{"id":1019,"date":"2023-11-08T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2023-11-09T16:33:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T16:33:27","slug":"challengers-adds-to-string-of-awards-by-taking-home-italian-game-of-the-year-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/08\/challengers-adds-to-string-of-awards-by-taking-home-italian-game-of-the-year-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Challengers adds to string of awards by taking home Italian Game of the Year prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/359970\/challengers\">Challengers<\/a>, a deck-management board game designed to replicate the feel of a digital auto-battler, has continued its powerful run of award wins by being named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.giocodellanno.it\/vincitore-gioco-dellanno-2022-2\/\">Italian Game of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game, designed by Johannes Krenner and Markus Slawitscheck, beat strong competition from Heat: Pedal to the Metal to win the prize, with other shortlisted nominees including Akropolis, Hens and Tranquility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gioco Dell&#8217;Anno&#8217;s seven-strong jury said they picked Challengers for the win because of its originality and its ability to entertain players of all ages and gaming experience levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Challengers&#8217; latest success comes four months after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiel-des-jahres.de\/en\/games\/challengers\/\">it picked up top prize in the Kennerspiel des Jahres<\/a>, an extension of the renowned Spiel des Jahres board game prize which recognises more complex games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game has also won the 2023 As d&#8217;Or &#8211; Jeu de l&#8217;Ann\u00e9e Initi\u00e9 prize, and was nominated for Golden Geek Awards in the light game and party game categories last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The original title was created by publishing houses 1 More Time Games and Z-Man Games, and is distributed in Italian by Asmodee Italia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-black-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/buttondown.com\/boardgamewire\" style=\"background-color:#f6bf00\">For more stories like this direct to your email inbox, click here to sign up for BoardGameWire&#8217;s free email newsletter. \n\nAnd if you&#8217;ve found our reporting interesting or useful, please consider a paid subscription to help support our journalism!<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Challengers, a deck-management board game designed to replicate the feel of a digital auto-battler, has continued its powerful run of award wins by being named Italian Game of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,17,466,467,307,470,78,398,468,469,408],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-award","tag-awards","tag-challengers","tag-challengers-2","tag-game-of-the-year","tag-gioco-dellanno","tag-heat-pedal-to-the-metal","tag-italy","tag-johannes-krenner","tag-markus-slawitscheck","tag-prize"],"blocksy_meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}