Engadget @ CES - Leaving Las Vegas

We got the penthouse suite, no one could stop us. We came, we saw (the inside of hotel and press rooms, anyway), we conquered the 2005 CES. Now we're headed back to our respective Engadget offices (New York, San Francisco, Seattle, L.A., etc.) a whole lot wiser, and great deal more sleep-deprived, and slightly more drunk. But just because CES is over doesn't mean we've finished! We'll continue to have more posts until we've covered every corner of the Las Vegas Convention Center—remember, every day can be CES if you just believe it in your heart. But for now, some vital LV Team Engadget stats:

Number of posts: 229 (and counting)
Number of lost gadgets: 4
Number of laptops broken: 1
Number of colds caught: 2
Number of WiFi networks traversed: 12
Average hours slept nightly: 4.73
Number of HD tapes used: 7
Energy bars consumed: 34
Number of casinos visited: 6
Amount of money lost gambling: $34.50

It looked something like this after about 13 minutes. The Hotel War Room.


You may recognize this photograph?


Eric took it off a sweet jump, dude.


Cat loves her some PSP. And no wonder: 2004 Engadget Award for best gaming console!


Pete thinks pink.


The Press Room War Room. You get ID%uFFFDd when you try to sit down.


The paparazzi snapped us this shot of PhoneScoop Rich and Eric in a limo with Kyocera. No photo, no photo!


Covering the Gates keynote live over EV-DO. And falling asleep.


Well look who we found outside. We didn%uFFFDt wait around long enough to see if we%uFFFDd be granted a second interview.


Ahh, home sweet home. We swear, that%uFFFDs the real the Statue of Liberty standing right next to the ESB.

The cast:
Our fearless leader
Peter Rojas
Chairman of the Board
Jason Calacanis
#1
Ryan Block
Muscles
Eric Lin
Details
Dan Wu
Fancy Stuff
Jill Fehrenbacher
Cash Money
Shawn Gold
Hostess with the Mostest
Cat Schwartz

[eminem213486 @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

good thing you didnt waste more money in Las Vegas. im really impressed with all the CES coverage. this weekend was spent hitting the refresh button ever hour to see what was new. thanks...

[anthony @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

Oh what I wouldn't give to be part of the Engadget crew. Detroit division? ehh??

[Akshay Dodeja @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

I love you guys. i was glued on to engadget and sister blogs for the last couple of days. Awesome coverage, better then cnet for sure. You guys are fcuking lucky.

[brad @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

Incredible coverage of CES. much better than some other sites I don't need to name, hmmmgizmodohmmm. Thanks for everything

[Slaven @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

Congrats, you guys did superbly! I had to cancel my trip to CES but now I feel I saw more stuff staying put! :)

[World Tech Guy @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

Your site was THE place to follow CES. Too bad I didn't discover you last year. Spectacular job on the coverage! And what a coup hiring Cat Schwartz. MEOW!

[Mike @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

Kudos!

(and thanks for making us live the CES experience vicariously thru Engadget)

[jon @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

Bravo and thanks. Home just in time to cover MacWorld now? ;]

[wol @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

thanks for the CES coverage engadget!
erm, am curious, what gadgets did you lose over there???

[Joe Clay @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

Wish I would've actually gone with all of my friends that went :(

[wung @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

great coverage!

[Lisa Williams @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

Great job, guys & gal!

[Wil @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

Awesome CES coverage!! You guys had much better (and timely) coverage than ALL the traditional online outlets. Great work on keeping yourselves the blog equivalent of crack.

[craig @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

engadget has offices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, L.A., etc.? i didn't think this was such a large operation.

[Jeff @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

I very much enjoyed the coverage :)

I was also surprised that this was such a large-scale operation. Good work on CES!

[Guttrhead @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

Great coverage guys. I'm gessing that "Number of colds caught: 2" really means either number of STD's caught from sleeping with a dirty, dirty hooker, or number of annulments requested after that night of Jager bombs.

[Gene @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

Excellent job with the CES coverage.
Like everyone else I was refreshing my browser every 30 minutes or so to see what was new.

I hope you'll be going to Macworld and covering it as well.
Many thanks.

[Dennis @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

Funny Guttrhead... love that response!!!

Engadget rules, thanks for the great work! Chicago division?

[Alan @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

Thanks for the great coverage guys. Can't wait for that new jabra headset..and to be able to afford that huge plasma! How did you fall alseep during the Bill Gates keynote?? I mean, sure, there were some boring parts, but conan was there!
Wish I coulda been there, but my allegence lies with another confrence. So if your there, I'll see you guys at E3! :)

[Stephen @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

Good job and great coverage!! esp. enjoyed the videos! looking forward to podcasting in video one of these days.