I decided long before reading your comment. Sorry if it sounded like I was directing that at you.

Just the only person with the balls enough to say it on forums :) I don't think he was serious, just saying what other people have said.

Comments like this are why this is the last time I offer help. It's not enough to take time and money to help teams with LAN funds, I can expect a a fair amount of grief from people who purchased tickets because relic won. Stay classy TF2.

Hey guys,

So sorry for the delay on this. I got swamped with extra work at the end of last week and didn't even get to watch the lan.

I'll email you your numbers this evening and announce the winning number here.

It's not bad to get paid something to learn.

Add me on steam.

When our parents generation was growing up university was the ticket to success (money). They now pass on their flawed view that university=success. In our attempts to please our parents and become valuable members of society we all spend time jumping through arbitrary hoops to attain a piece of paper.

That piece of paper is granted to you by the same school who admits you, teaches you, and charges you. Meanwhile they take out tuition to build bigger classrooms to admit more students with less teachers. Oh your school has a great student to faculty ratio? Great, now if the majority of that faculty weren't administrators pushing papers to one another I'd be all for it. Instead we get the same recycled and outdated material that's either irrelevant in todays workplace or entirely outdated to begin with. Oh but don't worry, we have online material and TA's. The online material is the same shit they hand out in class only now it's easy to access shit. TA's each have their own idea for how to grade an assignment and I've enjoyed getting into arguments repeatedly.

Don't worry though, when you graduate you'll have plenty of student loans to worry about and a job that doesn't cover the cost of living.

I hate our education system... I've always said that I can learn more in an hour clicking around wikipedia and looking at their references. It's not all bad, there are some hidden gems and if you're the studious type then more power to you. Doesn't mean it's not all ass backwards.

Did you ever figure this out? If you want to know how to set up your monitor send me a message. I still have my old settings saved somewhere.

Get the 3570k... 4 GHz is auto overclock territory. 4.5 is reasonable and is more than enough for the majority of people.

People recommend the 2500k because they're like "I have it and therefore it's the best, the new one is not enough of an improvement." Maybe it's not worth upgrading from a 2500k to a 3570k, but if the budget allows you to afford the newer processor why even bother?

If you want to find out what not to buy, type in the product name in google followed by either "crash, problem, errors, etc." and watch the number of results you get. You'd think by reading the internet that nothing ever works and that you've got a 50/50 chance of getting something that's usable. Take what you read with a grain of salt and look for product reviews from trusted sites.

Get the 3570k assuming you can afford it. Ignore people going on about the 2500k being a better overclocker because it's entirely dependent on the chip you get and the 3570k is more efficient, supports the latest features, and is faster than the 2500k at the same clock speed.

I think the general consensus is that it's easier to get a 2500k or 2600k to 5 GHz but that even with a clock around 4.7-4.8 GHz the 3570k will be as fast while consuming less power.

If you want to say something there's a way to go about it. Yours is an example of how not to do it. You are not the first team to have this happen to them and you won't be the last. Most seasons there's at least one team that takes it easy before the lan and they don't have a raging fit about it. Your whole team got you there and is showing up, chill.

If people want to go back and look for lan preview articles you're sure to find mention of teams taking time off before lans and other teams picking up their practice schedule.

Didn't realize that this was still the case, I thought they made an exception because it was the first lan.

Hoping to do it live during the lan finals. I'm going to send out an email with your numbers by Saturday.

1. At the point Chess Club finished 4th, it was either they attend the lan or we have only three teams. ESEA is not going to allow another team to attend or for any combination of player other than the people on the Chess Club Roster. You can offer up suggestions all you want, it won't change anything.

2. Upon qualifying for a lan they are expected to make their way to and from Dallas regardless of the financial implications. They have the joy of looking for flights and hotels, and then either paying out of pocket or looking for donations. It's a lot of added stress knowing that people are relying on you to be there. They qualified and will attend lan, cut them some slack.

3. They didn't make any claims or force people to donate. People donated because they want a successful event. Maybe they'll go out in two rounds, but that's two rounds that wouldn't have been played otherwise. Also you can never rule out upsets in a playoff.

Will be there, will be awesome!

If you are on the fence, I encourage you to attend this event. It had it's shortcomings last time around with no official tournament and people STILL had a blast. It's hard to beat ETS for an overall awesome weekend.