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Day One - i35 - Setup.

We arrived on site bright and early on Thursday morning to begin setting up.

After building two walls with embedded screens, 6 PlayStation® 3s and 6 Xbox360™s as well as a central desk containing 8 PCs and two large plasma screens on a central column we took a break for lunch.

After lunch we tested and installed software and blasted out some Rock Band tunes over the PA system and tried to find places for the four huge beanbags we bought...

Sunday was hectic on the EA Stand.

We had challengers taking on Apollo in a 4 way FFA match on Command & Conquer™ Red Alert™ 3, several players, including the UK WCG FIFA 08 Champion Chrissy B take on Baker011 and Omni at FIFA 09, Dead Space and Mirror's Edge Demo's and the EA Staff on Rock Band.

PLAY Apollo @ RA3..

6 people had the chance to take on the UK WCG Command & Conquer 3 Champion in two 4way FFA games, apollo was lightening quick and couldn't...

Today has been jam packed with action at M Fest, we have seen Apollo, Chrissy B and Stune win thier WCG matches to go through to represent the UK in the world finals, covered the exhibition hall with smiley face grenades and shown a live demo of Mirror's Edge™ to a packed audience.

First off Mirror's Edge.. We demo'd the two levels people have seen in the trailers on the video wall, there were gasps and laughs and a standing ovation (although to be fair, not many people were sitting...

At 6pm we moved over to the main stage full the official M Festival Launch event. The four top bands from our Rockband™ qualifiers came up on stage to perform two tracks infront of the panel of judges.

The Judges were Craig Fletcher from Multiplay, Gemma Atkinson and our very own Baker011.

While we were waiting for the event to start one clan who were sitting in the row behind me attempted to start a mexican wave with varied success, shouts of "FAIL" were heard...