by Freeedom
Two weeks ago 2 of the GM players we have in the East Coast (DC/MD/VA) decided to get together to watch WCS and maybe play a few games. Then we thought, why not have an in house tourney as well? So “in house” had a double meaning for us, like actually at a house, and PSISTORM Gaming members as well. I volunteered my house, and spent the morning cleaning up and preparing, after I got home at noon from a car meet I was organizing.
Setting up the LAN took a while, my hard password didn’t help, and had some weird issues with the router.
food preparation wasn’t hard, here you can see salmon being prep’d.
SirMalagant on the grill
fruit to even things out.
ok all set
MygraiN was the first to arrive and warmed up on ladder
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Even though there were only a few of us, getting set up wasn’t easy. So many technical issues at first. Things you don’t think of happen
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At least EndOfLine brought his home brew.
And with that we were set to play
Brackets set, things seem to be working now. Internet was a bit slow due to a quick thunderstorm causing interference?
We had WCS in the big screen (70 inch) while we played
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We got lucky as the popular caster feardragon64 agreed to cast it, and some of our players on the West Coast like intense and filthyrake joined in to co-cast. 
Some shots from the security cam
a few victories, and a long day but we didn’t even finish the tourney, it ran well into 2am! We did start late though.
Things we learned (probably obvious to some of you but we still made these rookie mistakes):
1. start on time, be strict with games starting right away
2. get a game admin and have rules on checking in, reporting results, and communication
3. avoid switching peripherals and settings around, make sure players bring their own gear, and add extra time for setting up
4. do some internet testing before hand, make the net password easy to set up, basically do what you can to do this an hour or so before the matches This was a test run for a possible BASEMENT LAN TOURNEY at my house, not dissimilar to TakeTv’s HomeStoryCup. But we want to do one for NA.
The tourney is not done, but an update:
DemiLove 2-1 over MygraiN, and now EnDerr vs DemiLove for semis. We hope to cast the finals later.
here are the VODs from twitch before they get deleted, I suppose I need to get them: