Respawn LAN 8.5 Lite!, Sept 27-28th, The Odeon Options

[Zardoz]

Respawn LAN v8.5
September 27-28th
The Odeon, La Trobe University Bundoora

With more win and gold than the Chinese Olympic team comes the next installment of Melbourne's most popular LAN gaming event, Respawn. We're scaling back for the Grand Final weekend to bring you a 170 player exclusive event. (that said, if we see a large amount of registrations early on, we might see if we can move to the bigger venue if it's available).

Competitions will include:
* Warcraft III 1v1
* Warcraft III DOTA
* QuakeWorld Deathmatch (DM6)
* Flatout 2
* Worms World Party
* CS Source 5v5
* CS Source GunGame

And other servers will include Battlefield 1942, Battlefield 2, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Quake 3 arena and more! Since we're running on the Grand Final weekend, we'll aim to have the game on the projector for those who love their aussie rules.

Registrations are alrady open right here, clicky clicky. We look forward to seeing you there!

[Harkonnen]

[b]We're scaling back for the Grand Final weekend to bring you a 170 player exclusive event. (that said, if we see a large amount of registrations early on, we might see if we can move to the bigger venue if it's available).

Everybody start registering.
Now.

[dead_man]

already registered, now to get my PC working

[Goose10]

Zardoz,


Any chance in posting a guide to get to the Odian please, as i'm sure there are quite a few people (including me) of not knowing how too get there!!!!!!!!


Goose

[dead_man]

ITS RIGHT NEXT TO UNION HALL FROM WHAT IV BEEN TOLD

[Tank]

ITS RIGHT NEXT TO UNION HALL FROM WHAT IV BEEN TOLD

HAVE MAP< WILL ARRIVE GOOD.

[dead_man]

so its at the bottom of the court?

[neon]

rego'd. Will there still be cisco gear and VIP table? If you need a hand setting up i can help out friday night.

[Sando]

[Tank]

see?! my map was epic accurate :V

[gyix]

yes it was you showed it was right next door lol

[Tiny]

thanx for the map it will sort of help me and my 7 buddy's come from nsw sydney to get there?lol not relly

any way i what i wanted to now is what prizes are u giving

and what prizes are u give away to the flatout2 comp??

im a big fan of flatout2 iv won every fol2 comp in my fragfest lan lol

[Tiny]

thanx for the map it will sort of help me and my 7 buddy's come from nsw sydney to get there?lol not relly

any way what i wanted to now is what prizes are u giving

and what prizes are u give away to the flatout2 comp??

im a big fan of flatout2 iv won every fol2 comp in my fragfest lan lol so hopefully i got some fol2 people down there that can show me up

[dead_man]

dont worry, me and oohms will give you a run for ya money

[Tiny]

dont worry, me and oohms will give you a run for ya money

i hope so theres no 1 sydney that can bet me so i hope u are rely up for a good comp

[dancer89]

i hope so theres no 1 sydney that can bet me so i hope u are rely up for a good comp

yeah, tiny's pretty good.
i'll def jump in as well
i prob need to practise a bit first..

[R4N]

Tiny/Dancer 89, PM me at some point to give me an idea how Flatout 2 competitions were run up in sydney

I may also run GRID if there is interest

R4N

[dead_man]

im in if grid is running awsome on a LAN

[dancer89]

Tiny/Dancer 89, PM me at some point to give me an idea how Flatout 2 competitions were run up in sydney

I may also run GRID if there is interest

R4N

Here's a link to how i ran the tourny

fragfest fo2 tourny

[Tiny]

Here's a link to how i ran the tourny

fragfest fo2 tourny

along with all of dancers stuff we make it all same car to make sure it even

[R4N]

Nice, it will be very similar to that, without stunts.

R4N

[Tiny]

Nice, it will be very similar to that, without stunts.

R4N

with out stunts what??? thats what fol2 is and u are trying to take it out meh what ever

[SLoV]

if u need help with teh sparks side of things i can lend a hand, maybe take off the friday, just let me know,

[R4N]

Tiny, the main reason i remove stunts from the flatout 2 competition is the time requirements, and the issues when some retard decides he/she cant be bothered playing but keeps his/her PC connected. Its too hard to run a competition with 40+ players that way

As usual i will put out a request thread before the event, if there is a huge request for stunts, i may run it as a seperate comp.

