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We are looking for some dedicated people to help us out with the Lan set-up and tear down, as well as organization of the tournaments. Following will be a list of the positions we need to fill, and the compensation available. Everyone who helps out is invited to the "pre-lan party" here at our place in Waterloo (214 Westcourt) on the friday night before. There will be free pizza and bawls (that's bawls, not beer ) for all who attend, and anyone who wants to can sleep here (although you may have to take the floor).
You can sign up for more than one job if you feel that you can handle it, people with experience and training will be favoured over those without in the case of several people wanting the same position.


Setup and Teardown
Description - Help with the set-up of the 1000's of meters of Cat5e that need to be laid at the venue, and well as connecting the switches and AV equipment. Must be present for both the set-up and the tear-down, possibly some duties including registration (ie. watching the door, etc...)
Compensation: Free Tournament Masters T-Shirt, and free entrance to the lan ($40 value). You can play in all the tournaments and are elegible for all the door prizes.
Volunteers (we're looking for about 8 people here, if you are helping in some other capacity, you will be required to help out with this as well):
Ghost
Neb
Jew
Heidi
Queen Zeus




Network Assistant
Description - Directly Assist Bob with the setup and administration of the servers and switches (good working knowledge of Linux required).
Compensation: $60
Volunteer (1 only):
Ghost

Network Tech
Description - Help people at the lan resolve their network problems (good working knowledge of windows networking required). Probably only needed for the first 2 hours or so of the lan, will require you to walk around the area helping people.
Compensation: $20
Volunteers (2 needed):



Rocket Arena Tournament Admin
Description - Administrate the Rocket Arnea 1v1 tournament. Responsible for setting up the tournament and working with Bob and Ghost to get the game servers up and running. Will have to keep track of the winners and announce new matches, you should have a good knowledge of the game and console commands, etc...If you run this tournament you can't participate in it (obviousally. ).
Compensation:$50
Volunteers (2 needed to work as a team together):



Starcraft Tournament Admin
Description - Administrate the Starcraft 1v1 tournament. Responsible for setting up the tournament and helping people get the game servers up and running. Will have to keep track of the winners and announce new matches, you should have a good knowledge of the game and useful commands, etc...If you run this tournament you can't participate in it.
Compensation:$40
Volunteers (2 needed to work as a team together):



Warcraft 3 Tournament Admin
Description - Administrate the War 3 2v2 tournament. Responsible for setting up the tournament and helping people get the game servers up and running. Will have to keep track of the winners and announce new matches, you should have a good knowledge of the game and useful commands, etc...If you run this tournament you can't participate in it.
Compensation:$50
Volunteers (2 needed to work as a team together):



War 3 will be on the first day and running it may interfere with playing in UT2004, and CS. Rocket Arena and SC will be on the second day and running them may interfere with playing UT2004(and each other).
Anyway, I'm sure lots of you would like to make some money while putting your lan running skills to work, so post below what you'd be interested in doing.

Timeline
Saturday:
10:00am - CS
2:00pm - War3
5:00pm - UT2004

Sunday:
9:00am - UT2004, Rocket Arena
12:00pm - Starcraft

I'd need to know the full hours of operation, but I might be able to help you out with the RA tournie. PM me full details (ie. rules, total time it will take place, perceived number involved, scripts allowed, etc.) before I give a "yay" or "nay." As of now..............





..................I call dibs.

I volunteer for

1st choice: Setup and teardown crew & RA Tourney
2nd and 3rd choice: SC and War3.

I will take all positions if that's possible, and if no one else volunteers, but if lots of people do, I want Setup and teardown and RA tourney for sure.

I'll help with Setup and Teardown if its needed, and if neccesary I can be a network assistant if you cant find anyone else to do it.

After seeing the times of the RA tournie, I'm going to now request running the WC3 tourney. I can't be there Sunday morning. If you switch the RA tourney to Saturday and the WC3 to Sunday, I'd be good but it's up to you guys. I'd help run it as an assistant tech (ie. below the 2 head honchos) when I'm there, but Sunday morning is a no-go. I can help set up Friday night/Saturday morning and help tear down Sunday night.

