Respawn Lan 10 Feedback Options

[TMM]

OK, so i've been to Respawn v1, v2, v3, and now v10. I have been to lans for many years and i can honestly say i've only been to one (>100 player) lan that sucked more then respawn v10 did for me.

Games:
-Played CS Source, TF2, Flatout, and Trackmania which all seemed to have a decent amount of people playing at any one time.

Network/Power/EMS:
-Power was up throughout the time i was there, network seemed fast (although 3-4 of the ports on the switch at my table didn't work, until zardoz did something to the switch iirc?)

Comps:
-I entered the Flatout and Trackmania comps. The flatout comp was run very well imo.

-Trackmania was a shambles - no one even finished the track after a whole hour because the person who ran the comp (lord phobos) seemed more interested in 'showing off' his self made track then running a decent competition. Immediately as the server went up, literally everyone in the server expressed how much of a retarded choice the track was for a comp. Sort of like running a Counter-Strike competition on fy_iceworld. Well done, thanks for wasting an hour of our time.

Other:
-Some of the admins weren't approachable at all and didn't want anything to do with you when you had a problem/query.

-The person sitting in the admin area to Miniwalks' left went off at me for 'interrupting Miniwalks game' when i asked Miniwalks where i could find Deadman. I'm sorry but saying 'over there' and pointing is hardly an interruption. I have no idea if this guy is actually an admin or a 'friend of the admins' who thinks hes a fucking champ because he gets to sit in the admin area, but he was sitting in the admin area infront of a computer, that's good enough for me.

For the record, what this person said was "piss off can't you see he's playing a game" or something a long those lines. I am shocked that an admin would say such a thing to a player.
I pay $25 and drive 40 minutes to go to a lan and be helped by the LAN staff, not to be told to fuck off because you're too busy enjoying yourself.

-Tables were packed in too tightly, only made worse by idiot players who thought they could block a whole aisle for 4 hours while they had a chat.

Overall, i think respawn falls down in many aspects, and some of the staff have a lot to learn about 'customer service' from higher quality lans like 3xtremeLAN. They need to learn that they are running a lan, not a show-off power-tripping popularity competition. Yes admins, this means taht you may have to do hard work, play less games and help people out, omg no wai!

Personally i don't think i can be bothered to go to another Respawn ever again. It's too far away for me, the service sucks, the venue isn't anything special and for 150TB+ on the DC hub, there wasn't much quality content to be had, mostly junk. Also don't even get me started on how allowing NON-HASHED clients is ridiculous in this day and age.

edit:
To quote someone who may or may not have been involved with respawn lan in the past:

yeah.. it weirds me out that admins think they are allowed to play games... thats how shafted got shafted

theyve been to a lan.. helped run a lan but have no concept of business, customers, customer service etc... all the important stuff.. they are just really lucky that half the gamers dont care

[Nemesis Hill]

hey, this was my 2nd lan, first Respawn lan, and I thought it was awesome and I'm pretty sure people don't say it enough but thank you very much! i had a good time

i found admins were good, they can't be perfect, and they are volunteers if i heard correctly so cut them some slack, the ladies in right side, they were helpful, Respawn did well in the food department, last lan i went to (Monsterlan in Nth Geelong) there pizza run and that was pretty much it, + drinks and chips that you could buy, but here they took could care, with free bbq, cooking sausages every couple hours is great, coffee and the fact that they got chicken, bacon and sausages for breakfast, its pretty sweet

just wish could get more ppl to play games, hl2dm was awesome fun, but didn't last long sadly, i think only thing that needs improving getting more ppl to play games and yes i understand can't play games all the time and by like 4am, most ppl are just argh can't play games, i understand that, i got to the point where i just couldn't game anymore, but like at 6,7pm everyone i personally think should be fucking playing games, people need to work more on organizing playing games with other people, weather you ask round yourself or go to admin desk and get them to make announcement over microphone, but respawn cannot be awesome, if we don't make it awesome, respawn is what we make it

Last thing, people should FUCKING CLEAN UP AFTER THEMSELVES, there are bins provided, its not hard to get up and walk over to one, its good to stretch your legs, when your sitting down for a day, cause otherwise the volunteers have to fucking clean up after you, why the fuck should they have to do that, they go to the trouble of making this event possible and by polluting the place, i think just disrespectful

oh and power was awsome, last lan i went bout 100-150 ppl, power went like 2 or 3 times and one off my hdd failed, and i don't know much about hdd fail, but pretty sure it was because of the power, so was good to have power whole time =)

[eskymobob]

[quote name='Nemesis Hill' date='Jan 20 2009, 12:39 AM' post='3734']

Last thing, people should FUCKING CLEAN UP AFTER THEMSELVES, there are bins provided, its not hard to get up and walk over to one, its good to stretch your legs, when your sitting down for a day, cause otherwise the volunteers have to fucking clean up after you, why the fuck should they have to do that, they go to the trouble of making this event possible and by polluting the place, i think just disrespectful

Always a issue at cleanup on sunday. This time around though bins were bigger maybe?

But the back of the hall was cleaner this event than previous ones, to the people sitting there during the lan and those 2 or 3 guys at the end putting up chairs and cleaning up the little rubbish there was, good work.

For shame: People sitting in the annex..although it wasn't to bad.

Some people on the VIP table up the front, but again not to bad.

All in all people have cleaned up after themselves better, good work.