UPDATE: Registration page is complete! Click here!

Date: Sunday, June 5, 2005
Time: 10 am - 8 pm
City: Chicago, IL
Location: Holiday Inn 4th floor conference room.
Cost/person: $25 (includes cost of meeting room and lunch)
LAN capacity: 16
Maximum # of Attendees: 20
Registration Deadline: 4/30/05

Convention Pre-Party: Hosted by Norky!! More info here .

Yes you heard right! A ThinkTanks Convention will be held this summer in the Chicago area. Mark your calendars!

This is an opportunity to not only meet some fellow TTers, but an extremely rare opportunity to play ThinkTanks on a Local Area Network (translation: NO LAG) in the same room with some of the finest players in the world.

Can you imagine hearing your opponents tank exploding right next to you after you nail them with an area effect? Or better yet, can you imagine shouting "die you bastard!" directly to your opponent in person?

Our idea is this. We show up on Saturday evening or Sunday early morning. I have reserved a conference room with a central table and 17 chairs around it (boardroom style). The room has high-speed internet access. At 10 am on Sunday morning, we begin set-up. We will set up one or two LANs (depending on turnout), each with a dedicated computer to be used as a server. Ethernet hubs/routers will also be set up to accommodate 10 players per server.

Participants must bring their own laptop computer with a registered copy of TT. You will also need a 10' ethernet cable, and an external mouse (and keyboard probably too). You should also be sure to have the latest TT_Mod_Pack® installed and the MM_Observer script. Non-participants are welcome to come also.

Continental breakfast and a simple lunch buffet will be provided. I have also reserved a block of 10 rooms. For now they are King bed rooms for $89. To get this rate just tell them you are with the "ThinkTanks Convention" (yes - for real!). I will see if I can get a better rate on rooms with Queen beds.

Leopard and Chief have generously volunteered to provide servers and routers/hubs. Napalm will help coordinate software configurations. We will need a couple of more volunteers to coordinate some pleasing refreshments!

Wooooot! XD

EDIT: Hotel security is very tight and everyone who wants to just "show up" needs to actually register before the deadline (which will be around the end of April). The hotel contract is very specific and they take this very serioulsy. Registering adds your name to the attendee list which I need to submit well beforehand. Thx!
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Registration Deadline: 4/30/05
Maximum # of Attendees: 20

Tentative participants (will be updated periodically)
See the TT Convention page for list of confirmed registrants.

Name..........I will bring my laptop?
Reagent X..........yes
Professor...........yes
Chief (UF)..........yes
Leopard.............yes (will provide a desktop system for a server)
LONEWOLF(UF)............no (will be using one of Rooster's)
Rabban.............no
Napalm.............yes
Bolo..................no (will borrow Chief's)
Nuts!.................Kinda (has a really old one)
Weentank..........no
Mystery Man.....yes
Blind Cide.........yes (will provide a desktop system for a server - Mac)
Rooster.............yes
KillinBrainCells..desktop system
MJ....................yes
MonkeeMan......no (will need to use an extra computer)
HugoBaaarain....no (will need to use an extra computer)
Ass Clone Army..yes
RustBucket.......desktop

Last edited: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 at 10:40:13 PM

Can any one hear ^ ? I didn't think so ! :P

You cleared up that misconception Hanky. I must have been confusing you with some other asshole.

AHHHHHHHHHH! Lonewolf has mullet-like hair... LOOK AWAY!!!! %)
lol, jk... Still is kinda creepy though :S

Quick Question: why is hanky writing letters to bozo?

?????????????????????

Last edited: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 at 8:55:21 AM

My only regret is that I was super tired and was jacked up on caffiene the whole time and never shut up :)

B

Good, I've needed to get a top secret message to bozo but have never had the means to do so... Thanks Hank.

Woot! I had a great time this past weekendwas awesome getting to meet some of my fellow TTers in person! Great meeting all of you guysgreat people, class acts all around.

Rx thanks for organizing this! Hopefully we will have another, with more TTers.

Norky thanks for the partay on Saturday. Great placegreat salsa! Was cool to chat with you outside of TT Im definitely more talkative once you pull my away from the laptop.

Nappy your huge monitor makes me question my manhoodj/k! Great meeting you! I get very focused when I play, kinda tune everything out, so I didnt get to chat with you as much as I would likeIll catch you on Yahoo sometime.

NUTS now I know who I am yelling Nutty bar at!

MonkeeMan oo oo ah ah! Keep the great mods comin!

KBC good cigarsyou do the Scrum Society proud!

LW whenever I turned around you were gunning me downwhat else is new lol! Great meeting you!