If help is needed to run the CS tourney, I offer. Seeing how it's heavily based off of Quake I have a knowledge of the console commands associated with it.

As an aside, are you allowing nudge and fps > 128 for the tourney? Or are you standardizing it?

Time nudge will not be allowed, the network should have low enough latency that it won't be a problem. Fps >128 may be allowed, it will probably be up to the organizers.

well I would be an obvious choice for RA tourney but that means I can't play in it, so i'm out for that.

I may be intrested in helping on the windows networking.

I would like to help with the set up and tare down of this, seeing as how i'm not a gamer i would be available for pretty much anything through out the weekend. I will also be a volunteer if need be.

I know i don't know anything about computers but that doesn't mean i'm useless. I can take names and money at door, help with prizes, cable connection. Pretty much, if you show me how to do it i can. Please don't over look me because i'm not a techy.

[Fallen]Thumperup wrote:well I would be an obvious choice for RA tourney but that means I can't play in it, so i'm out for that.

I may be intrested in helping on the windows networking.

Will you also be able to help with set-up and teardown?

Heidi18 wrote:I would like to help with the set up and tare down of this, seeing as how i'm not a gamer i would be available for pretty much anything through out the weekend. I will also be a volunteer if need be.

I know i don't know anything about computers but that doesn't mean i'm useless. I can take names and money at door, help with prizes, cable connection. Pretty much, if you show me how to do it i can. Please don't over look me because i'm not a techy.

No Prob, Glad to have the help.

well I will if i'm available I will be glad to but im' not sure about work related so that why I didn't volunteer

The great LAN has lured me back!

So anyway.. what are the hours on this thing? If I was to help out setup/teardown what are we talking?

I volunteer for setup/tear down

I think you misunderstand time nudge, but it's not important. Just don't allow it as only the truly "hardcore" really care about it.


After having reviewed the schedule, I'm gonna request any of the tournies on saturday (ie. CS, SC, UT2k4).

THE JEW (RaVeN) wrote:I think you misunderstand time nudge, but it's not important. Just don't allow it as only the truly "hardcore" really care about it.

Do you know what time nudge is really for? It's designed to help with high pings by adjusting how you recieve updates from the server. Obviousally in the Lan environment this won't be a problem, as the ping will be low. Any other reason for using time nudge (such as setting it to a negative value to enhance your game play) is obviousally totally out of the question.

If you think that my comment indicated that I am ignoring a serious issue with time nudge then by all means let me know.

Wrong "time nudge."

You're thinking solely of high latency over a network. It's tied into that, but that's not the issue I was bringing up.

Did you know that by default Q3 does hit prediction when your ping is 0? That means that when you point your crosshair at someone on the screen they're not necessarily there--the server just takes in all the data, calculates it, averages, and gives a happy medium that works for everyone. It performs the prediction by default. The "hardcore" tournaments set it up so that where you point your crosshair is where you ACTUALLY point your crosshair. However, due to the fact that everyone's data isn't "smoothed over" by the server there are sometimes graphical "spinouts" where the server deems you are out of sync with everyone else and forces you back in sync. It's like you have an acid trip graphically, and then your back in sync with the game.

Some people don't like default because they feel that the server is detracting from their ability to score a frag. For example, they feel that they could have hit you, but since the server averaged it out that they missed you.

I've only ever heard of it used a few times in a few tournaments over in Europe. Your client won't realize what it is--keep them ignorant of it so that they don't have something else to complain about.

Summary--just leave what I'm talking about off or don't even worry about it.


The only serious issue I see here is you pressuming I don't know what I'm talking about when you're the one not up to speed on the other uses of time nudge. Time nudge != only for hpb's.


EDIT:

Here's an easy way to set it up:

http://www.planetquake.com/rocketland/h ... ient.shtml

The client also plays with the lightning prediction and other fine tuning.