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Winter WonderLAN 2008 wrap-up |
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Monday, 21 January 2008 |
Well the first LAN of 2008 has
come and gone, BAWLS and Mtn. Dew consumed, and waaaaaay too much CoD4
played (J/K). This LAN was probably one of the smoothest in quite
awhile with the exception of one network glitch caused by a certain
someone and a cheap gigabit card that shall remain nameless. Talking
with a few people I did come to find that they preferred MindScapes
over the Best Western because of many factors. Those where namely the
amount of space we had, no dealing with the bar people or what problems
that brought with it, the ability to bring in food without
consequences, and a more relaxed atmosphere.
I did here the
negative things as well and trust me we will correct what we can by
spring. The biggest one was people couldn’t hear us on the P/A system.
The one other negative I heard was a rather BS one as I told people at
check-in and it was in the rotation on the ppt on the projector and the
42” LCD was they weren’t aware of the pizza tickets and the time cutoff
for us to be able to order it…
Because of this miscommunication
I am going to make sure every person is given a flyer at check-in with
all major information. This will include food prices, pizza ticket
prices and cutoff times, address to ALP, and addresses to the file
share servers. The first time you will see this is Spring LAN 2008 and
beyond. PA system will be corrected thanks to a donation by some
friends of a Bose PA Speaker system. They get LOUD and should be able
to get over the sound from Console play and you yelling at your monitor
because you got PWNed by Sciman’s .50 Cal Sniper Rifle in CoD4.
Snotco has again donated a few new toys to WLP for LAN Party use, we
will be going over this new equipment and determining it’s usability in
the coming month. I would like to thank Joe (Snotco) for his continued
support of WLP and the toys he has given us, not to many LAN’s can say
they have such a good backer!
I would like to thank Tonya,
Steve and the rest of the Witherspoon Family for allowing us to invade
MindScapes for the weekend. I was very pleased on how well everyone
took care of the facility while attending the event. We found very
little trash left behind on tables and such unlike past events at the
Best Western. We have been welcomed back any time and I look forward to
do more events there this year.
Be sure to leave us some
feedback in the sound off section of the forums on any positive or
negative about the event. We try very hard to make it as fun and
relaxed as possible, so please be honest about anything you liked or
disliked about the event. If you feel that your issue should remain
private please email us at
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about it and we will try to rectify it asap.
Again,
thanks everyone for making this event very successful, we made some
money this event that will go to some much needed power cords and power
strips for future WLP events! We keep going at the rate we did this
event we will have lots of new toys for people to use…
-=wlp=-drupi
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