On Saturday I ran a tournament for the Battletech wargame at a local charity event. We drew in 18 players, which is honestly about 12 more than I expected.

It was a long day, lots of rules questions and organizing and herding of metaphorical cats. Sadly, no real cats… that would’ve been amazing, but twas not to be.

But such events are supposed to be fun. And running such events decidedly isn’t fun… I mean, it’s fine, it wasn’t the worst way to spend a day, but I had really hoped to get a bunch of writing done while at the tournament, and unfortunately I was just too busy. I didn’t get anything done.

Well, almost anything. I did a few edits to a short story. But that was it.

Still surprising to me how exhausting it was. And this was a low-stress, friendly tournament with nothing really on the line besides glory and pride (valuable things, certainly, but of no material worth one might argue).

Anyway, it’s going to take me a day or two to recover, get my brain to brain in the correct way again, but apparently everyone had fun. And it gave me fuel for the podcast, so certainly not a waste of my time!

Hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy!