Things only got more hectic as the weekend went on, so I have to finish my blogging post-event.
Going into Saturday I got another 2 hours of sleep (6-8am). There was just too much going on today to get much sleep. The second round of the BF2 tourney started at 4pm and matched us up against the tough Lazy Ops Squad. Despite some tough fighting we dropped two rounds in a row to them, eliminating us from the bracket. In the first round we failed to control the chopper checkpoints and they capalized on their airpower. The second match was much closer, we generally were even on armor and airpower, but we just couldn’t hold a majority of the checkpoints throughout the match. I was leading scorer on our team in both rounds. Lazy Ops continued to roll through their next round and eventually lost in the finals. See a wrap up article here: http://www.ampedesports.com/news/2442.
In other news, MinionX, Gratch, JBoom, Keeperman, and I formed a team (Boom Tape) and competed in the traditional Lanwar competition, Duct Tape Wars. The gist of the event is for each team to construct some device (which varies every event) from only a single roll of duct tape. (Technically you can also use the ink from a pen and saliva, but that’s it). The contraption that performs best wins. This event’s challenge was to contruct a device to shroud an egg to allow it to survive drops of increasing heights. A particularly hard requirement was that upon landing, the egg had to be in plain sight and removed without touching any duct tape. JBoom and I went back and forth in a typical engineering debate, refining our concept, while apparently annoying everyone else (particularly Joe). A few sketches later and we were off and building.
After the alotted 2 hours, we had constructed a landing cone, with a padded egg box inside. After drops from increasing heights (up to 27′), ours and one other were the only ones not to break the egg. As a tie breaker they decided to throw each device to the ground rather than a simple drop. Our design was unphased and actually slowed during the decent leaving us the clear winner. Lanwar head-honcho Burden wanted no egg left unbroken and was convinced that our cone would fail if it were thrown hard enough. No luck. Finally, the crowd talked him into throwing it from 27′ horizontally like a fresbie. The cone coasted, settled softly, and the egg came loose and slowly rolled out. That one gave us a tiny crack, but the crowd was amazed.
Also on Satudrday they held the Miss WSVG contest…a truly silly beauty pagent. But at least the interview questions were themed around gaming and weeded out the non-gamer models. After that was the less formal, and scary, Mr WSVG contest – something the female clans (Frag dolls and PMS) threw together to give some balance.
More hours of UT2k4, Serious Sam 2, and Trackmania Nations. In the wee hours of the morning we fired up a Armagetron game to which more and more people joined. It was 3 or 4 am when we had around 10 players in. MinionX kept rotating the server settings to keep everyone on their toes. Gratch had never seen the game before, but slaughtered us! Great fun!
