After a harrowing journey fraught with delays and thunderstorms, the GGL Wire crew has arrived at the Hilton Anatole. Our sixth man, Rod “Slasher” Breslau, is nowhere to be found.
12:50
There’s a pretty decent crowd signing up for tournaments, and I’ve got the feeling things are going to kick off soon. But as with all LANs, delays and network problems are most likely running rampant.
The GGL Wire set is up and almost fully operational, and Tosspot, Kam-RA and Rome have done some basic warmups. I’ve seen a number of notable Quake players, including Lost Cauze, griffin, Ermac, Fox, Toxjq, Purri, Chance and I’m sure there are some old school ones on the way.
There are also a lot of noname players that don’t know their fates.
FTP uploading is broken on the network, so no pictures so far; sorry guys!
10:17.Word to the wise: don’t use the bathroom in the BYOC. Someone dropped an epic Lord of the Rings: Return of the King style deuce in there, and you can smell it all the way out to the main area itself.
As usual, the BYOC and line is a madhouse. The male to female ratio is approximately 1000:1, and I saw some pretty gnarly PCs in the BYOC, including this Nvidia-powered Optimus Prime “computer.”
Lots of announcements are going over the PAs right now, but only one notable one.
“Attention everyone,” said a male voice over the speaker. Then the lights turned off, and a massive roar went out from the small crowd.
The oldest LAN party has officially begun its 2007 iteration. More to come.
The following takes place between 07:00 and 9:30.After a harrowing journey fraught with delays and thunderstorms, the GGL Wire crew has arrived at the Hilton Anatole. Hogan “Kam-RA” Carter and I were seated next to an engine each on the plane, and I think my ears still hurt.
Regardless, we arrived at the hotel and met with Stuart “Tosspot” Saw and Rob “Khonsu” Boehm. Our sixth man, Rod “Slasher” Breslau, is nowhere to be found.
Rod rolls without a cell phone, so if anyone knows where he is, tell him to call Rance, or me at 404-314-3309. No, I don’t care if the public has my cell number. Slasher, we don’t know if you’re dead or alive, but in case you’re dead, hold the pearly gates open for me. You are, after all, the Quake Jesus.
Setting up the couches, equipment, and lights is a problem as always. I’m lucky. I just get to take pictures of it.
To give you a preview of the tournament coverage, we’ll be putting more attention on Enemy Territory: Quake Wars the first day as there are going to be a lot of massive blowouts in the Quake Quad Damage tourney. Once the big names start gearing up for battle in Quad Damage, we’ll have them showcased for you. Stay tuned to GGL.com for coverage of QuakeCon and simultaneous coverage of BlizzCon (starting Aug. 3).
