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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: TekieB on March 22, 2005, 06:27:26 PM
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Okay, after the last thread there seems to be lots of interest in quakecon 2005. I figured I would make the FITES crew a lil primer/what we know and info and questions thread.
Here is what we know:
-Quakecon 2005 Will be held Aug. 11-14, This is the biggest LAN party in the US. (for more info see the faq at http://www.quakecon.org/faq.php )
-It’s FREE!
-A bunch of us (me, sully, agent, firefly, and Nimby) went down last year and had loads of fun.
-We drove from PA, and met nimby and gunplay (one of his buddies) in Virginia
-It cost me around $500 for room and board (we split up the price of the room) Which in my opinion is WELL worth it.
-We all brought our own hardware and didn’t rent anything down there (you can rent monitors and such there)
-Food wasn’t that bad, we went offsite for pretty much everything, except the nVidia sponsored lunch.
-There is a mall near by, with lots of food and girls (ask gunplay and oncoming about that one) and a fry’s (Wal-Mart of computers) Both of these are within 10-20 min.
-It was one massive lan, 24/7, you name it they played it, from doom 1 to unreal 2k4.
-Sponsors gave away lots of stuff
-Hanging around with a bunch of people who share the same pashion as you do for a week, what more do you want?
any more questions or anything? Hopefully this will motivate sully to get a set list of people and such so we can get plans and rooms hammered out.
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one more thing i forgot to add:
Quakecon is totally supported by volunteering, last year we went down early to set up, which IMO was the most fun I had all week. I'm assuming we are doing this again this year, so I encourage you all to volunteer too (it is fun) and help keep quakecon being the kickass lan it is!
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seem like a freaking awsome time. i would be in for volunteering, as long as i got to game as well, lol
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oh you'll have time.... you'll just be having so much fun doing other crap too. heh it was hella fun
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oh you'll have time.... you'll just be having so much fun doing other crap too. heh it was hella fun
HOLY MOTHER OF... ITS AGENT
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-It cost me around $500 for room and board (we split up the price of the room) Which in my opinion is WELL worth it.
The cost of the room was actually closer to $900~
it worked out to about $160 per person staying for the week.
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i ment it cost ME that much (and come to think of it it might have been less, but yeah I see your point
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after talking with tekie on irc, this has been straightened out, he had $500 for the trip, $160 of which was for the room, and the rest was food and stuff ...
my bad :)
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that seems like a pretty good price for a "hella fun" time
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oh it was, and actually I think my final total was lower than that, but still, well worth it (I have to factor in the excuse of buying a powerbook (and a job)this year though)
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I'm going 90% for the experience.. the other 10% is the fun of a con. I want to learn from the already pro gamers what it takes to get that far. I got addicted to winning back at the 100m lan in dec and since then I've been quickly refining my q3 skills. Now I'm fairly well placed and respected on ggl, though I have ALOT of room to go before I'm anywhere near a competitive threat to the REAL players (daler, chaoticz, etcz,.. and of course fatal1ty - a LONNNNG way off on that one)
But regardless, I'm gonna go, see what it's all about and get as much ass-whupping in as I possibly can (both giving and getting).
Oh if anyone ever wants to play me on q3, feel free to aim me at midpennmotor - make sure you have OSP and we'll play some 1v1 on a few low ping servers I know of.
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tekie, edit your post, you put April 11-14 instead of August.
Garland, can't guarantee the same thing this year, but last year you got to go 1v1 with Fatal1ty at the Abit booth in Doom 3. You didn't have to beat him, just kill him once and you walked away with a nice prize. You still got a bag of goodies for trying, but you got a video card or a motherboard or something else from the Fatal1ty line of products that Abit makes if you got a kill on him.
The first day no one could do it. s2iBuu got close, getting him down to 6 hp left but then buu walked backwards off a cliff or bridge or something. I heard the second day he wasn't trying as hard and some people actually did kill him.
And yes, tekie I have already begun gathering info. I'll post it when I get it in a more complete form :2thumbsup:
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Speaking of gathering the info, could everyone who is considering going, please email me the following:
Name
Handle
Age
Comfort level of driving (both car and RV).
If you're 16 and just got your license, there's no way in hell you're driving an RV.
E-mail link is below ֿֿֿֿֿֿֿֿ↓
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i can bring cheese-in-a-can again right?
