Just re-read the whole thing, and it was awesome! It's still surprising to me that you were able to write that much on one topic, although that has been stated prior; it shows that Worlds was a very, very full experience for you and I assume others who attended. In the end, the story just fires me up for Nats this year... Which I still can't believe I'm going to! Although this post is a bit of a necro-bump(including the one above it), the full pieces like this really do deserve to surface occasionally. Good writing and fantastic story. Maybe you should write a book about pokemon when you're in college or something...