Respawn 12: Soviet Lanski De-Brief Thread!, for Comments, Criticism, etc! Options

[Tank]

Hey guys! well V12 is now over!

Since one of the main goals of the Respawn team is to continue to run fantastic events, feel free to post any comments, issues, critism, etc in this thread!

What would be awesome if you could firstly say which area you are adressing (power, network, food, comps, theming, other (or whatever), as that will make it easier for the respective admin's etc reply and also help us when we meet up to discuss things!

Please keep this thread orderly, no silly spam posts (which will be removed).

Thanks!

-Tank

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I don't know the least about budgeting or such, but ill input what i think about where the lan should head

right now respawn is probably the biggest Melbourne lan that actually happens, not only that it has the only appeal to the competitive community atm as a lan (at least for tf2).
respawn could grow VERY easily as there is no big Melbourne lan atm, double or triple the prize money for the comps, and you'll see a HUGE boost in number coming from the competitive community, but this is only if the word spreads.

i heard about respawn through someone else, and dispite being a usual on quite a few pc gaming forums, i see no word of it. if respawn would simply put itself out there, a simple post of a few major communities advertising itself as the only melbourne lan that actually matters, youll see a massive boost in numbers coming from the respective communities.

reloaded in SA advertises itself as a major lan, one a year with a crapload of sponsors and competitions, along with prize money. but then i see their numbers, "over 500 attendees".
respawn almost reaches that number too as a bi-monthly event. you guys could easily beat that through getting some more sponsors (shouldn't be too hard as the only melb lan that matters) and bumping up the prize money.

the prize money is something i dont know about personally since i dont know what sort of budgeting you guys get up to, but you guys pulled in over 12k (400x30=12k) and i dont see why you couldn't spare about 1k to boost the cod/tf2/css appeal.

reloaded has the exact same pricing (30$ a head) and same time length (10am sat to afternoon sunday) and it advertises itself as a major lan. pulling only slightly more than respawn. if respawn held a once a year major along with its normal bi-monthlies throughout the year. it could become not only the melbourne major, but an Australian major, pulling teams from every state including WA. easily jumping the numbers to maybe even 1k

i know the current venue is at its limit at about 500 players, so i cant really comment on that, exhibition center has been mentioned but i know that it is A LOT more costly than the union hall, you could get more numbers, but there's the issue of pulling those numbers first.

i believe respawn could easily pull those numbers though, as i said before i dont see respawn advertised anywhere. you could easily appeal to the big Australian pc/gaming communities. OCAU, GotGames, CyberGamer are a few i know of, and i bet there's plenty more i haven't heard of before

i want to see respawn grow, im more than willing to help with my ideas, but as ive hinted before in this post, i haven't ran a lan before, so i can't exactly comment. but from what i see, with a few small changes and a bit of talking to communities and sponsors could lead this lan to become huge


but if the people who run this lan don't want it to become a serious business hardcore gaming lan, but instead leave it as a more of a social fun fest, keep going the way you are, because i had a HUGE amount of fun at this lan, and im pretty sure every person i was with did too