When I got an email from my Fraternal Community Service club asking for volunteers to help with a RISK Tournament being run as a parish fundraiser, I felt it behooved me to put my hand up, even though I haven’t been to a club meeting regularly for 14 years due to cadets, and I haven’t played RISK in over 45 years. 

I was curious about how the organizer was going to get two games in within 4 hours. But a 3 minute limit to turns and a 1 hour 45 minute limit to games, with scoring based on territory, did the job, and rewarded aggressive play.

So I found myself today at Table 3 keeping time and counting territories after each turn. 

Plus I made a gaming contact. One of my players in Round 1 wants to get into miniatures.