB-Hasbro) for the translated game and Siena (What’s your Game ?) for the Italian game.

Best Italian Game: Siena
For the originality of the setting, of the dynamics of the game and the overall balance, as well as for the ability of using in a creative and elegant way a signigficant part of the Italian cultural heritage, the Best of Show 2005 for the best Italian game goes to ... Siena!

Best Translated Game: Heroscape
For the richness of the boxed set, the originality and the techincal solutions of the elements of the gaming board, for its material quality and, most of all, with the hope that suimiliar productions will be able to attract in the world of “intelligent gaming” an ever increasing audience, the Best of Show 2005 for the best translated game goes to ... Heroscape

Italian Game category
The three nominations awarded are:

Best Role-playing Game: 1st Nephandum (25 Edition), 2nd One Shot one Kill (rose & Poison)
Best Card Game: 1st Si, Oscuro Signore (Counter-Defcon-Stratelibri), 2nd Wings of War - Burning Drachens (Nexus Editrice)
Best Board-game: 1st Siena (What’s Your Game ?), 2nd Fredericus (Da Vinci Games)

Translated Game category
The three nominations awarded are:

Best Translated Role-playing Game: 1st Lupi Mannari: I rinnegati (25 edition) original title: Werewolves: the Forsaken, 2nd Eberron (25 Edition)
Best Translated Card Game: 1st Anachronism (Nexus), 2nd A Gmae of Thrones (Counter-Defcon-Stratelibri)
Best Translated Board-game: 1st Heroscape (MB_Hasbro), 2nd Ticket to Ride Europa (KDS)

The Jury would like to award a special mention to Mauro Laurenti and Corrado Mastantuono, the illustrators od the game Big Manitu (What’s Your Game ?) for the high quality of their illustrations in the re-edition of this game, thus pointing out the succesful policy of partnership between the two different core areas, “games” and “comics”, of the exhibition held in Lucca.

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