Gear and loathing in Las Vegas - Engadget has left the building

Hard to believe, but the 150,000 some-odd people that flooded into Vegas for CES have all gone home -- including your Engadget editors. Sure, it wasn't the most exciting CES in recent memory, but it wasn't without merit, either. Why, just think of the eight thousand HDTVs announced, blockbuster format war news, or iriver's unexpectedly show-stealing lineup. One thing's certainly for sure: you demanded we give wall-to-wall coverage of CES, and we'd like to hope we did you right. See you at CES 2009 -- and every day in between!

Gear and loathing in Las Vegas - Engadget has left the building

Vital stats
Number of posts to Engadget Classic: 737 and counting...
Number of posts to all Engadgets (including crossposts): 1033
Videos shot: 70
Laptops damaged or destroyed: 2
iPhones destroyed: 1
Miles traversed by the Dante Express: 246
Number of people who got sick: 4
Average hours slept nightly: 5
Average number of laptops per person: 1.1
Average number of cellphones per person: 1.1
Number of Quake 3 tourneys: 3 (winner: Dante)
Individuals enjoying In N Out for the first time: 1
Pounds of swag thrown away: under 20
Number of phones purchased from International Gateway: 1,000 (order pending)

Team Engadget
Ryan Block, Evan Blass, Thomas "Oh, daddy" Ricker, Joshua "Businessman" Topolsky, Paul "Tapless" Miller, Nilay Patel, Chris "Ziggie Smalls" Ziegler, Darren Murph, Sean "Sarnie" Cooper, Ben Drawbaugh, Richard Lawler, Steve Kim, Erik Hanson, Barb Dybwad, Chris Grant, Trent Wolbe, Dante "Express" Cesa, Jose Andrade, Ittousai, Andy Yang, Atticus Wu, and, of course, Peter Rojas!

The hostess with the mostest
Veronica Belmont

Mahalo Daily film crew
Tyler Crowley, Michael Gallagher, John Porter, Conrad QH

Cash money
Thomas Hammer

Support
Team Keep-The-Servers-Up (Gavin, Alex, Celly, Christoph, Charlie), Team Design (Matt, Erik, Mike), and Team Keeps-Us-Employed (Jen, Marty)

Check out our leaving Las Vegas posts from 2005, 2006, and 2007.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 12th 2008 12:51PM]

super job guys thx

[OriginalPrime Posted Jan 12th 2008 12:55PM]

I'd just like to offer a hearty "THANK YOU!" to all of Engadget's employees. What a way to start off the new year!

I'd agree that this wasn't the most exciting CES ever, but your coverage was far from lacking. Engadget's was the best coverage out there, in my opinion.

Here's to 2008! Thanks, Engadget.

[Mort Posted Jan 12th 2008 1:10PM]

great job on the whole guys, it was hard as hell keeping up with all the posts. however, i just strolled through the gallery, and seriously, you guy need a camera with some image stabilization or something....

[kastonie Posted Jan 12th 2008 1:10PM]

OMG VERONICA BELMONT BLA BLA BLA

[BeniRose Posted Jan 12th 2008 1:26PM]

At first I thought you all looked like a bunch of hipsters, but now looking at the photo again, I can see your true geek shining through! Rock on!

[shawnmos Posted Jan 12th 2008 1:14PM]

Veronica Belmont =

[shawnmos Posted Jan 12th 2008 1:14PM]

that was supposed to be a heart. it got edited out!

[crow610 Posted Jan 12th 2008 3:02PM]

You guys are awsome! I want to marry you all!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 12th 2008 4:09PM]

Thanks for the great coverage!

[jalapeno Posted Jan 12th 2008 4:30PM]

Nice job guys, as usual your coverage was excellent, keep up the great work!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 12th 2008 5:50PM]

goodbye veronica!! I LOVE YOU! Hope to see more of you on engadget sometime soon!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 12th 2008 5:52PM]

Hey, check me out, I'm a super lame troll with a publicly published email address that would surely never be spammed... right? [e-mail]

[wesg Posted Jan 12th 2008 7:00PM]

Any chance to get a "from left to right" name tag?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 12th 2008 7:45PM]

Congrats to all the team for another great year of covering CES!!!

Now get some (more?) sleep!

[rr0123 Posted Jan 12th 2008 9:06PM]

Was there any behind-the-scenes footage taken? Are you guys just sending stuff in on the spot, or do you have to go back to a home base to format and upload things? I found interesting the story on CNET of the different press facilities given to the blogs vs. others. The irony is that no one is really following with the "others" are writing, because it's all pretty much done through the blog sites in greater detail and more quickly.

Anyway, great job. The sheer amount of info uploaded to the site over those few days was amazing.

[Julio Posted Jan 12th 2008 9:02PM]

Great job guys!


I'd certainly like to hear what happened to those laptops and iPhone.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 12th 2008 9:05PM]

Excellent coverage of CES everyone, I had to up my checking of Engadget from 6 times daily to 26 times daily, fantastic!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 13th 2008 8:11AM]

Great coverage Engadget, good job!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 13th 2008 12:23AM]

Is that Ryan Block's hand on VB's shoulder? Haha. He's all like. "Yeah, that's ma' woman".

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 13th 2008 11:44AM]

More pictures of the Engadget crew (annotated) please. Thanks for their round-the-clock coverage.

[Generic Posted Jan 13th 2008 1:45PM]

Peter's gallery picture 24/24 is funny

[mergedwarrior Posted Jan 13th 2008 2:13PM]

Fear and Loathing kicks ass!
(So do you guys)

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 13th 2008 10:54PM]

Yeah the "MY PROPERTY" indicating hand is as low as i expected.

As i presumed it was just a MAMMON "show off"...in every single way.
Buh !

[muyi Posted Jan 14th 2008 1:24AM]

Thanks for the coverage guys...really you guys rules

p.s I wonder how much was WON gambling :)...cmon guys complete the all round coverage..
ENGADGET FTW!!

[OneLove Posted Jan 14th 2008 9:33PM]

Ryan get yo hands off my woman!

[bigloutechtherealone Posted Jan 15th 2008 3:01PM]

Veronica B rocks

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 16th 2008 1:39PM]

Thanks for not sucking like Gizmodo.