Adepticon 2010 Wrap Up

Adepticon 2010 has finished and it was yet another great year. Mind you I am just now starting to feel human again and unfortunately have to return to work tomorrow. The con started on Wednesday for me as Thistle and myself headed to Hank's to load his full size van and the rented trailer up with prize support and registration materials. After getting Hank's vehicle loaded a trip to Thistle's to load up books for the swag bags. A very long day for myself since I packed up 2 boys for their grandmother's care and then finally found a bed around 2:30 AM on Friday at the Westin. I appreciated the unloading of the trailers on Thursday but would have much rather gone to sleep at 12:30 AM.

Well Thursday saw to set up of the halls. We tried a new technique with the felt this year, which had me laying down all morning. That technique, just unroll a bolt of felt and tape off the tables. We attempted to tape up the edges, but after taping all of the felt up under the tables at least 2 times (some as many as 4 times) and it kept on falling, it was decided the extra 6 feet of felt length would just get taped and the long edges would just hang. I did have a great meal at Bippity Boppity Boos (yes, I don't remember the real name of the restaurant) followed by talking and drinking until about 3 AM with Toby and Colin.

Friday rolled around early for me to do very little except wander the halls and talk with vendors. A great way to start the actual convention. I was able to even play a little bit on Friday. I played a demo of "Check Your 6" which is a pretty good flight WW II flight game. Simple enough for quick gaming but has enough of what planes can do to make it tactically challenging. I also played a bit of the landing on Omaha Beach with the Flames of War system. I did actually get a decent amount of sleep that night which was good.

This year I helped judge appearance for the 40K Team tournament on Saturday. It was fun to actually get to see a lot of the armies up close and hearing some of their themes. The other fun highlight of the day was my sister driving up and us going out for dinner at Omega. It was great hanging out with her and showing her my hobby; though me getting into and out of her car must have looked like a clown car, hope you had fun sibling.

Sunday was the chaos of appearance judging 220 players in the 40K championships. The first impressive feat was that with the six judges we had we were able to judge 215 armies before the first round started (part of that was benefited by the extra 30 minutes it took to get half of the tournament going). It was a lot of fun to see armies up close yet again including the Scallywaggin' pirates, Dave Taylor's and Brian Carlson's armies.

Once the tournament was over the joy of clean up of the 40K hall began. This year things went much smoother than last year. The only issue I had was the desire by others want for a steak at Harry Carry's and the 9 PM'ish start of the poker tournament. I think next year we need a better plan for clean up, but for all those that helped a big thank you. I was very happy that the fantasy, specialist and combat patrol halls were cleaned up and all I had to worry about was the main hall. The other big improvement this year was that we payed the hotel to clean up the tables and floor. All of my pictures are up in the main Thistle & Shrub gallery. Thistle did throw down a challenge for me: to start and enter my Ork Warboss in next years rogue daemon contest. My own challenge, to have at least two entries for the rogue daemon contest. Time to begin the remembering on how to paint well without shortcutting to table top quality. Yet another great year and great growth for Adepticon, time to start on projects for 2011.

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