ACG

After months of planning, ACG has finally kicked off at Cineleisure Damansara on the 20th and 21st of January, coming into the new year of 2007 with a bang. Its first official event with the Counter-Strike 1.6 qualifiers. One of the first CS qualifiers for the year 2007. So, for an event that would be covering four games (CS, GW, DoD, SDO), we started setting up on Friday night. Sounds a bit far fetched? Trust me, so did I when I heard about this. On the events themselves, I was to oversee and be the head marshal for two tournaments. Namely the Day of Defeat (DoD) and Guild Wars (GW) tournament. Since the events was about 2 weeks ago, I’m just going to summarise everything.

FRIDAY
After work. Convoyed to PC supplier. Hauled 80 PCs or so into a truck. Tired as heck. Sweated like an ox. Then drove to Cineleisure to help unloading. Was done faster because had three trolleys. Unloaded everything into store room first. Then had dinner at Kopi Oh. Dinner was sponsored. Went back home to bath and change clothes. Went back to Cineleisure at 11pm after shops were closed. Started setting up. Carpets were already done so started with chairs and tables. There were 2 huge sections with smaller sections in them. Setting up PC took longer. Hardware wise, everything was set up at 4am. Then Intel started setting up for software wise. Personally, didn’t look like everything could be done in time for the event. Went back home. Changed clothes and immediately slept.

SATURDAY
Woke up to a phone call telling to get my ass back to Cineleisure. It was 9am. Reached to find all comps were set up and switched on. Tested DoD island. Got error. Technician fixed it. Can run DoD tournament but dedicated server is a no go. Event started. On paper, 12 DoD teams qualified. Reality, only 7 teams turned up. CS island was a no go, there were technical difficulties. DoD tournament ran smoothly. The team that I figured had the most chances to win, won the tournament, in a lopsided win in the finals. CS tournament finally started in the middle of the DoD tournament. DoD prize giving ceremony was on that day itself. After that, rest tired legs. Sitting down felt good. Alas, problem on the horizon. GW island, internet is laggy. One GW running, laggy, two GW running, can’t move. OH NO! Made some calls to internet service provider. Said they’ll sent an engineer tomorrow. Went home. Mandi, change clothes and slept early.

SUNDAY
Came back with enough sleep. First one there. Noticed the internet provider engineer there. He checks and says its ok. I told him 2mb line for 16 comps won’t cut it and how did that happen anyway? He says he’ll try contacting HQ but its Sunday so whatever. I told him whatever it is, just contact me back ASAP. Work mates start coming in. We discussed about the line issue and tried some things. At the meantime, GW contestants start arriving. I try my best to explain the situation but I can’t do anything. After a long time, we tried the comps, the line was still bad. Talked to boss, decided to postpone GW tournament. Told the GW contestants. Gave them goodie bags to at least make them feel better. All the while the CS tournament has been going. Nothing of note happens. Remember checking out the SDO booth since their tournament was today. Some chics dancing on the dance mat. Otherwise checking out Gears of War at Gamer’s Hideout. ACG ended with prize giving ceremony for the SDO and CS tourneys. Now the tiring part started. Had to start packing up the comps and hardware, tables, and carpet. Finished around 11ish. We all decided to crash to the nearest mamak for some eats.