Dod lan?

Post by **ceebz** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:29 am

do chicago so i can drive my big lifted up truck up there. kthx

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:45 am

If you hold it in Texas I'll come...

...up with some great excuses for why I have to dodge it.

Polak · Post by **Polak** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:15 am

people still care about who dodges a lan? Haha I love it, btw when did kirk turn into such a hater?

cassinoroyale · Post by **cassinoroyale** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:19 am

I'd definitely go (I may need to travel for my company headquarters next year) so yeah it'd certainly be cool!

hXc · Post by **hXc** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:28 am

yea lets choose the location of possibly the last dod lan ever based on how easy it is to get laid via the location............ news flash..... SOME OF US CAN'T GET LAID.. EVEN IN AUSTIN!

Swiss · Post by **Swiss** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:41 am

hXc wrote:yea lets choose the location of possibly the last dod lan ever based on how easy it is to get laid via the location............ news flash..... SOME OF US CAN'T GET LAID.. EVEN IN AUSTIN!

then how about get shit-faced drunk after going to 10 bars in one night?

Sears · Post by **Sears** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:47 am

We could LARP and drink the magical LARPing booooze.

mogers · Post by **mogers** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:05 am

I don't think we ever had a lan in Knoxville... unless you're referring to the KY Lan.

Regardless, I'd like to LAN again. I like Vegas, I'd probably go wherever it is as long as I have the cash flow.

british · Post by **british** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:47 am

Polak wrote: 3) Anything can be used as a pick up line... ANYTHING, just fucking lie about it. Women are so DTF in texas. And if we have even 15+ people on the same page you have complete control of the place, meaning people will come up to us and ask questions. The local folks love people out of state because its something new.

Rule #4 If a girl approaches you and asks whats with the big group ... please do NOT say were here for a dod lan. There are some things even an english accent cannot recover from.

british · Post by **british** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:49 am

Oh and im down with austin and or vegas, prices dont really matter to me but i do see your point about vegas. There is a shit ton to do there. I've never been to austin, my dad actually opened a wine bar out there in the 70s, and he told me it was beautiful down there.

Im down for austin

Polak · Post by **Polak** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:55 am

We can think of something british, but I support any decision that will be made.

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:00 pm

I'll show up and be shitty.

kirk · Post by **kirk** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:53 pm

british wrote:
Polak wrote: 3) Anything can be used as a pick up line... ANYTHING, just fucking lie about it. Women are so DTF in texas. And if we have even 15+ people on the same page you have complete control of the place, meaning people will come up to us and ask questions. The local folks love people out of state because its something new.
Rule #4 If a girl approaches you and asks whats with the big group ... please do NOT say were here for a dod lan. There are some things even an english accent cannot recover from.

Correction: the winning team can and SHOULD say they are there for a DoD LAN, and should mention that they are the champs.

The vagina will be endless.

Polak · Post by **Polak** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:58 pm

I actually wouldn't be surprised if kellen got some pussy for winning summer cpl 05.

kirk · Post by **kirk** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:59 pm

Polak wrote:I actually wouldn't be surprised if kellen got some pussy for winning summer cpl 05.

Hey, ladies. Want to see my big, giant...check that I won for being awesome at video games?

seanality · Post by **seanality** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 2:31 pm

Southern New Jersey where the players play.

Airnick15 · Post by **Airnick15** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 3:16 pm

seanality wrote:Southern New Jersey where the players play.

Gloucester County in the house

kirk · Post by **kirk** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 3:50 pm

New Jersey?

I'd rather go to Iraq LAN 2012.

james- · Post by **james-** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 4:13 pm

Austin, Dallas, Vegas, in that order.

Dallas would be preferable over Austin in terms of prices. Hotels are cheap and plentiful, there is always cheap airfare to Dallas, and Dallas has decent public transportation (Don't really recall if austin has that or not). There's also a significant number of LAn centers in Dallas, the only two I can think of at the moment are shadowlan and gamewyse(i think?) but i'm sure a google search will tell you which ones are still going.

