It was another successful Notacon, everyone that came by the village area seemed to really enjoy what we had set up. We were located directly in front of the main conference rooms, fortunately we had plenty of space to accomodate the crowds of people streaming in and out. We had the Ark of the Covenant crypto challenge this year along with a large amount of lock picking displays for people to work on. We also demoed the lock picking self-tutorial video kiosk which seemed to get quite a bit of use on Saturday. Deviant from TOOOL ran the Gringo Warrior Challenge again this year which is an awesome game to play. If you ever get the chance to try it out it is highly recommended!

I would also like to address a small issue which came up quite often this weekend. While our name is similar to another group known as TOOOL, we are not members of TOOOL. We are all good friends with TOOOL members and attend a lot of the same conferences they do. We are also not a splinter group from them, we started FOOLS to have our own identity in the lock sport community before we had contact with any other groups. If you enjoyed the lock picking village at Notacon just know that the FOOLS were responsible for this event (with the obvoius exception of Gringo Warrior). We look forward to working with TOOOL and other groups in the future to put on awesome events at other conferences.