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Quakecon 2011
August 4-7, 2011, Hilton Anatole Hotel, Dallas, Texas, USA
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Driving past downtown Dallas on the way to Quakecon on Thursday.
When the on-site parking is full and the overflow lot is full, the signs say to park … Here!
Alienware is in da house.
Celebrity sighting!
The Berlin Wall section finally has a display spot in some air conditioning.
The new, enclosed, AIR CONDITIONED walkway from the Tower to the Convention Center.
B40-18 … Home for the next three days!
The Hennessey Velociraptor 600SC.
Ventrillo's vehicle give-away for Quakecon 2011.
Of course, the Alienware Hummer was here.
The Bethesda Software booth in the vendor area.
The upcoming id software game, Rage, was available to play.
Tribes Ascend, an online FPS, was also available for play in the vendor area.
AMD has a small booth and display this year … Two dimensional Ruby only.
Bawls was back in the vendor area and their booth was well stocked.
You would think in a slow economy, the Air Force would not have to resort to booth babes to drive recruitment.
The vendor area Main Stage, site of the Quick Draw tournaments and general shenanigans.
One of PCs used on the Main Stage.
Quakecon partnered with AT&T for Internet access this year.
Playing Quake Live on a netbook … 70 frames-per-second.
This PC used liquid immersion for cooling.
It used a low electrical conductivity fluid with a low boiling point developed by 3M for the purpose.
The Plasma TV was hooked to a control console that had almost every arcade video game known to man on it.
It really is a PC.
A traditional liquid cooled PC.
The PC That Shall Not Be Named.
Eerie blue glow … Must take picture … Can't help myself …
This mod was just incredible.
Unfortunately, the photos do not do it justice.
The monitor played a slide show of the mod's construction.
Even the name plate is a work of art.
Another "caseless" PC.
The distressed look of this case was much less obvious in the dark BYOC.
I see this custom painted case in the BYOC every year … This year is no exception.
What do Mercedes Benz, a big-ass rocket launcher, and Quakecon 2010 have in common?
They are all etched into the case window of this PC.
Wow, can run Starcraft 2 at 30fps in HD resolution AND can tow 220 pounds. Now THAT is a real man's PC.
Good advice for anyone …
This monitor is actually a PC …
… with a translucent, backlit screen.
The light shining through the monitor cooling vents makes an interesting effect.
This year, the LAN was routed so in-game browsers did not work. These gamers found a way to announce their servers.
I wonder how well this case mod would stand up the airline baggage handlers?
Domo-Kun!
Nice plumbing work on this liquid cooled PC.
There's nobody in the NOC! Who's driving the LAN!
Collecting images for a BYOC time lapse.
Hotel housekeeping displayed an almost fanatical compulsion to picking up trash, especially empty cans. This was the highest Bawls tower we could find.
The year, there was an official, invitation only Quake Live TDM tournament.
The games were played on Friday in the tournament area.
The best-of-3 finals were played on Saturday night at the Finals Party.
BallerSsS (strenx, draven, Cypher, Cooller) finished third.
iCE cLIMBERS (Stermy, fox, l1nkin, tox) finished second.
Salivating Monstahz (Krysa, noctis, avek, spart1e) won the TDM tournament.
The Quakecon Girls wait for the winners of the Brink open tournament.
Blight won second place.
Looking for sponsor won first place.
The official Quake Live Duel tournament was also an invitation only event.
The games were played on Thursday in the tournament area.
The best-of-5 finals were played on Saturday night at the Finals Party.
Unfortunately, the finals match did not begin until almost 11 PM local time.
When the dust had settled, Cooller has won third place.
Strenx finished second.
After losing the opening map, Rapha won the finals 3-1.
The Quakecon BYOC had an internally hosted Quake Live server.
Pings on the internal server generally ran in the 2 to 8 millisecond range.
Unfortunately, the connection to the Internet was so good, many people played on the public Quake Live server.
Everywhere you looked, people were playing Quake Live but there were only a few active games on the internal server.
Statistics were not working on the local Quake Live server.
So, even through we played 142 games in three days, that activity will not be reflected in our QL profile.
Despite being out of practice, Ryly had a respectable showing against some pretty strong competition.
Without a doubt, our best Clan Area performance of the weekend.
As usual, we tried to play until dawn on Sunday morning.
This year, we just couldn't make it to dawn. Our last game was at 4:30 AM.
OMG, two people Rage-Quit? WTF, it was only 70% rail!