Monthly Archives: August 2020

Quarantine Racing League: Season 1

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I played out the remaining 6 races in the QRL, here are the full results.

Race 1 – British Grand Prix:

Race 2 – Monaco Grand Prix:

Race 3 – Indianapolis 500:

Race 4 – Swiss Grand Prix:

Race 5 – Belgium Grand Prix:

Race 6 – French Grand Prix:

Race 7 – Italian Grand Prix:

B. Knight won the championship after his victory in the French Grand Prix (Race 6).

Alfa Romeo won the Constructor’s Championship.

BRM will be relegated for the next season, with the Hikita-Banzai Team taking their place.

Stay tuned!

Racing, Again

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Yet another racing game is about to come into my possession.  Lacorsa.

It’s a card and dice game with race car pawns.  It looks cool.  And I already set up a season to play.

Only 6 cars get to participate in a race, so I have to figure out how to incorporate 2 more cars, or some kind of qualifying method that disallows 2 cars from each race.

I’ll have it all figured out before I get the game.

Stay tuned!

Print-and-Play

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One problem I have is finding time to play games.

A further problem is preparing print-and-play games for play.

Case in point:

I originally purchased this game during PLAAY.com’s 2018 holiday sale, and even printed out the game and the expansion team set that was sold separately.

The original teams:

  • Houston Hombres
  • Los Angeles Lunatics
  • New York Nukes
  • Detroit Rippers

The first 4 expansion teams:

  • Minnesota Chill
  • Seattle Droids
  • San Francisco Heroes
  • Cleveland Stevedores

I let the game sit on a shelf, and every time they released another expansion, I’d get it and print it out, but I only ever cut out the original 8 teams.

By the time I collected the rest of the teams they had released the game as a boxed edition.  And since I already had everything in print-and-play format, I decided against buying the boxed edition.

I finally did get around to cutting out the 16 remaining expansion teams, and have yet to cut out the international expansion teams.

  • Vegas Bada Bings
  • Miami Maelstrom
  • Pacific Dreadnoughts
  • Phoenix Inferno
  • New Orleans Big Fun
  • Chicago Binge
  • Boston Malcontents
  • Denver Wild Blue
  • Dallas TNT
  • Gulf Coast Splash
  • Kansas City Drifters
  • Atlanta Gems
  • Milwaukee Buzz
  • Washington Panic
  • Philadelphia Mongrels
  • Nashville Twang

I did manage to print and cut out the coach cards, and assigned a coach to each of the 24 teams.

Now I just need to figure out a play format, and a league format, though 12 teams per conference and 4 teams per division makes the most sense, I suppose.  At least until I introduce the International teams into the mix.

And I suppose I should play an exhibition game or two so I can learn how the game plays.

Stay tuned!