1st Place: Extreme Dump Truck on Fire!!! of Pittsburgh, PA 
2nd Place: Act Right of Warren, OH
3rd Place: Vendetta of Pittsburgh, PA
4th Place: Infinite of Pittsburgh, PA
5th Place: Fighting For Fifth of Warren, OH

Last week the new JC Reloaded @ Skyway Drive-In hosted the 14th annual Laser Storm National Championships.

There were two days of Round Robin with a double elimination finals.

The game for second place was won by 3 points, and the final game was won by 7.

This was a last minute tournament, and even so I am happy the way it turned out.  I'm working on statistics, I found a couple of flaws with my stat program and I am working through them.  The medals that were handed out for awards are accurate, as those stats were compiled by hand.

I do have some stats for the tournament itself:

Not much happened today.  We tweaked the arena, no games were played.

Progress on Nationals XIV is coming along nicely. 

We have a whole bunch or arena design submissions.  The ones from Pittsburgh are already posted, some more from our area will get posted later.

The trophies are ordered and will be here on time.  The player trophies are a bit smaller than the past, but not much.  There are trophies for the top three teams.  The first and second place team also get store trophies.

I also have medals for the round robin placements.  We have Most Player Hits, Most Pod Hits, Best Ratio, Best Accuracy, and of course, Least Hits Taken.

T-Shirts are almost complete, and many of you have made your deposit so I will have a good order.

Since I know most of the teams, I will be able to add everyone to the database.  As of now I think we stand at 5 teams.  Not too bad for everything being last minute.

We will be working on the arena some more this Saturday.  I'm not going to get into any major projects.  Just try to make Pod housings if I can, and get more equipment up to par.