Dod lan?

[Polak]

HOLY SHIT moosh got married?

YOU DIDN'T INVITE ME???

big surprise bro

[AlopeX]

AtLANta happens every year...

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

[warchyldd]

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-]

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]

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.

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]

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]

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 **** 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]

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