Hey All,

Please try to keep the general chatter into the other threads. This is purely a feedback thread where possible please.

For those of you who said, volunteering really didn't work. Thank you for providing us honest and blunt feedback. I've added this to a list of things the team as a whole are going to be discussing. If you have any thoughts or suggestions, you're welcome to PM a member of the admin team. Or even myself if you wish. We want honest feedback and any suggestions you could give that would improve the process.

We can't do all of the work on our own and really need help from you volunteers! So please don't be put off...

Cheers

Jeffy

Pros: the majority of the lan was a great success everything that i involved myself in, i had a great time (with one exception)

Cons: The power outages, i was in the 3 rows with constant power outages, and although i was running a laptop and as such it didnt affect me too much (the switch was on a different power supply, and the intermittent power was enough to keep my battery topped up), it was annoying for everyone.
The blur comp: yes, i understand it was a fun comp, but theres nothing fun about playing the preliminary rounds 3 times and then being told that despite qualifying, they didnt keep track of your results, and youd have to play again, at that point i just quit.
The lack of forum mentioned starcraft tournament; im not sure what the situation was here, there was a sign up, but i never saw/heard an announcement that it was starting, correct me if im wrong.

I know it seems like the cons are much larger than the pros, but in all honesty, i just tried to describe the exact issue i was having, all in all, i had a wonderful time, and am definitely coming again.


P.S. Is there anywhere where the tournament results are listed?

I wish i was a scene chick :/ .


I'm a male, asif a girl of that hotness would be keen on respawn pplz.

Gophers should not, and will not be yelled at in this manner again.
I will be managing all gopher finding duties from now on, so if any admin needs gophers they come to me first, and i get some gophers to help out.

This both takes the stress of finding gophers off the admins shoulders and ensures that the gophers get treated fairly. (I dont want to overwork anyone )

Cool beans?

So I should decline my steam add

Some stuff from a gopher for the friday setup:

A lot of the time there was not enough for gophers to do, while that stuff was done late at night. Eg the passes. If that could be done ealier in the day even though it may take longer, it means things are constantly being done.

Also, more tape for taping down the carpet squares. 4-5 rolls of gaffer / fabric tape should work as well it keeps the squares down til packup unlike the duct tape. The squares that weren't taped down were all over the place before 5pm when I got back.

Gopher's setting up their pc's or even putting them on tables was a hastle when we were laying the network cords down as we had to get things unplugged then replugged.

Packup there wasn't a lot to complain about as it just needed maybe a little more man-power at the start but there isn't a lot you can do about that of what I know of

Fabric tape leaves marks and stray threads on the ground afterwards, which is a huge amount of work to clean up. Does need more plastic tape though.

I wouldnt add you anyway. ooooh snap!

I think some of you need to back the fuck up. Sure, maybe the admins shouldn't yell at people for help, but some of you actually don't listen and have to be yelled at. Yeah, we'd like to enjoy the event also, but we've volunteered our time to help, you give a hand when you can, and say if you can't. Don't bitch because you've put your hand up, and get yelled at for not living up to what you've stated.

As for Tank, she's a one woman band most, if not all of the fucking time. Sure, she occasionally gets help from MiniWalks and other admins, but it's not enough. She needs a permanent support. Her whole side of things is like running an extra separate business with the amount of work she has to do. Cut her some slack and give her a fucking hand. It's just her doing all of this stuff that half you fucks probably don't even know about.

I'm one of the laziest fuck's around, I can admit this. I'm not the best of help, but I do what I can, when I can. And what really pissed me off is when I was looking for people to help me out, carting tables around to set up for poker to make Mini's and R4N's job easier. This was during all the bullshit with the power. We had numerous people out the back trying to fix the problem, and some of the comments I heard from you little shits was purely fucking disgusting. The people fixing the problem came back with the sweet smell of satisfaction, but also the stench of annoyance. Some of them were so drained that they couldn't continue with what they had planned. I don't even know if Mini went ahead with poker.

Everyone, motherfuckin' EH-VER-RI-WUN on the main team put so much effort into giving us all a good LAN experience. When things fuck up, it gets fixed as best as possible. Things get delayed due to problems, some of which you little fuckers cause, some of are due to admins managing other comps that are running overtime. Some sections are understaffed, which is when we run into problems. Then people point fingers. It's disturbing how quickly, and how harshly some of you people do it. No need to cut sick when shit ain't perfect.

Just back off, aight? Stop unnecessarily upsetting people when they're doing what they're assigned to do as best as that one person can. If one of the team yells at you, it's probably because they've been fucked around for a while and they're juggling many things and generally trying to get their shit done as best as they can.

Just...back the fuck up before I, and many others start personally attacking people to get them to lay off some of these people that are stressed to the fucking eyeballs trying their hardest to do their side of things.

I'm no writer, but are we clear?
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As for the overall perspective on the LAN itself. It was great as usual, although it went by so fast. I don't think I'll buy 15-packs of Mother again, I'll just stick to the large amounts of 4-packs.

I had fun. So fuck you all.

-cheers, your colourful, lovable, not-so-gullible fuckface,

cheb-

u mad brah?

mad as

CONS : i dont think slov got enough praise for fixing the power, even when i was going to go home 3 hours before because i had work the next morning lolololol

and by praise i mean praise mayonnaise



LOL

So if we get you a bottle of praise? You'll be happy?

Did any of the people making smart arse comments actually volunteer to help? or were they just generic respawners?

Also, I have an idea.

Instead of screaming at people, use the mic to make a help announcement.

Yes some people do more work than others, and I'm sure they get a little something on the side for being part of the head admin team, doesn't mean I should bite my tongue and shut up about something that pissed me off. We're Volunteers and we paid ca$h to be there, I didn't appreciate being spoken to like an afghani war prisoner so I said so in the official Respawn V18 Comments and Criticism thread.

Understood. I have taken all these comments under consideration.

Cheb- while i appreciate the enthusiasm, there were some issues on both sides of the coin here. I intend to fully resolve these issues by next event.

I think you're talking about rewards/payments?

If that is what you mean, we (the admin team) get free entry and a free shirt. We get no other tangible rewards.

One day I hope to be able to convert love and adoration in to pure gold.

You'd be broke if that were the case

What about:
Free food, Free Porn, Free movies, Free ego stroking. It all counts man.

If you guys truly do this for free, and the only reason I doubt it is because I know Sando is one lazy mother fucker. Then I've got a bit more respect for you guys for putting up with all the shit you have to put up with. but my point still stands. Don't treat me like a P.O.W, and I won't swing my mighty internet axe of eternal vengeance and suffering +5 poison damage.