Once a month on the first Saturday of the month.
We've been running since January 2014, kick-starting 10 years after HoGS did in 2004, and are collecting data for leaderboards and continually developing the infrastructure to record and maintain them.
We are always keen on more regulars who would like to participate in 12 quality games nights across the year, with a focus on regularity and good gamesmanship.
Our July meet saw 7 players come together for 5 games! We're still keen on a dozen players!
This event is also on the HoGS Event Calendar:
https://hogs.org.au/events/391/
and on Meetup:
https://www.meetup.com/tasmanian-board-games/events/310208099
and on Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/hobart-league-of-competitive-gamers-monthly-meetup-tickets-1460743596419
and on Aftergame:
https://aftergame.app/events/09e4fd64-02c5-4d6e-928c-bb0b16f319d8
RSVP! (Répondez s'il vous plaît aka Please Reply), either here on Facebook, by email or on the HoGS event page above. The address is private, and shared on request.
Rough location:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1S3NU5idG_AS_XRTLQABcy05Omn003GA&ll=-42.875533072394354%2C147.29668500840626&z=14
*** RESULTS FROM LAST MONTH ***
Check out all games recorded since the last monthly meet at:
https://leaderboard.space/list/Session?detail&external_links&no_menus&league=1&ordering=date_time&date_time__year=2025&date_time__month=07
And leaderboard updates are here :
https://leaderboard.space/leaderboards/?game_leagues_any=1&links=BGG&details&show_d_rating&show_d_rank&num_players_top=10&select_players&compare_back_to&changed_in=2025-07
Games that are played vary, and we are flexible, open to introducing new ones, while keen to promote regular play (regular games and regular attendance). The aim is to record the results for the construction of leaderboards and to focus on friendly competition and the banter accompanying it.
Here are the results of last month's meetup summarised:
In the time since the last monthly meet 7 players collaborated to compete: Mark, Jay, Ian, Daniel, Bernd, Russell and Shyama
We played and ranked as follows:
Sat, 5 Jul 2025 19:20 - Razzia (1992) - 7 players (Daniel, Shyama, Mark, Jay, Ian, Bernd, Russell) - Daniel won
Sat, 5 Jul 2025 19:50 - Discworld: Ankh-Morpork - 3 players (Russell, Shyama/Jay) - Russell won
Sat, 5 Jul 2025 20:50 - Discworld: Ankh-Morpork - 3 players (Jay, Russell/Shyama) - Jay won
Sat, 5 Jul 2025 21:50 - Too Many Cooks - 3 players (Russell, Shyama, Jay) - Russell won
Sat, 5 Jul 2025 23:40 - Löwenherz - 4 players (Ian, Mark, Bernd, Daniel) - Ian won
which is available at:
https://leaderboard.space/list/Session?rich&external_links&no_menus&league=1&ordering=date_time&date_time__year=2025&date_time__month=07
** INTRO TO CoGs ***
What does CoG mean? Well, we run by these 4 maxims:
1) Try to win.
Great game play is about "trying to win", not about winning, but trying to. In good spirit.
2) Enjoy losing.
Trying to win is awesome fun, but we expect not to (n to 1 odds after all)
If you can't enjoy losing, you're unhappy n-1 times out of n ... so why bother playing?
3) All games are based on competition.
We embrace it rather than deny it.
We compete against each other individually or in teams, or together against the mechanic of a game
- yes, even cooperative games are competitions, together against an abstract or well-themed mechanic.
4) Playing is more fun than explaining and learning rules.
Repeat play of favourite games is more appealing than the culture of the new.
That doesn't mean new games aren't great and enjoyable, just that we aim for balance between the old and new.
And further to that, we've evolved two taglines that we run by that capture those maxims well:
Competitive in play, collaborative in life.
and:
Regular players, playing regular games
and our goal:
12 for 12
(12 regular players for 12 quality games nights per annum)
which attempts to capture the sentiment, that one of the greatest joys of game play (for CoGs, not for everyone) is to sit down at a table, where everyone knows the game and just play ... to play, not learn, not teach, to play ... it is a rare joy even among CoGs. The idea being that regular event attendance (which helps build bonds and familiarity and is preferred over casual attendance) and regularly playing favourite games (as opposed to endlessly teaching and learning new ones).
We have two mascot games now playing on the theme of gears and being short enough for intros and wind downs and really good games: COGZ (beautifully reminiscent of Competitive Gamerz) and Gearworks (playing on cogs as well):
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/150294
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/228580
A basic website tracking results and performance is up (and sometimes down) at:
https://leaderboard.space
Development continues slowly and anyone keen to add Python, JavaScript or web development feathers to their cap and happy to learn is invited to join. It uses the Django web framework a PostgreSQL database, and the Celery task manager if any of those are areas you'd like to work with or gain skills in. Training can be provided.
If you would like to see the updates rendered elegantly in an email and/or contribute to improving that site, just flick an email to:
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Also check out other Meetups in North Hobart, Contests in North Hobart, Workshops in North Hobart.
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