Reloaded '10 Review

**CHRiSOAOW** · 18-01-2010 12:03 AM

LOOKS GOOD

**iRoffle** · 18-01-2010 12:19 AM

videos will be here: YouTube - iRoffle's Channel

i'll post the again with links to the videos when i wake up and they're done. i'll put them on a playlist when i can be bothered. i might tag them all properly one day...

**ozp_** · 18-01-2010 12:28 AM

Wow what a terrible LAN.

**camstar** · 18-01-2010 12:42 AM

delete this post: DRIPSKII on my account posting ridiculous comments I dont agree with

**PUBLIC ENEMY** · 18-01-2010 12:58 AM

camstar 2g

**suporz** · 18-01-2010 01:05 AM

awsome pics iroffle nice work

now to hunt down the pics from pimp tv with the hawt bakini babes

**Hucky** · 18-01-2010 01:43 AM

Originally Posted by camstar

worst lan that ive been to

Wow, really?

Originally Posted by iRoffle

ANGRY GAMERS!

Was this when they realised that the admins had tried to create a double elim bracket with 10 teams and no first round elimination matches?

Even though there's minimal information about what happened from an outsider's perspective it still looks to be one of the worst run CS Source comps that's been hosted in Australia. It's a real shame because there were some fantastic teams there and a few really close games :<

Nevertheless, props to all the admins who were there trying to pick up the pieces. The only ones I know of were Cloudstrike and syntax, but I'm sure there are others that deserve recognition.

**jediscience** · 18-01-2010 02:00 AM

anyone at lan caught hi fiving because their scores exploded with the use of the KILLDOT?

**Faded.** · 18-01-2010 02:03 AM

COMPS THAT DON'T FINISH ARE GOOD

**camstar** · 18-01-2010 02:43 AM

Please retract my comment, that was Dripskii posting my account. I enjoyed the LAN, at least what remained of it, despite the mishaps along the way.

**sk0ney** · 18-01-2010 04:17 AM

Originally Posted by Hucky

ANGRY GAMERS!

..actually just angry dblstr
look at that grimace......

**LaZya1M** · 18-01-2010 04:31 AM

RFlan this saturday, BIGGEST LAN IN WA :O

**SASQUATCH** · 18-01-2010 07:10 AM

Why did they have to borrow network gear from sydney LAN? What have past reloaded and valhalla lans run on before this?

**nick0o0o0o** · 18-01-2010 07:55 AM

despite said issues @ the event, at least somebody was considerate enough to get dripski a "welcome to adelaide" gift, lacking pillow but

**CoFfeX** · 18-01-2010 08:07 AM

They'd have been happy letting us play on, but the venue was about to kick us all out.

**SASQUATCH** · 18-01-2010 08:17 AM

Originally Posted by CoFfeX

They'd have been happy letting us play on, but the venue was about to kick us all out.

yeah the same thing happened to the guys playing in the lower bracket final at egames. The power at the venue is only paid up until a certain time then gets switched off regardless.

:-(

**Wookie** · 18-01-2010 08:23 AM

1. network outages werent due to the network gear itself, but several fucktards on the network who caused amongst other things, network looping, packet storming and power outages. Amongst other things, this forced us to shut down our wireless APs.
2. Reloaded has previously run on Valhalla 100mbit gear, my apologies for trying something different and not having it work. Its a hazard of my profession.
3. I had no fucking choice but to shut down the fucking css competition because it was three fucking hours late - and being told BY VENUE MANAGEMENT that we had to be out by 9 (Reloaded has never run past 9). Even after i got an hours extension I was told it would be at LEAST THREE MORE FUCKING HOURS. SO dont you fucking dare have a go at me for being unreasonable. I did everything in my power to keep it going, not the least included blasting the fucking admins who turned shit off they werent meant to, having a very animated discussion with venue management and trying to stop my power admin from crying cause he was tired and had been at the event since friday morning.
4. Dont fucking tell me to my my face that we've found a fair solution and then fucking backstab me on the internet, cowards. I STILL paid the money out, AND added additional prizes (as well as had several more fucking stolen shortly after).

