The Omegathon

So as most of you know, I was selected to enter the Omegathon at PAX this year. Being an Omeganaut was a major blast. The biggest perk was being able to jump all of the lines (and they were CRAZY). But the Omegathon kept me pretty busy, so I wasn't able to abuse this to its fullest extent.

Here's how the competition went:

Round 1: Peggle
We had 30 minutes to come up with our "best" score on a custom PAX-2008 level. If you wanted to keep your current score, you had to stop playing, and if you wanted to keep playing, you had to lose your current high score.

It sounds complicated, but basically it worked out so people's worst enemy was themselves. Quite a few people got scores over 400K and let those go, only to be kicked out at the end. About 10 minutes in I scored 360+k. I pondered my decision for a few, tense minutes and decided to let my score stand. It turned out to be the right decision.

Round 2: Boom Blox
I'm all about hitting hard and fast, so I made an alliance straight off the bat (with the final winner Joey Geko) and went after the Omeganaut Plutonium. He then decided to act like a bit of a dick and tossed out some choice insults. It was my pleasure to clean him out of that game (he survived the loser bracked though).

Round 3: Geometry Wars
I was paired with MNC Dover and the last remaining Omegachick and we played King mode. The first time I played this game mode was the night before (and holy crap I was glad to get a little practice in) . Jenn2D2 wasn't as familiar with the game as we were and we were able to get by pretty cleanly.

Round 4: Rock Band
At this point, I'm in the final eight, and I felt pretty damn good. I was paired up with Plutonium, MNC Dover, and Pikachoochoo (who had been cleaning up the games). They were all good conteders and I thought we stood a hell of a chance. The song was Eye of the Tiger, and we all had to play on Medium mode. We named our band The School of Hard C**ks, our nemeses were Omegadeth During the practice round we performed solidly and were confident that victory was ours. Omegadeth threw the gauntlet down though and scored a massive 480k. None of their players scored below 97%. We came out and almost caught them with 460k, (I got a 99% on the drums, I might add...and some sick-ass drumrolls). I took this moment to live out my rock star dreams and toss the drum-sticks to the crowd and make out with my lady. It was a bittersweet moment indeed.