We saw many new faces and met a lot of wonderful people last night.  But alas, our patented brand of musical skull-duggery was not enough, and so we did not win the competition.  We however did receive many high praises, and found out later that night that by far and wide we received the highest ratings from the three judges (69 of 75 points, the nearest band got only 39 points).  We welcomed that news as a worthy consolation prize.     

A tip of our collective hat to the Chicago Noise Machine for putting on a nearly seamless show, and thank to all the bands and their fans, and our fans, for graciously sticking around till 11PM to catch our show.  Thanks to anyone who saw that show and voted for through the interweb.