Is [some of] your team hoping to head to Portland for The WarTron Game? If so, I'd like to tag along as an "embedded reporter". I.e., I'd play the game with y'all and write it up afterwards. Folks are curious about how other teams operate; I'm curious too, and like to write about that stuff. (No, I haven't seen any huge variations in how teams do things. But folks seem interested in the little variations anyhow.)
Two teams have let me do this embedded-reporting thing so far, Continental Breakfast and The Smoking GNU. I do this when there are two The Games in one year, playing the first game with Mystic Fish, my regular team, and one game embedded with another team. (Though that means the project's been on hiatus since 2008. When I first came up with this idea, I thought I'd be writing a bunch of these because of course there are going to be multiple overnight games each year... Uhm, anyhow.) I'd sure like to do it again, maybe this time with your team.
So if you're willing to let other folks see how your team operates, I'd sure like to tag along. And maybe when you told your team, "Hey there's a game coming up..." they were all Yeah! and then you continued "...in Portland." and half of them were still Yeah! but the other half started to look down at the ground and mumble about their dislike of airports; maybe you're looking for a spare puzzly person to fill an empty slot. I'd sure like to hear from you. You might even be glad to have me along as a player. I'm not the world's best puzzler, but I'm no slouch.
(On the other hand, if it doesn't feel like many of your team's "regulars" will play, then I'm not so interested. Folks want to read about how Team Such-and-such plays; they're not so interested in how Two Players from Team Such-and-Such Plus One Player Each From a Smattering of Other Teams play. Or at least I don't hear anyone conjecturing about that at GC Summit conversations or whatever. Anyhow, figure if three of your regulars are playing, then I'm interested. But if it's just two of you... then I sympathize with you as you scramble to assemble a team, but... sorry.)
Interested? Drop me a line at web+comment@lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us. I'd love to hear from you. (No, I'm not just looking to get out of town because of the earthquakes. C'mon.)
