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Tell me what liked and disliked about the LAN. And do not be afraid to criticize me if you think I did something wrong, but do expect me to say something if I think you are wrong.
YOU ARE WRONG, MY KIND SIR.
GOOD DAY.
Overall, I was quite pleased with everything.
Just a few notes:
-Tournaments for TF2 and L4D were interrupted quite a few times by people joining the game, L4D more so than TF2.
-Was there less pizza this time?
-Having the XBox stand moved outside might not have been a good idea, not many people played on it.
-HADOUKEN HADOUKEN HADOUKEN HADOUKEN HADOUKEN IM CHEAP *edited* AND BORING LOL.
-You looked quite rushed the whole time, I would be happy to help more next time so you can actually enjoy the lan.
1.6 was not voted in at the meeting. as for the xbox stand being outside it brought in atlest 10-15 people who paid …. so overall it made us $50-75. no there was not less pizza there were 105 people.
I asked the guys (Freezer and Tallgeese) how things went for them since they were in charge of running the 360 stuff in my stead. I heard everything went okay overall; however, they told me a lot of things that went very poorly. I won’t go into detail here, but I will bring it up at the meeting, or will discuss it over AIM/IRC/etc.
I really really enjoyed this lan 10x better than the past handful. PC side was ran well, minor hiccups but were solved promptly. Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves during the event.
Ideas that could be improved
- PC side, think we are going to burn DVD’s of all the game files and get ppl to load them as they walk in the door. this was the #1 reason for our holdups. but we have an easy fix.
- that Xbox stand (if we get it again) maybe could place it on the 1st floor UC in front of the steps with our banner above it, or flyers, or a sign saying come to the 3ed floor.. lol.
- Never have nuff food/drink (thou this time we did have nuff drinks, and thanks for the water, just the right amount)
- maybe have rockband not in the center of the room? kinda a traffic probelm and noisy (even thou i herd zero complaints about it myself)
and really not much more, you guys stepped up bigtime and i was more than impressed. pat yourselves on the back you deserve it.
PC side has a number of improvements to make but none of them should be very hard. Game deployment is killing us right now and we should be able to fix that at the next LAN with game transfer dvds.
the pc stuff has been really perfected over the years. We just needed to do a little more testing before we went to the lan.
The consoles however have alot more planning to do.
I would actually like to see the lans start earlier and finish earlier or something. I would like us to have some padding for finishing. I hate that people were getting kicked out at the end of the lan and I was running around picking up trash. Very uncool.
The only real issue i had with the entire lan was we needed to advertise it more. We need to start pulling our friends to the lans or something.
Also my signup was a fail. Almost none of the console people signed up for it because they dont know our website or are not involved with the community.
But I do agree with dice it was a really good lan and a lan turnout.
Adam Faulkner said:
Also my signup was a fail. Almost none of the console people signed up for it because they dont know our website or are not involved with the community.Why is that your fail? I think this is a general club fail for not bothering to actually bothering to reach out to all these LAN attendees that show up and getting them involved in the community.
Most of my concerns have been expressed already, but I’ll make a short list.
+ The 360 stand being put outside was a good idea, but the suggestion of having it down on 1st is even better.
+ We got plenty of drinks this time, but the snacks went quickly. The spending ratio just needs to be tweaked.
+ The layout of the room was great without the stage being there. Only Rock Band’s location was a minor
inconvenience (we likely would have had Rock Band on the other projector if it wasn’t “broken”).
– General communication between execs needs to improve.
– We need to leave the microphone in one place, so everyone who needs to make an announcement can.
– Going dual console for the fighting games turned out to be mostly an inconvenience(time-wise especially).
– Door prize announcements need to be more organized, at the end it was just people grabbing leftover shirts.
I’ll think of more at the meeting on Thursday.
Eyce said:
Most of my concerns have been expressed already, but I’ll make a short list.+ The 360 stand being put outside was a good idea, but the suggestion of having it down on 1st is even better.
+ We got plenty of drinks this time, but the snacks went quickly. The spending ratio just needs to be tweaked.
+ The layout of the room was great without the stage being there. Only Rock Band’s location was a minor
inconvenience (we likely would have had Rock Band on the other projector if it wasn’t “broken”).
– General communication between execs needs to improve.
– We need to leave the microphone in one place, so everyone who needs to make an announcement can.
– Going dual console for the fighting games turned out to be mostly an inconvenience(time-wise especially).
– Door prize announcements need to be more organized, at the end it was just people grabbing leftover shirts.
I’ll think of more at the meeting on Thursday.
Agree on all points.
Note on bolded aspect. Yeah. But we would’ve never known had we not tried. If it was about 50/50 on console preference, I doubt it would’ve been as bad. Instead, it was 25/75, so it may be wise to move those games to PS3 only. The benefit of this is that there’s plenty of free play time on the 360 now which is a good thing.
