ET Reborn LAN: Sebhes

My turn to write about my LAN experience. As you might know, this was my first LAN. Therefore, I have a lot to write. Sit down to read the entire experience.

The road to the LAN

The whole idea of organizing a LAN started in December 2014. I have always loved the game Enemy Territory and having the opportunity to host another ET LAN was simply too great to resist.

First, I contacted ohurcool and MerlinatoR to find out what their expectations were about organizing another ET LAN. They were sceptical that an ET LAN in 2015, 12 years after the release of the game, would workout. Nevertheless, they gave me good advice and supported me in my plan. I decided to get in touch with timbolina and he was willing to help me.

Right after, the hardest part of the journey started. How to get enough teams interested in a LAN in 2015? Before contacting timbolina I had spoken to many ET players who all said they would surely attend if there would ever be another ET LAN. It did not come as a big surprise most of these promises were nothing more than fairy tailes. In order to get enough teams involved, I had to spend most of my time speaking to potential team captains who were capable of forming a team. From the beginning on, our goal was to get 10 - 12 6on6 teams and a same amount of teams for the 3on3. Happy to see we achieved our goal.

The next issue were the payments. Signing up for a LAN is one thing, paying is another. For us it was important to have those teams who payed in an early stage, to motivate other teams doing the same. That is why I would like to special thank Catinahat, Coffee time, idle.ee and KOMMRANLAN. Eventually we end up with 14 3on3 and 11 6on6 teams.

Many, many hours investing into the preparation lead us to the weekend itself. The ET Reborn LAN.

LAN Experience

ET Reborn LAN: Thursday

Thursday, 16th of April 2015, can be considered as the first day I met an ET player. shaman would land today at Rotterdam Airport around 15:15 CET. Due my wrong estimation of packing time it was my dad who had to pick him up from the airport. Great start haha. Me and Shaman started to drive around 16:30 to the legendary LAN center, the Wzzrd cafe. After much traffic we reached the LAN center at 20:00, where after we started to set up all the PCs and stuff. Special thanks to Shaman & Sherclock for helping us setting up.

We faced some problems like the electricity which did not seem to work and some extensions which failed to work as well. After much improvisation we succeeded in setting everything up around 02:00.

At the cafe itself, we met sebi & Fobje. Two great guys who had no place to sleep. Luckily enough 7ele and v4ux13 arrived one day later, so we could offer them a place at our place in Boekelo. BloOdje joined us as well and slept on the lovely couch.

I am used to a sleeping pattern which is different than the average person and explains why I had only 2 hours of sleep that day...

ET Reborn LAN: Friday

Friday , 17th of April 2015, was the day of the 3on3 tournament. I got out of my bed at 07:00 am to prepare myself for the day. We had only 1 car and end up with 7 people in one car. I have learned that it is not easy to drive with two people in the front seat :D

7 teams started their set up at 09:00 for the matches which started at 10:00. I had to play myself in group A. It was hard setting up and getting a decent warm up if you have to help out others guys at the same moment. We kicked of versus 8bits. Testti had to instantly waste the 2 pauses because he had problems with his config. We had a great start and won our first game. Many games later and no big problems further, we finished the first part of the day: group A.

Group B and the play offs went quiet successful and according to plan. The only delay we had that day was from the set up of group A and from Matias who had to test out 5000 different screens for his config haha. I think Friday was a successful day with credibilies as winners of the 3on3 tournament.

ET Reborn LAN: Saturday

Saturday, 18th of April 2015, I had 4 hours of sleep. Full of energy, I went to the cafe to help people answering their questions and fixing problems with peoples PCs. Again, the only delay of this day came from the set up of group A (and from Matias of course :D).

I had to play myself as well in the 6on6 tournament. As smart as I am I abused my admin powers to put myself in the 6on6 group with both LAN finalists :x. We end up in the consolation tournament playing the most fun game of the tournament versus Catinahat. Right after this match we had vodka shots with the cats. Real sportsmanship.

Saturday night was the best night. I end up with Team Rockit and Catinahat as last teams in the cafe. Had a great time talking with them and especially with Swanidius. Thanks to Sinche for drinking all the vodka of the cafe.

Eventually me and Rayzed where the last man standings and headed home around 05:00-06:00 am. Where I could enjoy another night with 1 or 2 hours of sleep. *zZzzZz*

ET Reborn LAN: Sunday

Sunday, 19th of April 2015, the last day of the ET Reborn LAN. The day where team - visual surprised the whole ET scene by achieving the second place. Also the day where erAse.et upsetted by dropping out of the tournament. Probably cause of the hangover from vanQ and esSe, gege boys.

We did not face any huge problems this day. The probably biggest problem was I could not understand vanQ in the end anymore, because he was too drunk :D. No big delays this day ( Matias did not cause any major problems :P). It was Team Rockit who won the 6on6 tournament and went home with the 1050 euros.

Me, Shaman, armaa, Jt and girlfriend of JT helped building everything off. We headed home around 01:00.

ET Reborn LAN: Monday

Monday, 20th of April 2015, the day after. As tired as I was me and Shaman went to the gym the day after. Probably the worst gym session I have ever had, but oh well it was caused by a good reason! My ET experience was over the moment my boy left to his plane at 16:00.

What is next? Nationcup? Summercup? ET Reborn LAN 2?

Receiving this many positive reactions of the LAN, motivated me to do more for the ET scene. In order to not let the ET activity drop, me and Foreigner will announce plans to host a 6on6 Nationcup later this week.
Me and ChilAx. have also been speaking about plans for organizing a Summercup later this year. This tournament will mostlikely find place after CG3.

ET Reborn LAN 2

A question many people would like to know: Will there ever be another ET LAN? The answer is yes! Many people have asked us if there are plans for another LAN. We always had the intention to give a sequal to the Reborn series if this first edition would be a success. Therefore, we will try to host another LAN next year. A lot can happen to the ET scene in one year. I got good confidence another LAN is in our hands tho. We don't want to organize a LAN to soon after this one, because this might not be attractive enough to teams who are coming from far away.

Plans for a next LAN will be announced somewhere October/November.

I had my best ET experience ever! It was a pleasure to meet all of you.I would like to thank all of you who made the LAN possible. Cheers to everybody who read the entire story. Leave a message if you have managed to read the entire story! I see you next year!

P.S. I will also write a journal where I will give shout outs to everybody who I have met.