Ok, first I have some news which I'll get out of the way. There's a very big chance that this may be my last Avalon. Now I know what some of you may be thinking - "Oh, he's only done 4 events and now he's sodding off," but rest assured, it isn't like that at all. The end of this month sees a change in my life - I'll be a lot busier than I used to be, which means less PS3 time, and more sadly, less WipEout time.

I have spoken to Kanar about everything, and he was really great and understood completely. Of course, I don't want Avalon to die, and will do my best to help out in any future events. However, I feel that this is such a strong community that the event as well as our love for the game will never truly die - it's been 2 years and HD is still going strong, especially now with the Avalon Cup.

I hope I did ok with the whole events. I'd like to thank Kanar for asking me to take over, it was a lovely surprise reading your PM that day. I'd also like to thank MrSmadSmartAlex, Kaori and TropicMoon10 for all their hard work hosting the Pulse and Pure sessions - it couldn't have been done without you guys. Finally, last but not least, I'd like to extend my gratitude to every single person who was at the event, however long or short. It was really great to see the community together and there were some good times in the Chat Room - we also got a fantastic collection of videos for the Avalon library and Woopzilla especially did an amazing job in this department.

I'll wrap this up now, as nobody likes to read a wall of text. Let's get on with the event!