I was at a LAN party about twenty years ago put together by a buddy. Roughly a hundred people, and my friend really went all out getting sponsors for it - I think some of them may have been under the impression there’d be about five times the number of people present, because there was a lot of stuff - not counting cheap swag, we had prizes for three or four tourneys plus about a dozen draws. I won a pretty high end CPU/mobo combo.
Most valuable prize was a copy of Maya; think it was worth about $6000 at the time. The company that donated it stipulated it go to someone with an interest in 3D modeling so rather than a random draw, everyone who was interested faced off in a rock, paper, scissors elimination. I made it to the final round and lost - my opponent psyched me out saying “Rock always wins,” I threw scissors, he won with rock.
I was at a LAN party about twenty years ago put together by a buddy. Roughly a hundred people, and my friend really went all out getting sponsors for it - I think some of them may have been under the impression there’d be about five times the number of people present, because there was a lot of stuff - not counting cheap swag, we had prizes for three or four tourneys plus about a dozen draws. I won a pretty high end CPU/mobo combo.
Most valuable prize was a copy of Maya; think it was worth about $6000 at the time. The company that donated it stipulated it go to someone with an interest in 3D modeling so rather than a random draw, everyone who was interested faced off in a rock, paper, scissors elimination. I made it to the final round and lost - my opponent psyched me out saying “Rock always wins,” I threw scissors, he won with rock.