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Brass: Birmingham Wins the 2020 Gra Roku

Brass: Birmingham Wins the 2020 Gra Roku
Board Game: Brass: Birmingham
From gallery of W Eric Martin
Brass: Birmingham from Gavan Brown, Matt Tolman, and Martin Wallace has won the 2020 Gra Roku, Poland's game of the year award.

The Gra Roku awards multiple categories of games, and the winner in each category is:

• Family Game: The Quest for El Dorado, from Reiner Knizia and Nasza Księgarnia
• Advanced Game: Brass: Birmingham
• Children's Game: Zombie Kidz Evolution, from Annick Lobet and FoxGames
• Thematic Game: Nemesis, from Adam Kwapiński and Rebel
• Two-player Game: Carcassonne: The Castle, from Reiner Knizia and Nasza Księgarnia
• Party Game: Sushi Go Party!, from Phil Walker-Harding and Rebel

Board Game: The Quest for El Dorado
Board Game: Zombie Kidz Evolution
Board Game: Nemesis
Board Game: Carcassonne: The Castle

The winer of the Gra Roku was selected from the winners of the six categories above. The other awards given out were:

• Expansion: Chronicles of Crime: Noir, from Stéphane Anquetil, David Cicurel, and FoxGames
• "Nicest" Game: Everdell, from James A. Wilson and Rebel, with art and graphics by Andrew Bosley, Cody Jones, and Dann May
• Author of the Year: Adam Kwapiński
• Debut of the Year: Magdalena Śliwińska, for Minerals

Board Game: Sushi Go Party!
Board Game: Chronicles of Crime: Noir
Board Game: Everdell
Board Game: Minerals

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