I am posting this as a supplement to the general wrap-up, which is available here. Mostly posting to upload photos, and talk a bit about my position and future plans.

First -- LAWL PHOTO DUMP

The crew, rakin' it in on BlazBlue.



Tactix, showing us his new look -- "Blue Steel"



Tactix and Ryan! Aren't they the ultimate bros?



Mr. Erbil T and -- oh, I can't make it out since YOU LOOKED AWAY FROM THE CAMERA! >:( *rage*



Secondarily, my thoughts:

I had an awesome time, and enjoyed the hell out of playing host. Major thanks to everyone who showed up! It was great seeing the DToiders again, and getting to meet some awesome new people, too! Hope to see more of y'all. :)

Provided everyone had fun (and the reviews so far seem positive), I would love to do this again. I'll send something 'round the mailer, find the next quiet weekend, and liven it up a bit.

There were a couple areas where things could be improved, which I will strive to do better on for the next thing I host.

One area was the entrees - 3 California pizza kitchen pizzas was not enough. Next time I will allocate a bit more for all that.

Another area was the game setup -- clearly, one modern system at a time is not enough. Next time, I will hopefully have additional PS3 controllers, and a few PS3 games suitable for NARPage (MAG? LBP?), which I can then hook up to the HD monitor that didn't get any use this time. :) Also, I may contact other group members to bring in additional 360's and whatnot.

Finally, there's me... to be honest, I had been pretty darned sick, and stayed home from work the two days before the 16th. I was really wondering if I'd have to call the whole thing off. Fortunately, I was feeling significantly better on Saturday, so I rolled with it. But I was too tired to be any good at games, didn't want to touch the drinks, and generally spent half the NARP half awake. So, my apologies if I seemed really out of it -- I definitely was. Next time, I'll throw down the gauntlet for y'all, and we'll see who gets r0xoR3d in CoD, Rock Band, MvC2, or any other game we can name. :)

Anyway, major thanks again for coming - hope you come back for the next one! And for those of you that didn't make it, don't worry -- the wait won't be long. :D