TLDR version, sure the network could have run better, and I really do apologise for that. I was sick as hell on the saturday, and was still fucked on the sunday or i might have noticed that the 1.6 comp from the goddamn day before was being run A DAY LATE. That didnt click til later when i was wondering why css ran over time.

Yes, some of the admin team, including a first time reloaded admin, unplugged stuff they shouldnt have, and yes certain teams shold have sat where they were supposed to instead of millions of miles away. However ultimately the competition ended because venue management wanted us out. This was the reason all competitions were bought forward an hour or two on the sunday. We had no spare time available to us. Usually, Reloaded is packed up on the Monday and I have all sunday to do whats needed, St Clair changed that a week ago.

I may wish to edit this when ive had more sleep.

**Wookie** · 18-01-2010 08:25 AM

Also: For the record, official figures for saturday: 750 people through the door, with a further 130 on sunday.

**SASQUATCH** · 18-01-2010 08:29 AM

Originally Posted by Wookie

1. network outages werent due to the network gear itself, but several fucktards on the network who caused amongst other things, network looping, packet storming and power outages. Amongst other things, this forced us to shut down our wireless APs.
2. Reloaded has previously run on Valhalla 100mbit gear, my apologies for trying something different and not having it work. Its a hazard of my profession.
3. I had no fucking choice but to shut down the fucking css competition because it was three fucking hours late - and being told BY VENUE MANAGEMENT that we had to be out by 9 (Reloaded has never run past 9). Even after i got an hours extension I was told it would be at LEAST THREE MORE FUCKING HOURS. SO dont you fucking dare have a go at me for being unreasonable. I did everything in my power to keep it going, not the least included blasting the fucking admins who turned shit off they werent meant to, having a very animated discussion with venue management and trying to stop my power admin from crying cause he was tired and had been at the event since friday morning.
4. Dont fucking tell me to my my face that we've found a fair solution and then fucking backstab me on the internet, cowards. I STILL paid the money out, AND added additional prizes (as well as had several more fucking stolen shortly after).

TLDR version, sure the network could have run better, and I really do apologise for that. I was sick as hell on the saturday, and was still fucked on the sunday or i might have noticed that the 1.6 comp from the goddamn day before was being run A DAY LATE. That didnt click til later when i was wondering why css ran over time.

Yes, some of the admin team, including a first time reloaded admin, unplugged stuff they shouldnt have, and yes certain teams shold have sat where they were supposed to instead of millions of miles away. However ultimately the competition ended because venue management wanted us out. This was the reason all competitions were bought forward an hour or two on the sunday. We had no spare time available to us. Usually, Reloaded is packed up on the Monday and I have all sunday to do whats needed, St Clair changed that a week ago.

I may wish to edit this when ive had more sleep.

Who were the admins for the 1.6 and source comps?

**Wookie** · 18-01-2010 08:34 AM

Cloudstrike was the one i put in charge of both, I think syntax helped with one or both.

**numky** · 18-01-2010 09:15 AM

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1:35 some nice lag b00mser

edit: probably a long shot but any demos?

**Demotion!** · 18-01-2010 09:27 AM

yes demos plz.

**fooUNDERSCORE!!!** · 18-01-2010 09:47 AM

at wookie.
I wasn't there, so this can be discarded if u wish.
Almost every LAN Comp with the prize money and teams attending on any level similar to reloaded with out exception has had issues, People will always bang on about how bad certain things were etc etc. You have the additional problem of BYOC.

I'm sure you spent considerable time and effort and made exceptions for all, but unfortunately there are always ungratefull bastards. On a whole though, there are always people who enjoyed the event, understood the issues and just got on with it.
And with out exception people will always attend the next one. Unfortunately its an issue with the community as a whole, we always find something to harp on about, even if the admins do their darndest to do it right.

