Loved it.  It was my first time with FITES; I had some friends from college drag me to it, and we ended up with the second place band in the RB2 tournament (you gotta respect Doctor Manhattan's Junk!).  I'm definitely doing this again.

Yeah I must admit, this was also my first time there and I had a ton of fun.  I've been laughing since yesterday about how my roommate won the new comp case in the Ugliest case tournament.  He didn't put those rubberbands in till friday morning and I almost didn't let him do it because it was so ghetto (For those of you who didn't know the story, his mobo blew up 2 days before the and we live 2 hours away) so we 1 day shipped a new board and fixed it pronto friday morning since I worked my 40 hours thursday.

After we got back home, we were busy admiring the "custom paint job" that FITES touted on this new case.  We took it out of the box and bore first witness to this master piece of spray paint.

Basically it was painted green, everything except the front which is still black.  Completely different then what we originally thought.  Queue up "Through Fires and Flame." He's definitely not complaining through, he's been wanting a new case for ages.

For those of you who was watching us play WoW during prize giveouts, you'll know that Devastator was tanking 10man Naxxaramas.  He stayed alive until his butt  reattached to the seat, at the very moment he died.

Grats to 6th Force Recon for 2nd place in COD4! :-D PUG-O-RAMA

My only gripe about the LAN room itself was continuously freaking out over those mirrored columns. Though perhaps you could use them to your advantage if you sit in the right spot and angle so that you can see your opponents screen.

I stopped by very briefly on Saturday morning and it looks like the event was a rousing success!  I hope everyone had a fantastic time! 

Kudos to the FITES staff for yet another great event!

Very good job for all involved, including the herculean effort by the FITES staff.  Seriously, those guys deserve props for making a LAN party where they weren't allowed to kick back and let someone else handle network outages and power failures.

I agree, the FITES staff did a very good job. I can't remember going to a LAN before where the staff actually got up and helped you right away if you had a technical problem.

I wish I could have gotten there earlier, but unfortunately I don't have any vacation time yet at my new job! Good range of games! Also, the attendees were a good-humored easygoing bunch.

My one complaint is the heat, although the only way to fix that problem would be to find a new venue. Also, wtf is up with the rule that drinks are allowed but no food? That doesn't make any sense (i guess they just want to prop up their restaurant).

One suggestion I would like to make is that before the event, there should be a thread posted that asks everyone attending to join the FITES steam group. That way it would be much easier to know what games are being played at any given moment (steam games at least).

All in all, great event! glad I went.

I do have one suggestion. I would propose never to have the DAMN mod for COD4 ever again for a tournament standard. Me and Rathe both agreed that it made COD4 more like Counter-Strike. Which Petch who had the idea of doing it; plays CS on a daily basis. Now I know there are other COD tournament standards. Some that just have the perks, UAVs, Airstrikes, and Helis turned off.

And now you all know I had no real complaints what so ever. But I was a bit miffed that when the Alpha team was up for the second round of eliminations. It was my network connection that was the only one having a problem. And the thing of it was it was intermittent. Came and went; hell even Xankriz was impressed by the total trip-ness of it all. If the standards are again the same way around next time. I just won't play, I just didn't like the rules.

Also I still can't get over that one guy who got his cell phone stolen at the event. On the charger right beside his mouse no less. I konw there is no real solution to thievery but I am just sad that it happened to him. I have a feeling he won't be back for anything that we hold. And I really can't say that I blame him. I still had fun though, and it was only my second big event and I was well over do.

Hope to see some of the new faces at the monthly events.

FITES was a blast again. I can't wait for the next 150+ LAN, hopefully comes a bit quicker than this one did though! Once the network issues were fixed it all ran pretty smoothly for me and I enjoyed it a ton.

Regarding DAMN mod in CoD4, I can understand that some people think it makes the game seem a lot more like CSS and a lot less than what is pub CoD4.  The problem with using a stock config is that the perks and guns reduce the skill gap to the point that anyone can kill anyone, regardless of who the better player is.  During early league play they used steady aim and extra conditioning, but the offense could rush points faster than defense could get there and mp5s would take out snipers while jumping.  The DAMN mod also makes a few optional config changes like field of view (and lighting I believe) that give the game a different feel for some players.

There's nothing wrong with liking CoD4 stock, it's a great game to pub no doubt.  It just needs a mod to cut out things that reduce the skill gap when it's played in competition.