10x10 Challenge: Fall Check-In

I haven't used BG Stats consistently, but it DOES tell me I like to play on Saturdays!

There is plenty of 2017 left to enjoy, but autumn is here, and that means that soon this year (and this 10x10 Challenge) will be coming to a close! I never bothered to track my plays at all before January 2017, and I am still not consistent about it. The data I have collected, however, tells me a lot about myself and the changes that have taken place in my life over the course of the year. I wish I had more data from previous years, because relocating and looking for kindred gaming spirits has to have made interesting changes to my playing patterns. 

Here was my original list of games to play more often in 2017: 

Mage Knight
Runebound (3rd ed.)
Castles of Burgundy: The Card Game
Legendary: Alien Encounters
Race for the Galaxy
Valley of the Kings
Agricola
Imperial Settlers
Sentinels of the Multiverse
Terraforming Mars

And here is the list of games I had played 10+ times by June 2017: 

Race for the Galaxy 
Castles of Burgundy: The Card Game
Onirim
Splendor
Ivanhoe
Jaipur

As you can see, I ended up playing a lot of games with other people (usually students), and frequently I played the same games often enough to push me over ten plays.

Since June, I have added a few games to the list, and again not always the games I expected: 

Sentinels of the Multiverse - On my original list. Yay!
Agricola - On my original list. Yay!
Dead Man's Draw - I enjoy this game both with my boyfriend and with students. 
Betrayal at House on the Hill - Very popular with friends.

On the one hand, yay me! I have completed a 10x10 challenge this year! On the other hand... Only four of my 10+ games are on the original list that I made all the way back in January. My 10x10 list is not the story of what I played on my own, but of what I played with others. That's not necessarily a bad thing—it means that I have friends to play with and that I've had a ton of fun this year! But it's also a sign that I'm not taking enough time for myself as a gamer, and that's something I would like to change. 

Going forward, I am trying to be better about logging my plays in BG Stats, which is an app I have but have been lazy about using. Who knows what better data-collection habits will tell me about myself? 

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