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here's my review. already posted it in the fl forum, but hell, why not again? 
alright, here's my review finally!!! sorry it took me so long, but i've been soooo burnt out from the weekend i haven't had a chance to type it up.
got to bayfront at about 11, parked in those parking spots in the middle of biscayne blvd and went over to bayside to get some food and find some tas. no tas were found. ah well. went into ultra at about 1, knowing damn well no one good was spinning for the first half of ultra besides rick west at 1:30 (who never even came on!!) and hybrid at 3:45. so i just sorta scouted everything out and met up with some tas! felipe, arturo, ilina, butterfly, jayd, freddy, matrix, and anyone else i might have forgotten, NICE TO SEE ALL OF YOU OUT THERE!!! 
alright, now onto what i thought about the festival. i REALLY liked the way they setup all the stages, i thought they put each stage in the right place. each one had its own unique atmosphere and it totally rocked. there was good places to dance at each stage (not all on the grass like last year) and the sound system was good for each stage. unless you were in the middle of two stages you never heard any other music, which was a problem last year imo. but...i HATED how they did the time slots. seriously i was really disappointed until 6:30! the ONE good act i wanted to see before 6 was hybrid and i'm sorry, i think they just plain sucked. tooo damn slow for a festival like that.
so now lets move onto who i saw:
icey: only saw about 20 mins of this when it was raining, but i really wish i would have been in the middle of the crowd, cuz they were going nuts and icey was playing a nice ass set from what i heard. really wish i woulda seen more.
hybrid: i stayed for the whole set, but damn i was really hoping it would get better at some point. it was so damn slow. i just sat down against the fence and actually fell asleep for about 10 mins. i was REALLY disappointed with hybrid. 
then i just sorta walked around till 6 when oaky came on.
oakenfold: i didn't even really want to see him, but to be honest, there was nothing better. but i have to give it up to him. he played a pretty damn good set. i was rocking out to oakenfold all the way to the left on the mainstage on the little grass area. was a chill ass spot.
tiesto: only heard about 20 mins of tiesto, he's really not too much to me these days. so i left to go see ritm
rabbit in the moon: now this really pissed me off. it took them like 15 mins to setup and then a fucking 10 minute boring ass intro. and then after two shitty ass songs i just left and went back to the mainstage to see underworld.
underworld: OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG x 10^54141251781515154  . SOOO AMAZING!!! the only thing that pissed me off is the crowd didn't really get into it. but i guess thats cuz they don't really know the signficance of underworld. anyway i was chillin out to underworld and got up and danced and went nuts like every song! they had me going. also met a HOT ASS girl from ohio during underworld, so we were talking the entire time and then we partied hard to pvd!
paul van dyk: the man i had been waiting for all day. yeah granted i saw him the night before for 6 hours, but i still wanted to see what he would drop for ultra. imo the best set from ultra yet again goes to pvd. he had EVERYONE going sooooo insane, and when he dropped clocks i DIED!!!! lets get ill also made the crowd go INSANE! and i was iding all the tracks for that hot ass girl. hehehe. its good to be a ta, knowledge helps impress people! i won't tell you exactly what happened, but i'll just say thats one pvd set i will never forget  .
some other notes about ultra. VIP SUCKED. granted i got it for free, but it was just stupid. why would anyone pay $200 to get into an area where all you can do is buy a table for $1000. the only thing vip got me was getting in faster. and i didn't get searched. but i didn't have any drugs on me anyway, so i didn't even care! 
i thought water was done very well this year. yeah $4 is still a lot, but its a hell of a lot better than last year!
overall, i'd have to say ultra 4 was better, but i still had an amazing time at ultra 5! so if there is an ultra 6 in miami, you know damn well i'll be there!!!
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