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BIIIIIIIG circle on next year's calendar. This will be truly massive :D

We need a wasteland whore stand for the show n shine...and maybe some t-shirts reflecting our status as such...

This just in, it will be hilarious meeting people like boz and acting super nice/polite etc.

That is the point right there, SAU Vic as a majority have missed out on 3 very good national events of the same vein now. (that are only gettin better).

The motervation that SAU puts behind these sort of events could have made things bigger and better.

It just seems silly to my for another almost identical event, but ran by different people.

I'm pretty sure SAU:SA had a blast a couple of months ago in SA.

Don't get me wrong I will more than likely attend this event. There is probably no need to point this out, the event will almost certinly bring out different groups within the skyline universe, it just seems a waste that he SAU community could have gotten on board something of the exact same flavor 6 years ago.

SAU SA made the last nationals the fantastic event it was. They were amazing. Thats what happens when clubs work together. Never could understnad why SAU Vic never got behind the last three events, when they had the opportunity to be as involved in the event as the organising clubs. (NDSOC for the first one and CSA for the other two). It's disappointing for me, as a club president, to see the level of reply to this event, when the lst three have been highly publicised in here, and have been huge without the attendance of many SAU VIC members. If the Committee of SAU Vic had of got behind the other nationals events like they have with this one, it would have been even better and bigger.

CSA Would love to support SAU with this one too, and if there is anything we can do to help, just yell. Please also feel free to advertise it on the CSA Forum, and if you email [email protected] with info you would like on our website, we would be happy to put it in there as well.

OH I hope i am still here for this one. i missed the SA one, due to living here :( so i may have to stop studying for a while (currently at Cerberus lol) so that i aint on a boat for this one.

am definitaley keen to make this my last event for a while

Cheers Bengi

BIIIIIIIG circle on next year's calendar. This will be truly massive :D

We need a wasteland whore stand for the show n shine...and maybe some t-shirts reflecting our status as such...

This just in, it will be hilarious meeting people like boz and acting super nice/polite etc.

i lol'd

BIIIIIIIG circle on next year's calendar. This will be truly massive :D

We need a wasteland whore stand for the show n shine...and maybe some t-shirts reflecting our status as such...

This just in, it will be hilarious meeting people like boz and acting super nice/polite etc.

i'd go incognito and send my bbw off with a mate for teh lulz

BIIIIIIIG circle on next year's calendar. This will be truly massive :D

We need a wasteland whore stand for the show n shine...and maybe some t-shirts reflecting our status as such...

This just in, it will be hilarious meeting people like boz and acting super nice/polite etc.

lol when i first met kris. first thing i said was "hey ya kunt" haha

lets hope boz wont bring his bitches :P

Any idea's as to what month next year this will be held in next year? If its after March I may be able to take 2 weeks off work and drive or transport my car down. It would give a good reason to get CRD or Racepace to tune my car too.

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