Rhys Aronson

So another Co-Opp LAN done and dusted, a great time was had by all!

First off I would like to say a thank you to everyone who helped make this event possible.

Deviant gets the biggest praise for all his work on the LAN software and general organisation awesomeness.

Also D’Sin, Benneh, Lely, Emmeh, Sintrix, Jinx and Alars all put in a huge effort!

Friday started it all off with paintball which I was unfortunately unable to attend due to work but I hear was brutal good fun,  After that about 19 of us showed up in the city for a ferry to Manly to see Los Capitanes play (Shoutout to Cleanoff and Jerkins both members of the band). We got there rather early and headed to the beach where we saw a fellow all on his lonesome practicing Fire Twirling, after the event (and picking up some social lubricant (We got props for our taste in beer from a random passer-by too!) we headed back to Bennehs for a few drinks (Many thanks to Ben’s family for putting up with all us rowdy folks in their home).

Next Day started with everyone waking bleary eyed and heading out for bowling which was dominated by Benneh and Thimz. Most of us improved on our second game (I nearly doubled my score) and we got to meet The Baines for the first time. Some Air Hockey was played and Moe (Who is ripped by the way) decided he had no reason to keep the puck on the table.

After heading home and packing up my gear (I need my chair) I headed in for the 4 PM start, Setup went relatively quickly and after fixing a quick PEBKAC error (who would have guessed we need to connect the switches to each other for things to work) things were off. With LAN software providing tunes a great social atmosphere was present as people got to the gaming and wandered around chatting to people some had never seen in the real world before.

The TF2 tourney was delayed by some power issues (Powerfang is not allowed to bring a power board next time!) but a fair amount of TF2 Pub Stack was going on with 2 full 24 player servers. Teams were random to try minimise skills stacking. A lot of fun cheering as the vicious gibbing went on and Team One (featuring me!) defeated Benneh’s Bitches in the final to take the crown avenging their loss in the second round.

Jinx cooked dinner of sausages for everyone (And one Parma!) and we got straight into Dodgeball downstairs, Crowd envolvement was pretty huge is and after a fierce and elongated tournament due to a ladder issue Team Powerfang took this out over Sintrix’s team with Powerfang managing to injure his ankle in the last round (after subbing for an extra game here and there as well!).

The rest of the event saw sporadic games of Rockband, CS: Source, COD4, AOE 2 and Left 4 Dead 2, two more competitions were run A CSS tourney taken out by Benneh’s Bitches (I believe!) and a two team PUG COD4 Team Deathmatch with the winners getting a years subscription to Kaspersky

We wrapped up around 3 PM and people started to head home.

Overall this was our most successful LAN yet with 53 attendees and despite a few power issues I think everyone had a great time. It was great to see so many Co-Oppians from around the country and I think that is what makes this such a fantastic and social event and I hope to see you all again in six months for our next major LAN.

If anyone has any suggestions or if you are a non-coppian and want to see what we are all about please head over to www.co-opp.net or email me at rhys@hysaronson.org .

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Tags: Co-Opp, LAN

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