Reflection Week Eight

So I prefer Professor Jackson's version of Risk, to say the least. Really, he needs to put this out on the market. I know many Risk fans that would pick up the game for a new challenge (not to ignore all of the IR professors that would want to play it at family game night). Regardless, I used to play with my cousin, who tends to be quite a realist in the game and in life. It was a new way to think about how to play the game, because we know that a solely realist approach isn't particularly logical or realistic in the world today. You have to plan and think in a whole new way because it's no longer just anticipating the military actions of other teams, but their diplomatic policy as well. Definitely a totally different ball game. It'll be more interesting to comment on this next week once we have a clear winner or at least another hour and a half to play.

Still, our class (maybe because we've only had one game thus far) didn't get into the game as much as the other class did. People were seriously running down the halls, meeting in each others' rooms trying to strike up deals. It was interesting to hear the different goals the other class had though - although some were similar, there were some notable differences that made the game interesting.