You boys realize this conversation about training, practicing, etc leading up to an event would make a pretty good thread, right?
2 pages of talking about it here, why not make a thread and get, you know, the forum involved?
Beags asks...Beags receives.
http://www.thehackersparadise.com/forum/showthread.php?79689-THP-Event-Prep-Do-you-do-it