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

[Tank]

Hey everyone!

well, i really hoped you enjoyed v14!

The team really thrive on knowing what we did well, and it's important for us to also seek feedback about what you thought didn't happen so well!

So this is the official thread for all your thoughts, comments, criticism, questions, etcetc!

Please keep all posts civil and if detail is needed, please go right ahead

thanks very much everyone!

xoTank

[Sideh]

Great event guys and girls! This was my first Respawn LAN. Me and 2 other mates road tripped from Warrnambool were i (along with about 6 others run a LAN here called MorB (Move or Bleed)). When i saw the event on a friends computer and looked at how many the past events had, i was quite impressed and excited, the huge amount of gamers and varities were fantastic and the venue was awesome.

What i liked about the event:

- 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.

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

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

- 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!

- 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!

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..

- 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.

- After walking 3 KMs lol, for a ATM i found out there is an ATM just arounf the corner from Pings.. The lady working there showed me. >.<

Overall i liked the venue, it was a bigger experiance and the road trip was fun! The LAN was fun and the people made it very interesting.

I would like to see some Respawn Admins at one of our events www.morblans.com

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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