Jason’s insights

Ok, when I said I was going to keep this blog more or less up dated, I really meant less.  I do apologize for keeping everyone waiting in suspense but, as those of you who are intimately familiar with last minute vacations would know, things can get a little hectic.

Last blog I left off with a three man team, plane tickets, and not much else besides a stubborn resolve to make this happen even if it wrecked us.

Here is a quick tip for people thinking about going on a trip to Las Vegas, don’t! Ok, well I am obviously joking but there is a lot of hassle involved.
If you are under twenty one there are only a couple hotels that you can check into, one of those being the Hilton.

Secondly you might leave with all your appendages attached but you will return missing an arm and a leg at least. Food there is so expensive you would think that America was enduring a serious famine.

Another thing that was amusing to me were the Mexicans that stand on the side walk, flicking their hooker trading cards. They are there on the pretense of handing them out as cheap advertising, but really they are just mocking you for not have trading cards with ladies on them whom are only covered by advantageously placed stars, stars that you would wish on if you were into wishing on stars.

Enough tips, back to the story.

There was only one other person that I could think of to fill out our roster, and he was already on a team. A quick wish on a hooker star later and Nick was on the phone telling us that his team couldn’t go and he wanted to talk with us about getting on ours. As an added bonus he also brought a coach to the team.

Coaches for gaming teams have a rather interesting role, instead of coaching us before the game and letting us do our thing during the game, they let us do our thing during practice and coach us during the game. I will explain that a bit more later.

Somehow (again with my mom’s help and quite a bit of luck) we managed to  get our hotel situation figured out. It was fairly complicated but it boiled down to someone from a different team that was over twenty one would get two rooms (one for our team one for his) and we would give him cash once we met up.

With everything set up we got down to practice like good little children. Yeah right.

A combination of conflicting schedules, lag due to living in Alaska, and ACS (Do not subscribe to ACS they are terrible) we never had much practice before we left. In fact, the most practice we had as a team was once we arrived in Vegas.

well I wrote quite a bit but said little right there. I am ADD and can never pay attention to one thing for to long, so I guess I will post this now and write more later.