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16  Past LAN Archive / NeXus LAN 19 - General Discussion / Re: Group registration? on: February 08, 2017, 08:36:46 PM
FYI we did the math on those tables, just not feasible.  I don't recall the exact number, but it was around $2,500 just for the tables.  Then it's finding storage for and finding a way to haul around an additional 40-50 tables.

The LAN already owns most of the tables we use for the rows with the long white tables.

To purchase/store/haul would be a huge investment.

In general, most of us would agree that it would be optimal, just not doable.
17  Past LAN Archive / NeXus LAN 19 - General Discussion / Re: Do you stream your gaming online? Do you have a following? on: February 08, 2017, 08:28:13 PM
FYI, we generally have tons of bandwidth available.  When I ran the network two LANs ago we had 150MB/s and the only issues we had were due to some jackasses torrenting.  It wasn't the bandwidth they were using, but how hard they were saturating the network.  Once we figured that out and blocked them the network ran great.  Would have been figured out waaaaaaaaaaay faster with Sideout there, but I was kind of thrown in to the fire.

Last LAN it was all Time Warner.  There's a post about the issues we hit since everyone tends to get uppity about network and slings crap around.  We can appreciate being frustrated about network issues, but last LAN was entirely out of our control.

This coming LAN we have some safeguards in place.
18  Past LAN Archive / NeXus LAN 19 - General Discussion / Re: NeXusLAN 19 Food ideas on: February 05, 2017, 07:34:48 AM
Surprised they didn't do gamehaven Chris' corn dogs last time, seems like meat on a stick would sell well and are stupid easy to make.

Maybe something like dirt pudding, something they could premake in cups.  I don't recall them ever trying something sweet.

I personally think they should try something gimmicky like rippers (deep fried hot dogs), novelty sells and it'd be easy to pull off.  Could even come up with a signature LAN dog or something. 

Think of the possibilities:  The LAN dog.  Featuring a deep fried hot dog with sriracha, saurkraut, hot peppers in a seeded toasted bun with a single rolaid on the side.
19  NeXus LAN - General Discussion Forums / General Discussion / GIRL SCOUT COOKIES on: January 08, 2017, 02:21:48 PM
My spawn is selling cookies online if anyone is interested

http://www.gabbycookie.com

I'm probably going to buy 50 assorted boxes to sell at LANs as well, $4 for standard flavors, $5 for the specials.

If you do buy cookies for delivery, hoorah and thank you.
20  NeXus LAN - General Discussion Forums / Other LAN Parties / Re: FortLan on: October 27, 2016, 03:06:45 AM
Sorry I didn't go

I just got from Atlanta, had some shit to do before I could leave, and honestly didn't really feel like going anywhere.

8 flights in 3 days does that to you
21  Past LAN Archive / NeXus LAN 18 - Tournaments / Overwatch Tournament on: October 09, 2016, 01:11:02 AM
Team 1      
Akakioga   191   akakioga#1290
Derek   83   Derek#11619
Baskie   77   Baskie#1783
GoAtomGo   28   goatomgo#1966
turtlebread#11266   28   turtlebread#11266
happypotato#11785   2   happypotato#11785
      
Team 2      
Survivalx7   183   Survivalx7#1210
Z3PP#1888   87   Z3PP#1888
MadDog   72   maddog#12211
Dougms#1761   29   Dougms#1761
jason.a.herron   25   ssgherron#1136
hooflord   69   hooflord#1640

Team 3      
Myth#1649   174   Myth#1649
GRITmaster08#1150   89   Gritmaster08#1150
jellytime#1610   90   
Boonjob   33   boonjob#1386
cajunpete#1515   25   cajunpete#1515
sp1k3ster#1855   1   sp1k3ster#1855
      
Team 4      
Keggarr   165   kegger#1542
CelticRitter#1315   97   CelticRitter#1315
ONENDUNLOVE#1417   67   onendunlove#1417
Ronster   34   ronster#1577
Xilador   23   xilador#1432
shameless#1359   3   shameless#1359
      
Team 5      
BIG-SPENCE   165   bigspence#1269
SkuzeeII   98   SkuzeeII#1355
Natsu   66   natsu#1123
Montoon   35   Montoon#1337
Dotdotslashy   20   dotdotslashy#1544
Lambchop#1885   4   Lambchop#1885
      
Team 6      
Bearking   162   bearking#1951
Recon   99   Recon#1254
Landyn   65   Landyn#1364
Gravetroll   35   Kane#1266
Shrew   19   shrew#11376
Unjustified   4   unjustified#1637
      
