Blog impresario and upcoming Mediabistro Circus speaker Anil Dash made a surprise appearance yesterday as a contestant in Battledecks, SXSW’s inventive game where those with a gift for commanding a room compete to see who can make up a presentation on the fly with slides they’ve never seen.

The early-arriving audience, of course, knows Dash as the Chief Evangelist of Six Apart (makers of Movable Type, TypePad, and Vox) and they love him, so upon hearing about his cameo, they got excited and put their little hands together. But Dash, ever the fierce competitor, muscled his way up to the podium (playing against body type) and spat into the microphone, "I'm going to walk out of here and you're going to give me the welcome I deserve!"

The crowd started to t(w)itter.

Dash then marched across the convention hall carpeting (pat, pat, pat), slammed through the double metal doors, and, in a triumphant moment, returned with his arms in the air. The man knows how to make a crowd go wild.

Dash, who was an early and influential blogger beginning in 1999 and once worked as a new media developer for the Village Voice, proceeded to hold the hundreds of blog-lovers rapt with his sendup of such slides as a photo of tech evangelist Robert Scoble with the caption "Fab or Fug?" as well as a line graph illustrating "Cheese vs. Libido"

But the judges (and crowd) found Dash’s best work in response to a photo slide of a yacht on the sea: “White people,” Dash said with authority, “have despicable behavior sometimes.”

Erika Hall of Mule Design gave Dash a 9.75 out of 10 "to preserve his ego." But College Humor founder Jakob Lodwick gave Dash a record-busting 11.

After being presented with the award, Dash reminded everyone that in the morning there would be kickball, and we better be there! Something tells me he’s going to be fierce. We’re strapping on our kneepads and heading over now.