As you can see, it played out exactly as I predicted. At Camp Hyrule, if you're not a strong performer right out of the gate, you might as well stop trying.

Also note that the prizes are all virtual again - which just makes my Stumpy tee from last year all the more special. Once word got out about Nintendo giving out winners' t-shirts last year, there was plenty of sour grapes about the e-garbage from this year.

You know, overall, this was a pretty lousy year. The games they spotlighted were far from major releases, and, as far as I saw, they did almost nothing Wii-related. (Wii-lated?) How about some exclusive gameplay footage? Most people still haven't seen even a third as much as what was publicly displayed at E3, so why not throw up some videos of Wii games in action? They didn't even mention Super Mario Galaxy, and that was ostensibly the inspiration for the whole outer space theming. Seems like a missed opportunity.

Even the patented end-of-camp disaster was weak. A wormhole appeared and turned camp into the 1998 Camp Hyrule layout. Previous years have featured extreme devastation, like avalanches, forest fires and the Majora's Mask moon crashing earthward... so this was lame.

I missed the closing ceremonies, although I hear they were delayed two hours due to technical difficulties.

And finally, the last installent of Sad Cabin Chats. Note that there are no user icons showing up this time; that's because I grabbed these screenshots on a Windows XP machine and Windows sucks.

from the I'm-Beginning-To-Think-Kids-Today-Have-Too-Much-Internet-Freedom department:

from the I-Don't-Think-That-Word-Means-What-You-Think-It-Means department:

from the Too-Late department:

from the This-Is-No-Time-To-Be-Pedantic department:

from the NOT-ANY-MORE department:

from the My-Sister-Is-Ruining-My-Life department: