Ascendancy Gaming

[Beastly]

Well, I gotta say I really enjoyed the lan. The environment was sweet and the admins/organizers did a great job. I'll definitely attend the next one.

After saying that, I have some suggestions.


1. A lan party is a lan party, and a tournament is a tournament. That being said, the purpose of any tournament is to declare a winner. ppl can attend the lan without registering for any tournament, and still have a great time (and a ton of prizes to win by raffles). One thing i would like to see as the tournament grows, is the introduction of prizes to tournament winners. Now, before i get attacked, let me state my case. Yes, I think everyone should have a chance to win prizes by raffle, but there really should be a reward for placing first in a contest. The free entry prize is a good reward, but adding something tangible would be even better (especially for those who can't attend the next lan). It could be a small prize pool, or various hardware. Of course the better the prize, the better the competition; but even if the prizes were something like new headsets, or mice, or hdds, or whatever, I think the winner's deserve it.

2.Being a CS player, this is only CS related. The servers should have the most current z-blocks loaded on them. For those of you who dont know what z block is, it's a plugin that prevents users from using exploits by different commands in the console. It is a pretty critical component to any fair cs game. Here's the link to download. http://www.caleague.com/?page=files (the last file)

Ill see everyone at the next lan!

[brnn]

for sure. I think that winners of the tournaments deserve a prize more so than a random draw(raffle). Like, we only got ..i think 4 raffles for winning, and yeah we won stuff, but i think there should be a set prize for tournament winners. It would up the competition and make it a whole lot mroe fun for everyone involved i think.

Try it out once, and see if you like it. See how it goes.

-brn

[joe]

you should sell separate tickets to people who plan to leave early. the event was great but it was a bit disappointing to see the place 3/4 empty on day two.

maybe ticket (a) $35 for the first day
ticket (b) $20 for 2nd day
ticket (c) $50 for the whole thing

that would be a big hassle but how else can you keep people there, or get new people to show up?

[brnn]

the way most lans get people to stay is have longer tournaments. Space it out a bit. It helps to have more teams.. but here's an idea what im talking about

My game is CSS, so i will talk about that.

Day 1: Group play and that usually takes up a good amount of time, enough to call it a day.

Day 2: Double elimination final bracket. This could be done many different ways. The way, which i personally like, that gigafrag is doing this june, is that 4/5 teams that have the most points in group play make it to the double elimination bracket on day2.

Have maybe 1-2 matches going live at a time. It's more fun to be able to watch how people play, especially if you have known them online and have been gaming with/against them for X amount of years. That's the fun part about lanning.

Now, they are doing this with 16 teams, i think AGL had ~12, so it can be done. With that done, that keeps your people there, like you want. Now, what would make the entire tournament 110% better, is to give something(money,hardware) to the winners of each tournament. You guys had what, 3 main tournaments?(css,cod4,tf2). 5x6x6(players) = 17 prizes. Compared to what you had for prizes, that doesn't seem that bad. Even if it's something as small as a MX518 or Steelseries QcK+ or something.

Just an idea that would help..

[whisp]

[deLay]

I agree with brnn.

[blank]

well who ever won the css tourny were like the first people to leave. Just seems a little funny that your talking about getting people to stay when u all left.
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