July Muli-Day ARMAGEDDON!!!

Review by

[CCGA]Meatshield 

 

To begin with… this is probably the first multi-day LAN in memory that we were not rained on! Also, being in the mid of July, we were very pleased that the room seemed to keep a good temperature… this kept your neighbors from sweating too bad as well…(unless involved in tournament play). Many Kudos to the Quality Suites staff for replacing the previously fault A/C completely. The setup went along as planned. Having our conference center already wired makes it soo easy to set up. As do having [CCGA]Spectere and [CCGA]Lefty take the day off from work to get things going early in the day. And good thing too. A minor issue with leaking pipes in the ceiling was taken care of promptly (thanks again to the hotel staff).

As gamers began to arrive, we were also able to test out our newest servers for the event. Ever wonder where the money the CCGA makes goes? In this case three 64 bit AMD servers from one of our sponsors ATD. Through the party, we never had a “hardware” glitch the entire event! Great success in that area, and thanks should especially go to [CCGA]Umpa and [CCGA]Spectere for getting the servers built and setup.

The room began to fill...but not as much as we would have liked. We were still about 20 short to make a full room, but this also made room for our x-box setup which hosted our MYSTERY TOURNAMENT later in the evening. As everyone predicted, Battlefield 2 was very prominent throughout the night. It seems to have made a great hit with all that had the game. Other games seen being played were CounterStrike:Source and Unreal Tournament 2k4. After some control tweeking..the first tournament began.

 

Tournament #1 – Joint Operations – AI team Challenge

This tournament was a little different than the norm. 5 playes teamed up to go against the AI in Joint Ops. The team that came out with the highest score at the end of all the matches took home the trophies. 5 teams played, and the victors were:

|RoC|Inigma

|RoC|Cero

|RoC|Sek

[CCGA]Lefty

[CCGA]Spectere

If anyone has a screenshot of their match end, please send it to me and we'll get it posted too.

Tournament #2 – Empire Earth 2

The Empire Earth 2 tournament was a first with us, and turned out fairly well. The rules stated that at the end of one hour, players would cease play and the highest score would determine the winner. The final two players were |RoC|Cero and [CCGA]Lefty. After mass destruction and the alotted 60 minutes, [CCGA]Lefty barely edged |RoC|Cero out to take home the bragging rights. The winner of this tournament goes to:

[CCGA]Lefty

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Empire Earth II Brackets

 

Tournament #3 – Mystery Tournament

I must admit, we were a little tricky on this one. We held the sign-ups first before even announcing the game.. and when we had over 15 to sign up…once we announced the game to be DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION (X-Box)..we were pleased to see we still had about 8 contestants. There is nothing like seeing a bunch of “chair-tied” gaming geeks jump on a dance mat and get their groove on!!! Obviously a site to be seen.. There were some heated battles with many of the matches being decided by 5-10 points. But after all the dust settled, and sweat was toweled off, the winner was :

Spyder

Mystery Tournament DDR Brackets

 

The rest of Friday night was about the same as earlier in the day… Battlefield 2 server being hit hard. After a few hours of flight lessons and sniper tricks... in comes Saturday. The second day of the party brought in another small handful of gamers ready to try their skill, in addition to the gamers already there. Once they settled in, the first tournament of the day was on...

Tournament #4 – UT 2k4 – 3 on 3

Game and map selection for this tournament was completely random. Neither side had any say so to what or where they were to play. A true test to UT skills and team play.. In the end, the winners were Team UMM:

Vesper

YodaTaco

NuclearWinter

UT 2K4 Tournament Bracket

 

And last but certainly not least,

Tournament #5 – Battlefield 2 - 5 on 5 double elimination

All I can say is…. We played a whole lot of Battlefield 2 this weekend. This tournament was played with the best out of 5 matches before a loss was given. For future notes...never do a best out of 5. This proves to have a veeerrrry long tournament. As seen in Saturday's non-stop action. The finals ended up (about 5 hours later) with the winner's bracket playing the top of the loser's bracket which of course allowed the team in the winner's bracket to play at least 2 more sets since they had yet to be handed their first lost. So the finals lasted 9, 15 min maps matches. Much Battlefield for even the most die-hard gamer... but the team to rise from trenches is :

[CCGA]Umpa

[CCGA]Lefty

[CCGA]Spectere

[CCGA]MeatShield

|RoC|NuclearWinter*

(*also experienced a controller malfunction, similar to that of a helicopter control falling off into your lap.) Thanks to Flash for allowing use of his controllers to bring the win to the squad.

Battlefield 2 Tournament Bracket

 

 

And if this wasn't exciting enough…. On with the prize giveaways!!!!!!!

 

Axio computer case – Doctor Virus

Sintara

 

Dell Printer from ATD:

Unknown Sniper

 

VIVENDI games going to:

SkitzoMike

[CCGA]Lefty

WizKid

|RoC|Sek

TurboBMX

Malevolent

Vesper

|RoC|Cero

 

BAWLS provided a case-o-Bawls:

[CCGA]Umpa

 

Mod kits went out to:

Slideby

Flash

Darian Starwind

[CCGA]Spectrallight

 

BAWLS prize pack:

|RoC|Inigma

Unknown Sniper

 

CORSAIR Memory hat:

TaterTot

German Assassin

 

Cheese-It party mix:

Suzy-Q

 

Peanut butter pretzel:

genner

 

BAWLS carrying bag:

|RoC|NuclearWinter

 

NVIDIA T-shirt:

[CCGA]MeatShield

 

CD Homes kits from ATD

drinkman

Xavier

[CCGA]FreeBeak

 

The Worst-Sleeping-Conditions award ( $10 Pizza Hut gift card) goes to:

SkitzoMike – for getting a few hours of sleep in a Mitsubishi Eclipse.

 

And thanks again to the Battlefield 2 tournaments running all the way to 9:30, there was not much time for free-play after the awards ceremony and prize give-aways. This meant… no Soldier of Fortune 2 play…~sniff, sniff~.. but have no fear.. we will surely have to make time for SoF2 in September… So be sure to come out again on September 17, for another action packed… Carolina ARMAGEDDON!!!!!

A huge thank you to Vivendi Universal Games, Doctor Virus, Bawls, ATD, Saber98 Technologies, ATI, Nvidia, and our other sponsors for helping make this Carolina ARMAGEDDON! as good as it was!   Our next Carolina ARMAGEDDON! is in September and will be an overnight party.   We expect to see a large turnout, so let's get signed up and paid!

Click here to register for the September 17th Carolina ARMAGEDDON!

 

 

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