Stay safe

This site will be north of San Diego in the San Marcos area, about 45 miles north of the existing Chula Vista site.

Their website can be found here. Not a ton of content there yet, but if you’re in the Southern California area check them out when they open.

I’m still going to post them here for completeness sake.

TEAM RESULTS
1. ANZAC
2. Chula A
3. St. George
4. Sacramento
5. Hybrid
6. Chula B

Individual Awards
Medic Killer: Tragedy
Golden Gun: Thunder
Sportsmanship: Tiny (joke) and Thunder (legit)

All-Star Awards
Commander: Rusty (ANZAC)
Heavy: Blunt Object (CV A)
Scout: GIO (CV A)
Scout: Tank (St. George)
Ammo: Kadaj (St. George)
Medic: Thor (St. George)

A massive thank you to Stewie (Chula Vista owner) for allowing the tournament to be held at his facility, and general props all around to everyone who was there and played.

The Syracuse, NY center has expressed early interest in hosting the 2011 US Nats. More information on that when I get it.

This years US Nats has the distinction of being the largest tournament we’ve ever had in this hemisphere in terms of total sites being represented (8 different sites making up 6 teams). It also marks the 3rd time that the southern hemisphere will be represented at a US nationals – the 1st time with a full 6 person team [2002 had 3 southern hemisphere players, 2004 had 5]. Given the best the northern hemisphere has ever done as far as representation in the southern hemisphere was 2 people in 2001, we really are due to repay the favor with some sort of more complete team.

Best of luck to all.

Well, ok – I know in my case the answer to that question is “work”, “school” and “family” (not necessarily in that order).

In other news, I FINALLY got the games list fully moved over. Why’d it take so long? See the above reason.

Looking forward to seeing everyone in Chula Vista – should be a good time.

More details as soon as I get them.

Work on importing material into the new LFHQ has come to a grinding halt over the last couple of weeks due to me having a ridiculous amount of school work at the moment. Going back to school for my Masters = good. The amount of work that comes with it = annoying.

As far as things that matter in the Laserforce world:
1) WCT 2 is fast approaching (is it really less than a month away? Yes it is.) For something that was just supposed to be a small-ish west coast tournament, we’ve now got 6 teams confirmed with players from 5 different sites attending. This may not seem like much in the grand scheme of things – but trust me when I say this is a big deal in the Laserforce world. What’s been really awesome and amazing to see is how Gen6 has revitalized competition in the US and how many of the sites are leaping to embrace it. Good times.

2) Planning is in the works for 2010 US Nationals – I should have dates after WCT 2. Not so much yet on the 2010 AU/NZ nationals. Someone may want to get on that. You know – someone who actually lives in that hemisphere i.e. not me.

Yes, it really is Gen6. Believe it or not.

Hard to believe this site has been around in one for or another for 10ish years now.

Hopefully with this iteration, I’ll actually be keeping it more updated and useful.

I concede that the site isn’t done yet – but to be honest, I just couldn’t deal with looking at the last version any more.

If you find something is missing that you’d really like to see on here (or if you just think I’ve missed something), please e-mail me at xthanatosx@laserforcehq.com.

Enough of me bleating – the last few months have seen a lot of activity within the Laserforce world, both at a community level and a corporate level – some of it obvious, some of it not so obvious.

The news over the past few months from the playing community:

1. Sacramento hosted the first West Coast Tournament February 27th – March 1st. In what was a good time for all, Sac 1 emerged victorious with St. George coming in 2nd. We did decide that next time, we’re running things so that the final doesn’t occur at 5am. Because that was painful.
2. There’s been a fair amount of rules debate and discourse happening on the forums relating to shielding and the various wordings therein. At this point, the general consensus is that the US wording is going to be slightly different than the AU/NZ wording.
3. LF Syracuse paid a visit to LF Detroit for some pre-US Nationals practice. A good time was had by all, and both Syracuse and Detroit are now eagerly awaiting for August to come around.
4. Chula Vista has just started their 2nd ever league season with 6 teams of 5. Stewie (one of the owners) will be keeping us all updated week to week with scores and stats in the Chula Vista forum.

And now from corporate…

1. Laserforce has replaced Zone equipment in yet another site – this time in Rockhampton, QLD, Australia. I’ve heard that there are more sites on the horizon both in the US and in AU – this definitely goes into the category of things that don’t suck.
2. Laserforce Brisbane celebrates its 21st birthday today (ok – technically yesterday because I’m writing this from the US on April 9th and it’s already April 10th in Australia). Pretty amazing when you think about it – most companies in general don’t last 21 years, let alone laser tag facilities.

That’s all for now – hopefully I’ll get back into doing these updates a bit more regularly.

New Stuff:

1. Another new site in Australia, this one in Thomastown, Victoria. This makes 3 in the Melbourne area nw. With any luck, we’ll start to see some regional competition soon enough.
2. Laserforce now has a Twitter page. The rough idea for it at the moment is to use it so that tournament game results can be posted instantly. I’m sure we’ll come up with more ideas than that to use it for, but it’s a good start.
3. The 1st US West Coast Tournament is this weekend in Sacramento. Teams from Chula Vista and St. George will be making their way to Sac in what will hopefully become a regular rotating tournament event.
4. Auckland has received their Gen6 upgrade. To say they’re happy is a mild understatement