The first big event for Thursday was the beginning of the 512-player tournament.  From our little group, we had {KYA}LABTYD, {KYA}Mega, {KYA}The Curse, Gabriel{AoA}, Michael{AoA}, [T2K]T, -=DA=-Viper, and Mitzkrieg[DUH] signed up.  

The way the first part of the tourney works is you play in 8-player free-for-all games, and the top 4 scores stay, and the bottom 4 are eliminated.

Out of our group, the following made it to the next round: Mega, Curse, Michael, T, Viper, and Mitz.

After all that fraggin, it was time for some food.  Mega and Michael were dying for Gabe to try some Texas-Style chicken fried steak, so we took em to Trail Dust (about as Texan of a restaurant as you can get).  Well, it turned out to be a little too Texan for ANY of our tastes.  The live country music was too loud, and also we had some unfortunate luck on the food (they ran out of gravy, corn, and brought our side dishes out waaaay too late).  We did get quite a few laughs out of the hicks they had two-steppin, sliding down their big wooden slide, and even doing the chicken dance... (puke)... LOL

	The tournament area... A slew of 1000MHz Athlons with GeForce 2 video cards... Woooooot!		{KYA}Mega schooling his opponents.
	The smile of victory... Mega makes the first cut!		{KYA}Mega and [T2K]T emerge triumphant after qualifying for the 2nd round. It was kind of stressful because both Mega and T were in the same round, but both managed to come out in the top 4.
	Mitzkreig[DUH] prepares to spank the competition.		Gabriel{AoA} puttin his game face on.
	{KYA}LABTYD ready for action.		Michael{AoA} whoops up on the competition.
	Mitzkreig[DUH], {C4}Quinton, and [DLP]Sharaz Jek (aka Tom Green)		Dinner at Trail Dust... Starting left clockwise: Gabriel{AoA}, {KYA}Mega, Michael{AoA}, Mitzkrieg[DUH], and Trinity{AoA}. It seemed that Gabe REALLY enjoyed his very first chicken fried steak. :)