Audyo said:
Why is that your fail? I think this is a general club fail for not bothering to actually bothering to reach out to all these LAN attendees that show up and getting them involved in the community.Have a laptop and make them register as they come in. If we have this resource available and someone brings a printer it could potentially make organization a hell of a lot easier.
Adam Faulkner said:
The only real issue i had with the entire lan was we needed to advertise it more. We need to start pulling our friends to the lans or something.We advertised this LAN like mad. That’s why we had 30 more attendees this time than last time.
Audyo said:
Agree on all points.Note on bolded aspect. Yeah. But we would’ve never known had we not tried. If it was about 50/50 on console preference, I doubt it would’ve been as bad. Instead, it was 25/75, so it may be wise to move those games to PS3 only. The benefit of this is that there’s plenty of free play time on the 360 now which is a good thing.
I agree that we needed to try it once. Before the LAN I didn’t quite know if dual-console was going to end up as a positive or negative thing, but it’s definitely negative in hindsight.
Live and learn and most importantly ask past executives before you screw something up. Oh Malley should be the go to guy in consoles. Same with Trebushae (assuming she’s still around).
I see her on campus a lot. Along with Cacophony. Granted, I think they’ve shown up to 1 LAN in the past year, I think.
Anyways.. yeah. I am the go-to guy. lol. This upcoming LAN will be my last as an exec and I’m sure any future execs will need my help or could at least use my advice.
Ephraim said:
We advertised this LAN like mad. That’s why we had 30 more attendees this time than last time.I walked around campus/dorms/community buildings looking for a flyer and could not locate even one. The first one i saw was teh Pink dan one that was at the sign in table. so it could be better. however as you said, numbers dont lie, 30 new ppl so alot was done right,, could still be improved just a little
Internet wise it was advertised out the *edited*
Forum emails, collige links emails, fbook, steam community, and the forums.If we get the consul members to sign up for the event at the door, they will also get emails about community events we send out. fun nights, mini lans, meetings, lan’s, cookout, exc’s an easy and the most effected way to communicate with the community that is afraid of the internet aka our forums
Freezer_mcs said:
Fliers were put up in every dorm and in the UC. Res Life did it.As a commuter I never go in the dorms or in the UC. just something to consider.
NoDice said:
I walked around campus/dorms/community buildings looking for a flyer and could not locate even one. The first one i saw was teh Pink dan one that was at the sign in table. so it could be better. however as you said, numbers dont lie, 30 new ppl so alot was done right,, could still be improved just a littleThere were two in the UC, one in the book store, two around the library, one in Dodson, two near the Cat’s Den, two near the Bell Tower, and a ton at the gaming desks. I asked the winner of the Soulcalibur tournament why he came to the LAN. He said he saw a flier with Street Fighter and Soul Calibur on it. Marketing was fine.
I was only stating that I went out looking for fliers Friday night and i did not see any. I spent a half hour walking around. Maybe they got taken down early, idk.
maybe the club will think about the napkin dispensers ad’s nearly all on campus students should see them. Also i think the majority of the advertisement should be geared towards the freshmen. just something to think about
I to agree needed more advertising (increase that budget?) and earlier advertising. Even if 2 or 3 rounds of “flyer hanging” needs to be done. Def did love the xbox display but having it in a higher traffic area is a great idea, especially being secluded upstairs.
Also, maybe something that the spectators can do? I saw a lot of gfriends not looking to happy.
honestly i was skeptic about this LAN since there really not many games i wanted to play and i was kinda mad that resistance, goldeneye and NCAA were voted in, which was b/c no one showed up to vote. I honestly didnt think those were right for the LAN and it turned out i was right, but atleast now ppl know. Though when i showed up i had a blast. I met so many knew ppl and a few i already knew that i had no idea played video games like that. Was real cool!
here are my ratings.
+ there were a whole lot of new people there
+ advertising had gotten alot better
+ Street Fighter was a great addition to the LAN
+ thought the new execs did a good first job
– I saw the ps3 leader cuss out the Console VP, which was very un proffesional on the clubs part (well his). If the VP says to do something that console leader should listen.
– One game shouldnt be played on both consoles it was very ineffecient
– Games need to be voted in that will draw more people, not games only a few ppl think will be fun
– More Pizza!
– Better Organization with the schedule
Lets make the next LAN even better!
Despite the rather large turnout and the fact that a lot of my close friends showed up (which meant a lot to me personally considering some of the family things I’m dealing with right now), I was generally unhappy with how some of things were run.
I personally ran the NCAA 09 tourney, which I was happy to play in, but at the same time it was probably the worst time of the year to play it considering most sports gamers minds are on Basketball and Baseball seasons, thus why I thought there was a rather small turn out. Gears, though not officially voted in, got shafted at the end of the night, and as a result there were a lot of hot tempers that went off in the process. Resistance 2 and 007 were very poor game choices, which was exactly as I had suspected back when I heard they were chosen in the first place.