Dallas is also perfectly fine for getting shitfaced, which we all know is what this is primarily about.

Only reason I'd say vegas is because I can drive there, and have some friends in the area.

rymoz · Post by **rymoz** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 4:24 pm

alex kirk wrote:
Polak wrote:I actually wouldn't be surprised if kellen got some pussy for winning summer cpl 05.
Hey, ladies. Want to see my big, giant...check that I won for being awesome at video games?

rymoz · Post by **rymoz** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 4:39 pm

alex kirk wrote:New Jersey?

I'd rather go to Iraq LAN 2012.

New Jersey LAN 2012 would be the best choice for the following reasons:

1) Lots of DoD players in the NJ/NY/PA area, ie. Toxinator (BAD ON LAN), element (ONLINE AS FUCK), Jaggon (WANTS THAT 7634th LAN RING), Ryanemo (HAS TO PLAY WITH WALLS), Narc, Airnick, myself, etc.

2) I would be able to commute so that means I can always go home and eat some Mac & Cheese.

3) Everyone would be able to see Patrick "Chimpanzebra" Cosenza in REAL LIFE as this location yields the highest chance of him attending. Think about this!!!1@%^$%

4) Everyone would be able to see Patrick "Chimpanzebra" Cosenza in REAL LIFE as this location yields the highest chance of him attending. Think about this!!!1@%^$%

Not srs.

joeledmunds · Post by **joeledmunds** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 4:40 pm

I'm voting for anywhere in the Northeast please.

stealthlol · Post by **stealthlol** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 4:42 pm

joeledmunds wrote:I'm voting for anywhere in the Northeast please.

ryanemo · Post by **ryanemo** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 4:52 pm

id be down for where ever. whatever location works best really wont be hard to get to. regardless of where we lan, ill be picking up sean kalas along the way

kirk · Post by **kirk** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 5:02 pm

Sean Kalas needs another LAN to win so he can keep buying his worthless supplement stack.

Swiss · Post by **Swiss** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 5:55 pm

james- wrote:Austin, Dallas, Vegas, in that order.

Dallas would be preferable over Austin in terms of prices. Hotels are cheap and plentiful, there is always cheap airfare to Dallas, and Dallas has decent public transportation (Don't really recall if austin has that or not). There's also a significant number of LAn centers in Dallas, the only two I can think of at the moment are shadowlan and gamewyse(i think?) but i'm sure a google search will tell you which ones are still going.

Dallas is also perfectly fine for getting shitfaced, which we all know is what this is primarily about.

Only reason I'd say vegas is because I can drive there, and have some friends in the area.

the problem with dallas is the public transit is not that good actually. because dallas is so spread out, even the bus system (and tiny rail system) would not work very well at all. dallas is a city that you really need cars for, especially if you want to go to good areas to get shit-faced drunk.

austin has a much better bus system than dallas. part of it is the fact that its much more compact than dallas. the other reason for the better public transit in austin is for getting shit-faced drunk. from the lan center north of downtown (its on 50 something, downtown starts 18), theres a bus line that goes directly south to downtown. the stop is literally a block from the lan center and that bus will take you all the way into the heart of downtown.

Swiss · Post by **Swiss** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:12 pm

Oh and i forgot, theres an Amy's Ice Cream (really famous ice cream place in Austin) so we can buy jules an ice cream cone if he does well

kirk · Post by **kirk** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:16 pm

Swiss wrote:Oh and i forgot, theres an Amy's Ice Cream (really famous ice cream place in Austin) so we can buy jules an ice cream cone if he does well

I think he'd prefer Mac 'n' Cheese. That his mother made.

Sears · Post by **Sears** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:24 pm

My first priority in this endeavor is to find good sponsors. Figure I could prolly get a lot of you nerds to go pretty much anywhere if I can come up with a decent sized prize pool.

Rambizzle · Post by **Rambizzle** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:31 pm

ninja vanish

Polak · Post by **Polak** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:51 pm

HOLY SHIT moosh got married?

