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Re: LAN Party Questions

We've done a Halo Tournament for the past few years. Our next one is coming up in 6 weeks. It will be our 3rd Tournament and our 4th LAN type party. Our first LAN party was a combination PC and X-Box party with no structure, just come and play and have fun. But there was some issues with kids playing games on school computers so we have now switched to a console only, structured tournament. This has been discussed in an old thread before but to keep it simple here's a run down of what we now do.

1) Charge $20/person entry fee. $10 deduction if they bring their own console with copy of Halo and controllers.
2) Max players is 32, with 8 X-Boxes networked to one router and 4 players per box. Students usually form teams of 4 when they sign up.
3) We give Best Buy gift certificates to the winners. Not a big deal as mostly they sign up to have fun and for bragging rights.
4) Lock-in overnight, 8 pm - 6 am
5) Sell Pizza, Red-Bulls, Monsters
6) We make around $500-$600 profit.
7) We hold it in our school library, using projectors borrowed from classrooms (I'm the tech chair - so I have some influence with this). Here's a pic in CD media
8) Supervision is minimal, half the students pass out at around 4 am.
9) We hold a team tournament using a variety of maps and games. After several qualifying rounds, we do a double elimination type ladder. The winning team usually is determined at after about 3 hours of play (last year at about 1 am)
10) We then do a Free for all individual tournament that takes about 2 hours.

The hardest part is having enough energy in the morning to do a good job cleaning up. This year I think we'll recruit volunteers for just this part - not use the volunteers who stay up all night.
We will also be adding later in the year another tournament - perhaps Madden.

The downside is that Halo is not for young kids, it's a violent game and we only allow high school age students with permission slips from parents making them aware of this. I have mixed feelings regarding this - but I see that they play these games anyways, why not bring them together in safe environment.
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