Auditions
Hello and welcome to our information page for Auditions. We are currently seeking to expand our team with one or two passionate board gamers. If that's you, then we definitely want to hear from you, literally. Please record one 4.5-5.5 minute segment on a board game you love and send or link us to it as [email protected]. Just have a built-in mic? That’s fine, we’re not worried about equipment at the moment, just finding the right person to join our terrific team. Don’t worry, you retain the rights to whatever you submit so if you’re not chosen, well… maybe use it to help jumpstart your own podcast idea. I’ll include the boring contributor guidelines below, but we truly hope to hear from you soon.
Things to include:
Your Name
Your Twitter/Instagram handle (if you have one)
BGG Username (if you have one)
Where you're from
How you got into board gaming
Top 5 Games (if you have a Top 5)
Format:
- Games reviewed should be in print, easily accessible on the secondary market, or projected to come back into print, at the time of recording.
- Individual segments should be 4:30-5:30.
- Please always mention the name of the game, designer(s), publisher of your copy and artists.
- Try to keep rules explanations to a minimum, if listeners want to learn a game from us, they’ve come to the wrong podcast
- In an effort to be accessible, t5B is a PG-13 podcast.
- Negative language (direct or implied) toward race, nationality, religion, ethnicity, country or region of origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, or social class is unacceptable.
- No singing, no rapping, no skits, no impressions, no movie quotes, no zany voices.
- All content must be 100% original work, unless cited in the segment. Any plagiarized content will result in the contributor being placed on suspension until such time as the producers can determine if the plagiarism was intentional or not. Intentional failure to cite non-original work will result in an immediate termination from the podcast.
- The show’s Producer has final cut approval of episodes.
Style Guidelines:
- Keep the politics out of your segment, unless the game is explicitly political. This doesn’t apply to topics containing the word “politics”. The social politics of a game are relevant - the game’s treatment of sex and gender, poverty and wealth, the worker and management, conqueror and conquered, etc. are all highly relevant and topics of interest.
- If you’ve only played a game once, play it some more times before you discuss it. If you’ve only played it a few times, be up front about it. Be willing to admit you’re not an expert.
Note: The Five By does not review games for compensation. If making money is your goal, there are better opportunities out there for you.