Day 3
Day three started a little late for us. Knowing we had a LOT of driving ahead of us that night we didn’t get to the boat until a noon. We also had to pack our bags and bring it all with us to the USS Hornet until we got our rental for the drive to LA. Adam had to leave early for work on Monday and had an early morning flight back to Ohio. Alex and I would be going it alone from here on out.
I started with a morning bacon cheeseburger from the food truck parked on the dock. I came in and spoke with the Yogacast fellows for a little while. Before jumping into and gaming I made a point to wonder over near the Razer crew and stretch and mention how great it is to get a good night’s sleep. At this point they were in hour 23 of their 24 hour marathon. After a few hisses I stepped around the mess of pizza boxes and energy drinks to head back to my seat before they beheaded me in a blind rage.
I played a few rounds of TF2 before deciding to wonder around the LAN to get footage and to get my raffle tickets. While I was wondering I went around to the vender booths to see how things were going. We tried to wait in line for the racing simulator but with a 45 min or more wait ahead of us we decided to forget it all together. It was a little frustrating watching people for their 20th time while we waited just to try it once. We opted to finish up visiting everyone and get ready for the raffle and final ceremonies.
We did make it back and time to see a very tired Razer group finishing up and packing up. Before they left I did take a minute to spend time with their upcoming gaming laptop the Blade. It is as thin as it looks and its damn sext to boot. With them all being so tired I told them by and tried to walk away with it, but I was unsuccessful. I think next time I may have to wait until they finish gaming for 48 hours if I plan on pulling it off. After 24 hours of gaming the mess around them was fairly impressive in itself.
Alex with Alex from MSI
We finally got around to getting Alex’s picture taken in 3D with the Nvidia models just before the final ceremonies started.
Here is a picture of PART of the things they gave away. This doesn’t count everything else given away previous to the final ceremonies or the 6 or 7 pc’s they gave away also.
Between the 5 dollars per BYOC ticket sold, the charity PC builds raffles, and what NVIDIA matched. They raised a total of $20,186 that they game to Child’s Play. Very impressive and to a great cause!
Here is one of the winners of the charity builds. He was VERY excited!
Nvidia went through thanking the USS Hornet Crew, the Sponsors, Johan Andersson from Dice, Matt Conwell and the PDX crew, and all of the sponsors.
They invited an attendee up on stage that actually got an Nvidia tattoo while at the LAN. They showed it off and then went ahead and gave him two GTX 580’s to upgrade his build and then a full PC from SystemMax to share with his clan.
Before finishing up and giving away all of the prizes they also announced the winners or the BF3 tournament and the case mod contest. Brian Carters “tron” case mod won.
After that, sadly, teardown started as we watched this amazing event turn back into an empty hanger. Big thanks to Nvidia for having us. We had an amazing time. After packing up and watching tear down we were ready to start our quest to LA to visit with even more companies.
