The guys celebrate the festive season with Round 2 of Diplomacy Trivia, some Christmas gift giving and much, much more.

Intro

• The guys introduce the show, venue and drinks. They throw in a bit of weather talk (0 mins 10 secs)

• The guys introduce the 2022 Christmas Diplomacy Trivia game and contestants: reigning champ Markus Zijlstra/CaptainMeme, 3rd place 2022 WDC player Peter McNamara, variant extraordinaire David E. Cohen and podcast Patreon supporter and well known player Hal Schild (7 mins 30 secs)
• The trivia contest kicks off (8 mins 45 secs)
• The first question starts (11 mins)
• The visual for which country was not altered in the very last prototype of Realpolitik before it became Diplomacy is: (20 mins 30 secs)

• The next visual question relates to this board (23 mins)

• The contest round up with the winner declared (1 hr 5 mins)
• The guys return and give their thoughts on the contest (1 hr 7 mins)

Christmas gifts and Diplomacy chat

• Being Christmas the guys exchange gifts (kind of) (1 hr 12 mins)

• They talk about their plans for WDC 2023 in Thailand (1 hr 20 mins 30 secs)
• Amby shares his dream about the winner of WDC 2023 (1 hr 24 mins 15 secs)
• Amby asks Kaner if he plans to do a fact finding tour for his Southeast Asian variant of the Khmer kingdoms (1 hr 27 mins)
• The guys get some more drinks and describe them as mid-games (1 hr 29 mins 30 secs)

Around the grounds

• Kaner discusses briefly one of his new Europa Renovatio games (1 hr 32 mins 30 secs)
• Amby talks about the David E. Cohen Mandate of Heaven email game he's in where he's playing as Shu (Orange) (1 hr 33 mins 30 secs)

• Amby has been playing with ChatGPT to see how it can improve his Diplomacy game (1 hr 40 mins)
• The guys start wrapping up the show (1 hr 46 mins 30 secs)

Venue: Brewdog, Brisbane

Drinks of choice:

Kaner: Hazy Jane Pale Ale and Gateway to Helles Pilsner from Brewdog

Amby: Brewdog IPA from Brewdog and Willie Smith's Organic Apple Cider

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Thanks as always to Dr Dan aka "The General" for his rockin' intro tune.