Made it just in time before the new year starts, hope the holidays have treated you all well!

Welcome once more to the (slightly late) Winter Game Giveaway extravaganze, where I (and sometimes a few others) hope to spread some holiday cheer and pass on games that others might enjoy.  It is a long and storied tradition (which you can see the last of right over here, run by yours truly and a few others over the years.

This year's giveaway is going to be run a little differently from the others, due to the fact that my own obligations kept me from getting it up in a reasonable time and I'm not going to have a ton of spare time to run it.  Notably, we're going to simplify it a little bit!

Each round players will have ten points to spend on games they would like to win.  At the end of each round, games bid on will find homes, and a new one will begin.  This will continue until every player has won all of their prizes (eight) or called it quits.  The important distinctions here are two, namely:

1) Every game bid on will go at the end of the round.  Theoretically everyone could be done in a single round!  This means that if there is something you are interested in, make sure you have points on it - best case you can get it uncontested, worst case you stop someone else from taking it with a small bit without you contesting it.
2) Your points are replenished every round.  There are no bonus points given, you have ten each round so you are encouraged to spend them all and take risks to get what you want, the only way you lose is by not participating at all.

Please make all new bids in a separate post, and if you are taking away points please specify what you are removing them from.