Bolo the man, the myth, the legendwell, more myth than anything. Just kidding great to see you hand out some beatdowns! Got home and started up TTlo and behold there was a Bolo on my name listmade me laugh.

MysteryMan you dont look anything like the photo KBC has on his website (I hope you checked out his site, or my joke just fell flat). Great meeting you, and your square bullets!

Leopard Mon capitainegreat to finally meet the man who introduced me to league play. You enthusiasm in TBML made me an addict. Thanks (I think)!

Blind Cide thanks for the network hookupswish you could have been there on Friday!

Rust Bucket great to meet you! Keep that heavy away from me!

MJ had a good time chatting with you at Norkys. You must play later than me, as I rarely run into youhope to see you out there!

Rooster thanks for the warm welcome to the convention! You were probably the most outspoken of all of usthe Rooster fits to a T! I look forward to plucking your feathers in some TBML!

Bump from above.....

@ Chief

LMAO,, Thats some funny crap..

@ Rooster

Man you look like Ernie Ervine,, X Nascar driver.

Last edited: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 at 2:11:44 PM

Wish I were there. Maybe next year. Hey, what were the scores of the matches?

I doubt anybody remembers any scores. We never played any trourneys. We just played purely for fun, and boy was that a real nice change of pace from the extreme competitiveness that can be found online.

I did record some games. I'll see what I have and if there's anything interesting I'll post it. I also had the same vibe, I really wasn't all that competitive. Surprising considering many of us are so competitive in pick and especially in league games. It was oddly comfortable.

Sounds like you all had a blast. I really wanted to make it..... Hopefully I can meet you all the next time!!! :)

Good to see all your mugs!!!!!! XD
Glad to hear you all had fun.
If there is a convention on the westcoast next time, I'll be there.

Too bad you old folks can't handle my drugs! XD

P.S.> You guys never seem a picture of me......hmmmmmmmmm maybe I'll post one..... Maybe

I wouldn't be old enough to go to the convention I 11 lol...Don't make a big deal I like playing this game but just a few minor adjustments would be nice!

Yes I have to admit for the first time ever I never looked at the scores of the games ! It was very nice to just play for fun for once. I did enjoy the looks we gave to one another as we killed or scored though and the sound was way to funny on those Bounce Back power ups. It was like listening to a wave go around the room ! Lets not forget the Area Effects, sounded like a bomb going of in the room ! I can not wait for the next one ! B)

Ditto for what mm said.....but I have to admit I did hunt down lep a few times....lol

B

Make the next convention at Seattle or Portland. I was too busy to come to Chicago - besides I did not want to say 'I flew all the way to Chicago to play a video game!' WOuld have been payign a buck for every bounceback shot! XD
Glad you all went and enjoyed. I bet the nametags were fun!
Hugo Brain

KBC just added a bunch of new photo's from the convention to his cool TT Photo Album !

^ Nice work KBC!

This just in! The Official ThinkTanks Convention Movie!! (Quicktime 7 required, 11.8 MB, 2:50). Enjoy!

@ KBC

Wish you'd add even half of the great artwork you've posted here to your website!

A gallery of killed brain cell work? %)

BTW, love the pic of Baba and kj at the hybrid.

Last edited: Thursday, June 09, 2005 at 9:03:24 PM

Nice video RX! Did you get any in-game video? I thought I saw you hooking up your camera to the powerbook. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure which camera it was (video or still).

Woot! Great video RX!
Love the photo near the end of everyone applauding RustBucket. He almost made it into the shot! :)

@JJ: Some of that stuff doesn't really make sense out of context, but I might just try that.

I m working in the vacation to try to be able to come next year to the convention. I hope u guys will still do that though. Then my next problem

my parents: "zedde gij zot! Naar chicago vliegen voor een spelleke over t internet

That is my next problem allthough I m going to try to make it. If I m allowed from u guys ;).
I would love to play with u guys in servers where I don't have 170 or more ping. In dash it is "only 130 luckily.

ScytheMan
frontline of ST

SWOOOSH - let the scythe swing

Sorry Rx.. I had to download it XD

Mac - Hold down "alt" and click the link
PC - Right click and save as

Last edited: Saturday, June 11, 2005 at 4:32:24 AM

Not quite sure if this is what I think it is, but it might help viewing RX's movie.
Quicktime 7 for Windows Preview.

Yeah Windows users need to download that preview version to view the movie. I couldn't get it to play in Qtime 6, but the preview version works.

Quicktime 7 don't work with windows mellenium.. Guess im out of luck on seeing that vidio,, can anyone convert it?

This expalins why we had some server difficulty with 2 servers on one switch. Wish I knew this then.