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08-04-2008, 02:10 PM
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Note from the Editor: This was posted on Saturday by Community Member Vindis, whom Doc, Dave and I had the pleasure of meeting at Quakecon.* This was her live blog of events of the weekend and your chance to get a different perspective on the Quakecon craziness. Enjoy!
QuakeCon started on Friday the 31st and lasted August 2nd, when they will round out the competition and quick draw contests with one strange, massive party. For those of you who have no idea what QuakeCon is, it’s a fairly enormous gaming con, complete with BYOC (http://www.acronymfinder.com/Bring-Your-Own-Computer-(BYOC).html) room and a vendors section wherein you can retrieve all sorts of free t-shirts and mousepads (http://store02.prostores.com/servlet/sarcasticgamer/the-3/Sarcastic-Gamer-Mousepad/Detail) and techy tools of all kinds. There are constant gaming competitions as well as Bawls-chugging rounds and media events such as movie and game screenings.
<div id="blog_message" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> This is my second year attending QuakeCon, and this year was certainly a much different experience than last year, although I expect that had something to do with attending for a good deal longer (and by myself) this year. So without further ado, the QuakeCon QuakeDown (breakdown, quakedown, har har…)
QuakeCon is held in Downtown Dallas in the Hilton Anatole, an absolutely massive and extraordinarily beautiful hotel complex that spans about four multi-story buildings. The first thing you notice as you pull up to the hotel is that there are a great number of cars with Halo, WoW, Nintendo and other assorted nerdy bumperstickers filling the parking lots. Then the discerning eye begins to notice the hordes of black t-shirted young gentlemen of dubious facial hair meandering about the grounds, many of them carrying modded-out cases and boxes with monitors, keyboards and the dollar meals from the local fast food restaurants. On a comedy aside, just because QuakeCon utilizes part of the hotel’s grounds does not mean that it rents out all of it, and this year, QC shared the space with the Mary Kay Pearl seminars as well as the Pentecostal Church (who arrive tomorrow). Such a motley crew has rarely been assembled!
The hordes of Quake Wars clad occupants only thicken on the walk through the hotel to the registration desks on the opposite side of the grounds, and the area around registration is chock full of computers and the aroma of excitement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheromones), energy drinks and perspiration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_odor). QuakeCon is very serious about baggage checking, and will examine your personal items on your way in, on your way out and in pretty much every fashion imaginable as you make your way around the BYOC area. BYOC is an absolutely gigantic room established as a LAN center for the duration of the convention. The floor is riddled with powerstrips and wires and every space is taken up by computers running every game imaginable. Pirate flags hang from some of the stations, and bizarre mod cases adorn the aisles. Last year, there was a lifesize Optimus Prime. The room is almost totally dark, except for the twinkle of screens and the huge announcement projections lighting up the walls.
Next door is the vendor room, where stands for companies of all sorts sit side-by-side with stations equipped with monitors, systems, controllers and booth babes in a variety of strange and revealing outfits. At one end of the room is a stage for the PvP matches and the drawings, along one wall runs a massive Bawls stall, and against the other is an 18 wheeler full of gaming systems. This year, a blue Corvette took up part of the floor (the Grand Prize), and the Wolfenstein booth another good chunk. I missed the announcement for the game, which took place yesterday, but the intro video looked quite amazing, and the terrifyingly skinny women dressed up as faux-SS agents completed the entire 90’s videogame revival look.
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Note from the Editor: This was posted on Saturday by Community Member Vindis, whom Doc, Dave and I had the pleasure of meeting at Quakecon.* This was her live blog of events of the weekend and your chance to get a different perspective on the Quakecon craziness. Enjoy!
QuakeCon started on Friday the 31st and lasted August 2nd, when they will round out the competition and quick draw contests with one strange, massive party. For those of you who have no idea what QuakeCon is, it’s a fairly enormous gaming con, complete with BYOC (http://www.acronymfinder.com/Bring-Your-Own-Computer-(BYOC).html) room and a vendors section wherein you can retrieve all sorts of free t-shirts and mousepads (http://store02.prostores.com/servlet/sarcasticgamer/the-3/Sarcastic-Gamer-Mousepad/Detail) and techy tools of all kinds. There are constant gaming competitions as well as Bawls-chugging rounds and media events such as movie and game screenings.
<div id="blog_message" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> This is my second year attending QuakeCon, and this year was certainly a much different experience than last year, although I expect that had something to do with attending for a good deal longer (and by myself) this year. So without further ado, the QuakeCon QuakeDown (breakdown, quakedown, har har…)
QuakeCon is held in Downtown Dallas in the Hilton Anatole, an absolutely massive and extraordinarily beautiful hotel complex that spans about four multi-story buildings. The first thing you notice as you pull up to the hotel is that there are a great number of cars with Halo, WoW, Nintendo and other assorted nerdy bumperstickers filling the parking lots. Then the discerning eye begins to notice the hordes of black t-shirted young gentlemen of dubious facial hair meandering about the grounds, many of them carrying modded-out cases and boxes with monitors, keyboards and the dollar meals from the local fast food restaurants. On a comedy aside, just because QuakeCon utilizes part of the hotel’s grounds does not mean that it rents out all of it, and this year, QC shared the space with the Mary Kay Pearl seminars as well as the Pentecostal Church (who arrive tomorrow). Such a motley crew has rarely been assembled!
The hordes of Quake Wars clad occupants only thicken on the walk through the hotel to the registration desks on the opposite side of the grounds, and the area around registration is chock full of computers and the aroma of excitement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheromones), energy drinks and perspiration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_odor). QuakeCon is very serious about baggage checking, and will examine your personal items on your way in, on your way out and in pretty much every fashion imaginable as you make your way around the BYOC area. BYOC is an absolutely gigantic room established as a LAN center for the duration of the convention. The floor is riddled with powerstrips and wires and every space is taken up by computers running every game imaginable. Pirate flags hang from some of the stations, and bizarre mod cases adorn the aisles. Last year, there was a lifesize Optimus Prime. The room is almost totally dark, except for the twinkle of screens and the huge announcement projections lighting up the walls.
Next door is the vendor room, where stands for companies of all sorts sit side-by-side with stations equipped with monitors, systems, controllers and booth babes in a variety of strange and revealing outfits. At one end of the room is a stage for the PvP matches and the drawings, along one wall runs a massive Bawls stall, and against the other is an 18 wheeler full of gaming systems. This year, a blue Corvette took up part of the floor (the Grand Prize), and the Wolfenstein booth another good chunk. I missed the announcement for the game, which took place yesterday, but the intro video looked quite amazing, and the terrifyingly skinny women dressed up as faux-SS agents completed the entire 90’s videogame revival look.
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Click here to view the article. (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheSarcasticGamer/~3/355590611/sgcs-own-vindis-reports-from-quakecon.html)