I guess the major difference was reloaded wasn't all about CS:S like some of the others, I'm gonna thank you for your efforts though, it sounded like a hell of a lot of work.
Its always disappointing when you hear about people stealing stuff, its unnecessary especially after all the work you've put in behind the scenes.

Only LANs I've been to that have gone of with next to no over all issues are LAN cafe LANs and all of them have had issues too, but just ones we've been able to deal with.

Well done for the effort and sorry for the fucktards. I was actually wanting to attend reloaded, but couldn't. Yes I was disappointed with CS:S coverage though, but again Reloaded isn't all about CS:S :P

**Cloudstrike** · 18-01-2010 09:58 AM

Originally Posted by Hucky

Was this when they realised that the admins had tried to create a double elim bracket with 10 teams and no first round elimination matches?

The LAN software set it out so two teams got knocked out first round but everyone kept saying the draw looked fucked up and Syntax wanted to go with the CEVO bracket (which essentially ended up as the same thing).

Originally Posted by fooUNDERSCORE!!!

Yes I was disappointed with CS:S coverage though, but again Reloaded isn't all about CS:S :P

I emailed Gamestah twice asking if they had SourceTV relays they could use and they never got back to me. Syntax was kind enough to let us use the Gotgames ones but with such short notice it wasn't possible.

**Cloudstrike** · 18-01-2010 10:02 AM

Originally Posted by joeL

Who were the admins for the 1.6 and source comps?

Network was fucked the whole LAN, nothing could be done to fix it. Source started on time but some teams ran into problems (dblstr's Steam wouldn't sign in so he had to borrow a USB Wireless Dongle just to auth).

Would of finished on time if the Sydney network mob didn't pull the network.

**Gristy** · 18-01-2010 10:12 AM

Looks like the people who were there and involved arent the ones on here complaining so wookie obviously looked after them as best as he could.

I didnt spend much time at the event only 11-7pm on sat and 9-12pm on sunday for the 1.6/fifa.

So i cant talk about source, but 1.6 delays had nothing to do with cloudstrike and the other admins im sure were working on the problems with the network. Which were basically random 30 second pauses/drops in connection, not general lag.

ps. tf2 comp looked fun

**CoFfeX** · 18-01-2010 11:28 AM

Wookie and aetherone(I think?) were both scurrying about near the end trying their best to make it happen but it was just too late. What eventuated was fair given the circumstances. So I'd like to thank them, and anyone else who was still there for enduring.

The rest of the lan was pretty good. I liked the Audiosurf comp with one exception. The tracks wern't hard enough :O
I'm also getting a little too old for sleeping in plastic chairs, next time I might go home for the night.

**haymo** · 18-01-2010 11:48 AM

how was the tf2 comp?

**iRoffle** · 18-01-2010 11:57 AM

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**SPUNJ** · 18-01-2010 11:59 AM

that's a lot of VIDEOS

**iRoffle** · 18-01-2010 12:00 PM

lol @ linking the same vid 4~ times...

i haven't watched any of them yet... simmo/godstar did the recording of gmoney. it's gonna take fucking ages to tag them all right <_>

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**NickBVK** · 18-01-2010 01:27 PM

boomser playing like that can't be comfortable!

**Longie[iw]** · 18-01-2010 04:53 PM

i enjoyed it heaps, thanks for calling my ticket for the case wookie

**TotalEclipse** · 18-01-2010 05:00 PM

Was a great event overall, sure the network problem was pretty fucked, but it couldn't be helped.

Lets be honest, playing in Reloaded is 239872345 times better than sitting on your ass at home playing scrims. Is it not?

Big effort Wookie, Cloudstrike and Syntax.

I think for medium sized CS:S comps like that you should follow the European way, 1st and 2nd place teams qualify from groups and go ahead to play in the Upper Bracket, then 3rd place teams go into the Lower Bracket, and await the losers from the upper bracket. I think it works well, and makes more sense

**SpeeD** · 18-01-2010 06:02 PM

i enjoyed the lan!
playing source, leeching like a baws!
sleeping in a car!
some quality photos there gav............................................... ............................ :P