Well Sunday the 18th of April 2010 marks the latest chapter in what is (we’ve been told) Australia oldest running public LAN. Ref -(http://www.overclockers.com.au/wiki/LAN_Index)

Firstly we would like to acknowledge the people that traveled a long way to frag with us. Thanks to the guys that tripped down from Sydney and a big thank you to Imy who came up from Tumut. Also TD had it's first international visitor with Bo from South Korea popping in to play. I know several people spoke to him about South Korea, Starcraft and “PC Rooms”. Overall we had 31 people attend the LAN which is down on previous LANs. But we think this is due to the fact that it was such a long time since we held an event. We expect numbers to increase over the next few LANs.

We also would like to acknowledge all the people that helped through out the day. There are to many to mention but you know who you are.

It was our first event in the Bulli Senior Citizen's Centre. We set up and people rocked up. Our first Team Player (TPL) style game was Quake 3 CTF . Votes were tallied and the captains were decided. Team 1 was captained by Sauce, Team 2 was captained by Guamy, Team 3 was captained by perennial crowd favourite Moddy and Team 4 was in the capable hands of Pickles. The teams split up and talked strats before the first round. The first round was a white wash with team 1 smashing team 2 10-0 while team 4 dominated team 3. After seeing the results we thought the next few rounds would be predictable with team 1 and team 4 smashing the other team until they played out a match to see who would be champ. This however was not the case as both team 2 and team 3 had obviously learnt a lot form their first round smashings. In fact team 3 managed to hold team 1 to a 1-all draw and team 2 went down by the barest of margins with a 1-0 loss to team 4. Going into the last round teams 1,4,and 3 were all potentially in with a shot of winning. In the end team 1 came out on top after the final round played out another close collection of games. The spoils and the extra ticket in the raffle went to Team Sauce.

After the lunch break some random play was had until the next TPL style game (CS1.6). Again captains were voted for with Guamy, Gretchen, Mr Lee and (of course) Moddy voted in. Games were to be fought out on the teams choice of either between De_Nuke and De_Dust. De-nuke was the most played map with 4 of the 6 game played on it. The game were mostly pretty close and the most important game was in the first round when team Moddy’s 2 beat Guamy’s team 1. Team 2 went on to be undefeated and claim victory. Gaumy’s team 2 had their only lose against the eventual winner while the other 2 teams were not really in the hunt.

The lucky door prize draw was conducted at 6 o’clock with everyone present having a shot at winning. Guamy made up for the disappointment of just losing out in the CS TPL game by winning the $50 gift voucher at JB HI-FI. Congrats Guamy!

So all in all a pretty good day of LANing goodness.

We would really like to get peoples feedback about their thoughts on the venue and any other aspect of the LAN. Also we would like to remind you about the TD teamspeak server and please check the site for update on regular events like HON nights, our quake server etc. Also if you would like to play an online game with other TDers check out the site and post your desired time and game or see what others have posted. Join team speak and away you all go.

See you next time

Regards
TeamDamage Admins
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