The Gigantium, Aalborg

Today one of Crossfire's finest members posted a email screendump from a conversation between him and one Gigantium's employees.

As seen almost everyone have started to think that this is a scam, but let me put it this way.
A half a year ago I had the vision to start a big ET LAN for the community, everything was in some sort of hurry that I didn't realize that people started to hate the idea that it was supposed to be BYOC.

I was out talking with almost every firms in Aalborg about supporting it with all different sorts of stuff, and finally I came across Matrix. I contacted them to see what it would cost to borrow it for a whole weekend for a LAN event, it ended up in almost 3500 € which was a pretty cheap price. The thing however was that the LAN venue was way to small, so I kinda had to put it on hold to find a better place. It was a really hard process as people started to loose the hope in it really coming to life one day, so I grouped up with some former staff members of The eXperience & SLAP to provide me with experience, we quickly managed to have the support from a place called UEG & Aalborg County that was offering us a decent amount of money to cover all the expensives. This was the deal. Therefore we never had some sort of sponsors as the people behind it was Aalborg itself to gather interest to the city.

After the reunion with the former experienced members I was put as a ET-chef to gather interest from the ET scene to the LAN. However this wasn't that easy, I quickly realised the hate toward ET and it's community from the former COD4 & CS Crew LAN members, so I always stayed in focus to be as positive as possible. Gigantium is a big place, and has different sort of departments, I was told that the deal with Gigantium was made regarding it being the host for the LAN and I was right away on writing some stuff about the LAN itself here on crossfire, where I promised that I will come up with a final annoucment about it on 1st of September, 2010.

University started and people started to from maybe 5-10 hours each week helping organizing the LAN to only 1-5 hours, I was however still working on getting all the details done as soon as possible. I managed to get arranged that afternoon trip to the city with the pubcrawl and club, and thought I might've had everything setteld regarding ET. However it turned out that Gigantium was misled by the dates where it was free, so we were offered a big LAN venue, with a small shop, sleeping hal, Internet connection and all the cables needed for about 10.000-12.000€. Some of the folks realised that the date was wrong and went to call me about it, but at that point it was already too late. I simply lost all the faith.

I started from the idea guy behind all to ending up as a simple ET organizor to now being the biggest idiot.

I am deeply sorry for all of this, I think I was just way to exicted about all of this.


Yes I am the one to blame but I am for sure not a scammer. When the moneysystem at BilletNET failed to respond to our deadline I was talking to Krosan about taking in the payments on his account as some sort of security to be 100% sure that nothing will happen to it and no one would get scammed. I hope Krosan can verify as this is true and was talked about 1-2 days before the offical annoucment.

All of this was never INTENDED as a scam, think about it.
Why would a scam people in a game I have played for almost 7 years?
Why would I scam people on a site where my IP ain't hidden?
Why would I scam people that I have played with ages?
Why would I scam on a site where most of them know my real identity?
Why would I scam when i post about 1 picture of myself each 2 weeks?

I have stepped down and won't be helping at all at this event, I however will still be playing this amazing beloved game with a deep sorrow of shyness & guilt. Already now I have been banned on almost every second mIRC channel.

Looks like times have changed, Kamz used to be the most hated now he's the most beloved I used to be a funny and chill guy that had too much passion for this game to now ending up as the most hated because of something I will regret for the rest of my gaming carrer.

Once again I'm sorry.

Adi.
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i have a feeling you are just going to all end up in adi's basement, with a sign saying "TROLLED HARD LOOOOL"
Don't know if like!
yeah adi, brb paying you
gonna troll us hard again :D?
Parent
nice bait :PpPpP
Parent
Well, I think we should stop ignoring the elephant in the room.

This LAN isn't ever going to happen, is it?
The LAN will happen, there were just some difficulties that had to be taken care off. Krosan was aware of this long time ago, but he advised us to not publish anything until everything was settled regarding the LAN Venue.
Parent
Well I'm still suspicious but I'm more than prepared to eat my hat if you prove me wrong.

Any infos on the streetbasket tournament?
Parent
There is no reason to be suspicious we have a long time ago partnered up with some of the SLAP management crew to help everything getting sorted out.

SLAP is a world-wide known LAN organization based in Denmark.
Parent
Awful use of that phrase.
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ROLLED HARD!
would be the most epic lan ever
I'm just imagining your whine about lights and smoke onstage...
Parent
The stage during the LAN event will not look nowhere near that.
Parent
wanna make a STREETBASKET team with me and Clown if this LAN isn't fake?
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i will show u oldschool basketball mate ill own ur team anytime
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we will own them, np4us
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They should replace you with mAus tbh.

hihi
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Can I roll with you?

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Parent
TAG vs ubermix, grudge match to see who is the best mix team after all

obviously we get Clown
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Ubermix doesn't stand a chance, even with Clown!
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why u play basketball vs dwarfs ?
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It was a community event to encourage people to play more basketball, so all ages were allowed to play.

