Speeches are given from the myriad of Fragapalooza staff, volunteers, and sponsors. Everyone cheers on, as we all greatly appreciated what these dedicated people, who have taken time out of their own lives, do for us as a community of gamers. The Fragapalooza staff always manage to put on a good show, and they and the sponsors pay us back in kind for our gratitude…

…with a decent pile of phat lewt. The random name generator is spun up, and whoever is lucky enough to have his number called will win a nice package of gear. If you aren’t around for the closing ceremonies and didn’t earn your prize in some fashion like in a tournament, too bad; your prizes are given to the next lucky participant. The gentleman above won in a random draw an NZXT Rogue Case, ZeroSurge Power Conditioner, and an Intel motherboard. Some GIGABYTE motherboards and NZXT power supplies were also given away, as well as prizes from Thermaltake, Razer, Corsair, and a few of the other Fragapalooza sponsors.

The stage is now empty, and the curtain is drawn. We now have to file out the door, balancing our many thousands of dollars worth of computer equipment on our office chairs as we try to get it out to our cars in one piece. Still, on the way out we manage to give one more thank you to the staff and volunteers who make this all possible.

I would like to take this opportunity to say thanks to StraT and Sphincter for giving me access to the event in full, Cova for having a wicked file server with all the latest…game patches…and demos, Nato and Django for putting together some interesting contests. Finally, to Commo for all his hard work on the tournaments.

I invite everyone to check out my blog, as I’ve posted coverage for each day of the event. You can see what to bring to a LAN, check out the marriage proposal that happened at the closing ceremonies, and everything inbetween. There’s huge image galleries as well. As for me, I’ll see everyone at Fragapalooza 2009.

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