Ok! Another LAN done and dusted!!
Fair to say a beaut time was had by all. Unfortunately for our resident story-teller, we had none of last year’s dramas like speeding tickets, missed planes or JJ charging off down the street like a mad man
. Pretty calm really.
So as for highlights –
Gaming was beaut and we even managed to have some tough battles with Braidon in a game. For the uneducated, General Braidon is now the 4th ranked player in the world so his speed is a little awesome
. Fair to say he stays on one screen for a split second b4 moving on. So watching him was a blur of changing screen images and constant whirling of his hands on his $200 mouse. Even if you have him totally outnumbered, his micro will wipe the floor in individual battles
. Given that he warmed up over lunch by beating 3 computers on expert, you can imagine that there were plenty of volunteers to be on his side when we set teams. And dare I say, equally loud squeals of stacking every time I ended up on his team (boys, I had to win someem
).
We overcome the obvious imbalance by playing handicap games, with handicaps up to 20% for the elderly amongst us. When the forces of Braidon lost, the squeals were that the handicap was too high. Likewise, when he won, the squeals were that the handicaps were too low. You bunch of old ladies, just remember that I am all wise and all knowing when it comes to picking teams
.
We did have a 4v4 without handicap that the anti-Braidon forces won so well done guys. Getting blearly but it was Braidon, Bish, Cutter and Lord V R2, vader, Taffy and Bear. I think.
The house stuff went really well
. Cooking was easy, the boys tidied up etc etc. Turns out Cutter is a chef so used to organising a large kitchen. His use of fish sauce was applauded! Bear’s skill with fried eggs is also now legend. Taffy didn’t even burn the toast!
Going to the supermarket to stock up with Taf and Lord pushing the trolley was kinda weird. Them sending me off to find the milk was predictable. Being able to then find them again by sound alone was also predictable
.
R2 has toned down his hair style but upped his car image, rocking up in some silver 2-seater. He takes the crown from Bear for most kick-butt mode of transport to the LAN.
Talking of R2 he played bloody well, making it possible to get even games with Braidon on the other team.
Vader still looks like Vader, or is that Darth_vader?
He continued his dutch streak with trained allies like taf and Termite sending him early wood so he can FF and mass cannons. He also still sneaks straight out the door for his usual u know what as soon as a game finishes. We have begun the collection for his wife if he doesn’t stop this soon
.
Taffy was a somewhat toned down version of himself but still enuf to fire up Lord, maybe only once an hour
. Taf had a brief period of fame on the Fri night, claiming 7 straight wins and trully showing some improved form. These wins did include 3 or 4 dropped games but hey, he waited til last to exit so if it says u won on the screen, who can argue with that.
Bear is looking a picture of country health, tanned and lean but not so mean nowdays. Like me, Bear was lacking in practice. However, he did set new levels in telling his partners what to do and I will never forget his anxiety about my poor 5 half-dead oprichnicks who couldn’t have killed a fly let alone had any importance to a nearby battle
.
Bish arrived mid way thru the Sunday. As u would expect, being the CISCO kid he had insurmoutable problems with his operating system and was limited to one guest game on my PC.
Termite was his usual noisy abrasive self (as if) and continued his jungle tradition of walking barefooted to the beach. Times have changed and the pecking order moves on so the seasononed Termite and Vader were far too good for me and Lord in 2v2. Despite continued requests, Lord & I refused to play Taf and Vader in a 2v2 as a man needs to maintain some level of self-respect (as they would have kicked as severely and I do not need to see any more of Vaders cannons sending my jap archers flying to heaven
).
Ohh, Taf did take the biggest dummy spit award
away from the title holder, Bish. In our ill-fated State of Origin (can u imagine Braidon, R2, Bear and Cutter versus me lord, Taf and Vader OMG), Taf oddly needed some help. Within 2 secs of Lord saying NO, Taf was out of game and down the stairs! We did need a dummy spit due to a general lack of controversary so thank u Taffy for giving me some mileage.
So that’s about it. Sleeping went well. Vader was quarantined due to an excess dBa level of snoring, taking over Lord’s usual suite. Bear slept in the garage and didn’t report any creatures crawling on him. Bear’s complaints about JJs snoring is now somewhat dimmed as we could still hear him from in the house!
Shame that JJ and Andy couldn’t make it so we hope u both OK for next year.
Cheers boys and please add any scoops that I missed………
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2008 LAN WRAP, All the news from the 2008 LAN
... I still feel the shame Crow... I hope u can forgive me?... if not, I really don't care that much anyways 
... wow... boasting that I beat Taffy... now there's a 'power' shift nobody would of thought of... (yes, u played great all weekend Taffy... and Pete)... and we certainly would've been dissapointed without 1 decent dummy spit... 
... I hope next year will be different... ?!?
