To answer your question more directly: it depends.

Your best bet would be to shop around different venues and see if you can get quotes without committing anything; everywhere will be different, but the biggest cost is typically renting space. Once you get a ballpark of how much money it'll take to rent the event venue, the internet connection (if it's not included), network and power equipment (including cables), and tables/chairs, you can just come up with a price for entry and go from there.

For everybody saying "that's what CS players do": why in the fucking fuck do we want to be like Counter-Strike players?

Zak is literally one of the coolest guys I know.

Played it for a bit a few weeks back, wasn't too impressed.

Our 170-man event is taking in around $3500 ($20 entry fee + additional income) for a 36 hour LAN. It's BYOC and we provide three meals on Saturday, and we're essentially breaking even (not going to go into the specifics of our budget, of course).

One advantage we have is that we're a campus organization, and so we're getting our resources at a nice discount since we're hosting in with CMU; we also have a lot of networking equipment available from friends, so basically our costs are reduced a lot. We spend about a third of our income on food though, so if you didn't offer meals but kept the same entrance fee, you're probably looking at a similar ballpark. In NYC it'll most likely be much more expensive than in Michigan, of course.

lols

Playing shootmania has been a blast, haven't watched any of it though.

Hey so that LAN thing starts tomorrow! If anybody has any questions, now would be a good time to ask 'em.

If anybody's bored this weekend, we should have STVs on all of our servers, though I'm not sure if they'll be accessible outside of the LAN, I'll have to look into that. IF they are, I'll post up the IPs here.

Is your maxplayers only 1 when you make your server? You need enough server slots for the number of bots you're adding.

What is with this trend where when you agree with someone you quote their post and don't add anything else? Isn't that what the +/- frags are for? I really really hate the internet.

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People who say their vote doesn't matter are actually saying one of two things: 1) they don't really care who wins, or 2) because the majority of people may not agree with them, they feel there's no point in voting. The first one is kind of annoying, but the second one is more so; just because your vote is a tiny fraction of the election doesn't mean it's not counted. You voting for someone who is less popular isn't just throwing the vote away, it's "cancelling" a vote for another candidate, or at least taking one potential vote for them away.

Regardless of all that, the worst part about our democracy is that people who vote tend to not actually know what they're voting on. I had a friend who was voting early today and he was willing to talk about his opinions, only shortly before revealing that he doesn't actually know anything about things like the props. and wasn't going to bother voting on them. To me, if you're going to go vote on a president but can't take the time to review your local government decisions as well, you shouldn't be allowed to cast a vote that's counted. To me, democracy is great because the people as a whole get to make decisions about their government, but the biggest downfall is that there are a scary amount of people who don't actually know what they're talking about and are just voting on one or two issues, instead of all of them.

Like most classes, it varies a lot. I thought having a class at night would be great, but it's actually a real burden if you also have classes during the day - kills the amount of free time you have, you really miss it in the evening (especially when TF2 is also at night).

Online classes are very similar - while some teachers make it enjoyable, a lot of my online classes were rather cryptic about what is due when, the format of assignments, etc. The best part about online classes is just about anything that's assigned can be completed by researching the topic online instead of having to sit through a lecture and take notes.

lol politics on gaming forums

Also this. A couple seasons back, I was talking about a scrim I played where both teams ended up running kritz for the entire duration, and it was probably the most fun I've ever had playing this game. As I said in my gigantic post above, and others have mentioned, waiting for ubers and a good time to use them is what really slows the game down. If team's options excluded the standard medigun, then quick fix vs kritz play could arise, and we'd see less stalemating in chokes.

The biggest problem I see with that is that uber is such a game changing element, it would be a very different game to play without that option. However, it would put less important on the medic and more importance about being aggressive and forcing the enemy team into a bad position to be able to use their kritz/be kritz on.