Hi all. Been having a great time here in Dallas at HF LAN #6… 73 of the 100 people that signed up have shown up already and we’ve all played quite a few rounds of CS:S and some BF2 as well. The tournament is set to kick off here in just a few hours, figured I’d let all of ya know how things have been progressing so far.
Setup – as with all things, nothing *ever* goes according to plan or as smooth as you’d like them to go. We had an issue with not having enough tables starting out, but we got that pretty much resolved. Then we started to discover that the circuit breakers here weren’t really up to the task of trying to handle the load of so many computers running at once… we’re actually gonna upgrade those here before the tourney starts to ensure no one trips any more breakers.
Servers – between me and Jason from Powersgaming, we’ve got more than enough CS:S servers to go around and then some, for both pub lan play and for the tourney. I’m also in the process of finishing up a new 2U rackmount server build, just need to grab a PS and some registered ram modules and we’ll have some dual AMD Opteron 246 goodness to throw into the mix ;-)
Overall – it’s been stressful, but fun at the same time. Just wanna make a shout out to everyone here who’s helped me out so far, I am too tired at the moment to remember all of the names, but without their help, nothing would have gone as smooth as it has. I’ll get around to giving recognition where it’s due later on after I get some sleep.
Be sure to check back here often folks – I will be doing news coverage of the tourney as it happens, and we may even do a live scorebot feed in our IRC channel of the final tounrey matches. Pictures will be uploaded as well ;-) All I have for now folks, talk to ya again soon.