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For filthy casuals, playing board games with your family and friends is a light-hearted event that is a decent way to spend your evening having fun. But did you know that all across the world there are conventions taking place where board games are the life and soul of the party? People come to compete for grand prizes of thousands of dollars, glory and trophies. It’s serious business, with many taking it up as a profession.

If your love for board games, card games and other table-top varieties is never-ending, you may
want to consider turning up for playing board games at these conventions. They are usually great fun too, with passionate fans turning up in cosplay to compete.

You may be thinking, well how popular can board games actually be? Does anyone actually show
up…

One of the hardest parts of maintaining a Twitch channel is deciding on games to stream. There are so many factors to consider: the sort of titles your audience likes, the releases which are popular with viewers right now and what you actually want to play.

My other-half and I have been streaming together for around five years now and, if you disregard the audio issues which seem to plague every new streamer at the beginning of their journey, I’d say that choosing the right games has been the biggest difficulty for us. Participating in GameBlast marathon streams for SpecialEffect has given us the perfect opportunity to gain some experience though and our 50-day challenge for the event earlier this year was an interesting learning curve.

Our goal was to stream every day for at least an hour from 05 January to 23 February 2020, to raise funds and awareness…