And to be all honest, despite the fact that I had fun hanging out with my friends, unless things change with the game choices, and peoples mentalities and attitudes regarding said choices, this past LAN will probably be the last one I attend here at Western.
ExiLe said:
honestly i was skeptic about this LAN since there really not many games i wanted to play and i was kinda mad that resistance, goldeneye and NCAA were voted in, which was b/c no one showed up to vote. I honestly didnt think those were right for the LAN and it turned out i was right, but atleast now ppl know. Though when i showed up i had a blast. I met so many knew ppl and a few i already knew that i had no idea played video games like that. Was real cool!here are my ratings.
+ there were a whole lot of new people there
+ advertising had gotten alot better
+ Street Fighter was a great addition to the LAN
+ thought the new execs did a good first job
– I saw the ps3 leader cuss out the Console VP, which was very un proffesional on the clubs part (well his). If the VP says to do something that console leader should listen.
– One game shouldnt be played on both consoles it was very ineffecient
– Games need to be voted in that will draw more people, not games only a few ppl think will be fun
– More Pizza!
– Better Organization with the schedule
Lets make the next LAN even better!
Sorry I couldnt get more pizza Exile, Reslife only gave us $200 which got us 23 large pizzas. And as far as the console vp being cussed at thing goes, I handled it. Since Street fighter IV was such a big tournament, I decided to help the ps3 leader (because it was his job to run that tournament since it was dual platform and Audyo wasnt there) out and I approved of the way he was running things so the console vp shouldn’t have said anything to begin with. But this will be elaborated on at the meeting, so lets end this discussion for now.
Dark Omen said:
Despite the rather large turnout and the fact that a lot of my close friends showed up (which meant a lot to me personally considering some of the family things I’m dealing with right now), I was generally unhappy with how some of things were run.I personally ran the NCAA 09 tourney, which I was happy to play in, but at the same time it was probably the worst time of the year to play it considering most sports gamers minds are on Basketball and Baseball seasons, thus why I thought there was a rather small turn out. Gears, though not officially voted in, got shafted at the end of the night, and as a result there were a lot of hot tempers that went off in the process. Resistance 2 and 007 were very poor game choices, which was exactly as I had suspected back when I heard they were chosen in the first place.
And to be all honest, despite the fact that I had fun hanging out with my friends, unless things change with the game choices, and peoples mentalities and attitudes regarding said choices, this past LAN will probably be the last one I attend here at Western.
Now you guys know how us PS3 guys felt last year, not even being able to have a PS3 tournament until I came around and turned some heads with the Soul Calibur IV turnout last semester. Now things like Resistance 2 and Goldeneye not doing to great should be an incentive for you guys to come out this Thursday and vote because I remember back in the day when you 360 guys were all for playing only the games that were voted in. And no offense Dark Omen but the LAN isnt just about the 360, bigger selections of games should be played other than 360 shooters and EVERYONE in this club should be thinking about what will draw in a bigger crowed to the LANs other than their own selfish wants (and I mean all of the people that were pouting about Gears, and the whole way SFIV was ran, come on people, think about others and not just yourselves)
Personally, I’d like to see a good mix of PS3 and 360 games. Maybe switch it so all fighting games will be played on PS3 and all shooters on 360. I kinda hope we vote in Halo 3. It usually draws in a lot of people. I think I’ll nominate the console version of L4D.
Well, I’ve been doing my research on the numbers… Some game choices to look into…
Killzone 2 (good replacement for Resistance 2)
Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe
Then of course, I know people have a lot of interest in Halo Wars. However this has its drawbacks as well.
Left 4 Dead would be fun but a tournament for that would take incredibly too long.
Also, we may want to look into bringing back a music game like Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour. For these, I think we could easily set up 2 tournaments based on difficulty and run them side-by-side.
My suggested list for the next LAN:
BRAWL.
SFIV and/or SCIV.
GoW2/H3/CoD4 (Urging that at least 1 must be there).
-Open-
-Open-
-Open if only one fighter was chosen above.-
The remaining open slots would be open for discussion and debate as to consider how much resources we have for those games, if a tournament would be reasonable and feasible, and if we think it would have enough interest to draw a considerable crowd.
Somehow Lemm and Balls were the CSS winners. I think something needs to be fixed so this sort of mistake does not happen again.
Audyo said:
My suggested list for the next LAN:BRAWL.
SFIV and/or SCIV.
GoW2/H3/CoD4 (Urging that at least 1 must be there).
-Open-
-Open-
-Open if only one fighter was chosen above.-
Both Street Fighter 4 and Soulcalibur 4 did very well. I think we should keep both.
My ideal list:
Street Fighter 4 (PS3)
Soulcalibur 4 (PS3)
Halo 3 (360)
Gears of War 2 (360)
Super Smash Bros Brawl (Wii)
Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
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