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Ok, Ropecon is almost upon us again. Thanks to the server crash I had lost all my normal printouts and sheets for running a VTES tournament, so I spent most of last night creating them from scratch. I think I now have everything ready, including an “ugly-but-it-works” player randomizer script written in Ruby. Looks to be another big tournament, we already have 56 preregistrations as of this writing. Nice.

I picked up the prize support stuff from White Wolf from Fantsu yesterday, turned out to be a big and heavy box. Mostly that was because this is (for the first time) an EC qualifier, so we have a pile of t-shirts for the people who qualify (top 25% based on total scores for 3 rounds). There’s also 2 new promo cards, and some boosters for the finalists. Thanks to WW for the support, once again. The EC-qualifier t-shirts look pretty cool, they have the anime-style picture from one of the new(ish) Ahrimanes cards on the back (“Ahrimane Protectorate”) . As an additional bonus, I get one too – regional qualifier game organizers automatically qualify themselves, too. Which is nice, since there is no chance in hell of both running a tournament of this size and playing in it.

At the moment my schedule looks somewhat like this:

• Friday 16 - 16:30 - arrive at the Con, set up camp at the registration table upstairs
• Friday 18(ish)- the tournament begins
• Saturday 02(ish) - tournament is over, lots of bleary eyes and people running on pure caffeine
• Saturday - do Stuff(tm) at the con
• Saturday 19- 23 - my turn at the Info desk
• Sunday 07 - 11 - at the Info desk again, after a luxurious 6-hour sleep
• rest of Sunday - play in Rage tournament (if I have time), do some more Stuff(tm).

See you there.