Friday through Monday, Memorial Day Weekend
Place: Bob & Carol’s house
We need a bigger house. Only our second year in the new
house and we had the biggest Babycon attendance ever. A whopping
24 people played at least one game at the event. If you count
attendees (kids and spouses who didn’t play), we saw 31 people during
the weekend.
First time attendees were George Lewis, Zoe Spencer,
Dan
Korn and, Rachel Silber (and their children, Zachary and Rebecca), and
the
entire Ruvinsky family (Bill, Stephanie, Jason, Alex, Rachel and,
Rebecca).
Yikes! We pretty much set up a full day care center in the
family
room!
We had planned Friday night’s kick off dinner at the
new
Red Robin hamburger restaurant in Germantown. Unfortunately, Red
Robin
ignored our twice-confirmed reservations for twenty-five people and
forced
us to make an on-the-fly change. We ended up at our old favorite,
Old
Shanghai, which accommodated all of us quite nicely. Despite the
confusion,
dinner was great.
One highlight of the weekend was the 18 player team
Robo
Rally using two boards in different rooms! When your robot
stepped
into a teleport space, you immediately appeared in the other room on
the
other board, not knowing what would be awaiting you. It was wild,
loud
and, chaotic but, a lot of fun. Much of the action took place in the
board
in the main room as the board layout made it rather difficult to get
onto
the teleporter to go back to the other board. The team that won
(see
the Master Tote Board) leapt to an early lead by killing off most of
the
other team. However, a small group (Steve, Glenn and, Alex)
remained
alive to rally and nearly won, making it an exciting finish.
Thanks to Royal and Eric, who provided most of the
pictures. Also, thanks to Glenn who contributed to the prize bin
and Mark who donated a couple of good games to Bob’s Ultimate Game Room
for the enjoyment of all. Thanks to everyone who donated food and
drink.
As always, everyone started with 15 Babycon coins and
had to ante one per game. Jeff Spencer had a good year, winning
the most coins with Bob close behind, followed by Royal.
Babycon 10 is looking to be
the biggest Babycon ever. We are already deep in preperations.
Thanks to Glenn, we now have a web domain. Go to www.babycon.org (now
defunct) for all the details on Babycon 10,
full color pictures, and a look at past Babycons. We hope to see
everyone in May, 2003!
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