A very quick recap of the 50th edition of the LAN party in Lou’ville. There were about 300+ gamers there, so the turnout was really good for a January event.
Starcraft 2
Gratch, Keeper, and I played the crap out of this, and mostly took a beating in the 3v3 ladder. Sill tons of fun and those two are getting better. Gratch and I were in a “why not” mood and competed in the SC2 tourney even though we’re well below the requisite skill level. As expected we were we trounced in the first round. In my case I faced a Rank 6 diamond Zerg and his b’lings overwhelmed me 17 minutes in.
Nation Red
This game was having a free weekend on Steam so all four of us loaded it up and spent a few hours blasting away at zombie hordes. It’s a buggy game, and very simplistic, but just the thing for bleary eyed twitch gaming.
Duct Tape Wars
Challenge: build a shotgun (i.e. fling a duct tape ball, and also a full roll). Scoring: There rounds for accuracy with shot (balls), three rounds for distance with shot, and one distance round with the full roll. Turned out to be a bunch of flinging straps that were just like the bottle cap shot a couple LANs ago. The best scores came down to how well you fired it and not what you built. Oh well, TBT had a couple poor shots and settled for second place.
And somewhere over the course of three days and two nights I even got 5 hours of sleep!
