So.. Cubefest 2006 has been and gone. And was fabulous!

I got up bright and early on Saturday 7th to train my way down to London. Arrived at Charing Cross at 1pm, where a group of us were going to hand out leaflets about Billion To One at Trafalgar Square for a while, before we headed off to Cubefest!

We split into little groups so that we could cover Trafalgar Square as best as we could, and headed off to accost the various passers by with leaflets and cards. I was grouped with the lovely _izzy_. We started handing out leaflets (and by we, I mean _izzy_, I was quite frankly, useless) until one of the officials there came up and started telling _izzy_ off, apparently it is illegal to hand leaflets out there and we had to traipse all the way up the steps to hand them out there! We managed to give a few leaflets out, surprisingly people didn’t want them!

Then _izzy_ and I met mj, and Jo (angelsk), to head to a Pizza Express for lunch, while the rest of the team traipsed off to Leicester Square to see if they had anymore luck there!

We all grouped back together at the Cubefest place, which “coincidentally” had a 333 poster on a billboard right next to it :O !! Coincidence..of course We went in, and got given a piece of posh paper to write our real names and usernames on, so people knew who we were, and a special Perplex City wristband, with a code on for a raffle that was happening later!

I also managed to snaffle a very shiny unofficial Cubefest card, designed by Ixalon. Uber shiny! I also spotted a rather yummy looking cake made especially for Cubefest! You can find the pictures on Dan Hon’s flickr.

There were loads of people there. We milled around for a bit, randomly chatting and greeting each other, with Dan Hon and Sledge taking pictures everywhere! Then Guy gave a short speech, followed by Adrian (I don’t know what about at all, I couldn’t hear!). But I do remember (with Jot’s help just now), that he said that Season 2 would be out in February regardless of whether the cube was found. And that there will be more hints for finding the cube soon in the next few weeks, but they are not spoon feeding us, because after all, it is £100,000! After that Guy came back on stage, waffled on a bit more, and said there would be a “Get to know each other” game, and to get into groups (eek!!).

The game told us to choose 4 items of 8, to do an “interesting interpretation” of. The items were:

• Show the effects of taking too much Ceretin
• Prepare a presentation for Perplex City on the new game, Earth: The ARG
• Demonstrate the Perplex City game of Third Wheel (bonus points for a running commentary)
• Re-enact a 3p appearance at a live event on a low budget
• Provide conclusive evidence that a member of your team is a 3p agent
• Give a seminar on the Art of Seduction in Perplex City
• Demonstrate the effects of sleeping in the same room as the cube for over one month
• Give a reconstructionist sermon on cubes and the evil of triangles

This is all from Ollie’s memory (someone has a good memory!!!), so he says it’s not perfect, but that’s basically what we had to choose from. There was prizes for the winning team, so we all made a good effort.

The performances were fantastic, really well done, and greatly amusing. Amadeus’ team was the winning team (Amadeus, Flabyo, Ixalon, Bakers_12 and Elfredo), and they snaffled shiny Perplex City goodie bags (which had gold cards in the PXC pack!!!!).

There was also a raffle, and one of Amadeus’ team members won that too! Ended up with two Gold cards IIRC! (lucky git ). There was an extra goodie bag left, so Guy pulled another ticket out of the beer glass (how typical), and Agent Lex won! He also received a Gold card in the PXC pack. I attempted to steal it, but failed miserably! (At least I got a close look at it!)

After that we just milled about and chatted some more. Mind Candy brought along three board games so we could try them out, so various people did. There was also some trading going on. But mainly, lots of drinking, fun, and chatting. At 7pm people started to drift off slowly, some went home, others went for food, or onto somewhere else.

All in all, it was a fantastic time, and I’m extremely glad that I decided to go.

I want to thank Ollie and Mind Candy for organising this, because they went to a huge amount of trouble. And thank Coxtin for finding the bar

Everyone was extremely lovely, I was so pleased to meet people finally. And I look forward to meeting you all again in the near future!

I didn’t take many pictures, but pictures can be found on my Flickr. Take a look. Better pictures are on Dan Hon’s flickr, Sledge’s flickr, Bakers_12’s flickr, Sequoya’s flickr and Kirjava’s flickr which can also be found in my links. Also there are pictures uploaded to a special flickr Cubefest group, which has pictures from all the different Cubefests.