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Episode 11: The Hide & Seek World Championship
On the Nascondino World Championship, a yearly hide and seek tournament that attracts teams from all around the globe. I talked to Alan Jones, the co-captain of the Australian team, the Nascondingos, and Giorgio Moratti, one of the organisers of the competition, about how it works, what it's like, why it exists, and where it's headed next.
This episode also features an excerpt from my new podcast, The Life & Times of Video Games — a documentary-style show about video games and the video game industry, as they were in the past, and how they came to be the way they are today.
You can find The Life & Times of Video Games on most podcast platforms. For a direct link to it on iTunes, go to lifeandtimes.games/itunes.
Relevant links:
- https://facebook.com/nascondinoworldchampionship
- https://facebook.com/nascondingos
- https://www.nascon-dingo.sexy/
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/inside-worlds-only-hide-and-go-seek-championship-180964595/
- http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2013/12/04/abandoned_consonno_italy_s_lost_city_of_toys_near_milan.html
Music credits:
- Lee Rosevere - Theme from Penguins on Parade and The Secret to Growing Up
- Chris Zabriskie - We Always Thought the Future Would be Kind of Fun, Readers do You Read?, There's a Special Place for Some People
- Kai Engel - Run
- And various bits of my own stuff
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