I'll start with the bad: the swag bag. I said this last year I believe, but I'll say essentially the same thing again. Don't promise a swag bag to someone and then lucy-football them.

Jwolf told me long ago, that the first howevermany registrations got a swag bag, and that I was well inside that, only to find out when I got there that someone had instead passed them out the the first people in the door or something. Do I really care about it? No. But at this point, it's the principle of the thing, when every year *something* happens to derail a smooth operation of the promised swag bag, and someone had to bitch about it; might as well be me.

The good: Holy **** I had an awesome time. The narrative event was seriously the best one I've played in my three years, and probably ranks up with the best 40k experience I've had in my entire time playing. Steve did an awesome job running our table, and Mike did an awesome job writing the scenarios. My teammates were great, my opponents were fantastic, and it felt great to see a close combat that was just nothing but berzerkers and space wolves in a giant mob.

I had a great time at the team tournament; Jeff and I meshed well, and actually ended up with surprisingly synergised lists (having a +1 and a reroll to go first was pretty brutal)

The venue puts the Doubletree in the dust, seriously. Location was quick for me to drive to, and once inside, it even felt more like a wargaming convention than the doubletree... food was better too, actually.

I had wanted to get in demos over the weekend, but there was just too much to do, unfortunately. I liked that they were there, though.

All in all, I'm really looking forward to next year, though I can't decide if I want to continue to do the narrative, or get my 2000 points done and try my hand at the GT (or more specifically, trying my hand at pulling best painted for the GT)