If you have any more questions/suggestions related to the competition, please dont hesitate to PM me

R4N

[Tiny]

Tiny, the main reason i remove stunts from the flatout 2 competition is the time requirements, and the issues when some retard decides he/she cant be bothered playing but keeps his/her PC connected. Its too hard to run a competition with 40+ players that way

As usual i will put out a request thread before the event, if there is a huge request for stunts, i may run it as a seperate comp.

If you have any more questions/suggestions related to the competition, please dont hesitate to PM me

R4N

hay hay i didnt mean to be rude just saying is all it ok the think we did stunts is just pick like ski jump it only 2 times u have to go so it didnt take that long

stunts like that not bowling or anythink like that just think about it

[R4N]

Ill chuck up a Flatout 2 Request thread soon
(Maybe when i get back from work)

R4N

[dancer89]

Ill chuck up a Flatout 2 Request thread soon
(Maybe when i get back from work)

R4N

If you have lots of smaller groups for the qualifiers then it makes it a lot easier, i.e. groups of 4 per server (or host) then top player goes thru.
That way you can run 10 simultaneous quals, hence less time taken up.
And seeing that its an overnight event, time is a bit more of a luxury

[MrDerrick]

Upgrade in time for the LAN

[djzort]

lans full, any chance of more places opening?

[neon]

rego's at 173 now, so im guessing that the lan will need at least a 250 rego to bump up to union hall again, and 170 for the odeon looks like the max.

[dead_man]

if theyre is demand we MAY be able to get the bigger hall, atm just register and see how it goes

[Harkonnen]

upgrade to 9.0 and make it a 400 man lan imo

[dead_man]

at this stage dont think it will happen,

[djzort]

its surprising that the 'finals' somehow make people not want to lan. maybe its a victoria thing?

[dead_man]

yes it is a victorian thing, however theyre is also another LAN the same weekend which a few ppl are going to

last year i was seriously considering to miss a respawn coz they held it on the bathurst 1000

[neon]

whats space like in the odeon? Pics i have seen look very crampt. anyone got better pics, or a floorplan of how the lan is laid out?

[R4N]

Cramped++

odeon can run a 170+ people lan, we will just be squished in like sardines

R4N

[neon]

Im not a huge fan of crampage. Since regos are up past 180 now, im hoping you guys can push for the bigger hall.

Is there a VIP table at the odeon events?

[Ithuriel]

As it's already being stated, there needs to be alot of regos (250 aprox) for the union hall to be used as otherwise you end up with a big empty unused hall.

Theres always a vip table of sorts, if not i'm sure zardoz will take care of you neon

[neon]

Theres always a vip table of sorts, if not i'm sure zardoz will take care of you neon

As always I see its been bumped to the big hall anyway, is this confirmed?
Do i need to talk to zardoz in regards to offering to help set up friday night, or is there enough hands on deck for that this time round. I'd like to put a bit back into the respawn community, as I enjoy the events, and want to do my bit to keep them running.

[dead_man]

shouldnt be an issue neon, ill be rocking up aswell, grab Zardoz on IRC and see what he says

[Vortex Vandel]

Never ever ever ask if you can help set up I'll allwayse want moar!!1!!

there is cable to be laid out. tables to be moved etc etc etc.

I hope to grab some guys/gals and make them sub bosses or somthing. So please come and just approach me and ask "what needs to be done" if you want to find out.

Also. Vip table is where ever I'm at Usually next to ADMIN r4n. or MR AT as I like to call him. so yeh. another way to anwser the question is. I'm getting work mates to come on friday so I can get extra hands etc. if 200 people turn up then 200 people can lay cable

[Ithuriel]

lol, vortex needs all the fiber laying lackies he can get ahah!

Plus someone will need to help ICE do it, i wont be there

Pssh vip table vortex, you mean the admin table/R4n's late night blowjob assistant You know chain of command and all that

[Harkonnen]

Im involved in a smallscale documentary on the advent of torrent technology and its effects in Australia - Zardoz, r4n, other admins; would it be possible to drag along a camera to 9.0, to get some stock footage of the lan? Would omit references to respawn etc.

Could possibly film some tourneys/interviews/general crowd stuff afterwards if anyone wants me to, like the time lapse shot 8.0 had.

[mang]

harkonnen only problem is to film you gotta get people to sign a release of some sort i assume?

I dunno how many people would want you filming them while " network stress" testing ..