Let your kids play of course

Now to the event, it was a success, well in my eyes all my events are a success…we had an attendance of 7, not our biggest turn out by any means, but still a ton of fun. the attendance included QW3RTY, the_Gatekeeper, Loverboy, Shi-Thead, CCRunner, YO-man, and Lose-the-grimm, we also had a few guest players, Z0-Z0, Matrix, TrainWrecker, and the-blue-tiger (my kids), they didn’t participate in the tournaments, but they did play, and if you look in the unreal stats you will see them in there.

As for the tournaments, we played 2 different tournaments, a Boil-Off, in which all the players start, and the lowest scoring player is dropped at the end of each round. For the boil-off, we played Unreal Tournament 2004 Deathmatch, we only used the 1v1 maps to keep the play area small. I think this keeps the action level up, and the fairness equal. It got down to a close 3rd place, with QW3RTY, just barley outscoring Shi-Thead, it was intense, how ever QW3RTY got his clock cleaned in the final round, check the stats…you’ll see.  The boil-off placings are listed below.

The second tournament was something we made up on the fly, I was planning a 3v3 counterstrike round robin, but when only 7 people show, you got to work with what you have, so we played a Headshot tournament, all 7 of us vs, 7 bots in counter-strike, and at the end, we used psychostats to figure out who had the most overall headshots, it was interesting to say the least. My favorite moment was in cs_compound when Dart suggested we all hide in a shed and wait for the CT to walk past us and then get them from behind…Well, this “shed” would have been about 6′x6′ in real life, and the CT found us first…and in Counter-Strike Source they take material thickness, and bullet penitration into account, all they had to do was rittle the shed with bullets and it was over pretty quickly, I was rotflol the whole time…

Food wise we have the traditional Chilli dogs and Pizza, it ain’t a pLAN-b event with out chili dogs.

Prizes:

the_Gatekeeper won first prize in the Boil-off
1 pk 4gig kit of Crucial Ballistic DDR2 memory and 1 Ballistic gamer mouse wrist guard

QW3RTY come in second for the Boil-off but as the event planner, I passed up my prizes just so everything was fair, I don’t do it for stuff,I do it for fun.

Shi-Thead took third place in the Boil-off

1 Ballistic Memory Hog, 1 Ballistic Memory t-shirt, and 1 Ballistic gamer mouse wrist guard

lose-the-grimm was able to place in fourth for the Boil-off
1 Ballistic Memory Hog and 1 Ballistic t-shirt

Loverboy, CCRunner, and YO-man where the runners up taking fifth, sixth and seventh places respecfully.
1 each Ballistic Memory Hog

For the Headshoot Compitionon, the top 3 players who happen to be “shooting heads and taking names” are the_Gatekeeper at 44, Loverboy at 40 and Shi-Thead at 34. They each won a Alienware Hat, and An alien ware binder. The “I need a body bag” award went to Lose-the-grimm at 13 headshoots and CCrunner at 8, they each got an Alienware bag, sorry you two, but it’s all in good fun.

I’m looking forward to the next pLAN-b Gaming event, but I hope to attend a few LAN parties I’m not hosting…

I’ll give you a hint it wasn’t me…That’s right its the ever consistent Gatekeeper. With a frag score of 589 on just one onslaught round Gatekeeper easily secured himself the top dog spot of this event.

Do you know why he is called The Gatekeeper? He previously used the alias “SuperTech” ,but was renamed “The_Gatekeeper” by his teammates after a CTF match in Unreal 2004. While playing on Bridge of Fate, the opposing team was tied with his own, out maned and out gunned, he decided to sacrificed himself, to save his teammate who carried the flag. He stood in the archway of the main bridge, and successfully held back the opposing Godlike team, single-handedly, allowing his teammate the time needed to score the winning point. After this victory it became clear that his defensive skills where far superior than his opponents, and his ability to snipe with any weapon has lead his team to victory countless times.

Other events included a few rounds of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, which I’m sad to say will be leaving the pLAN-b game line up. I think its time to move on to Counter-Strike: Source, there wasn’t a single computer there that couldn’t have been running Source, so be expecting a pLAN-b Source server to go online in the next coming weeks.

The party went off with only a minor glitch as at one point we tripped a breaker, but after only a few minutes we where back up and running.  This was really a test to see if I could host an event in the Basement of my new home, and I’m pleased to announce, I can.

Besides Myself (QW3RTY) and The Gatekeeper, other attendees included; Ladiesman, Dart, Gammapod, Shi-Thead (formerly Wisegun),  H34tsink, MyHaven and EyesOnMe. We also had a few first timers; Philosophy, Ginsu, ZoZo, and Ton3p.

Our Leader board for UT 2004 included; The Gatekeeper, QW3RTY, and Shi-Thead

Our Leader board for Counter-Strike included; Dart, H34tsink, and again Shi-Thead

The next event should be sometime in May, I’m turning 30 and can’t think of a better way to celebrate that obliterating friends in deathmatch.