This past weekend was Lanwar 33 – about 28 straight hours of gaming goodness. It was a great time! Joe, Rob, Cassie and I make it to this one. We haven’t been to Lan since MML5 last summer so we were definitely due. There were probably about 250 gamers at this one, so even though it’s a mini it’s still a big setup.
This was Cassie’s first Lan and her proud Pop got to introduce her to all things uber-geek.
She of course got her traditional initiation.
Team Boom Tape was back (sans JBoom) to field a Duct Tape Wars team to defend our MML5 title. The challenge this time was to construct a boat (limited to the size of a box they had (about 11″x7″x7″) which would be placed in a tub of water and gradually loaded with poker chips. Once your boat sinks to the bottom you’re out. The boat with the highest chip count before submerging wins. Team Boom Tape did not disappoint. Our “box” handled 368 poker chips before giving into the 9.3 pound load. The next closet competitor sank to the bottom with 342 – making for a pretty close match. For our win we were given a case of Bawls. Watch out for the next Lan where Team Boom Tape will be going for the 3-peat.
Gaming was good. Lots of UT2k4 (DM and ONS) this time 🙂 BF2142 had action, but not BF2. We had some good fun with Trackmania and some silly rounds of Armagetron. Leaching was pretty good (besides some flaky servers); I got about 75GB of goodies. Add to that a constant stream of hot food and snacks at a reasonable price and none of the eating and sleeping rules of MML and overall it was a great event.
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