i thought we already decided a while ago to make the hao at least, to last through the duration if the time the lan goes through. As some of us know 1 game of 5-10 minutes for each round isnt very fun. So if we would like the people who just go to the lans from consoles to have a good time we need to have it set up so they can have a good time. Most of the time the people who play pc dont go to consoles and vice versa. There are a handful of people who do both but not more then 2 or three actually play in the console tournies. So we can have it be 3 hours but as i have stated countless times the consoles take much more time and i know they have 1 hour more but even with that we have to shorten it alot. Let say we have 8 teams (16 people) if we did 10 minutes for each round and we play best of three. It would take a minimum of 5 hours….If it was single elimination with only one 15 minute round and it is best out of one then it would take 3 hours and 45 minutes. So the only way we would fit this in would be to have one round, single elimination, best of 1 game and a 10 minute time limit. Which is exactly what we had to do last time and that is what people were complaining about. They did not have enough time to have a fun, fair experience. So just run the 360 part of the lan half and half… Halo 2 or Gears for the first half and vice versa. This way we will deff have enough time for both and people will also have time to practice just before the tourney instead of people playing for 5 hours waiting for a tourney to start. Im sure this will give ample time and if someone from the pc side wants to play we can call your name over the speakers to call you over to play in your match. This way everyone can play and if you cant play at the moment we can play another round and wait for you so you can play in designated match. I would like it to be this way because at every lan the consoles have not gotten enough time to have fun on the tournament side. We all ahve fun play free play for many hours but thats not the same as actually having a good time competing so that it is fair for everyone. This is also the exact way they conducted the console tournies at App. They had the halo 2 during some other tournies and if you were playing css or some other game they would call out your name and if you could not play then you couldnt play. The halo 2 tourney and the other console tournies they hold there take many hours to complete. I know this is also new to the gaming club but if you want this is grow even more (more then 20 people) we need to create an atmosphere that is fair for everyone but mainly those who come to the lan for the specific reason of playing consoles. I have also seen that many people that come to the lans for consoles do not come back to play them again. They come and see that the times for consoles are messed up and then i do not see them the next time we have a lan. So if we could come to a great agreement on this then im sure many more people from Western would come and join us in playing some good ol’ games.
