Category: Announcements

Berkshire Gamers 2023 Stats

2023 Announcements

Thanks Sean for compiling our group statistics…..what follows is an interesting look at what we accomplished as a group in 2023 Steve     2023 Quick Stats 2023 Sessions: 52 Unbroken run of Wednesday night games: 131 (from June 30th, 2021 through December 27th, 2023) 2023 Turnstile Attendance: 663 (vs 544 in 2022) 2023 Unique…

Berkshire Gamers Wednesday Gamenites moving to North Adams, MA September 6

2023 Announcements

Our home for the past 2 years of Wednesday Gamenites, Purple Dragon Games, is closing on Labor Day. Starting September 6, we will be meeting every Wednesday from 6:30 to 10:30 PM at the Uno Park Community Center, 157 River Street in North Adams, MA. We’ve been averaging 3-4 tables of Eurogamers on a voyage…

2023 First Half Stats

2023 Announcements

After 26 sessions for 2023 here are our leaders. https://www.berkshiregamers.org/attendance-statistics/ has complete reports – thanks Sean for compiling from our weekly session reports Gamer Attendance Leaders Sean        24 Steve       22 Tim          19 Amy         18 Armando  17 Sandy       16 Danny     …

Joe Huber Visit this Wednesday at Purple Dragon Games

2021 Announcements

The re-schedule of Joe Huber’s visit to the Berkshire Gamers is confirmed for this Wednesday December 29 from 6-10 PM at Purple Dragon Games in Williamstown. Joe has been active in the Boston game group scene for 3 decades. Our paths crossed when I was bringing in games from Germany in the early 2000’s for…

BEAR with us this Wednesday at Purple Dragon Games

2021 Announcements

The theme for this Wednesday’s Berkshires Gamenite 6 PM-10 PM at Purple Dragon Games in Williamstown is BEARS – Panda Bears, Black & Brown Bears, Koala Bears (who really aren’t bears), Polar Bears, Grizzlies, etc. Games (on at least one table) might include: Honey Bears, Takenako, BaerenPark, Cascadia, Okey Dokey, Zooloretto and others. If you…

Berkshires Gamenites turn 20

2021 Announcements

On June 30, 2021, I jump started a new weekly game group, meeting Wednesdays at Purple Dragon Games. After 15 months of semi-quarantine we all needed some cautious face to face contact with other like-minded gamers. From the ashes of defunct groups in North Adams, Dalton, Bennington and Williamstown we built a core of friendly gamers…

November 3 Session to start with 2-player games

2021 Announcements

When we started off a September session at Purple Dragon Games by pairing off for short 2-player games, it was a rousing success. So we’re doing it again on November 3rd. After a round or two of 2-player games we will re-group and play our usual mix of both new and classic multi-player games taught…

2-Player Games to start Oct 6 Session at Purple Dragon Games

2021 Announcements

Our table leaders are preparing an assortment of 20-30 minute 2-player games to start the our October 6 Session at 6 PM. We anticipate 2 rounds of play (with late arrivals only getting to play one game) – everyone gets to play 2 games, before we switch to multi-player fare 7-ish. We will likely be…

Bring Masks Just in Case for 8/4 Session at Purple Dragon Games

2021 Announcements

I just received the e-mail below from Niko (owner of Purple Dragon Games) : Hey K-Ban, Just to keep you up to date, we have at least 22 new cases of COVID Delta in North Adams that jumped the vaccination gap which means that I am at least temporarily bringing back the mask requirement for…

Ready to resume face to face boardgaming?

2021 Announcements

5/23/2021 We would like to resume face to face boardgaming in the next couple of weeks as MA rescinds more and more COVID restrictions. Niko at The Purple Dragon is willing to host our weekly get togethers on Wednesday evenings from 6-10 PM…..provided the following provisions are met: 1) All participants must be completely vaccinated…