[Ken Leung]

Ah! I was going to finish this the day after I posted the last thank you notes, but I forgot. So, let me just finish this really quickly...

I want to give a big thanks to Lonny Weissman and the rest of team 668 Apes of Wrath for being a wonderful host.

Mark Leon, Joe Hering, and Cory McBride from NASA Ames for providing us a playing field.

Michael Neary and Terry Wells from SCRRF for providing us the field controller system.


And I know it will be impossible to name all the names, so I am just going to tell everyone what I remember the most from Cal Games this year...

I remember tons and tons of people came to our planning meetings over the summer...
I remember Thursday night after two of the teams helped us loaded the truck up, team 668 and a small group of folks helped us get started on flooring at Pionieer High School until 9pm that night...
I remember the same small group of folks plus a few other willing volunteers came early Friday morning at 10pm to help us lay down and hot seam the carpets... There was Michael from 114, Laura and Marc from 100, Gary from former 972, Ceal, Alvin, Tim, Mike, Phyllis, Lonny, Dave, Cory, David, Tim, and others...
And I remember there were so many teams who came to help us setup all Friday...
I remember Team 114 stayed pretty much all day Friday until very late at night to help us with everything...
I remember team 1351 stayed until 11:30pm to help us test the playing field.
I remember Gary, Mauri, and Lonny stayed until past 1am to get the field system finished...

Then I remember Saturday morning when I got in so many teams were there ready to help us run the event...
I remember when the field system didn't work on the first match team 968 came rushing to us to help us figure out the radio problems...
I remember seeing the 60+ volunteers so willing to do the work to make sure the event was successful...
I remember when some of the core people like Ceal, Eugene, Mike, Lonny, Alvin, and others getting so tired because it was a long day and we had matches until 7pm...
I remember team 481 so willing to help us when we needed volunteers...
I remember team 100 helped us with so many volunteers too...
I remember Billfred and Sanddrag did an incredible job with Mark Leon being announcers...
And I remember everything get cleaned up so fast by 9pm with tons of people staying behind to help us...

And I remember team 192 helped us unload the truck the next morning with just the 7-8 of us, plus Billfred...


I remember all of that, except I don't remember exactly what happened anymore. So much energy, so much excitements, so much generosity... This is the best Cal Games yet since 2000!