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Wednesday <strong>October</strong> <strong>14</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />
News<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
BAY HARBOUR<br />
PAGE 17<br />
Play rugby on your table top<br />
• By Chris Barclay<br />
WHILE ALL Blacks to club<br />
rugby’s toilers are often urged to<br />
play what’s in front of them, Zane<br />
Thompson spent years refining<br />
his game plan.<br />
The board game fanatic spent<br />
eight years toying with a project<br />
to transplant the national sport<br />
to a card and dice based game<br />
where all the intricacies of<br />
the code – even the ability to<br />
determine the weather conditions<br />
– are built in.<br />
Although the goal is the same<br />
as playing on grass – scoring tries<br />
– three mini games: the scrum,<br />
lineout and breakdown ensure<br />
there is more to winning than a<br />
lucky roll of the dice.<br />
Usual tactical appreciation is<br />
key while the sin bin, TMO and<br />
astute use of the “cheat” card<br />
can also influence the flow of a<br />
match-up.<br />
Thompson, 48, laid the<br />
groundwork for Rugby – The<br />
Game one morning after his son<br />
Jacob’s match was rained off in<br />
Christchurch.<br />
“He made an off-the-cuff<br />
comment: ‘It sucks there’s not<br />
a rugby game’. I was like: ‘Let’s<br />
make one’,” he said.<br />
“It is a very different game now<br />
to what it was. Originally I had 15<br />
players lined out and it was quite<br />
long and messy. It was dialed<br />
back to get that fast game play<br />
for a board rather than it being a<br />
simulation.”<br />
Now there are six positional slots<br />
a side and a game of two halves<br />
should take 40min for players 13<br />
years and over. There is also a 7s<br />
format planned for juniors.<br />
Thompson developed an<br />
interest in board games in the<br />
1980s and it never wavered<br />
in spite of the advent of video<br />
consoles, computer games and<br />
mobile phone game apps.<br />
“As long as I can remember<br />
I’ve liked the competitiveness of<br />
board games,” he said.<br />
“That started with all your<br />
standard family games like<br />
Snakes and Ladders and it grew<br />
into Hero Quest, Space Crusade –<br />
very old-school games.”<br />
He then progressed to The<br />
Lords of Hellas and Western<br />
Legends before his focus turned<br />
to his own contribution to a<br />
growing global industry.<br />
The project gathered<br />
momentum when a Kickstarter<br />
page launched last September<br />
raised about $11,000, $1000 of<br />
which was spent on a mould for<br />
the ball.<br />
The first 1500-box order<br />
was produced in China and<br />
is expected to be stocked by<br />
Whitcoulls and other retailers<br />
in the run-up to Christmas – a<br />
victory of sorts because rugby<br />
games can be a hard sell.<br />
“Sports people probably aren’t<br />
that keen on a board game and<br />
most board gamers aren’t that<br />
into sport,” he said.<br />
New Zealand Rugby is playing<br />
a waiting game before they<br />
endorse the product, so for now<br />
Thompson’s supporters like Korey<br />
Waipouri and Grant Golding are<br />
the ‘stars’ of this edition.<br />
“We’ll look at that (NZR)<br />
after we get some sales up and<br />
hopefully we can negotiate to use<br />
some of the players,” Thompson<br />
said.<br />
ENTHUSIAST: Zane Thompson has created a rugby board<br />
game.<br />
PHOTO: CHRIS BARCLAY<br />
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