Team 7      
RedTheSwift #1454   158   redtheswift#1454
Vetter   100   vetter#1212
VenusWong   54   venuswong#1796
NPZR#1331   37   NPZR#1331
Jwheels   16   Maverick#1980
j3rf   5   j3rf#1610
      
Team 8      
Wolfbait#1332   151   Wolfbait#1332
Rhythmatic   103   rhythmatic#1616
Diabeatus   51   diabeatus#1290
Vahalle   43   vahalle#1362
SwissCheeze   13   swisscheeze#1189
Creel   6   creel#11808
      
Team 9      
Glocky12   117   glocky#1141
Pezheadx#1698   105   Pezheadx#1698
Jabbernaut   50   jabbernaut#1319
commonweirdo#1477   45   commonweirdo#1477
Kat   13   kat#13516
cheach   7   cheach#1277
      
Team 10      
Sootha#1687   110   Sootha#1687
Ogre#1405   105   ogre#1405
BigMoneyMeech   47   BigMonEyMeech#1872
Burnam   46   burnone#1952
Stenger#1951   12   Stenger#1951
Dig-doug99   11   DigDoug99#1688
22  Past LAN Archive / NeXus LAN 18 - Tournaments / Re: NeXus LAN 18 tournament suggestion thread.... on: July 02, 2016, 06:21:21 AM
WORMS
23  Past LAN Archive / NeXus LAN 17 - General Discussion / Re: Random Teams... on: April 12, 2016, 06:07:10 AM
Teams should be random, otherwise it will just punish honest people and reward the not so honest.  These tournaments are supposed to be just for fun anyways.

That's exactly it

The key thing is, we're not professionals and people make mistakes or overlook things.  We're just a group of friends that hang out and game several weekends a month.  Generally all decisions regarding the LAN are in that spirit.  We just want to hang out with our friends and have fun.  That being said, we take tournaments very seriously and are already taking corrective actions.  That being said, there will always be teams that are better than other teams.  Everyone has the right to play in a tourney at our event and it's something we encourage no matter the skill level, we're not elitists and we don't want to be those guys.  On the other hand, we do allow our sponsors to sign up to sponsor specific tournaments which allows for some pretty decent prizes for tourneys, and we want things to be as fair as they can be.  Even with the option for slightly better skill sorting, there will still be a random element to it. 

Beyond that, most of the issues stem from myself having to shift to a different demanding role.  I had been pretty anal about tournaments and like to think they had been progressively getting better, however, we lost our network admin for this LAN (sideout) and we needed someone for that role.  Four or five years ago when we were at 80 or so people, our configs were pretty basic.  Now that we're basically at 170 and growing, it's a completely different world and setup as a high performance enterprise LAN minus an army of managed switches.  I have some enterprise networking experience, but it was still a trial by fire.  I had spent an entire mini-lan (11am-1am) two weeks before the LAN figuring things out, and the day before the LAN (7 hours) at Renegades store figuring things out.  No amount of preparation will get you ready to manage the number of hosts and data we had pushing through the network of someone else's design.  It's sideouts baby, I was just the babysitter.  I had to call mom a few times, or at least FB chat with mom.

That said I figured it out, and outside of one really dumb configuration issue we had with CS:GO (we've ran the same config for years, but for some reason only had an issue during this LAN), I generally figured out a system to monitor metrics and deny network access to those that feel P2P file sharing with the web is acceptable at a LAN.  The first round of HoTs for example, we had one guy pushing 20-40k packets per second and eating a significant portion of bandwidth.  We do have limiters enabled, but it was likely the sheer number of packets that were causing an issue.
24  Past LAN Archive / NeXus LAN 17 - Tournaments / Re: NeXus LAN 17 tournament suggestion thread.... on: February 12, 2016, 01:05:52 AM
PC: Worms Reloaded
25  NeXus LAN - General Discussion Forums / General Discussion / Re: greenman gaming on: November 22, 2015, 08:33:32 PM
Battlefield with Star War skins? Tongue ...suuurrree

You must not have played it.. gave it too much credit

If it had the depth of battlefield, it'd be awesome.

It's like battlefield-lite.  There isn't much depth.. or roles.  It's good at being a game you can jump in and play quickly to kill some time.  It's bad at having any real depth.

It's OK, but seems kind of light for $60.  Having to pay for a Starwars License might do that though.  I guess I expected a little more.

With that said, Green Man burned me on 2 of my 3 last purchases from them.

