These are my 2 cents as an admin on the problems you had mentioned

1: PA sucked in general (that was my fault, I forgot a mixer) and should be better next time.

2: The DC Hub had a chat room, and ALP had a shoutbox type thing.

3: The internet is a much heated debate, and we knew NOTHING about it before we got to the hotel. Part of it was the router wasn't intended to handle what we threw at it. The rest was it was an 800k sync pipe.
The router should have been blocking everything but steam, but it didn't (it worked at my house.)
For the next time we've been offered a huge pipe. So we'll see how it plays, but part of the issue was that steam realeased a patch during the lan, so when peoples steam clients phoned home it tried to dl it. I'm still of the opion steam sucks almost as bad as quake 4, but thats just me.

Thanks for the input though, we love hearing it!!

Overall the Lan was fun.

As was already mentioned, the tournaments were a little drawn out.  Considering first time with this size turnout, it was handled as best possible.  The staff did a great job keeping everything rolling throughout the LAN.
 
TronNet was great being onsite.  Thanks.

Probably my biggest grip would be the case mod and read this knowing I had the lego case so my thoughts are 100 percent bias.  From now on the judges should take more notice of which cases are favorites of the gamers.  Their favorite was evident when the 1st place winner was announced and a significant group of gamers thought it was a joke or a mistake.  Then booing after confirming the award seemed to really put a exclamation point on it.  Like I said, this is 100 percent bias, but a large contingency of the LAN would openly admit first was not representative of the correct final decision.

Other than that, kickin LAN.  Lets do more next year.

Probably my biggest grip would be the case mod and read this knowing I had the lego case so my thoughts are 100 percent bias.  From now on the judges should take more notice of which cases are favorites of the gamers.  Their favorite was evident when the 1st place winner was announced and a significant group of gamers thought it was a joke or a mistake.  Then booing after confirming the award seemed to really put a exclamation point on it.  Like I said, this is 100 percent bias, but a large contingency of the LAN would openly admit first was not representative of the correct final decision.

shadow, if you heard the explination of why you didnt win, it would make more sense to you.   your case got very high marks in 2 of the 3 sections.   useability and somthing else i dont remember what it was....   but you lacked HIGHLY in lighting.   yes i know you had LED case fans... so did most other people.   that gave you an automatic 1/10.  everyone else that had LED casefans w/o anything extra got a 1.   when i looked at your case for lighting, i looked for ways that you could have built around the lighting.   which i didnt see anything in the reguard.   so you recieved a 1/10 over all from me.   which happend to sink you to 4th place.  

my grading basicly came down to this.

LED FANS
-LED Fans = 1
-LED Fans when used very well = 3 (only one that got that was the acrylic)
Cold Caths
  -Visible from window?
  ---yes 3 (i personally dont like looking at a bright ass cold cath.
  ---no 5 (the guy who won first place placed his so nomatter where i stood i couldn't see them)

UV Lighting
got a DFI Lanparty mobo?  extra points when uv reacted.
got uv reactive wire management?  extra points when they react.
got any other uv?  extra points as long as you didnt go overboard.

these were what i BASICLY looked at, and i thought of last 100MLs winners.   here is a pic of one of them.


That is billabond1's old computer.  his new one has uv reactive wirewraps, uv lights, good placed cold cathodes.  the works.  that kid knows how to rock his case.

dont get me wrong bro, your case looked amazing.   but it lacked lighting and useability IMO.

where as the first place winner, had a hand painted case (candy apple red) hand cut window (i think), great wire management, Cold cath placed so i couldnt see it, but it complimented his case.  Painted Cold cathode.  so it wasnt pink (he added a layer of candy apple red to the cathode)

better luck next time.

Things to make 100ml events better/ smoother.

1.  dont allow teams to drop players at event.  it Fudges the people that get booted over.  (i got booted from my CS 6vs6 team a few hours before the tourny.  i didnt get told till 30 mins prior to the cs tourny.  Fudge you louber.
2.  tournaments.  to end ties, use odd numbered rounds.
3.  tournaments.  BF2 was too late in the event.  people left so teams had to forfit.
4.  I felt that game play was not as organized as the last 100ml event.  i found it hard to find any real big games (last event there were 30vs30 BF games goin inbetween tournaments.
5.  No more little kids. like no one under the age of like 13, please.  i dont need to explain this.
6.  more announcements next time.

Things i did like.  
1.  Great work from the staff.
2.  Redbull
3.  DDR people had alot of fun with that
4.  snow.  next time we need to have a snowball fight.
5.  being with people that are cool, just hangin out.  thats what makes fites really fun.
6.  event location (2 miles from my house :-D) not to mention right off the highway for all you out of towners
7.  closeness to food establishments.

I guess thats about it.

all i can say is let's get it on :boxer:

regarding the whole LAN, as I said, good stuff.  Greatly appreciatted that even though COD2 was not a tourament, a server was dedicted. It turned out to have some good sized games.  Maybe a COD2 tourney would be good next time.  Of course by next large LAN other games may be out.

I loved how you guys handled the 1vs1 tournaments.  They were the most successful tournaments in terms of people playing.  Keep the 1vs1 tournaments at the same general times as you guys did at this lan and you guys will be golden.