Yesterday

Yesterday we attended the FoCo Comics & Gaming Festival here at CSU. There were lots of comic artists, vendors and people in costumes. Asher particularly liked this guy dressed as War Machine:

Asher also demo'd some new-to-us games, like HeroClix:

The staff from Gryphon Comics was very helpful in showing us how these games worked and explaining others.

The other two boys were busy this whole time with a Wii U Smash Bros tournament being held there. Game play began officially at 12:30, and there were 23 entrants. We left just before 4:00. This was the first round:

(They couldn't all play at once at the start, as they only had four stations set up.)

You can see Micah in the orange down the row a bit and Noah (in black) beyond him. Fortunately, they didn't get matched up against each other. (I only saw two other kids beyond Noah and Micah who weren't college aged, fyi.)

Each match up was to the best of three and then it was double elimination. Both boys won their first match ups. Noah went on for another two rounds but unfortunately lost both of those and was thus eliminated. (To be fair, one of his losses was to the player who went on to win the tournament.) 

Micah played another six rounds, beating five college aged (or older) guys and earning their admiration aplenty. One guy honestly was so stoked that he managed to win one of the three in their match up (though he still lost the match up)...he was bragging to the tournament organizers, lol. (I'll interrupt myself here to say that I'm quite thankful that the other players were very gracious and exercised lovely sportsmanship.)

The two guys who beat Micah and put him out of the tournament went on to be in the top four. Micah took fifth. Yeah, he was pretty happy and the organizers were quite impressed. :)

After that, we headed to Old Town to do a wee bit of shopping and grab some early dinner and ice cream before heading home. Whew.