1) When I bought GTA 5 I'm 99% certain it said it required Steam as a DRM (important for me) and instead I got a rockstar key.
2) I ordered Starwars Battlefront a while ago and the delayed keys caused me to cancel the order and buy direct from Origin

I won't pre-order through them again.  If they have a cheap key in stock, might be a different story.
26  Past LAN Archive / NeXus LAN 16 - Tournaments / Rocket League Tourney on: October 04, 2015, 06:22:37 PM
Team 1
ThatOneGuy
Princess~Electra
natsu


Team 2

gigzilla
JWLopez69
LmNoPg007


Team 3

[TN] Ronster
Kyler
JWheels


Team 4

WVGOG bquick
I Jedi
TDO X-Infinity-Zero


Team 5
[TheLPX] TehRage
PCL BIG-SPENCE
celadez


Team 6
Creel
keggarr
unjustified


Team 7
TDO Ogre
DIG_DOUG99
Dano


Team 8
Crazydrunkenelf
j3rf
Jpwinkis


Team 9

Rhythmatic
[TBS] wildrover
[OC] Plague


Team 10
WVGOG PhelixNight
[TN] evildoer
Jr1de57


Team 11
vmex151
GamingSwag code
[TN] Venus_Wong


Team 12

wvgog shftzky
DUI
renegade
27  Past LAN Archive / NeXus LAN 16 - Tournaments / CS GO Teams on: October 03, 2015, 11:42:48 PM
Team 1
•Vexv
•Wink
•code
•dig-doug99
•MadDog

Team 2
•PhelixNight
•TinyElvis
•Ayxrs
•shftzky
•Tropein

Team 3
•Venus Wong
•gigzilla
•Montoon
•Kyler
•Weeeeeman

Team 4
•Dui
•BIG-SPENCE
•Pez
•-KoS- AP
•[OC] Plague

Team 5
•yoko52
•spike
•Unjustified
•CmdrOfThe181st
•TuPair

Team 6
•I Jedi
•Landyn
•DrDro
•Fapstronaut One
•Burnam

Team 7
•Dano
•Shrew
•celadez
•Cole
•Corvarea

Team 8
•TDO_Ogre
•Ronster
•Jackaxx
•Shaggy
•Action

Team 9
•-KoS- Go_Atom_Go
•j3rf
•Creel
•EVILDOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAARE
•bquick

Team 10
•Commando X
•Sven
•Mr. Jeremy so called Clarkson
•ThatOneGuy
•blackopsdog
28  Past LAN Archive / NeXus LAN 16 - Sponsors / Re: NeXus LAN 16 Sponsor - Supermicro on: October 01, 2015, 06:59:59 PM
Just kind of a heads up

Social media goes a looooooooooooooong way with us since we're still kind of new in the gaming market.

We've only been in gaming for two years or so, but we're a pretty massive company that has doing performance computing/servers for over 20 years.  We do some pretty crazy stuff such as board-based overclocking for server products for algorithmic trading markets, massive storage servers (90 bay 3.5" 4U JBOD .. and other stuff based on that coming soon), and high density, small form factor servers.  Among pretty much everything else.  It was a year ago, but I believe we're the primary hardware vendor for 4 of the 5 top datacenters in the US.

My point is, we're looking at gaming coming from the server perspective which has very specific requirements in terms of PCB traces, component selection, testing and qualifications, and all sorts of other crazy stuff I didn't even know existed--and can't recall from my conversation with our Product Manager.  I've been in the computing business 10 years, most of that in some sort of design role, and I didn't even know most of this stuff.

If we get pretty good social media feedback/support it's likely they'll increase what I'm able to do.

I gave away a fully integrated PC (minus a video card) a few weeks ago in Sacremento, this isn't outside of the realm of possibility for something like NeXus with the proper support.

Can actually see me giving it away at 1h 25m in to this video:
http://www.twitch.tv/lanfest/v/12309643

The gaming oriented facebook page is here, I don't believe anyone has actually promoted it yet: https://www.facebook.com/SupermicroGaming/

29  Past LAN Archive / NeXus LAN 16 - General Discussion / Re: Banned apps at NeXus LAN events..... on: October 01, 2015, 06:29:06 PM
The man is always holding us down
30  Past LAN Archive / NeXus LAN 16 - Tournaments / Re: NeXus LAN 16 Tournament voting suggestions on: July 20, 2015, 10:58:31 PM
Will have to check out rocket league at the mini this weekend

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