Spazz:
It's not that we would really want you to stay home, it's just that we want to see some pix of some of the other attendees, too.
Bonefish:
Sucks to be us, too. We got "Moe'd" in the selection process, despite being in the gong show 7 years in a row, and me buying the organizer several friendly pints when I was up there in Feb.

A number of our guys will still be going up, with the intention of either going back to their own teams, or just to hang in the garden. I have to go anyway, because it's my weekend to visit family there, but it really sucks for anybody who was diligent and made hotel reservations and is now SOL.
Jinx:
You deserve your own monument for your contributions towards the Great Struggle.

I guess Downtown deserves something too, but I'm not sure what...
beerZ,
stew
