Let's see if I can get this done before 2007.  I'd be a terrible journalist.

     QuickDraw Final

So they didn't actually call 2 new people up (I was hoping they would so I'd get one more chance, but oh well).  These were the plyers who won the 1v1 QuickDraw tournaments:

Instead of  bringing up new players, Todd proposed a winner takes all 1v1 match.  The contestants could take their $1000 home, or play a match to potentially make $2000.  Nobody budged.  Todd sweetened the deal to $4000.

Eventually 2 people agreed to go at it: LoSt-CaUsE and KaL.

LoSt-CaUsE won.  I don't remember which one he was...

I've seen people who can put their foot behind their head before.  I have not, however, seen somebody who could do it without using his hands.

Ehrr... no.  That's just not right.  I couldn't get a good shot of this, so I had to take a photo of the projector screen.

Rubber Boy demonstrated his ability to fit through a regulation size racquet.  After waddling around with his arm between his legs for a bit leaving the audience in hysterics he paused for a moment, "What?  That's how you do it!"

As if that wasn't enough.  He did it again.  Sideways.

"I need to concentrate here.  This next part is completely nuts!"

More completely unnatural positions...

Next it's a toilet seat.  This is smaller than a racquet, so he calls up a volunteer for assistance.

That didn't work.  Time for a different approach.  The volunteer is somewhat hesitant to approach another man from the rear.

Can't say that I blme him.

But they were victorious in the end!  In the end?  Over the end?  Hm.

Show's just about over.  Time for RubberBoy to box himself up so he can be shipped home.

Almost there....

The things people will do for discounted air fare.  Seriously, though, that is pretty impressive.  Weird, but impressive.  I figured the overall volume of a human body would be more than could fit in that box.

     Awards
I'll spare you most of the shots I took here.  They're kind of boring and redundant.  I'm sure they're important to some people, but not me.  I din't even participate in any tournaments.

idle.ee won the Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory tournament, I believe.  I just picked this shot because it turned out well.  Congrats to those guys and everybody else who won at QuakeCon 2006.  Perhaps next year I'll get my butt kicked by you.

     Wrapping it Up
Well, that's about it.  Time to pack up and head home.  Here are a few of the last photographs I grabbed before heading out.

Here are some of the guys I hung out with.  I'm not sure why we bothered holding up our name tags.  It's not like you can read them.

The network went down temporarily, so we were entertained by a Meatwad impersonation contest.

Only a select few people stayed around until the bitter end.  Most of us played Quake3 instagib.  The limited number of people made it easy to pinpoint that guy who kept kicking my butt.  I was going to talk to him, but I glanced at his mouse... what were those weird pads on the buttons?  Those weren't pads!  The mouse was so worn that the entire surface of the mouse had worn off and patches of white plastic were showing through.  No need to talk, he was obviously far more hardcore than I.  No pics, sorry.

As promised so long ago that you probably forgot about it: pictures of the white crate.  I packed my whole computer and monitor in this beast.

Mouse pad, too!  I think next year I want something a little more portable, like a shuttle or laptop.  There was enough going on at QuakeCon that bringing my own computer was almost unnecessary.

Hope you enjoyed my QuakeCon 2006 "documentation".  Unlike my E3 review, I actually finished it in the  same year as the event... barely.  Maybe I'll see you at QuakeCon 2007.  Oh, and thanks to id Software and all the other great people who made QuakeCon a success (and fun games to play there, too!)