Sunday, April 11, 2010

Video Game Tournament

The Media club finally put on a video game tournament last Thursday. Nobody wanted to do anything so I had pretty much most of the responsibilities thrown on me. I set the date, reserved the jungle, acquired all of the x-boxes from my friends, advertised, got sponsors and got the prizes all with little to no help from the rest of media club.
When I finally arrived I started setting everything up. I set the TV's up in different corners so that competitors can't see each others screens. The entire time I'm doing this I'm assuming that we can get on x-box live and hook up the game that way.
I should probably mention at this point that I don't own an x-box. Nor do I know how x-box live works. Nor do I even know the rules to COD for that matter. I didn't even have that much planned for the tournament because I did not really know how the game worked or how many people were going to be there. I was completely winging it at this point.
People start asking me how I plan to hook up all of the x-boxes without a router. I don't have an answer because I didn't think I needed a router. This is when it starts to get bad. Apparently we can't play over x-box live. This is when Richard mostly takes over because he knows more about this than I do. We have to move all of the TV's and x-boxes to the other side of the room and most of the stuff gets jumbled up so I don't really know which x-box is who's anymore. Long story short it takes about an hour and a half just to get started. After much debating over the rules, I finally decide on a tournament format and they get started.
During the final match, a campus security guard comes in and tells us we have to leave. I didn't even know when the place closed. I just assumed we had it the entire night because I reserved it. So we had to post-pone the team tournament.
This really did not go the way I wanted it to. I'm just thankful that Richard was there to help. I'm pretty sure I got all of the chords and chargers mixed up and to the wrong people. Hopefully I can fix that. Also I still have to put on the team tournament in the next couple of days.
Moral of the story: Don't get put in charge of anything involving technology you never use.

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