This years Quakecon is the second one me and Jennifer have been to and it was a blast. This year there wasn’t as much entertainment shows but it was still awesome to me up with my team and game on the network there with 2,800 other people. Quakecon is one of, if not, the biggest lan gaming event in the U.S.
Photo credit: Wendigo
This year I updated the site from my phone with what we we’re doing throughout Quakecon. If you missed that here is a recap from when we got there to when we got home:
- We just got here and checked in at the hotel. Now we’ve got to lug all of our crap to the room. 11:50 PM 8/1/07
- Getting ready to go check into the byoc (gaming area.) Then probably check out the booths. 09:45 AM 8/2/07
- Waiting in a huge line to get checked in to the event. 11:12 AM 8/2/07
- Still waiting in line. We are getting closer though. 11:41 AM 8/2/07
- 13 people away from getting in 12:15 PM 8/2/07
- We are in and just got our systems setup and I think we are gonna eat lunch soon. Ill have to post pictures tonight. 01:39 PM 8/2/07
- At Fry’s getting Jen’s keyboard. We shot some video on the way here, Ill have to upload that. 12:40 PM 8/3/07
- On they way to Fry’s the bluetooth gps paired with my phone and google maps saved us big time. 12:42 PM 8/3/07
- Heading back to the hotel, to meet with the GGL Wire. 02:26 PM 8/3/07
- Still in the BYOC (gaming area) gaming it up and file sharing like a true pirate! Jennifer wussed out and went up to the room. Lame! 09:30 PM 8/3/07
- Just meet some old school tricker from baclk in the day who is a fan of the team. 10:33 PM 8/3/07
- EH3 – The instructions to watch the video. http://tinyurl.com/2ahxnz 01:05 AM 8/4/07
- Day3 – Im down in the BYOC doing some gaming. 12:32 PM 8/4/07
- At the main event where the finals are palyed. Free beer too!! 07:30 PM 8/4/07
- Toxjc vs Fojji final match. Toxjc has this in the bag. 20k to the winner. 08:11 PM 8/4/07
- Toxjc won, now im up in the hotel room grabbing something to eat before I go game some with the team. 09:13 PM 8/4/07
- Going back down to the byoc to game. 10:14 PM 8/4/07
- Oh man, they BYOC is alive. So many people hyped up and yelling stuff back and forth. Like multiple people saying “America…F*** Yeah!!” 01:58 AM 8/5/07
- Here are a few things I’ve heard yelled that were pretty funny. “This ones for Jesus!” “Marco…Polo” “This is SPARTA!” “Marco…F*** You!” 02:03 AM 8/5/07
- Packing up our stuff and moving it to the car so we can head out. 09:48 AM 8/5/07
- We’ve checked out and our grabbing a bite to eat at what-a-burger before hitting the road. 10:42 AM 8/5/07
- On the road! 11:20 AM 8/5/07
- 33.771087 -97.133729 taking a rest. We got about 2 hours and 10 mins before we get home. 12:28 PM 8/5/07
- Ahh it’s good to be back. I’ll have to go through all the media I took and get some of it on the site. 02:43 PM 8/05/07
Pictures:
I didn’t take as many pictures as I did at last years Quakecon but there are still plenty of pictures and some video.
Click on the images to see the captions of whats going on in the photos.
Here are a few videos I shot with my digital camera. Sorry for the lighting on some of them, not much I could do.After the first day Jennifer’s keyboard bit the dust, So we shot some video on the way to Fry’s to pick up a new one and we talk about why the keyboard might have died.
In this video I’m playing Quake 4 in the amBX booth by Phillips. amBX is the peripherals you see in the video changing color to match whats going on in the game. There is also an armrest the vibrates when you get hit in the game and there is a 4 fans you can’t see that blow air on you when rockets fly by and things like that. amBX is designed to bring the ambient atmosphere of the game to the room you game in.
This video was shot in the BYOC (gaming area) and it was dark so it is a bit hard to see whats going on. But it’s video my team (Event Horizon) gaming in the BYOC.
This was a breakdance fight, or whatever you call it, that Nvidia was having at their booth for some Nvidia swag at Quakecon 2007.