[Mr V]

Today the PNW fields were assembled for the first time. We have had them for a couple of months now, however the area to set them up has been in use manufacturing and assembling all the road cases to hold the fields as well as the production equipment that will be used at the events.

Just to give you an idea of what was involved we used about 120 sheets of plywood, around 1000' of 1.5" x 1.5" angle and around 15,000, yes 15,000 rivets.

Today we attached the Velcro to the "blue" field and set it up. We then took it down, attached stickers with the case number, put the pieces in the case and stored those cases. We then repeated the process with the red field except that we have left it assembled, to await the field elements and game specific pieces for the 2015 game. Once those arrive next year we will assemble it in the 2015 game configuration, take it down and then repeat the process with the blue field.

While it doesn't look like much in the picture below this represents around 1000 person hours of volunteer time to get to this point. Thanks to the volunteers that are too numerous to mention that made this possible!