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you've got mail
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Are we still in contact with angryhostage?
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I can IM him. We still keep in touch from time to time. What do you need?
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Maybe he will open up his house to guests for a week? Would pay him of course!
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or just a kickass party! Cause I know we had mentioned it in his goodbye thread. If not it would just be cool to hang out
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I think he went to Houston right? That's a couple hundred miles from Dallas, so I don't think we'll be crashing at his place, but he could come visit maybe.
And I'm curious why he wanted to know about neutron detection (http://www.fites.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1059).
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Sully: you know I'll be there ... and if you don't have my info, I'm gonna be hurt ;)
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tekie, edit your post, you put April 11-14 instead of August.
Garland, can't guarantee the same thing this year, but last year you got to go 1v1 with Fatal1ty at the Abit booth in Doom 3. You didn't have to beat him, just kill him once and you walked away with a nice prize. You still got a bag of goodies for trying, but you got a video card or a motherboard or something else from the Fatal1ty line of products that Abit makes if you got a kill on him.
The first day no one could do it. s2iBuu got close, getting him down to 6 hp left but then buu walked backwards off a cliff or bridge or something. I heard the second day he wasn't trying as hard and some people actually did kill him.
And yes, tekie I have already begun gathering info. I'll post it when I get it in a more complete form :2thumbsup:
Jah I heard about that. I think I saw something saying creative would be sponsoring another booth like that again. You can be sure I'll at least give it a whack though knowing what game would be nice. When I played the 100m lan in dec I had never played q3 multiplayer before (only bots and even then for a week) so I didn't know even a fraction of what I do now.. But having played against some of the best in the country already and losing dramatically I already know I've got alot of room to go.
I've played: fear-Mar, Stidcriss (excalibur), bluksky, and i2i BLT and gotten romped :) -- not to mention a few others I can't remember
Most of them are impressed with my skill level given my relative newness to q3.
Plus, I've played lemieux66 since his 1st place win at fites in dec and I can beat him with relative ease now.
Anyways, it'll be fun. :)
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So are you in or not?
If so, please send me the email with info so I can add you to the roster officially.
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-There is a mall near by, with lots of food and girls (ask gunplay and oncoming about that one) and a fry’s (Wal-Mart of computers) Both of these are within 10-20 min.
Hell yes HOT! Most of them jailbait though... and considering this is in Texas it's probably legal for their parents to shoot you when you start coming on to them.
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wow, wb gunplay ;)
and yeah, this yeah, we need leashes for people ... ;)
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I'm still lurking about!
I am approx 3.5 hours from Dallas, a bit impracticle even for me to drive out daily. I may just get a hotel room myself.
And Sully, I wanted to know about neutron detection as my attention has been drawn to the topic of solo luminescence and cold fusion.
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planning to take over the world again?
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i plan on drinking lots of bawls at quakecon, any idea how much it is there?
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it was $20 for a case of 24 last time. i got 3 cases last year :P
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i think ill be drinking bawls like there is no tomorrow because i am going through withdrawl from it...it's been so long since i have had bawls...100ml yea i might buy 4 or 5 and bring 2 home. And ill be drinking redbull the whole way down...
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Redbull sucks man. most disgusting crap ever. tastes like some weird diet drink.
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i think redbull is pretty good compaired to some of the other stuff out there.
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yeah i like redbull...it gives you wings!!!
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straying from the redbull subject.
For those comming on the trip, i will bring my lcd for someone who does not want to lug a crt. Let me know if you want to use it.
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Oooo...that might be me. I say that because my 19" CRT is hell to carry anywhere. When I got it, I wasn't attending LAN's so I didn't care about the size. Now that I do on a regular basis, it's a pain in the ass.
Don't get me wrong, it's a fantastic monitor, but it's just not very LAN friendly.
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yea, i have a 19inch crt and my lcd. I use my crt for everything at home, and then use my lcd at lan. It is a 15 inch Sharp (1024x768 native at 75 hertz). It is quite a good monitor, and has absolutly no ghosting. It also has a tv tuner, rca, and svideo jacks in case we feel the need for some console gaming, but i doubt that. Anyway, since sully spoke first he gets first dibs.
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i was browsing the qcon forums and i came across a sweet qcon background
check it out
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/billabond1/quakecon.jpg