Hi.
Thank you for your input. I see large red text, so now you've both insulted my reading skills (I can read your opinion without large red text) and mildly annoyed me.
Please, when being so condescending to us, consider that by the time you guys rock up on Saturday morning, the team has put in anywhere between 8 to 18 hours of work. We've had a few hours sleep. This is how we roll. We
do man up. We
man up really hard, so we can bring you the best damn event we can.
Let me sumarise up our rough estimates of comp running times.
- 7:00 - CSS (has been known to go for even longer)
- 2:00 - Flatout 2
- 3:00 - RA3
- 3:00 - War 3
- 0:45 - HL2DM
- 4:00 - TF2
- 5:00 - CoD4 (this is an old estimate - we expect a lot more teams this time)
(This list taken from the v12 competition schedule, I don't have v15s yet and can't find any other LANs)
That's almost 25 hours of comeptitions.
If we had an overwhelming majority in support of it, we would consider it.
But we don't. We have about a 50/50 split.
However, were said overwhelming majority to support running one competition at a time, we could roster our team around the "tired as hell and need to be awake for packup" issue, and do it. But we don't. There is no need to at this time.
Those 50% of people who say "No, I don't want to stay up until 5AM to wait for the one comp I really want to play" are people who also have a perfectly valid argument.
Consider that they may have sleeping patterns to semi keep, things they need to do Sunday, health issues preventing them from staying up all night, what not.
There are plenty of valid reasons to not stay up all night at a LAN.
From what I've talked to the relevant people about, I do not believe anything will be changing significantly in the near future.
We try to minimise conflicts with popular events where possible. We can't make everyone happy.
Ever. It is not possible.
So, look at what competitions are running when,
man up, and make a decision which one you wish to play in.
And next time, less large red text, less unbased claims (such as all arguments are invalid) and more considering of the entire picture, not just your own wishes.
Thank you.