YOU DIDN'T INVITE ME???

big surprise bro

AlopeX · Post by **AlopeX** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:10 pm

AtLANta happens every year...

I'd definitely need a heads up to save money to go.

warchyldd · Post by **warchyldd** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:05 pm

moosh wrote:Vegas. Ill go with my wife like we've been planning, and quickly get my team eliminated so i can gamble.

i like your style buddy...

james- · Post by **james-** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:04 am

It's pretty stupid to try and pick places that are on either coast, simply because a few players live there. For the westies, traveling to NY would cost a significant amount more than traveling to somewhere a bit more central, same vice versa. Not to mention more centralized cities are cheaper travel destinations, which makes it more likely that we will be able to get a larger attendance compared to if we were to make it in SoCal or NY (examples being SoCal lans and W2Z lans)

If this is meant to be a "reunion" lan of sorts, then the goal is to get as many past and present members of this community to show up. So I really think it's best to see where we can get a good venue, and try to go from there. Which is about the only reason that I think Vegas would be a good choice, you can get ridiculous package deals there.

Myself, I'll show up just about anywhere, as long as there is a decent turnout. I'd like to frag this game once last time, since I "missed" the last SoCal LAN.

emcsk · Post by **emcsk** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 1:33 am

you need a lan that is the closest for a lot of players and has something to do in between games as any dod player who has lanned will tell you, lans take FOREVER. Vegas and Atlantic City are good choices.

I suggest a west coast lan because there are a lot of dod players out here, especially in socal, and I know there are a decent amount of guys in arizona. But I think you east coasters should try and set something up as well. I don't think it's that hard to get a lan center on board for a tournament, so someone just has to step up and get one going. The organizer should find the best date for everyone and stick with it, if the dates change then things get screwed up.

I've always found that socal lans did really well during winter break and of course summer.

james- wrote:It's pretty stupid to try and pick places that are on either coast, simply because a few players live there. For the westies, traveling to NY would cost a significant amount more than traveling to somewhere a bit more central, same vice versa. Not to mention more centralized cities are cheaper travel destinations, which makes it more likely that we will be able to get a larger attendance compared to if we were to make it in SoCal or NY (examples being SoCal lans and W2Z lans)

If this is meant to be a "reunion" lan of sorts, then the goal is to get as many past and present members of this community to show up. So I really think it's best to see where we can get a good venue, and try to go from there. Which is about the only reason that I think Vegas would be a good choice, you can get ridiculous package deals there.

Myself, I'll show up just about anywhere, as long as there is a decent turnout. I'd like to frag this game once last time, since I "missed" the last SoCal LAN.

while I agree if you want the BIGGEST crowd of players then a central lan would be it. I won't shell a ton of money to go to NY and I'm sure a NY player wouldn't do the same to come to CA. However, that's not to say people haven't in the past (jaggon, ryanemo and khoi come to mind at socal). It depends on how far people are willing to go. Do we want a giant forever-good-bye-to-dod lan? or do we just want to have a small lan gathering on each coast?

Swiss · Post by **Swiss** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 1:55 am

Do we want a giant forever-good-bye-to-dod lan? or do we just want to have a small lan gathering on each coast?

i think you brought up a great point. my personal opinion:

giant forever-good-bye-to-dod-lan

JamesDecker · Post by **JamesDecker** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 2:07 am

having done it as a teenager(because some people were too lazy to volunteer!)~, running a LAN and setting it up is really not that much effort prior to the date, easiest way is to just call a LAN center and instead of trying to sell some crazy tournament idea on them and making it official(which is going to sound like a cluster fuck shit storm amount of unwanted work to your usual lazy LAN worker) just ask them what their daily rental fee is for the whole place and see if it could work.

IRL examples:

x3o had a 1650 per day rental fee but since over 80 people signed up prior they were convinced to change it to an official tournament(and thank god they did otherwise there wouldn't have been a prize pot as only 6 teams actually showed up)

w2z didn't want to run a LAN tourney so we just made it unofficial and rented the place out for a day, for which the fee was 1850, thankfully this time you all held true to saying you were gonna show up and the prize pot was almost 2K if I remember correctly.

