January 16, 2011 - Vu Invitational: StarCraft - Dan Krill's BLOG on BinaryBedlam

Vu Invitational: StarCraft
January 15, 2011 7:42 PM

While not technically a LAN party, it was still the geekiest thing I've done since college. One of my co-workers held a bracketed StarCraft tournament complete with a five/ten dollar buy in to make it more interesting. There were a little more than 10 people participating but we only played one game at a time so the rest of us could watch in spectator mode downstairs on his projector. It was better than the superbowl! For each game the winner had to win 2 out of 3 games, so each bracket could take quite some time. The whole event lasted probably around 6 hours, but Tien supplied plenty of chicken wings and fried rice. Alan was the champion. I only won one game :-( But oh well, great fun was had by all!

DATE: January 17, 2011 07:11:58 AM NAME: ChrisS
COMMENT: Ah man, reminds me of the olden days of SC LAN Parties. Hopefully your setup process was much easier than ours used to be. "Did you bring the hub? Who has the hub?" "Wait, we need 2 more ethernet cables." "Can everyone see my computer on the network? Who can`t see who`s computer on the network?" "Okay, first you have to go into settings... then select UDP/IP....."

DATE: January 17, 2011 09:22:22 AM NAME: dankrill
COMMENT: haha, yes I do remember those days, man we were the true pioneers of LAN parties! none of us could afford laptops, so we all had our huge honking PCs, no one had LCDs (except Shane) so we all brought our giant CRTs, and yup, it was the infancy of TCP/IP so tonnns of network problems! Now with SC2 the only computer you need to see is battle.net.

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