Since this club started back in June 2000, it has steadily risen up the charts as one of Yahoo's most active and fastest growing board game clubs. Now, we are also one of the largest. As of my writing this message, we have 73 members, which makes us the 5th largest Yahoo board games club. (The list I refer to is the one that excludes huge board game subcategories like Chess, Monopoly, etc. Yahoo has another list that includes them.) Everyone here should be commended for making this club what it is. By keeping Pente high up on the list of most popular clubs in its category, you give great recognition to a great game.
You should also be commended for keeping this one of the most active clubs around. I visit other larger clubs regularly just to see why they're so large. Most of the time, there is no reason. Members hardly ever log in, much less post any discussion. However, every time I think this club is dying down, we get a burst of new members and fresh discussion.
Finally, I post a question/challenge to this group: do you think we could ever become the largest board game club on Yahoo? Right now, as I said, we have 73. The Yahoo Dune club, currently the largest in the category, stands at something like 142. That means we would have to double our membership and probably more, as the Dune membership keeps increasing too (albeit slowly). I'm not really suggesting a membership drive--I don't care about having people as members just to have members if they are not interested in the game. Rather, I am asking you all if you think we could get that many genuinely interested new members. I think that maybe we could. The Jan. Main #1 tourney at IYT had almost 100 entries. This is really amazing, considering that just two months ago we tried to use this club to make a massive IYT tournament and could only muster 74!
Anyway, I thought I would bring this up as a possibility. Our club doesn't have to be the largest club to be the best, but it would speak volumes about the game if we could find that many interested players.
Take care all,
Aaron
This message was originally posted at Yahoo's pente group.
