Well, holy crap. CSS was one sick event. Most everything ran pretty smoothly, and I'm pretty sure everyone had a good time (and if they didn't, I haven't heard about it yet. Now, as for the results....

These are brief, top 3-4 results... I will post full results when I have time to compile them...

Open Shred 30 1st - David Clavens (208) 2nd - Lon Smith (197) 3rd - Scott Davidson (150.4) 4th - Ken Somolinos (149.9) Open Sick 3
1st - Lon Smith (marius>mobius>mobius)
2nd - Evan Gatesman (blurrage>fairy whirl>ps whirl rake)
3rd - Justin Dale (ripped warrior>blurry whirl>spinning paradox whirl)

Intermediate Shred 30
1st - Nelson Monhollon
2nd - Dylan Johnson
3rd - Sunny Freeman Genz
4th - Chris Balch

Intermediate Sick 3 (I don't have the exact combos on me at the moment)
1st - Nelson Monhollon
2nd - Dylan Johnson
3rd - Chris Balch

Rippin' Run
1st - David Clavens
2nd - Justin Dale

Last Man Standing
Lon Smith

4-Square Championships
Steve Goldberg

Mad props to David Clavens for being the 3rd person ever to win a CSS (all of the other have been either Lon Smith or Ryan Mulroney). Huge thanks to Sam's No. 3 for hooking us up with tons of coupons and dee-licious food, and Breckenridge Brewery for hosting our Friday night players/registration party. We had some great ammenities for absolutely no cost. The Embassy Suites Hotel were AWESOME; everybody loved them. The rooms were great, the hotel was super nice, we had a sweet shred space and a great hot tub. Amazing. Also, Ready, Willing & Able screen printing experts, for being super nice, and doing an amazing job on the t-shirts at such a short notice.
Also, mega thanks to the following members of the footbag community....
My dad, Joel Barnes, for being super supportive, and fronting me the money for the t-shirts and letting me pay him back.
BRAD KAPLAN, for paying for the venue in its entirety, and not even asking to be paid back. Also for driving everyone everywhere.
Mike Hansen, for helping set up registration, hosting the website, letting me stay in his room, and just being an all-around generous dude.
Steve Goldberg for providing the resource that is footbag.org, and coming and hanging out and stuff.
Julie Symons and the IFPA for providing sanctioning and sponsorship opportunities.
Jim Penske, Chad Devlahovich, and Mike Hansen for helping to judge and score shred 30's.
Marco Hartig, Pengpeng Du, Richard Abshire, and James Hermey for donating their bags for prizes.
Everybody who came! Mad props.
More Later.

Tentative Schedule for CSS7 Friday
-6pm - 1am --Players Party @ Breckenridge Brewery. Yes, it is all ages.
Saturday -11am --Begin event official. Start showing up at St. Cajetans. The weather is expected to be warm enough for outdoor shred.
-1pm --Start competition promptly. Competition will happen in this order:
-Last Man Standing --Intermediate -- kickless --Open -- tiltless
-Shred :30 --Intermediate --Open
-Sick 3 --Intermediate --Open
Most Rippin' Run --Intermediate --Open
Wrap up competiton around 6-7pm.
-8pm --Awards Ceremony
Rest of the night --> Do whatever you want. Shred at the venue until 11pm, hang out at the hotel, go bar hopping, whatever you want.
Sunday
11am --Doors open @ St. Cajetan's
2pm --Unofficial 4 Square Championships ---$5 buy-in, winner takes all
Casual shred all day.
Doors close at 11pm.
See everyone there!

Registration, as well as the official CSS7 site, can be found at http://css7.phasing.org!
The deadline for preregistration is Wednesday, the 22nd of February. Any later than that, and you will have to pay an additional $5 late fee. If you are going to be paying by mail, the envelope needs to be postmarked by Saturday, the 18th, or else I might not get in on time. If you are registering later than this Saturdy the 18th, and cannot pay via PayPal, you can just pay at the door, sans late fee.
If you have any further questions, email footskb@gmail.com

Hotel: Okay, OFFICIAL hotel info!!!

Embassy Suites Hotel Denver Downtown
The block is all set. I have 10 doubles per night set aside on February 23-24-25-26th at the rate of $109, plus tax, per night for one or two adults (additional adults are $15 each).

ALL RESERVATIONS NEED TO BE MADE BY FEBRUARY 6TH
to be assured of receiving the discounted rate. Call (303)297-8888, ask for in-house reservations, and the Colorado Shred Symposium room block.

Now go forth and reserve!!

The hotel address is 1881 Curtis St. Denver, CO 80202


Transportation from Airport: http://www.rtd-denver.com/skyRide/index.html RTD has a system of "skyRide" buses that run from the airport to various locations in the area.

The cost is $8 each way, or $14 roundtrip, or $6 each way for students (limited to elementary, middle and highschool students--age 6-19).

Of the several routes you will want to take the AF, which will take you downtown to Market Street Station. Once there you can hop on the "Free MallRide," which runs up and down the 16th St. Mall, take it 4 blocks and get off on Curtis. Once on Curtis, just walk 3 blocks north to the hotel--1881 Curtis St.


Registration isn't totally official yet.


Confirmed Attendee List:
Ken Somolinos
Peter Irish
Chad Devlahovich
Lon Smith
Scott Davidson
Jim Penske
David Clavens
Evan Gatesman
Evan Lovely
Kevin Crowley
Jere BS
Riley Stark
Michaela Delight
Ty Grogan
Shawn Boyle
Brad Kaplan
Chris H.
Stephen Barnes
Red Husted
Ashley Danowski
Sam Colclough
Emily Kulczyk
Sam Mayer
Luis J. Monhollon
Nelson Monhollon
Mike Hansen
Daryl Genz
Sunny Freeman/Genz (+ Dylan and Cameron)
Tom Kotsakos
Kamil Szpara
Tim Werner
Eric Reile
Zach Jahner
Chris Miles Balch
Kevin Regamey

Possibly Attending:
Chris Pinkus
Joe Kulacz
Tommy Gartland
Kyle Hewitt