[Billfred]

So with second event registration underway, it's looking like a lot of the traveling crowd--particularly Florida and New Jersey--that passed on Palmetto in Clemson are flocking to Charleston. Familiar faces (to an old-timer like me at least) include 11 (2004 and 2006 champion), 95 (2006 finalist), 180 (Palmetto's been too quiet since they last visited in 2006), 900 (bring forth the zebra print!), and 1875 (who last visited Columbia as the Autonomato Autonomatons).

I'm also pumped to see some new-to-Palmetto faces, including 1649 and 1902, and no fewer than four rookies springing up in the Lowcountry.

Combine that with the usual South Carolina suspects--342, 343, 1102, 281, and certainly more to come--and the event is shaping up to have its most depth in years. Bring your A-game...and knowing some of these teams, you ear plugs too!