WinterSmash 2009 - Sunday 12th July

yes closed as in not open yet cause the events for the days haven't been finalized yet

What's your game of choice?

Some thing tells me you're a candidate for both days. Don't forget to register for both in that case.

The key to Sunday is the TF2 and L4D comps which are becoming increasingly popular, the first TF2 comp we ran had 6 teams of 3, the second 9 teams of three. The left 4 dead has been similar, first we had 4 teams and last LAN I believe we had 6 at least and the venue was booked to capacity, I mean we were turning people away. Hence they are taking good portions of our time as admins, which we certainly don't mind.

However of late it's been noted that there's been plenty of good games we might have overlooked in our TF2 and L4D zealotness. So Saturday which is a bit of a quieter day will cater more for those. Any game that gains enough interest on the Saturday will be moved to the Sunday at future events and made a formal admin run comp.

As mentioned though, either day all the peeps can feel free to play what they like. We just love gaming. It's not like either of those comps have ever stopped a DotA game nothing can stop DotA.

UT2004 is also very much a great game and that will get a run on Sunday. I'd say last man standing.

Smashball will also make an appearance, and we'll see how that runs.

As far as a cross section of gaming goes this LAN will provide a massive amount of it, across both days. Plus we have a good amount of room.

Once again I recommend everyone to register for the days they will be attending, this way I can better lay out the LAN. Keep in mind while our new rego system is awesomer than previous, you still need to register for both days individually that you intend to attend.

I will destroy you Webby

Tank Battle/Wars can stop DotA unfortunately.

As can the DotA haters that I battled against last LAN. Your manipulative ways shall not work on me this LAN!

You know I really want to play Smash Bros with you guys but i've always been a terrible player and it would be a bit pointless.

Still here till the July 2nd.

I'll just tell him aboot what you said lol.

Lol. But seriously though, give it a shot Franger, Brawl is easier than you think, and it's always fun.

Just a shout out that Marvel vs Capcom 2 will ALSO be running on Sunday, fingers crossed the HD version comes out on time.

I will be attending Sunday only and Won't be playing CS/TF2/DOTA/Console comps

But I am eager to play Steam HL2 DM , that new steam soccer mod , Red Alert 3 , World in Conflict , Flatout 2 , ET Quake Wars , R6 Ravensheild , R6 Vegas 2 , UT99 , UT2004 , COH , Delta Force extreme 2, Nexuiz , Open Arena , World Of Padman.

Is it okay to bring two PC's ? One file server with only 4500 gig shared and
Gaming box with LCD ?

With PC version of SF4 now out I am expecting 200 entrants. And I'm sure we can talk JB into allowing anyone who wants to keyboard-warrior it to enter for free.

I'm gonna laugh when some kid shows up with his Keyboard to play SF4.

Are we gonna have PC version there anyway? I guess we could hook some sticks up to it for more tables.

WOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JB we need a man date to finish those sticks... STAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's okay cara can't see the forums at work as long as I remove it before 5pm, she'll never know.

You can also get this game off Impulse, if you want to support the competition:

http://impulsedriven.com/stfighter4

I'm tempted to buy off Impulse (to support the competition, and having all my games in one basket/account worries me), but the chat functionality in Steam is so much better (at least, I think Impulse are only adding friend lists and chat now).

Dammit ><

I've never seen either used, certainly not in competition, not that they are banned just that I've never seen them used.

Which reminds me, Akuma is banned in HDR for the inescapable demon setups. I'd post this in the other (appropriate) thread except it's dirty.

Pick and choose from below the reasoning on why the console cast is allowed
* This isn't an arcade tournament so console chars are allowed. There was no chance to get the one decent arcade cabinet in Brisbane to LanSmash. Hell I couldn't even get a T6BR machine.
* This is in prep for OHN, which is a console tournament where all chars are allowed.
* We are following EVO like rules since challenging/beating the US on the world stage is much more likely and viable than Japan, and hence should be our first goal.
* There are a large chunk of people who only have experience with the console version in Australia (esp. Brisbane.) Unlike Japan where the tournaments are still run on arcade machines.
* All the console chars are average at best, and most of them are crud. Running all chars alienates arcade players less than running arcade only chars for console players.

I'd say console chars have been picked less than 10 times on the vs screen over the last two tournaments.

Though I really would like to know beforehand if certain chars are not unlocked on machines so I can at least attempt to plan the tourney around it. Esp. when I'm the one playing and I want to counter-pick vs Zangief..............

I hope you do realise the difference in metagame comparing the US and the Japanese.

I'd call them two different games. The playstyle is just that different.

Japanese are king of their own realm, same with the US. The only difference is that the Japanese push the term "Playing to win" to a whole new level, where the US playstyle is closer to the one that Australia and the rest of the world have adapted to.

My two cents.

Oh, I'm not arguing their way of play, I think it's pretty amazing.

I was just pointing out the differences between Japan and the rest of the world.

Is it a good time to point out that the japanese also sell used womens underwear out of vending machines?

Is it a good time to point out that we are notoriously bad at keeping threads on topic around here?

In defense of the Japanese though, you can buy a 5L mini-keg of beer in a vending machine and that kind of convenience demands at little respect.