2009 Memorys and Congrats, and Thanks

[Mike]

Just thought I'd kick off with a few things to remember,

The Scottish team losing the spare car keys to one of the cars (the main keys were lost a few days before!), only to find after breaking to the car they were on the back seat.
Neocydude asking to buy a t-shirt because he had lost his in the back of the car, the same car with the key incident the day before!
The weird names some players were called, including Mad Gasket, Tiych, and others.
The number of people who couldn't walk by the end of the tournament, at least Yoda, Damian and CoCo (oh and Slaughter, but that was because he was too drunk to stand).
Being told to quiet down 3 times by the hotel reception guy
The look of confusion by the checkout lady in Asda over the Scottish notes I paid with
The luck of bring stuck in slow traffic, rather than being on the other side of the closed road with a horsebox accident while heading over to DarkLight.
Damage running up a ramp at LF not seeing me crouched down and going full-pelt in to me, flipping over the top and landing on his back the other side of me with Entity laughing at the whole thing (and shooting us!)
Mad Gazet so drunk she didn't know if the bed was shaking or if she was.
Normal Shot or a Christmas shot?

So on to congrats, obviously to Psycho Family who won by a huge margin. Impressive results, you really did well at every system.

Some players stood out, for various reasons.... DK and Swaz showed they were great at practically every system, very strong impressive players. Yoda for the fact he didn't make it through the first half of the first day, yet stuck with the event to the end. Big Dog impressed me at a number of systems, with a little bit of practice of the systems you were new to you'll be one of the top players at Armageddon. It is always difficult to see how well your team mates are doing, but Damage, I had a number of players saying you have improved, so well done! Entity you did very well at all the systems, a real pain to play against :p Soul, you made a good team captain, and you were a great player in the arena also, I look forward to doing battle with you again. C'tri you were a laugh, and quite insane, and did very well in systems I didn't expect, keep working on that flux capacitor and maybe I'll see you last year.

To the two youngsters on Entropy, you showed determination by taking part in this event, it isn't easy going from being a very good player at your home site/system to being bottom of the pile somewhere else. Armageddon does that to everyone who takes part, and it was great to see you not giving up but trying your hardest all the way through. Practice and come back next year, I have a feeling that in a few years you'll be giving many of us a real challenge in a lot of systems.

So to thanks, to Ricky Vega for starting Armageddon and doing the t-shirt design for this year's event. To Paul, Al, and their team for the two arena split that really helps the event both in travel time and cost. To Marvin for working out a great deal for us to play at the Birmingham site, and for running the whole thing smoothly, he wasn't paid to be there - he took time out of his weekend to run the event for us. Gammie for marshalling and helping at the DarkLight site. Steve for cooking the BBQ. To everyone who lent a hand during the event where I needed assistance, your help was much appreciated, especially for those tasks such as tidy-up duty which weren't so fun.

And of course thank you to everyone who attended and made the event such fun, those who haven't attended before - you took a big step, going outside of your comfort zone within your home system(s)/arena(s), that takes courage, so thanks for taking that step and I hope you all back again next year.

[Rhea]

Think we have a few great memories too.

That Saturday night was so funny, no idea the staff came that many times.
Question, exactly how did 5 other people end up in our room?
DK mooning us in the car on the way past, then us realising there was a video of the event from the other car
Us finding all the cars going at 50 miles an hour and having to stay behind them - not so great, you'd blush with all the swearing
Being part of an amazing team who helped us so much, sorry for any double downloads in games
Getting to play proper quasar, as well as a nice explanation as to how the system worked at 1am by someone who randomly wandered into our room


Things we learned...

There are far too many signs to "secret nuclear bunkers"
it IS funny when so many people stand under the camo netting at LF thinking they're safe, and so tempting to keep taking them all out
vodka and relentless do not mix in such proportions
gazet is hilarious when drunk
jumping on people who are asleep is stupid :p
pretty much all laser tag players never want to grow up and have a really warped sense of humour
prodigy is the best music to play quest to
even given a map, GPS, and plenty of time, it is still possible to be late
accidents happen on the road when you need them least

sure there's more. Emma?

Quotes of the trip
"and swallows"
"how fast is that car going...50!!!"
"didn't you have more clothes when I saw you last"
"i was dead at the time"

[Mad Gazet]

Being part of an amazing team who helped us so much

Our team mates were amazing! Thank you soo much for the help and support!

Question, exactly how did 5 other people end up in our room?

You let them in while I was asleep! It scared the hell outta me seeing titch next to my bed!

Us finding all the cars going at 50 miles an hour and having to stay behind them - not so great, you'd blush with all the swearing

We really did! it was sooo annoying! I was swearing my head off!

There are far too many signs to "secret nuclear bunkers"

and saying "no road markings" when there were!

vodka and relentless do not mix in such proportions. gazet is hilarious when drunk

I learnt the dangers of the "Christmas shot" the hard way

jumping on people who are asleep is stupid :p

but very funny

pretty much all laser tag players never want to grow up and have a really warped sense of humour

Not naming anyone *cough*Mike*cough*

even given a map, GPS, and plenty of time, it is still possible to be late

also found that out the hard way! apparently the Darklight arena was a good few streets away from where it was

The luck of bring stuck in slow traffic, rather than being on the other side of the closed road with a horsebox accident while heading over to DarkLight.

Alright, it could have been worse, but it still affected our side of the road!

Mad Gazet so drunk she didn't know if the bed was shaking or if she was.
Normal Shot or a Christmas shot?

Christmas shot lol and a few of them! no wonder i didn't know if the bed was moving!

Being told to quiet down 3 times by the hotel reception guy

It wasn't me! I was dead at the time

Also
Being made to lose "The Game" every time i saw C'tri!
Learning that I don't get hangovers, but instead have too much energy instead and showing off on the dance machine!
Being pinned down and tickled at 4/5 in the morning
Someone setting fire to someones armpit hair
Gaining the name "Righty"
Gaining "Quaser wrist"
and being mad enough to drive 624.3 miles in 4 days!

all I can say is - "What happens in Huddersfield, stays in Huddersfield"

[Rhea]

So that was the final total! Wow.
I think that this was the event that will keep me playing laser, I'm regretting I didn't start playing until 23 now. The stuff as a child and teenager no longer counts now I've seen how things should be done. Bring on Wednesday, and the weekend where I've decided to go down and play Quasar to practice what I've learned. Shame we've only got elite to play