When
I got there, into the huge halls of the Gerlafingen steel works, there were
already roughly 400-450 people in the hall, about 380 of them with their
own PCs, the rest being staff and visitors. Games played were CounterStrike,
Quake 3 Arena, Unreal Tournament, Age of Empires 2, Team Fortress and many
others. The official programme included 4v4 TDM tournaments in both CS and
Q3, as well as 1vs1 duels in AoE2. From the small impression I got during
my 4 hour stay, I guess most people had a lot of fun, even if the servers
and internet backbone sometimes had a hard time keeping up with the enormous
traffic due to downloads and leechings, but I'd give kudos to the organisators
anyway...for only 14.- entry fee (about 8$), it was an excellent service.
I'll give you more info once the party has ended, things such as winners
of the contests etc. Until then, or if you want more information on this
event (which is going to come again), visit the Lanforce homepage at www.lanforce.ch.
Please pardon the poor quality of the images, but due to the lack of a digital
camera, I was forced to use both a DV camera (those are the pictures my
friend took for me) and an APS camera (the scans following soon).
Next time, you'll definitely meet me there again, probabyl as the first
Mac user kicking some serious Wintel ass:)
|
| Friday
shortly before the official start |
That
guy is playing with some serious picmip settings (seen very often) |
Saturday
about 4 hours before I arrived (Noon) |
Friday
night, some guys couldn't keep awake |
