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OK I've been putting this off for a bit but I finally have some time to put together my thoughts on Worlds.
First, of course, thanks to all who attended, our locals as well as travelers, to make our third major Orlando event so spectacular. It was nice to see so many of my friends again as well as meet some new faces. I had an amazing time.
Huge props as always to my co-conspirators, Rick Kinney and Sean O'Reilly, the glue that holds these events together. They've been working tirelessly to put on the best event possible, and I hope that showed. Thanks also to Eric Robinett for again putting up with us for several days as we mobbed his store from open to close.
Big thanks to Ken Tufts for running the world championship events so that Rick and myself could play in them, and also to Niall Matthew, Matthew McClain, and Matt Kirk, who also ran events for us.
Thanks to our additional prize support donors: Matthew McClain, Eric Robinett, Kieren Otton, the Continuing Committee, and our generous anonymous donor. (Apologies if I missed anyone on this list.)
Thanks for the feedback regarding my attempt at live streaming on Twitch. Though not the highest quality, I'm glad it was well-received and I'll certainly try to do more of it in the future. Sorry not every round got streamed - there were multiple events taking place in the venue that made filming impractical for a few hours.
And here it goes. To the 1E players that I'm sure were upset by the continued delays getting to their events - I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I know you were upset. If you want to blame someone, you can blame me, as I wrote the schedule. The timetables I set looked workable in theory, but there were multiple issues in practice that pushed back the 1E Worlds finals much later than we expected. We promised the 2E players that they wouldn't miss the 1E finals, and with no room to push them off to another day, we had to run them late. In the future I'll try to space things out a little better, though it may mean running fewer side events in total (though incidentally, for the first time in our three major Orlando events, every side event managed to fire, even the 1E events).
As for the spontaneous concert that took place on Saturday night, forcing us to change rooms and adding unwanted noise to the majority of the 1E finals - apparently the venue had been double booked for the evening by mistake. I wasn't told about it until a couple days before the start of Worlds, and by then it was way too late to try to make changes to the schedule. I wasn't told that it was a music event, only that it might be a little loud.
So there you go. A boatload of honest thanks and also a couple of mea culpas. I hope you weren't too soured by the 1E finals experience and still managed to have a good time. And I hope you'll still consider us for future events as we continuously work to improve ourselves.
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