Episode 39 - Conventional Thinking

Iain has big plans for the first Giant Brain convention but Jamie is not so sure. Luckily our convention correspondent Mark Cooke is back from Essen with lots of excellent advice. This episode the team cover abuse allegations, industry deaths, awards and more. Iain’s been working on something in the basement and it proves very useful when getting to the core of what convention organisation is all about. No interns were harmed in the making of this episode. Headline Industry distances itself from JR Honeycutt after abuse allegations https://www.thefandomentals.com/abuse-allegations-lead-board-game-industry-to-distance-itself-from-prolific-designer/ https://medium.com/@victoria.mann11/coming-forward-to-move-forward-8608e9c27e74 Esther MacCallum Stewart - https://twitter.com/neveahfs Chad Jensen dies https://twitter.com/HeavyCardboard/status/1195355111612129281?s=20&fbclid=IwAR1srh307usDj-jSIhVeh4YVK6ci9Gu08BgBES_2XhS8Tce_JTGbBbZzaB4http://www.dicetowernews.com/the-board-game-community-loses-chad-jensen-designer-of-dominant-species/61302 MTG has made it into National Toy Hall of Fame (USA) https://www.toyhalloffame.org/toys/magic-gathering News MTG player asked to remove card in support of trans rights  https://dotesports.com/mtg/news/autumn-burchett-told-to-remove-cards-supporting-trans-rights-at-magics-mythic-championship-vi Gw profits soar https://www.cityam.com/games-workshop-shares-soar-as-profits-beat-55m/ Amazon Alexa now plays Ticket to Ride https://www.amazon.com/Days-of-Wonder-Ticket-Ride/dp/B08178MR5M Catan World Explorers https://www.catan.com/game/catan-world-explorers   Exec Producers Lucky Sparrow Gaming Cafe https://www.facebook.com/luckysparrowgamescafe/   Outro DnD Cluedo https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2019/11/08/theres-a-dungeons-dragons-version-of-clue-now/   Mark Cooke and Airecon Twitter: https://twitter.com/aireconuk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aireconuk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aireconuk/?hl=en Website: https://www.airecon.co.uk/   Contact Us  Twitter - https://twitter.com/thegiantbrain Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/giantbrainuk/ Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/thegiantbrain/ Website – http://www.giantbrain.co.uk/ Email – [email protected]