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I talked to some people in line who said they were from Smogon, never got their usernames or anything considering I joined when I got home from the event xd.
If anyone's interested, here's a video I recorded the latter 5 minutes of from one of Vash's earlier battles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN0U6OnxuSU
Yeah I'm not signing that petition mostly because of the online thing, tons of people would sign up and not go no matter what.
And I was at the Philly one today, good fun, I'll post the few videos I have when they finish uploading.