Hello friends, today brings us the video coverage of PAX. Below is the booth crawl. Sorry but I didn't spend much time covering any one game I wanted to make sure you would get a sense as to all the possible things there was to see and do at the convention, at least expo-hall-wise. There were many things that I missed or failed to record. So imagine that all of this video represents only 25% of what was at the show.

PAX 2009 Booth Crawl from Noe V. on Vimeo.

At a convention you have to pick and choose what you want to see, that is if you are only there for one day. On three days you have the luxury to see all of the titles, videogame and tabletop, as well as get some free play time in for the older consoles and tabletop titles. Not to mention all the panels on the multiple floors of the convention center and the concerts at night. When you are done being a conventioneer there are plenty of good places to eat around the center as well as other things to do. Below is the slideshow of my trip to Seattle, there are the sights of PAX and Seatle in general, some cameos of 1UP peeps, friends and Capcom employees. Good times were had by all, even when some of them were working!

Saturday was probably the highlight of the trip for me. I got some breakfast of a subway breakfast sam'mich while waiting for Jinpei to get some crepes, for which I joined him for second breakfast of smoked salmon and lox crepes. A few minutes later I ran into my pal Cesar and his friends Gordon and Jeff who were visiting from Frisco. We decided it was time for lunch and ate some ramen at the local Japanese market. The meal was quite hearty and I wish I had taken pictures of the awesomeness. After stuffing ourselves silly we tried to get back to the convention center. Unfortunately we took a wrong turn and ended up getting on the freeway headed towards the border and Vancouver B.C.

We pulled off at the nearest exit and began backtracking. As we were making turns through the city we saw something really random.

Somebody was advertising a Zombie Carwash. I took a few pics as we passed by. What a gimmick we all thought and kept right on driving. We took another wrong turn and ended up in the shadow of the Space Needle. I passed the camera over to Jeff and he obliged me with this epic photograph.

We finally made it back to PAX to continue our adventure. Since there were four of us we decided to take a crack at the open mic and do our best imitation of Rush...

Afterward the guys were eager to drop in to the Pitch Your Game Idea panel and I decided to make a game out of the Zombie Carwash. The judges were Jeff Kalles, Greg "Porkfry" Hjertagner and Wil Wheaton. When they said the mic was open for submissions everybody jumped in line quickly. You had 45 seconds or so to pitch your idea and make the first round of cuts. Some people only said a few words before being shot down or passed onto the finals. There were some awesome ideas and one guy even brought in a portfolio of illustrations to accompany his game. I believe it was a fighting title based on the Edgar Allen Poe poems.

One guy had an interesting premise where the game was a FPS but the story didn't end when you died, instead it followed the life of whomever was in possession of the gun. The stand-out moment was the guy that pitched a Native American game that worked its way east during the colonization of the USA. He titled it "Oregon Trail of Tears" for which the crowd erupted in applause. The fan-favorite was from a young man that opened with "you begin by growing a thin mustache" and instantly went through to the next round. The person that followed didn't do so well with the judges or audience. You only had a few seconds to sell your idea and think on your toes when they asked you a question or you would get cut down. The judges didn't mess around and wanted to make sure that the budding designers could entertain the audience. I didn't know if I could make the cut with Zombie Carwash but I took a chance and these were the results...

My friends were happy for me and I was besides myself with joy. I thanked the judges and claimed my prizes. The back of the medal reads "We saw you do something worth of this medal." Not really sure what some of these things do but I could use the $100 gift card...

We celebrated afterward by headed down to the Top Pot Doughnuts. Voted the best doughnuts on the West Coast and even in the USA in some polls. They lived up to their title as we soon slipped into a sugar coma from our respective samplings. My plate was the triple stack.

I bought a Top Pot hat and compared wild hairstyles to the cool lady that worked there. Holla back if you're ever in the LA area! Cesar noticed that the milk logo looked eerily familiar. Maybe it was the sugar talking. What do you think?

And that was the highlight of my PAX experience. Hope your weekend was just as awesome!