Words are inadequate

*shakes head at the ridiculousness of the world*

The original image. Inspired by the iMac "Think Different" ads.

Ah, I wasn't clear; I was never actually at CMU, I just know a few of the Icehouse-y folks. I went to university at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg (southwest Virginia).

When I went to Origins in '98 I met Zarf and ee0r (and probably Dan and Becca and some number of other CMU folks), and also Andy and Kristin (and Alison? No, Alison came later, cripes I've known the Looneys for longer than Alison has, that's just ridiculous). I was a huge fan of Fluxx, so in 2000 when Andy decided he wanted a Fluxx tournament at Origins he asked me to run it. I did that through various incarnations of whatever the Looney Labs space at Origins was called up until 2011. uilos helped out in there most years as well, as did a rotating cast of folks from Blacksburg. My folks lived in the DC area so when I went back to visit them I'd often go up to Wunderland for some gaming. (I did /less/ of that after I moved to DC, oddly; I lived on the far side of the Beltway from them.)

I was also super-excited about the potential Canada move! And mildly irritated when it turned out to be just another of Andy's pipe dreams.

The thing about Icehouse tournaments, at least in the early 2000s, is that there are a handful of people who are really good (ee0r, Jake Davenport, probably some others), and then the skill-level drops off precipitously, because nobody's played a lot, and almost nobody's played at all since the last tournament a year ago. So you get in a few practice games beforehand and remind yourself of what you're doing, and then you go and have fun in the tournament. :)