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Day 1
Day began waking up at the absurd time of 8am, do the usual get up routine, have breakfast and a quick surf online. Finished packing my stuff, camera, batteries, pillow etc... Left home at around 10.20 to catch my bus to Fareham station. Wait around for a while for the National Express coach to come, for a good 10 minutes had a couple of old women talking like a couple of women do. The two or so hours on the coach breezed by while I started reading a book (Hostile Conflict by Gorden Kent). Got to Heathrow then began the search for my next bus to Harrow, not as hard as I was worrying about, waited around a while and it came. Took an age and eventually got to Harrow. Had a rough mental image of the map Sujoy posted and went in the general direction, after some distance spotted the hotel which I knew was very close then I found the Harrowlife front and entered.
Guy at the front desk asks, "Are you here for Quake 4", "Yup", "Go upstairs", went up and spotted Jay, said hi, then Zacc, chilled out for a while. Sujoy soon turned up, said hi, met Ms.X. Sujoy gave Jay some money he owed and we went on a mission to Subway (mmm), we have very similar Subway taste: Chicken Breast (he remembered to add bacon), cheese 'n' herb, toasted, no veg.
While the players practice I watched on, soon Red showed, met the rest of g0d, 215, Toss, time flew by pretty quickly. Had a couple of games vs Zacc where he whopped me, a game vs Trito where she whooped me too, time pretty much flew by. Helped move some stuff for iTG including the bigass plasma, originally propped up on a very shaky table on a desk, I was in constant fear of tipping it. Reconfigured the servers so that auto demo and screenshot was on (don't trust players). Later on Sujoy brought up a 24pack of krone (as you can see in gallery, Ms.X was quite fond of :), soon enough it was 2am and we broke up for the night (or morning).
Day 2
Woke up around 8.30 I think, maybe 9.30, wondered where I was, ah, Sujoy's house. Shave, shower, breakfast then back to the LAN for around 11 (I think :\).
Most people were there by the time we got there, even saw Jam for a brief moment. Aphextwin was around, nice of him to drop by after spending Friday night in his hotel room ordering room service :p. Met the remainder of the players, including dozo who finally got his spot at the tourney, and the Reason Gaming manager rg.
Tourney started on time just after 2pm, from then on it was a pretty busy time getting map choices, scores and updating the site. After the first groupstage we then uploaded all the winner POVs to the site, then back to matches for another few hours until about 9pm. What was originally going to be about 5 or 6 of us going to Ask (italian restaurant) turned into the full group of 25. From the look of it the restaurant was really busy when we got there, then they got to work on making space for us, even moving other people. While this isn't the largest gaming dinner I've been to (i26 had over 30 of us) it was a fair sight of 25 of us. After much indecision of choosing between some pasta dish that astz kept saying was great the night before, a spag bol and pizza, I Went for a pepperoni pizza. While the waitress handed out drinks, I ended up with far more beer on me than I'd of liked, I blame Toss. Feh.
After the dinner we went to some bar, three biggest memories of this outing were; a) they took forever to serve, b) Jabb0r (underage) haxxored his way in using TooGoood's NHS card and c) Daishi (I mean Andrew of course) was there. The chrome hats proved very popular with the locals, Dai..Andrew chased his fair share of them, to take them back, spoil sport! Sometime after 2am we were forced out and made our way back to the hotel with promises of beer from g0d. This was where the fun really started with astz eventually being totally drunk. You'll see photos of astz, HELL and deus getting very close and rowdy but what you'll hear most about is astz going to his room, ending up in the hotel kitchen and coming back with an orange, some pancakes and a bowl of fruit. Eventually he was tucked in bed by Aphextwin where later he woke up with "I love hell" and "I love r2k" written across his body (see pics from MsX).
Day 3
Woke up around 9.30 again, instantly realised I hadn't brought my bag (with camera and more importantly then, my ticket home) back with me. As I put my dirty washing away I caught a whiff which really wasn't good. Got to that LAN around 1030, expecting everyone to be there, just Toss unfortunately! Jay turned out to be a good boy and turned up well in time for his match; Zacc, Deus and GaRpY (who didn't even drink!) didn't. While going down for a Subway for breakfast at sometime after 12 I found Deus and GaRpY (again, he didn't drink!). Eventually matches started and went smoothly. While Zacc has a cooller-esque habit of typing his comments ("USE ANOTHER GUN!"), Jay and deus are very vocal with their midgame comments. The finals came and went, people began leaving and cu@onlines were said.
Huge thanks to Sujoy for hosting a great event and letting me help out, VIA for making it possible, Tim for being VIA, alot of fun and somehow being thoughtful enough to pickup my bag on Saturday, g0d for being there, spreading the chrome goodness and last of all Red for giving me a lift home!
