PDXLAN 13

Let me just start off by saying well done to the staff and attendees for another wonderful LAN party. With upwards of 500 people attending, and the couple dozen cases of Bawls lying around you can only imagine how intense the atmosphere must have been. Honest first thoughts, were how bad it was going to smell with 500 sweaty nerds crammed together like sardines in a can, but surprisingly wasn't so bad. Or maybe I"m just use to the smell of nerds.

Thanks to Activison though we all got a free copy of Call of Duty: World at War which I will admit was my first. A majority of people were caught playing COD:WAW, World of Warcraft, DOTA and Left 4 Dead. Disappointingly, not many playing Team Fortress 2. Which of course is one of my all time favorite FPS games.

Really glad I got to travel around the city of Portland with Andy and Stan . Considering I'm at my computer most of the day this was quite the treat. Met up with @on3nightstan's lovely friend Kristin Reilly who gave me some excellent tips on choosing the right wine (thank you). We picked up some Voodoo donuts, Thai, Pizza, Cajun and of course, bananas! Plus doing all of this while totally overdosed on caffiene, hell yeah!

Overall it was a nice getaway in the heart of Portland, OR. Access to what felt like unlimited energy drinks and nights where if you got 4 hours of sleep you were considered lucky. A gamers dream, basically. PDX 14 is defiently looking like a plan to me. Unfortunetly, that won't be happening until sometime in July, but hopes are held high because Intel Lan is soon to be coming up sometime in February which of course I will be booked for. If you're interested in seeing a few more pictures from PDXLAN 13 go ahead and check out my myspace page or for any more information hit up their website http://www.pdxlan.net