If anyone is still thinking about competing in MouseAdventure Holiday: Reindeer Games on Saturday, December 12, 2009, my team has room for TWO more people.

We registered early on for a team of four people (with the team member's names to be determined). Another friend (who does not post here on LoT) and I make two people, and we have room for two more.

We're meeting at 8:30 a.m. at Mickey & Friends Parking Structure, in front of the restrooms/underneath the escalators. We will then walkover together to Paradise Pier Hotel to check-in around 9 a.m.

MouseAdventure Holiday: Reindeer Games on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009 is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Cost: Asking $15 per person to help split the registration cost. We will even give you a free, new team T-shirt to wear since it's last minute.

Team Name: The Disney Ninjas. We won first place last time in the non-competitive "MouseAdventure Spring 2009: Day at the Park" event.

If anyone is interested in joining our team, please post something here or send a PM, so we know in advance. Thanks!

Below is our team photo for "The Disney Ninjas" from MouseAdventure Spring 2009: Day at the Park, so you can see our T-shirt design, for anyone who wants to know how it looks like:



LINK to MousePlanet for official event info.

Well, it looks like it was quite the wet day for the RAINdeer :D Games. At least it wasn't 102°F like most MouseAdventures! ;)

It POURED most of the day. But it was really fun to see how the "dark side" works. Thanks again Andrew for letting me help out.

We had some fun, as we always do, but honestly, if it rains that badly again on MA day, we're staying home.

When it comes time for post-event discussion, we definitely have some comments on what we liked and what we didn't.

Although what I liked the most is that the miserable conditions got me off the competitive wagon. When I was drenched, it was getting dark, and we were on main street only half-way through the word search, it was awfully nice to say: you know what? We might have an hour left, but I think I'm ready to turn stuff in now.

We ended up canceling and didn't drive down to join our group for the game. Not terrible conditions for enjoying DL but not worth trugging thru for MA.

Not speaking for the current runners of the game, but from past experience in that role.

Unfortunately there are so many sunk costs with MouseAdventure that any kind of postponement really isn't possible. I always took great pains to emphasize it would be rain or shine (and minor earthquake and god smiting) but am very glad I never really had to deal with more than a heavy sprinkle.

(Though one time we were very close to having to eat the cost of food and rental at Big Thunder Ranch.)

What she said.

I think there were only 5 or 6 teams that didn't show up.

If you want feedback on that, you're better off posting it at MousePad.

Many of the staff also noted that most people were in pretty good moods, likely due to the competitive edge that can sometimes turn ugly, which wasn't there due to rain.

Big thanks to katiesue and BarTopDancer for showing up to help us out, and for the teams who stuck it out and showed up despite the rain.

See? We don't show up and the sky comes falling down.

The recap article is up today, with scores, photos and quest breakdowns. Prudence and anyone else here who played, please let me know what you thought worked or didn't work. This was the first time I was in the position of operations lead (or whatever) as opposed to AVP and with the time crunch and weather there were issues, but we think it went pretty smoothly.