P.s yes I know I organized the two worst LAN's in DOD history but I was a kid, and I apologize for their quality.

lolinus · Post by **lolinus** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 4:06 am

Lebanon,Kansas dosen't get much more in the middle than that.

stealthlol · Post by **stealthlol** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:12 am

james- wrote:It's pretty stupid to try and pick places that are on either coast, simply because a few players live there. For the westies, traveling to NY would cost a significant amount more than traveling to somewhere a bit more central, same vice versa. Not to mention more centralized cities are cheaper travel destinations, which makes it more likely that we will be able to get a larger attendance compared to if we were to make it in SoCal or NY (examples being SoCal lans and W2Z lans)

If this is meant to be a "reunion" lan of sorts, then the goal is to get as many past and present members of this community to show up. So I really think it's best to see where we can get a good venue, and try to go from there. Which is about the only reason that I think Vegas would be a good choice, you can get ridiculous package deals there.

Myself, I'll show up just about anywhere, as long as there is a decent turnout. I'd like to frag this game once last time, since I "missed" the last SoCal LAN.

Saying Vegas isn't west coast is like arguing, "We shouldn't have an east coast lan for the people on the other side of the country, so let's do Kentucky." I'm not saying you're wrong that there will probably be venues there that will be better priced, and flying in might be easier, but it's still favoring the west coast players.

Also, I'm saving up for a wedding at the moment and - no matter when the LAN would happen in the next year - will be strapped for money. So going to a place that is synonymous with sucking money from people makes me not interested. The only reason I would want to go is to meet up with the guys I hung out with at w2z and maybe meet a few others I didn't get to a chance to see as much. Going to a place simply because there are tons of bars, casinos, etc. would be - to me - a waste of money. Maybe I'm the only one who has no desire to get trashed, gamble, and meet loose women. But again, that's just me.

kirk · Post by **kirk** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:14 am

stealthlol wrote:The only reason I would want to go is to meet up with the ALEX KIRK I hung out with at w2z.

Fixed.

stealthlol · Post by **stealthlol** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:17 am

OBVIOUSLY. I just didn't want to make the others feel bad. I know i can say I don't want to meet up with Hatmaker. Fucker almost broke my rib cage because I threw a piece of ice at him.

Correction: It wasn't at him. It was just lobbed over a bed and happened to land near him. Christian "Loose-cannon" Hatmaker.

kirk · Post by **kirk** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:21 am

Maybe Lockdown can get us some more nachos.

mogers · Post by **mogers** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:22 am

Screw you Kevin. I hope I never meet you.

stealthlol · Post by **stealthlol** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:25 am

alex kirk wrote:Maybe Lockdown can get us some more nachos.

It took a second for that memory to set in, but once it did, I can't stop laughing. Fucking Kyle Brosnan.
Just don't let Sean near any pizza~

mogers wrote:Screw you Kevin. I hope I never meet you.

Haven't we already met once?! Hence my original comment, "The only reason I would want to go is to meet up with the guys I hung out with at w2z and maybe meet a few others I didn't get to a chance to see as much."

kirk · Post by **kirk** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:27 am

He felt like a big man. Like the guy who orders a round of beer for everyone in the bar.

"Don't worry guys - nachos are on me. I got this."
"Thanks, Kyle! Awesome! Wow you're swell!"

*Nachos come out*
*There's literally 16 chips with some cheese and beans on them*

Kyle:

"So we each get 2, and Kyle gets 3 since he bought them."

stealthlol · Post by **stealthlol** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:29 am

16? You're being generous. I think there might have been 10. Chili's obviously didn't want to deliver.

acetamino · Post by **acetamino** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:30 am

mogers wrote:Screw you Kevin. I hope I never meet you.

stealthlol · Post by **stealthlol** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:32 am

acetamino wrote:
mogers wrote:Screw you Kevin. I hope I never meet you.

Not my fault you didn't attend to two lans that were right next to you (in a sense)!