DiscoDave
02-29-2004, 09:01 AM
I think it's been determined by myself and Ender that this has been our best LAN to date. Hopefully those of you who have been to our prior events agree, and for those of you who haven't...well...we hope you enjoyed yourselves to a suitable extent!
A lot of new ideas we had for this lan worked really well...the Triathalon (stuff it, G4, that was OUR idea) seemed to be a big hit...to an extent that I think both myself and Ender were a bit jealous and wished we could have participated.
The air cannon challenge proved to be....well...challenging for everyone except Airstotle (OBVIOUS CHEATING!). Expect something similar, but not identical, to return next lan. And remember...the air cannon is always available for practice/goofing off. :rup:
The Radio controlled car rally was another challenging event but helped to spice things up a bit, we thought. Expect the cars to play a bigger of a role next LAN.
Aside from a minor networking glitch that only effected a handful of the users, and a couple random computers that acted pretty stupid (*cough*), the network worked admirably much to the relief of BLE's cautious to the point of paranoia highly trained and over-paid technical staff of experts.
Gaming goodness was enjoyed into the wee hours of the morning for the PC people, capped by a few impromptu matches of Soul Calibur, where yours truly combatted cheap fighting tactics with well thought out and varied attacks that were neither well thought out nor varied.
Lessons learned include:
#1. If Ender calls everyone to the center of a map, never, ever, ever listen.
#2. Having enough pop to last 80 normal people a week means little when dealing with 35+ thirsty sleep depraved gaming addicts.
#3. If Ender joins a UT DM server, suicide as soon as you see him. Either way you don't stand a chance of winning, but at least this way you'll still have your pride. :erm: Sort of.
#4. You've never really seen splattinger gibs until you've seen a small room full of shield gun whores.
#5. The helicopters in Desert Combat aren't really just diabolical suicide machines after all....WHO KNEW!
Expect pictures soon, and maybe if you're really good and eat your vegetables, maybe a quick movie.
In the mean time, thanks to everyone who helped out both with setting up (that "testing" is hard work!), and cleaning up. Seriously...all the help we received was much, much, much appreciated.
Also special thanks to those of you who brought in TV's and other equipment. Without your help, we'd have to charge an $80 per person, and somehow we doubt we'd be nearly as successful.
Finally, thanks to all our sponsors for helping to provide many cool prizes! If you'd like to continue getting prizes, take a look at those that help us out next time you need to buy pizza, computer hardware, modding accessories, fine wines, and (of course) computer and x-box games!
Thanks to everyone who made it out, it would have been pretty friggin' boring without you! ;)
A lot of new ideas we had for this lan worked really well...the Triathalon (stuff it, G4, that was OUR idea) seemed to be a big hit...to an extent that I think both myself and Ender were a bit jealous and wished we could have participated.
The air cannon challenge proved to be....well...challenging for everyone except Airstotle (OBVIOUS CHEATING!). Expect something similar, but not identical, to return next lan. And remember...the air cannon is always available for practice/goofing off. :rup:
The Radio controlled car rally was another challenging event but helped to spice things up a bit, we thought. Expect the cars to play a bigger of a role next LAN.
Aside from a minor networking glitch that only effected a handful of the users, and a couple random computers that acted pretty stupid (*cough*), the network worked admirably much to the relief of BLE's cautious to the point of paranoia highly trained and over-paid technical staff of experts.
Gaming goodness was enjoyed into the wee hours of the morning for the PC people, capped by a few impromptu matches of Soul Calibur, where yours truly combatted cheap fighting tactics with well thought out and varied attacks that were neither well thought out nor varied.
Lessons learned include:
#1. If Ender calls everyone to the center of a map, never, ever, ever listen.
#2. Having enough pop to last 80 normal people a week means little when dealing with 35+ thirsty sleep depraved gaming addicts.
#3. If Ender joins a UT DM server, suicide as soon as you see him. Either way you don't stand a chance of winning, but at least this way you'll still have your pride. :erm: Sort of.
#4. You've never really seen splattinger gibs until you've seen a small room full of shield gun whores.
#5. The helicopters in Desert Combat aren't really just diabolical suicide machines after all....WHO KNEW!
Expect pictures soon, and maybe if you're really good and eat your vegetables, maybe a quick movie.
In the mean time, thanks to everyone who helped out both with setting up (that "testing" is hard work!), and cleaning up. Seriously...all the help we received was much, much, much appreciated.
Also special thanks to those of you who brought in TV's and other equipment. Without your help, we'd have to charge an $80 per person, and somehow we doubt we'd be nearly as successful.
Finally, thanks to all our sponsors for helping to provide many cool prizes! If you'd like to continue getting prizes, take a look at those that help us out next time you need to buy pizza, computer hardware, modding accessories, fine wines, and (of course) computer and x-box games!
Thanks to everyone who made it out, it would have been pretty friggin' boring without you! ;)