Godfather Pack holds court with Winton Lemoine and Alan Arvold. His Monday heat drove attendance for the event to a new record.	Jason Wagner, Mike Stanley, and Ernie Chambers plot moves as the clock ticks under the ever present threat of squirtgun violence.

They came, they saw, they squirted, ... and they got wet and had the time of their lives as the Gangsters faithful flocked to the banner of returning GM John Pack who missed WBC for the first time in 14 years in 2009. The streets of Chicago ran clear with water this year. Was it because the Gangsters were kinder or gentler or because the Commish ordered a flushing of the water mains? Not at all - but rather because we used our arsenals to full potential. Packing heat? No - packing wet!

It started off with each participant receiving an unlimited, no-expiration-date "License to Squirt" and a loaded squirt gun as they arrived in the windy city. Then came target practice and a refresher course in the hit man's code. It didn't take long before squirt gun fire echoed between gin joints and through the halls of the Host. As gangs put hits on each other and the cops joined in the fray, the water dripped from the opposition like blood on St. Valentine's Day. The Lancaster Online reported, "A group playing 1920s gangsters stalked the hallways with water-pistols to soak unsuspecting competitors."

Mobsters were informed by fedora-wearing officials that they had the opportunity to become bouncers, thugs, muscle, hit men, or hit men assassins if they took their newly won licenses and weaponry into other events and found creative ways to apply them there. For each such event, a Tommy Gun sticker would adorn their badge, license, or fedora like an Iron Cross on a P-51 Mustang. For those who reached the Hit Man level (7-9 events), the Silver Tommy Gun award was their prize - an emblem that would strike fear into opponents everywhere (or at least cause them to reach for a towel).

Who are these Hit Men? Their names echo on the pages of history like the Chicago typewriters they wield: Godfather Bugs, Scarface, Buttercup, Da Kid, Tasslehoff, Da Djinn, and Jezebel. Two went further and qualified for recognition as a Hit Man Assassin: Strings and The Viper.

Where was carnage reported? All over the Caribbean Sea (Pirate's Cove), in the hallways of the Kremlin, at castle exhibits (Adel Verpflichtet), in drive-by shootings (Formula Motor Racing), on the Lexington Green (1776 and We the People), during a refreshing pause on the slopes of Mt. Doom (War of the Ring), on sinking aircraft carriers (Victory in the Pacific), at the registration desk, in the Ardennes forest (Tigers in the Mist), during analysis paralysis (Medici), in B-Movies (Monsters Ravage America), during Assyria's golden age (History of the World), while singing "She'll be comin' round the mountain" (Empire Builder), in the reactor core (Star Wars: Queen's Gambit), on the slave plantations (Puerto Rico), and many more.

The hit men will be back this year and gunning for more. Innocent Bystanders (if there is such a thing) beware!

For more details about what transpired this summer check out John's annual report at http://www.gameaholics.com/gsr_wbc/gsr_10_yearbook.htm

Corrado, Greenwood and Bolduc check out the laughs in Stitches nightclub before making another gin run.	Katie Elliott and "Ma" Collinson represent da dames at Table 2 which reportedly vamped the entire table.

A blowup of the board is just one of many extras provided by GM Pack.	The finalists meet in da garage to hash out who will be the last man standing.