New Year’s Backlog Ablutions 2026
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 01/04/26 at 02:54 PM CT
The results of the last year’s New Year’s Backlog Ablutions are in! While it came down to the wire, with Erstwhile Matt submitting his third and final review within 24 hours of the final deadline, all of us succeeded at wiping away our obligations to our bloated backlogs for 2025.
That means we’ve got a new winning streak started, so we’ll have to see if we can keep it going in 2026! Since nobody lost and everybody won, no Penalty Games were purchased, and since no Penalty Games were in the mix, we all got to choose all of the games we plan to tackle in 2026.
To reiterate the rules: We all have one year to play three specific backlogged games that we’ve chosen for ourselves in advance. Included within those three games must be whatever we received from failing competitors from the previous year. We must be ‘done’ with these games – as in, not planning to play them anymore, as neither finishing a game that turns out to be terrible nor getting 100% completion or …
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