OFFICIAL v14 Commnts thread!, For positive and negatives! and everything in between! Options

[dead_man]

- Big player range, alot of competitors and different types of people, from people that raged when sound was played in game to people that did not care what the out come was, all they wanted was some hardcore gaming.

glad you liked it, i thought it was fairly funny at one point seeing a guy rage in CS:S while eating a pizza

- Hourly comps FTW! But i missed all of them as i did not hear but the idea and the comps were great

these have always been a great success when run. so much fun to be had.

- Ping's was so awesome to have next door! Did you guys organise a deal with them at all?

dont think so. if you mean the cafe down the stairs i dont think theyre normally open on weekends

- A very nice layout of equipment and power was distributed effiently, only one power outage from what i knew and it only affected 6 - 8 players? and was back and up in no time!

thats Miniwalks and his team handywork, they do an awsome job!!

- BBQ was a Brilliant idea and i did not see to much smoke, great BBQ from the sounds of it, i missed out lol.

- Football game cast was a fantastic idea!

the BBQ is something that respawn has run since i started going as a player back in V4. Tank does an awsome job with that

the TV stream was a first at this event, we will look into having it run more often
Things i was not use to/not impressed by:

- Activity of the admins, from what i saw, not many admins were activly walking around looking at gamers and making sure nothing bad is going down, or even to just chat and encourage the players.

admins were walking around occasionally, however with an event this size most of us are far to busy from 10AM onwards to get a chance to walk around much, but i know for a fact Zardoz does this fairly often.

please realise, not everyone that sits up the front is an admin, we have a fair few people that just wish to help where they can.

- I was not aware that an Admin won a comp. From my experiance as being an Admin, you are there to enjoy the LAN out of passion for games and networking. We let admins in the games and such but they will never win an event as if they wanted a prize, they would be a player, not an Admin. Your here because you want to let people come, and conquer. Who wants to come to a LAN to be beat by the people who run it? No one! Does not encourage people at all.. Though i can see your idea in the person having enough skills to win is a point, it does not make it right. If you want to prove you are th best, fine, i would to, but dont win the prize..

that was me, and after complaints from players probley wont happen again. we had some complaints from players just for us entering the comps aswell.

- As i mentioned, the Game coverage was fantastic, but in way a bit to good, there were so many comps that people signed up for multiple and that delayed the other comps.. would have been great to have a focus game so that there would be one big prize and a big ladder system in which players keep challenging other teams for a certain time length and then tally the points.. Thats one of the ways we do it and it ends up with a full 6 hour comp with everyone playing.. We even force teams to play rather than sit on DC.

with an event this size thats near impossible to accomplish, moving to a points based system takes out some of the fun imo,

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Things i was not use to/not impressed by:

- Activity of the admins, from what i saw, not many admins were activly walking around looking at gamers and making sure nothing bad is going down, or even to just chat and encourage the players.

- I was not aware that an Admin won a comp. From my experiance as being an Admin, you are there to enjoy the LAN out of passion for games and networking. We let admins in the games and such but they will never win an event as if they wanted a prize, they would be a player, not an Admin. Your here because you want to let people come, and conquer. Who wants to come to a LAN to be beat by the people who run it? No one! Does not encourage people at all.. Though i can see your idea in the person having enough skills to win is a point, it does not make it right. If you want to prove you are th best, fine, i would to, but dont win the prize..

i dont see why the admins cant be treated the same as everyone else, like theyre there to have fun just like everyone else, not spend their entire weekend on making sure things run (while they do that too)

like the admins deserve to win just as much as any other player, the best player deserves to win, and if that happens to be an admin so be it, either you skill up and beat them, or get over it

the admins are there to play games and have fun too in the end, they can do what they want

i prefer that the admins sit down and play too, makes it feel like theyre a part of us, not some higher up crew that have nothing to do with the rest of us.

and i prefer the admins to be at least semi-decent at their own game too, it shows they have an idea about whats going on and are at least qualified to oversee a tournament based on their games



well other than that, nice to see the tf2 tourney run with less issues than usual, servers were ace, things started on time, played more games this time just sucked to play a finals at like 5am, maybe start the tournament earlier if plausible, hard to fit everything in though

also maybe dont run really similar funcomps/tournaments at the same time, missed out on hl2dm due to tf2 being on at the same time, but earlier had nothing to play due to it being all racing games at the time or such, maybe mix up the genres or something

would like to see some new games brought into the lineup for whats being played each respawn, but i guess theres nothing much thats new and good

[Patryn]

yeah. I agree that admins should be allowed to participate in games and win prizes. The only caveat is that they have no more advantage (except skill) than other players. From what I understand, this is the case. Nothing wrong with the best player winning! We're all there to have fun and competing for prizes makes things a lot more competitive and fun!

Door prizes are different, and admins shouldn't be entering that as it doesn't look good that something that's meant to encourage people to come for the whole event goes to an admin - not sure if they do or not.

[dead_man]

dont think an admin has ever won a door prize, atleast not since iv been there

id also agree with that statement, the only comps that the admins come close to ever winning is probley flatout2, (oohms isnt an admin) GRiD (iv won this once, tofuboi won last time but he isnt an admin) and maybe sirquidness in TF2.

next lan with flatout im going to make a multipoll for flatout so ppl can vote on the 4 maps that they want in the comp, this way i cannot be accused of rigging the comp

[jutzy]

- Activity of the admins, from what i saw, not many admins were activly walking around looking at gamers and making sure nothing bad is going down, or even to just chat and encourage the players.

Tank came over and talked to us?

