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Don’t Miss Our Streaming Tonight!

Quinns: Hello my board-based bosom buddies! Shut Up & Sit Down’s misadventures on Twitch will be continuing, live, any minute now, right here on our channel. You can expect the show to run from 7pm GMT to 10pm GMT.

This week will be especially worth your time because we’re playing a game that isn’t even out yet– the next dexterity game from the makers of Flick ‘Em Up and Junk Art, it’s Men at Work!

If you’ve not joined in the fun on our Twitch streams yet, lemme tell you, it’s an absolutely fantastic time. Our Twitch commenters are routinely a lot funnier than the stream itself, and as hosts we’re really starting to find our groove.

In other words, try it! You might just like it.

Time for me to join the others and take my place. I’ll see some of there!

Quinns: Hello my lovelies! This weekend Matt and I will be attending this week’s big show in Philadelphia, PAX Unplugged.

We won’t have a stand or merch at the con, but we are doing a bunch of live shows.

On Friday at 1pm we’re doing a live podcast, offering our first impressions of exciting games like Reykholt, Captains of the Gulf and Trapwords. The show will be followed by a quick Q&A.
Later on Friday at 7pm I’ll be appearing on a panel about the past, present and future of storytelling in games.
On Saturday at 5:30pm Matt and I are running a special gameshow edition of The Champion of the Wild, which should be amazing. We’ve got slides and I’ve done preparation and everything.
On Sunday at 11am I’m giving a 15 minute talk on birds over at the Kickstarter booth (which isn’t on the schedule, but is definitely happening), and then at 11:30am Matt and I will be dashing over to the autograph area to do our signing.

Also, a quick word to the wise- usually our events have big queues outside before they start, which means a lot of people assume that there won’t be room for them and don’t try and get into the event. This is a mistake! PAX has huge theatres with room for everybody and then some, so if you just wait until they’ve let the big line into the theatre, you should be able to waltz right in.

See you this weekend, everybody!

Quinns: Hello all! Big news today. With Paul moving on to pastures new, we’re beginning the search for new team members. Today, we’re excited to announce a new, paid, part-time internship.

Throughout 2019, SU&SD will be offering a series of 3 month positions open to anyone in the UK interested in working with us, getting in front of our audience and learning everything that we can reasonably teach you about board games, scripting, video production, and all of the admin that gets stuck in-between.

We can’t promise that any of these paid internships will lead to future work, but they really might. That said, even if they don’t, we’re confident we’ll be able to teach you a whole lot, and – if it’s something you want – we can help you to find your own audience.

Matt: We’ve gotten pretty good at what we do, but new voices and perspectives are always important – so whilst wit and on-camera charisma are a boon, we’d like to make it clear that applicants for these internship needn’t have all the same skills that we do. Both myself and Quinns were lucky to start our careers in magazine writing – a culture that naturally cultivated mentorship and gave us both a really solid head start. In 2019 we’d like to try and pay this forward.

If you or someone you know would like to apply, all of the details can be found here, and the deadline for applications is January 31st.

Quinns: Our next Twitch stream is tonight, and I am expecting to get the bejeezus whipped out of me.

At 7pm UK time, 2pm EDT, I’m going to be playing Memoir ’44 against our viewers. We’re going to set up the cameras so that you can see your hand of cards, and every space will have a grid reference. Then, everyone can suggest moves in Twitch chat, Efka from No Pun Included will then pick the most popular suggestion, and stream director Chris Bratt will make the move and roll the dice. It’s a bit like a Rube Goldberg machine specifically designed to cause me pain?

If you’re not sure what Memoir ’44 is, be sure to check out our review in the first ever episode of SU&SD, you can watch our playthrough of the superb, supermassive Memoir ’44: Overlord, or there’s this video where I can teach you how to play.

And as always, don’t worry if you miss the stream! We’ll be putting the video up on YouTube tomorrow.

Quinns: Hey all! Matt, Paul and I will be live on our Twitch page in a few hours, at 7pm BST, 2pm EDT. We’ll be streaming the superb Whitehall Mystery (see my review here), with Matt playing the role of a real-life murderer while Paul and Quinns hunt him down like a weird, tall dog.

If you can’t make the stream, don’t worry about a thing! You’ll be able to watch the stream in its entirety on Twitch as soon as it’s finished, and we’ll be uploading the playthrough itself to YouTube tomorrow evening.

See some of you there! xox

Quinns: Hey all! This week we usher in a new era of Shut Up & Sit Down.

On Thursday the 13th at 7pm BST (2pm ET), Paul, Matt and I will be doing our first ever board game stream on our Twitch channel. Our first game will be Flamme Rouge with the Peloton expansion, because we don’t feel that we’re done showing off that fantastic, blisteringly simple box.

Assuming none of our tech catches fire, we’ll be streaming in the same time, same place, every two weeks!

If you can’t make those times, don’t worry about a thing. Not only will you be able to watch all of our past streams right here, we’ll be popping the video on YouTube the following day.

