Dave,

We actually have been discussing (amongst staff and admins) several of your concerns.  There was WAY to much leeching, and we are working at putting a new plan in play on that issue.

Not sure why the larger maps were lagging.  The two primary servers being used that night (unless someone fired it up on one of the slower machines) were p4 2.6 to 2.8 with 1.5 to 2 gigs of ram each.

Not sure if the lagging resulted from the aforementioned leeching or not.

I know that a group of 4 or so were playing UT somewhere in the 1 to 3 hour.  

But, you are correct, there was a breakdown in organized gameplay after the first several rounds of BF2.  Some people left, some people crashed, some people played other stuff.

Ultimately, I want to make it bigger and better, so your responses are valued.  Keep em coming.

i had a great time at the lan.  The biggest problem for me was just that i was tired.  We were setting up until 3am on friday, and then i was up again at 8am to finish up. Next time i need to try an snag some more sleep.

Yeah, wimp. I didn't sleep at all. I was up same time you were Friday night and arose same time Saturday morning. I didn't sleep at all.

...I dearly paid for it when I absolutely passed out at the sight of my bed, but.....

I really don't have anything new to add. All of my thoughts have already been discussed.

On the subject of leeching, I don't think it should be eliminated completely. It's an aspect of a LAN Party that's expected to be there and outright banning of it just wouldn't be cool.

However, promoting DC++ as the only means of filesharing is a good idea. We can control when the DC hub is running, or we could limit transfer speeds to avoid bottlenecks. Plus it queues your transfers so you aren't grabbing 20 files from one person simultaneously and killing their HD/network.

And as I said, everything else has already been mentioned, so no sense in repeating.