iDOL
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Did you attend ? In what capacity - As a day visitor or BYOC Lan
What were your experiences there.
What did you enjoy about it. Likes and Dislikes - What would you change to improve it .
Needless to say - I too was there, seated on the Mezanine Level, to the right of the ladies(later converted to unisex)
loo.
Will add some more on my own version of the event.
6.30
I was at the gate , with a group of friends amongst the first few to arrive.
The weather outside was dark and depressing. I was just thinking how we were going to get soaked, before we could even step inside the venue. 10.00 the time they advertised the doors would be opening seemed an eternity away.
Suprise , Surpise!! Sanity prevailed and someone was thoughtful enough to open the doors earlier to let us in. Thank You very much.
We rushed to our preferred seating and being amongst the first in, we were able to secure it comfortably.
We were up and running within minutes. I was hardly settled in yet, when
Panda(ren) started pumping out the port scan warnings (Panda doesn't let anything get past it. Considering I opted to switch back to XP + Panda and install it at 3.30 in the morning, I was delighted. Panda(ren) FTW.
BYOC
I was there primarily to Play and Play some more. The only good thing the expo was there for me , was as a form of distraction.
7 of us got settled in nicely. Then all the other folks started rocking up. We had an interesting mix of characters seated in and around our area.
Big Big Nasty !!!
Listened in on the radio chatter from the guard patrolling our section. There actually was some folks from one of the anti-piracy organisations walking through the lan, enticing gamers with copied games at dirt cheap prices and then springing their trap as soon as you committed. Dunno what happened, but guards was told to look out for these folks and kick their butts out as it was not on what they were doing.
The Expo !!
Sadly this year, there was even less of the Expo than there was the few years before. It seems to be dying off slowly.
Why do folks go to the expo ? To be delighted and enthralled by all the fabulous new gadgets, booth babes (ps. busim comp I loved those ladies) , freebie giveaways and also "Expo Special Prices".
Sadly the "Expo Special Prices" were far and few between, my local pc store could provide me with better pricing on some of the stuff that they declared "Expo Special Prices".
Freebies - Thanks for all the mousepads.
tbc.
What were your experiences there.
What did you enjoy about it. Likes and Dislikes - What would you change to improve it .
Needless to say - I too was there, seated on the Mezanine Level, to the right of the ladies(later converted to unisex)
loo. Will add some more on my own version of the event.
6.30
I was at the gate , with a group of friends amongst the first few to arrive.
The weather outside was dark and depressing. I was just thinking how we were going to get soaked, before we could even step inside the venue. 10.00 the time they advertised the doors would be opening seemed an eternity away.
Suprise , Surpise!! Sanity prevailed and someone was thoughtful enough to open the doors earlier to let us in. Thank You very much.
We rushed to our preferred seating and being amongst the first in, we were able to secure it comfortably.
We were up and running within minutes. I was hardly settled in yet, when
Panda(ren) started pumping out the port scan warnings (Panda doesn't let anything get past it. Considering I opted to switch back to XP + Panda and install it at 3.30 in the morning, I was delighted. Panda(ren) FTW.
BYOC
I was there primarily to Play and Play some more. The only good thing the expo was there for me , was as a form of distraction.
7 of us got settled in nicely. Then all the other folks started rocking up. We had an interesting mix of characters seated in and around our area.
Big Big Nasty !!!
Listened in on the radio chatter from the guard patrolling our section. There actually was some folks from one of the anti-piracy organisations walking through the lan, enticing gamers with copied games at dirt cheap prices and then springing their trap as soon as you committed. Dunno what happened, but guards was told to look out for these folks and kick their butts out as it was not on what they were doing.
The Expo !!
Sadly this year, there was even less of the Expo than there was the few years before. It seems to be dying off slowly.
Why do folks go to the expo ? To be delighted and enthralled by all the fabulous new gadgets, booth babes (ps. busim comp I loved those ladies) , freebie giveaways and also "Expo Special Prices".
Sadly the "Expo Special Prices" were far and few between, my local pc store could provide me with better pricing on some of the stuff that they declared "Expo Special Prices".
Freebies - Thanks for all the mousepads.
tbc.
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some guy was being stopped in front of me so I just walked around them to get into the LAN section and managed to get in 
ha ha