Unfortunately, the competition games I played are not on any of the photo's :<
Parent
looks great. Any Good players that are willing to make a proper team pmm me !
sponsored by jack wolfskin?
350 for team entry + living + some food? O_O
Sleeping-places will be in a nearby hall, where people need to bring their own sleeping bags tho.
Parent
There will be shower-cabins and 4 big toilets that has room for over 100 people at the same time.
Parent
The same was said about shgOpen but then it turned out there were no showers at the venue. Is that the Danish way of hosting LANs or are you for real this time? ;D
Parent
"The main use of the arena is sport, and it is home to the Danish Handball League club AaB Håndbold."

if that's correct information, I'm pretty sure they have some showers in there :D
Parent
so we as a team have to pay 350€and we have a sleepingplace + breakfast for 2 days ??
So there's more games than just ET, yet you moved the dates because of ET LAN scheduling? This fails to make much sense, hence I am suspicious.
et is a professional game ok.... makes perfectly logical sense.
Parent
Arent good CoD4 teams coming to CiC8 aswell? Well normally you have a CoD4 tournament.
Parent
What makes even less sense is moving the date of this LAN in order not to clash with the CiC8 date - which hasn't been announced yet!
Parent
You see Adacore, when scheduling the date the LAN was supposed to be held in a totally different Venue. There will be brand new game-tournaments held during LAN Event which will also be published on September 1st.

The whole thing with the dates is not just because of CC8 and CRO LAN.
Parent
just tel us when cc8 is :P
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ye ye sure xD
Need team! 350 looks fine for all that :o
see u there ..oh wait
KAMZ ARE YOU BEHIND THIS TROLL?
dodging already?
Parent
yup only gonna go to next aef2
Parent
can someone else confirm this shit
Don't be hating my homey!
Parent
not going to scandinavia in december, going to freeze to death in the middle of the winter :D
Its just Denmark... max -20 :S
Parent
like i said,too cold xD!
Parent
":D" I even work in a T-shirt only @ -20 =( (Atleast did it a couple of times :P )
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no trousers`?
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Ofcourse I use pants LOL.
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than i misunderstood ur sentence :p
Parent
Denmark isnt that cold :x
Parent
it is to me! temp barely goes under 0 here :/ and if it does, i dont go out :(
Parent
pussy :D

come to Poland for real extreme experiances :P
Parent
That doesnt make any sense at all :D:D
Parent
have u watched Ultimate Survival, when Grylls was in Gdynia's docks? :D
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Say what :D:D?. Even Estonia has colder weather than Poland
Parent
nothx, rather die a painful death than go to poland
Parent
poland's extreme experiences equals drinking vodka with old people?
Parent
kinda... but not all of it :D
Parent
I know Russia's colder....but I have no intentions in going there so dont care :D
Parent
i doubt that there is -20 in december
Parent
not any colder in Denmark that it is in NL at that time
Parent
wasnt gonna go there regardless, too expensive and too much traveling :p
ill sit this motherfucker out and wait for cc8!
Parent
i just thought you should now :o)
Parent
haha yeah thanks, i've always had the idea all of scandinavia were cold as fuck :D
Parent
hehe ye, the americans believe we fight icebears in the streets =)
Parent
wait...are you saying you dont...??? >:O

:D
Parent
:D

never said we don't ;)
Parent
haha u should come to visit me when i have moved :D im moving tomorrow to Luleå that is in northen sweden ;)
Parent
u really wanna kill me eh? xD
there really is no point in visiting you after you moved...unless your sister is moving with you! :D

but no time/money as im searching for a place of my own too atm :)
Parent
Since everybody is suspicious about this LAN, is there any way we could "verify" this LAN with E-mailing them or so?
Will be awesome if it will happen, sucks that the dates changed though :S
HEEEEEEREE WE COME =D
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Skal du dit din bæsj?
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Ja det tror jag ;)
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I'll pick you up ;)
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u do that man ;D
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I'm just praying for this to happen, I've convinced myself that it's a troll - then Domi wakes me up by saying there's a newspost about it.
Please Adi, don't fuck up this time.

But sleeping place nearby included in price?
ARE THERE SHOWERS? :x
Yes sleeping places are included, and there will be showers check my comment to stray.
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Team-norway ready to roll them nerds!
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cya there
btw, lol @ lemar being in the same list as bob dylan, kiss and shakira...
image: want-to-believe

But NO
it seems awsome!!!
I smell a mass panic
hahahaha just look @ evo and adacore comments, they are already throwing shit on it so ppl will choose another crossfire lan :DDDD

god i love this site
+ krosan ;]
Parent
ofc mate you're right
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you arent very good at making sense now are you
Parent
awesome location, hopefully with a proper internet connection
The internet connection will be provided by Aalborg University. So there shouldn't be any problems there.
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im avi for team, decent skilled. pm me for infos
If all that works out and becomes real, I'd say see you there!
seems really good, 350 € for ticket/sleeping place/some food is a fair price

noT is in !
lol, as if people are gonna give you their money
heh, hopefully ill get there!!
so when will the signups open? and will the final date be published before they open?
Might come.
rtcw removed?
QuoteHowever with CC8 and Croatian LAN coming up


when is CC8 ?
gj adi, living 10 mins from there, how awesome :)
Aalborg is expensive to get to? :o
(url) [[url]www.farecompare.com][/url]

you should check this site out, but as far as i see it isn't that bad :)
Parent
ez for f5
I want to believe it !
if 350 iis for entrance, sleeping & breakfast then can we get more info on those things?
Like where would the sleeping place be? and how does those rooms look like? and so on.

But yeah i am intrested in going to it just waiting on more info.


PS December? isn`t that risky cause i hear that CC8 might be going down in december as well?

e:
70 euros per player isnt that mutch but need then info on the cheapest flight to the lan.
Also how many night can you sleep there? most times we arrive one day before the event and leave one day after the event so some info about that is welcome ;)
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