152: The 2025 American Tabletop Awards (guest: What's Eric Playing?)

Update: 2025-06-05

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The 2025 American Tabletop Awards were just announced! (Whispers offstage inform us that they were announced back in April....)

Well, we're now ready to talk about them after our extended break. With ATTA cofounder and content creator Eric Yurko of What's Eric Playing?, we react to the recently crowned finalists and winners -- and tell you how we each voted as part of the judging panel.

Timeline:

7:08 - Early Gamers category.
17:54 - Casual Games category.
30:29 - Strategy Games category.
40:03 - Complex Games category.

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152: The 2025 American Tabletop Awards (guest: What's Eric Playing?)