Now that i've somewhat regained my strength from PDX Lan i guess i should update on what happened at PDX Lan 2004

When i first got there thursday at 7:00 there was a big ass line. The whole benson webteam was right in front of the line but i had to go to the back so that totaly sucked ass. The line didnt move for an hour because Pat's a moron that crashed the network, well thats what i heard anyways. My dad had to leave at 7:30 because the line still wasnt moving so i had to put my PC somewhere. Some guy next to me in line said i could put my stuff in his car so i did. My dad had to leave because my grandma had to go to the hospital. At 8:10 the line started to pick up finaly. At 8:20 i got inside and got my badge!!! Then i proceeded to take all my stuff out of the guys car, i think he said his name was Todd, went over to EX seating and put all my shit there!

When everything was set up, Me, Ben, Evan, Kenny and Sam decided to practice playing battlefield vietnam for the tournament that was going to happen the next day. We just played against bots the whole time. After we did that for about an hour we challanged a random team in the room to a game. We lost horribly so our chances for the tournament were very slim. At about 2:00 me mark and sean went up to our hotel room to get some sleep. We turned on the TV and found some Richard Gerre movie on, i think it was called breathless. It was one of the worst movies i've ever seen, but at the same time it was hilarious because of the random things in it. Like for the fact that there were Tits, A sudden change of cars in one scene, lightsabre dueling, a musical ending, dancing, humping, driving in mexico and a lot of other random stuff. We were having a ball with a lot of this random shit! So when it was about 4:00, Menes and Chuman, the other roommates, came in and we all tried to get some sleep. I think i had too much caffine so i couldnt sleep, so i got up at 4:30 and went downstairs to my computer.

I browsed the network for a while and found some stuff to download off peoples computer. The ammount of porn on the network was insane! Not saying i downloaded any of it ;) ;) ;), but there was at least 100 gigs total on someones hard drive. I just pulled off a few games that morning. When it came time for the tournament, someone released the Sasser worm on the network so tournments got delayed for about an hour. Thank god too because Kenny and Evan came at least an hour late. When it was tournament time, we all loaded up the server, then BLAM!! The power in the EX room went out, so we spent 10 minutes fixing that, then we got back in the server and told the opposing team in game what happened. Then BLAM!! Power went out again, this time it took 20 minutes. We got back in the game, bitched about our power then BLAM!!!! another 10 minutes. This happened about 5 times, then we gave up because even though every match we played we beat them, we couldnt deal with the constant power outages. So that sucked ass. The rest of Friday was spent just playing random games or watching seans CoD team lose. Me, mark, ben, sean and will decided to go swimming in the pool. We played marco polo and threw ben in the pool because it was fun. Then we went into the work out room and saw mark fall down on the treadmill, now that was priceless. After that i went to bed cause i had been up over 24 hours.

Saturday i woke up hoping to play in the UT2k4 onslaught tournament, but i woke up too late so i couldnt do that, oh well shit happens. Ben set up a IRC server for FTP servers around PDX, so most of saturday was spent downloading around 300+ mp3's, some games and some movies. There was the farcry FFA tournament which i did. I got to the 2nd bracket, winning the first bracket by tieing for 1st place. 2nd bracket i got 3rd place, i was down by 2, so that sucked ass. About 2:00 i went to bed.

We woke up and found out we had to get our stuff out of the EX room by 11:30, that sucked so much ass cause i was going to download a lot of stuff before then. So we had to pack up early and head over to the main hall for the final raffle. In the end, i won a lightup mouse pad. Woohoo :/, Sean won a case, Jordan won a Intel Extreme Edition Processor + motherboard. So i got a shit prize :(. But it lights up :D. Around 3:00 my mom came and picked me up, i put all the stuff in the car and went home, except i forgot my backpack with all my shit in it, so we had to drive back and get it.

Other then our battlefield vietnam team getting shafted, PDX Lan was pretty fun i would say.