Apologies for the month long delay in updating the reports section. Work and Summer holiday commitments overtook the updating, but finally its here.

Andrew Oliver gave and introductory speech to say hello and let everyone know he has taken over the roll of Chapter Leader from Fred Gill. Swiftly followed by a wonderfully talk rom Mark James of Sony about Sony's commitments to Europe and a sneak peek of the PSP and what was to come with PS NEXT. Although it was a somewhat fact filled presentation, it gave a great insight to what Sony has done in the past and what it was going to do in the future. Wonderful stuff!, and a great big thanks to Mark James and Sony.

After the presentation by Mark it was time to hit the Nvidia sponsored bar and shmooze. We placed a 50p levy on all the drinks at the bar which raised an extra £102, this enabled us to pay for the venue which i think everyone didn't mind.
There was certainly lots of catching up to do with many new faces and lots of old ones attending although it soon became unbearably hot in the function room so many people went for a cool down in the gardens outside. We will try and arrange for a larger function room next time.

At about 10.30 the raffle was drawn by Mark James , tickets were sold at the door and throughout the evening raising a whopping £41. Prizes were kindly donated by Criterion and Mark brought a few goodies from Sony to add to the prize fund.

All in all it was a great evening which eventually closed at around 11.30 a few members stayed on after catching up and finishing off the remnants of the buffet that was kindly provided by Blitz Games.

THANKYOU!!

A big thank you to Emma Morle for making sure everything ran smoothly prior to and throughout the evening. Thanks to Mark James for his great talk, and Andrew Oliver for getting it all going again. Thanks to Criterion for the raffle prizes and Nividia for the generous sponsorship of the bar. And for EVERYONE who turned up to make the IGDA Midlands Chapter July 15th Meet the success it was.

We hope you all had a wonderful time and look forward to seeing you all for the next meet.