This also means that – yes! – in the weeks where SU&SD doesn’t post a video review, we’ll be posting a Let’s Play instead, so you can enjoy a new SU&SD video every single Friday.

Huge thanks to our donors for helping us to get this new adventure off the ground. We’re all really excited about not just showing the Twitch audience what modern board games are, but how to enjoy them. So many people find board games intimidating, and we want to offer something a lot more intimate and casual.

See you on Thursday!

A photo of the game GKR: Heavy Hitters from SU&SD’s fancy new instagram.

Quinns: Hi everybody! Our editorial team is off this week. Before we begin the content marathon represented by the final few months of the year, we thought we’d take a short break to recharge our batteries.

To give you a peek behind the curtain, our traffic actually spikes significantly in the final third of the year. As we approach Christmas our audience all want to know which games they should buy and/or play. It’s an important time for us, one where we want to deliver the absolute best videos we can, covering the very best games we can find, so we thought we’d be sensible and dedicate this week to relaxing and playtesting.

Thanks so much for your patience, everybody. We’ll be back Monday.

Quinns: Hey all! Some final reminders of where you can see us at this week’s big show in Indianapolis.

Our extravagant live stage show will be on Thursday at 10am. The good news is, they gave us the main stage that seats 1,200 people! The bad news is, that’s the same exact time the main hall opens. You know, the one with all the games in?

To make the most of what we’re calling “the death slot”, we’re planning to give you our early impressions on some VERY hyped games, like Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game, Disney’s Villainous, even the bizarre creation that is Cryptozoic’s Wallet. Why not come along to this first, and THEN hit the hall when you know which games to queue for?

At 3pm that same day we’ll be doing a bit of work as presenters, revealing some upcoming videogame adaptations of board games at What’s New at Asmodee Digital With Shut Up & Sit Down. Come along for at least one announcement that blew my mind when I first heard about it…

Paul: We’ll also be doing a signing session on Saturday the 4th at midday, where we will sign everything except Matthew.

Thanks everybody!

Photo courtesy of photographer Ben Broomfield.

Quinns: Hi everybody! You know what’s better than watching Shut Up & Sit Down on a screen? Watching us live, or actually meeting us. Did that handshake linger a little longer than it should have? Were we… flirting with you? Was it just a dream… ?

In chronological order, here are all the conventions you can see us at in 2018.

Coming up just next week is the UK Games Expo, where we’re doing a live podcast on Friday, another podcast on Saturday, Paul’s doing an on-stage interview with designer Martin Wallace, and we’ll also be appearing as guests on the Sunday show of Knightmare Live, though for that you’ll have to buy tickets in advance. Also, we’re hoping to do a meet-and-greet and hopefully have merchandise for sale at our booth. Keep your eyes on our Twitter for the when and the where!

In August, we’ll be returning to Gen Con in Indianapolis. On Thursday at 10am we’ll be kicking the convention off with a live show in their grand 1200 person ballroom. It’s a big responsibility, and we’re planning on making it our best live show ever. We’ll also be the hosts of the What’s New at Asmodee Digital event, so come along to that if you want to watch us try, and fail, to be professional.

In October we will of COURSE be doing more than a dozen shows at SHUX ’18, our very own Shut Up & Sit Down convention. If you’re still on the fence about attending, don’t worry! We’ll be doing an update in the coming months about all the guests, publishers and events we’ve confirmed so far. Or you could just buy a ticket right now, because that update is gonna be awesome.

Finally, at the end of November you might be able to catch us at PAX Unplugged, depending on whether the organisers decide to again invite us as special guests. We’re hoping that they will, since we had a great time last year, but we’ll let you know on Twitter as soon as we’re invited.

Thanks, everybody!

Did you enjoy watching SU&SD play Dungeons & Dragons under superb GM Mark Hulmes? Well we’re afraid that’s irrelevant, because today we’ve got something completely different.

Anyone who’s been following our RPG reviews will know that there’s a lot more to these games than D&D, and today we’re showing off an absolute belter: The World Wide Wrestling RPG. Contained in this one hour video is a one hour Wrestling TV special, and only one of our contestants can come out on top.

Are you cheering the loudest for Batterin’ Berg, Warrbeast, The Bristol Mudler or Car Boy? Or will you just jeer and throw beer cans at ring? Let us know in the comments.

Don’t Miss Our Streaming Tonight!

Where to catch us at PAX Unplugged!

Are you interested in working for SU&SD? Come intern!

Today it’s Quinns vs. Twitch in Memoir ’44!

SU&SD Streams Whitehall Mystery, Sep 27th at 2pm EDT!

SU&SD’s New Twitch Streaming Starts Thursday!

Shut Up & Sit Down will return next week!

Where to find us at Gen Con 2018!

Our convention schedule for 2018: Come see us!

SU&SD Play… The World Wide Wrestling RPG!

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