(But talk to your family or whoever you share your residence with. You need them onside, prepared to put up with deliveries, piles of books EVERYWHERE and your nose in said books when they might be expecting conversation or dinner...)
This is a very important point. I lucked out in that my girlfriend is also a gamer, but my roommate got a little fed up with gaming books cluttering the coffee table, the office, the dining room table... But the supportive voices drowned out his grumbling pretty quick.
I still need to buy another bookshelf.
For any of you that are interested it has been a good time. The staff and other judges have both been awesome and the quality of submissions has been top-notch. This was the first year that I threw my hat in and I'm definitely going for it again next year. I encourage ANYONE that is interested to take a look. You will read through tens of thousands of pages of text and you're going to listen to days worth of podcasts, but if you see that as a bonus rather than a drawback then step right up!

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