Nineteen Eleven

joeledmunds wrote:

Wint0 wrote:I would go with the best team I could make with my friends. I could really care less about the money... its vegas...

I'm not someone who would win money at something like this. It's just nice to have something to actually play for. I'm going to be playing with the same people but we'll actually have a reason to scrim together.

willeh wrote:anyways- I have been in tier 1 the entirety of my career. I also have been utilizing crossfit workouts as my general workout program. i feel it has a good balance of strength and cardio conditioning that i need.

the biggest portions i eat are during the AM and the smallest are during the PM making sure i do not consume anything over 7 pm.

i also try to ween off the carbs as the day goes.

you can say what you want about my program but i have personalized it to what works best for me. and it works.

unpro wrote:LAN thread becomes 56th thread about working out on these forums.

alex kirk wrote:

unpro wrote:LAN thread becomes 56th thread about working out on these forums.

Do you even lift?

Swiss wrote:i am definitely down for the second option if that is possible. i think looking at the second option first is really smart because then we would have plenty of planning already done for a smaller regional lan. having the pdxlan with their sponsors involved sounds awesome. i also REALLY like the idea of pursuing the help of valve, especially if this is in many senses a "sending off party" for dod (and they must have a room full of spare cash from selling tf2 hats?!?!).

i think its definitely possible that austin would work, especially since i have some contacts with dell, which is one of the "grassroots" tech companies from austin and they sponsor alot of local tech events = possible solution to the computer problems. thats something i could look into. (and like i said before, austin is COMLETELY different than dallas; its known as the live music capital of the world.) so i think it should at least be considered.

BUT i still like the las vegas idea alot, sears. that really is a great deal especially when you look at the "Airfare from anywhere in the continental U.S." working through a travel agent is going to help this process alot.

that was a good point about the HLTV for the finals match. there were ~76 in the hltv (and then you add on the two teams playing, 88 LOL). im definitely not going to say that the number of people in hltv is any realistic number of people who would come to a lan like this. its a stretch but thats AT LEAST a small indicator of the amount of people that care enough about this game to sit and watch other people play for 40 minutes. dod has changed alot in the past couple years in terms of activity despite the fact that theres still a good number of the old players who havent come back. the growth in activity the past couple of years has come from a good number of people who were new to the competitive community.

tenks, i was also thinking the same thing. i think some of the newer players/teams might be turned off to come to something like this if (1) they feel they have no chance to win (2) theyre coming to meet people theyve never known (online or IRL) (3) theres naturally going to be clicks of people.

downside of the draft would be people that naturally wanted to come because they wanted to play with old teammates or win the thing. id think bringing back old teams together is part of the nostalgia, along with just seeing old friends (correct me if im wrong). were already doing a second draft tourny online right now (dont know if you saw) so were figuring out the best way to do something like that

and yea playing with friends is a huge draw but most of the older community at this point are all friends anyway and likely to play with any one another