[Sideh]

Again i am merley just pointing out some observations that i am use to. I am not saying that Admins do not deserve anything, as we are the body of the LAN and it is because of us it all works. The small fun comps i can understand them and have admins winning them, it is just the big highlighted prizes which we figure the sponsors would like to see there stuff going to gamers, as the Admins should/would be buying there stuff off them if they were a sponsor. But then again, Admins at the ones we run have leet pc's and the gamers range from better than us to DOS.. So we figure all prizes go to them so they can play stuff.

I was loving walking around and seeing half the games run were up full quality lol

We have had MorB vs the LAN. Admins vs whoever. always fun stuff

But there are alot of things here which we have tried but never succesfully worked as our numbers are not the same.

Guys again, great work and will be back next time.

[crenn]

My opinion of admins entering comps and winning prizes: Players are always going to be whiney if they don't win. My personal opinion, let the admins enter comps, and if they win, then they deserve the prize. I don't go to lans for prizes, I go for the fun.

[deano]

Well that was my first Respawn and I quite enjoyed it

The only thing that really pissed me off was travelling a 450km round trip to this LAN for someone to steal my COH manual (cd-key). I won't be attending again without properly locking shit down as unfortunately with an event of this size, there is always some little fucker that completely disregards how hard we work to buy our stuff, if you're reading this you little fucker, kindly eat shit and die.

Other than that the LAN seemed very organised, I really enjoyed it in fact

The use of the projector was really good for the footy, info and HLTV - as for youtube video's I think the admins should consider that what they might find funny, 300 other people might not.

As for the HDD throwing contest, well it goes to show that a bunch of geeks have the hand eye co-ordination to frag someone into oblivion - yet most couldn't hit a target 5-10 metres away! (I was quite happy that I hit that case at the max distance throwing it PROPERLY lol

Anyway, looking forward to the next one. Might need another 1tb hdd for those linux distro's though

EDIT

Also - I should mention that the admins put together a bloody good network/powergrid. Seriously good pings, very stable power grid. Nothing like seeing a LAN hosting more computers than your large corportate office going up and down for a weekend relatively without a hitch (given some stupid fool doesn't break the rules anyway )

TANK - Awesome food, truly You have inspired me in your pancake and bacon ways

And 255 player BF2?! good effort, putting in a request for it next LAN!

[rufusmador]

Dean it's Joel here.

What's your email dude I have a party this weekend i want you to come too.

[dead_man]

Admins at the ones we run have leet pc's and the gamers range from better than us to DOS..

ill point one thing out, one of the admins actually borrows a machine coz there laptop doesnt run much else

[Sharks]

deano - Sorry to hear about your key being stolen, always good to double check your stuff. I always notify someone if they've accidently shared personal documents/information. Had mixed responses though.

I think that admins should be allowed to win. They go through the same crap we do, they still need to prove their skills and fight for it.

Mic is still a problem, annex or not. Wish I had a suggestion but you can't exactly redesign the hall/speaker system.

[jamie]

v14 was my first Respawn and I had a blast.

Only real issue I had was not being aware of many of the funcomps, were they announced over the P.A?
If so is it possible to announce them on the site? I only saw BF2 and Babo Violent 2 up there.

Apart from that, great event and will be coming to future ones.

[jutzy]

With the speaker issues - there should be a couple of cannon jacks designed into the annex that connect to the main speaker's all you need are your own speakers? i think i saw some altough i could have been seeing things.

[GIARUS]

With the speaker issues - there should be a couple of cannon jacks designed into the annex that connect to the main speaker's all you need are your own speakers? i think i saw some altough i could have been seeing things.

i agree in the annex part we couldn't hear anything.
so it was a shame for us.

[dead_man]

we will be looking into what we can do with the annex situation. very annoying with players not being able to hear what is going on.

[GIARUS]

we will be looking into what we can do with the annex situation. very annoying with players not being able to hear what is going on.

Quite agree. Hope it does get fixed.

[Vortex Vandel]

Hi sideh,

While not an admin (just a lowly comp gopher , I run war 3 1v1 ). I do try and walk around the venu and have chats with players and generally spread a happy vibe. You may or may not realize but a lot of setup work happens on the friday. Your lan starts at 10am sat. Our setup happens 9 or 10am friday. A lot of time is spent setting up and refining Your next lan experence.

I'm not having a go at you. Just explaining that not all the admin or team leaders or gophers will be in a mood to go wondering around if they have spent a good 12 or so hrs (some times more) in setting up for the lan the day before and then several hrs after the lan finishes to pack up. As dead man said. A lot of us do things during the lan that you will actively notice (dead_man,oohms,r4n,sirsquid,tank,jeffy etc) and Alot you may not notice.

My point is that we do care about the players and I am not the only one who will wander around to see what is happening.. you just may not know we know

What is your lans web address? (too lazy to google)

We also strongly encourage you to come to us if you think there is somthing illegal/wrong going on that needs our attention. Our event is quite large and unfortunately we can't be every where all the time to see what may be happening that you have an issue with. again. please tell us if there are any issues! Posters of the admin and team leaders are usually posted in appropriate places throughout the venue!

I do like your suggestion about diffrent types of games running at the same time, I'll ask dead_man about this!

[GIARUS]

- Activity of the admins, from what i saw, not many admins were activly walking around looking at gamers and making sure nothing bad is going down, or even to just chat and encourage the players.

Tank came over and talked to us?

He only came over to find out what the massive round of applause was.
Then he figured out it was me.

[Jen]

- Activity of the admins, from what i saw, not many admins were activly walking around looking at gamers and making sure nothing bad is going down, or even to just chat and encourage the players.

Tank came over and talked to us?

He only came over to find out what the massive round of applause was.
Then he figured out it was me.

Tank is a female. SHE not HE

[Sharks]

VLC stream of the announcements and have that through speakers in annex? (saves more powerleads or speakers being wrecked if nobodies watching them)

I'd be more then happy to run it through my PC for people around me to hear. (I usually sit in the annex)