I hope this LAN is a sign of things to come for the UK especially, we have a really strong chance of leaving our mark this year in Quake 4, and apart from that being able to hold a decent event that everyone came out of wanting another. </soppy stuff>
Day began waking up at the absurd time of 8am, do the usual get up routine, have breakfast and a quick surf online. Finished packing my stuff, camera, batteries, pillow etc... Left home at around 10.20 to catch my bus to Fareham station. Wait around for a while for the National Express coach to come, for a good 10 minutes had a couple of old women talking like a couple of women do. The two or so hours on the coach breezed by while I started reading a book (Hostile Conflict by Gorden Kent). Got to Heathrow then began the search for my next bus to Harrow, not as hard as I was worrying about, waited around a while and it came. Took an age and eventually got to Harrow. Had a rough mental image of the map Sujoy posted and went in the general direction, after some distance spotted the hotel which I knew was very close then I found the Harrowlife front and entered.
Guy at the front desk asks, "Are you here for Quake 4", "Yup", "Go upstairs", went up and spotted Jay, said hi, then Zacc, chilled out for a while. Sujoy soon turned up, said hi, met Ms.X. Sujoy gave Jay some money he owed and we went on a mission to Subway (mmm), we have very similar Subway taste: Chicken Breast (he remembered to add bacon), cheese 'n' herb, toasted, no veg.
While the players practice I watched on, soon Red showed, met the rest of g0d, 215, Toss, time flew by pretty quickly. Had a couple of games vs Zacc where he whopped me, a game vs Trito where she whooped me too, time pretty much flew by. Helped move some stuff for iTG including the bigass plasma, originally propped up on a very shaky table on a desk, I was in constant fear of tipping it. Reconfigured the servers so that auto demo and screenshot was on (don't trust players). Later on Sujoy brought up a 24pack of krone (as you can see in gallery, Ms.X was quite fond of :), soon enough it was 2am and we broke up for the night (or morning).
Day 2
Woke up around 8.30 I think, maybe 9.30, wondered where I was, ah, Sujoy's house. Shave, shower, breakfast then back to the LAN for around 11 (I think :\).
Most people were there by the time we got there, even saw Jam for a brief moment. Aphextwin was around, nice of him to drop by after spending Friday night in his hotel room ordering room service :p. Met the remainder of the players, including dozo who finally got his spot at the tourney, and the Reason Gaming manager rg.
Tourney started on time just after 2pm, from then on it was a pretty busy time getting map choices, scores and updating the site. After the first groupstage we then uploaded all the winner POVs to the site, then back to matches for another few hours until about 9pm. What was originally going to be about 5 or 6 of us going to Ask (italian restaurant) turned into the full group of 25. From the look of it the restaurant was really busy when we got there, then they got to work on making space for us, even moving other people. While this isn't the largest gaming dinner I've been to (i26 had over 30 of us) it was a fair sight of 25 of us. After much indecision of choosing between some pasta dish that astz kept saying was great the night before, a spag bol and pizza, I Went for a pepperoni pizza. While the waitress handed out drinks, I ended up with far more beer on me than I'd of liked, I blame Toss. Feh.
After the dinner we went to some bar, three biggest memories of this outing were; a) they took forever to serve, b) Jabb0r (underage) haxxored his way in using TooGoood's NHS card and c) Daishi (I mean Andrew of course) was there. The chrome hats proved very popular with the locals, Dai..Andrew chased his fair share of them, to take them back, spoil sport! Sometime after 2am we were forced out and made our way back to the hotel with promises of beer from g0d. This was where the fun really started with astz eventually being totally drunk. You'll see photos of astz, HELL and deus getting very close and rowdy but what you'll hear most about is astz going to his room, ending up in the hotel kitchen and coming back with an orange, some pancakes and a bowl of fruit. Eventually he was tucked in bed by Aphextwin where later he woke up with "I love hell" and "I love r2k" written across his body (see pics from MsX).
Day 3
Woke up around 9.30 again, instantly realised I hadn't brought my bag (with camera and more importantly then, my ticket home) back with me. As I put my dirty washing away I caught a whiff which really wasn't good. Got to that LAN around 1030, expecting everyone to be there, just Toss unfortunately! Jay turned out to be a good boy and turned up well in time for his match; Zacc, Deus and GaRpY (who didn't even drink!) didn't. While going down for a Subway for breakfast at sometime after 12 I found Deus and GaRpY (again, he didn't drink!). Eventually matches started and went smoothly. While Zacc has a cooller-esque habit of typing his comments ("USE ANOTHER GUN!"), Jay and deus are very vocal with their midgame comments. The finals came and went, people began leaving and cu@onlines were said.
Huge thanks to Sujoy for hosting a great event and letting me help out, VIA for making it possible, Tim for being VIA, alot of fun and somehow being thoughtful enough to pickup my bag on Saturday, g0d for being there, spreading the chrome goodness and last of all Red for giving me a lift home!
I hope this LAN is a sign of things to come for the UK especially, we have a really strong chance of leaving our mark this year in Quake 4, and apart from that being able to hold a decent event that everyone came out of wanting another. </soppy stuff>
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Edited by therogue at 10:22 GMT, 22nd Jan 2006 - 5232 Hits
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