CS:Source winners:
1st Awakening
2nd WTMSD
3rd Devastation

CS1.6 winners:
1st Team x3o
2nd NiceThreads
3rd AssistedSuicide

Congrats to all the winners and hopefully we'll see you in the next few months!

Well it’s been a few days and I’m finally rested enough to sit down and gather my thoughts about the events of the last weekend. Four days of hard work, very little sleep and about 3 cases of bawls helped me do everything I could to ensure the event was as good as possible for all attendees. There were lots of good things we improved upon from the last event and a few things that we overlooked that were a huge inconvenience in the end. I will cover all of these topics, the good, the bad and the infamous g3/UnheardOf ‘theft’ mix-up to clear up any and all rumors.

First off, I would like to take a few moments to thank all of our sponsors, there’s a lot to list and all contributed a lot to DC-LAN:Winter! Verizon FiOS, NationVoice, BenQ, CEVO, CableOrganizer, SteelSeries, BenQ, Plantronics, UltraProducts, M-S-Y.com, CoolerGiant, KillerNIC, NZXT, Tagan, Thermaltake, Bawls, CoolerMaster, Crucial, eDimensional, ZBoard and Team AcidReign! 

Second, our staff, without everyone that helped actually set up the event, there is no way any of this could have happened. There’s again a long list so bear with me! First and foremost all of the guys from Ni-Online.org; Nimby, Hack, Boo and Andrew, without them we would not have a network and DC-LAN would not be possible! Secondly the guys from EastCoastLAN; Wayne, Jintek, and John, they brought in a ton of extension cords to make sure we had enough power and were able to get it to the necessary places, without them nothing would have turned on! Everyone from the Source-Radio crew, I know I’m going to forget names here, there’s a large group that makes up their staff and everyone helped more than you know! Jinxed, Dampfire, Jadz, A’Hearn, and many many others! Many people in the community helped a member come to the event all the way from Canada to help as a staff member. Trayton “Jaali” Kilby was that person and he did help out a fare share, thanks for your help Jaali!

Regarding the G3 Theft/Joke incident, I will not post my opinion, but based on my knowledge and experience with what happened, G3 will not be allowed back at future DC-LAN’s. All I will say, is no laptop was stolen, there were 2 desktops and a LCD involved, but the equipment was returned. I apologize to all members involved on both sides, hopefully we won’t have an issue like this again.

 
We had a few problems that were unfortunate but we managed to work around them. Our main issue was with the servers, everything else was pretty much taken care of. We had a few small power issues but these were due to people daisy chaining and overloading the circuits. Overall this was a great event and for the most part didn’t have many large issues. This event is really going to set the stage for future DC-LAN’s as this was a huge success! I’m already talking with a few big sponsors that I received emails from Monday afternoon. Dates will hopefully be announced this Friday pending the hotel moving some other events around. Stay tuned!

Shoutouts
Steve “sasquatch” Csikos – CS:S and 1.6 Admin
Brett “farout” Haduch – CS:S and 1.6 Admin
Ben “Smellynope” Smelly – 1.6 admin
Chris - server tech
Buzzy from NerdPolice
Trayton “Jaali” Kilby
Ni-Online.org – Nimby, Hack, Boo and Andrew
Marc “Singlecoil” Turner from GotFrag?
Don from Nationvoice.com
Plitt from CEVO
Source-Radio Jinxed, Ahearn, Jadz, Dampfire and all staff involved in the event and promotions leading up to!