[JDesRosier]

Without a doubt, that was the worst team party that we've had yet. I personally was looking forward to a Disney finale at the end of the 2 days of competition, but instead some pre-teen idol was brought out to sing a bunch of pop songs. It was funny watching most of the people completely ignore her and enter into Epcot. The whole bags check thing was completely horrible too; little effort was put into actually checking the bags, and was more just going through the motions, and it held up entrance, and clogged the front of Epcot with people waiting for their friends. We found most food at the beginning to be completely gone, until we got into the Lands building. After we ate (food was good, and the lemonade was a real nice touch this year) a group of us made our normal trip to the hydroponics ride, to be told by a few Disney employees that the ride was now "closed" and only those currently in line were allowed to ride. We left Lands to find everyone being ushered into one general area to watch the fireworks show. The layout was poorly done by Disney, the crowd wasn't handled well in my opinion, and some of their employees just waved wands without actually caring which way they directed people (a couple of our people were directed the wrong way.) The fireworks were decent, and the flaming FIRST sign was awesome, but the show would've been 10x better at Einstein with the lasers, pyrotechnics, and men with stilts like in previous years. -- Just my $.02