So MrMan5.5 and I were tossing up the idea of having EngagementLAN - a LAN instead of an engagement party. We've come up with a few ideas, but I want to bounce them off people here in case they can think of a solution to some of our problems.
First, I want to say that the size of our families means our wedding will probably be huge with family alone. So we've decided not to invite friends to the wedding, and instead the engagement party will be for those who we would have liked to invite to the wedding, but they aren't family. But considering it's a LAN, that means we have to limit the number of people we're inviting. So when the time comes and you do not get an invite, don't feel like we don't love you and you weren't important to us. You just weren't as important as the limited number of people we could invite. =P (But more likely, the reason is because I do not consider you enough of a gamer to enjoy yourself at EngagementLAN, I'm thinking of doing maybe just a dinner with friends who I would have liked to invite, but didn't fit that criterion.)
So the first problem is venue. Ideally, we'd hire a hall, but that can be expensive, especially if we're adding food and alcohol to the cost. The other idea was to just hire a large house for a weekend instead and some tables and chairs, though I'm not sure about the cost of that either. We've dismissed the idea of just hiring a LAN cafe out for a day, because their computers are generally pretty poor, and even if we were allowed to bring our own peripherals, they usually don't allow food or drinks from outside, and I don't think people will survive on potato chips and Coke.
The next part is an idea Graham and I came up with - bride vs groom. So the people at the LAN can sign up to either represent me or MrMan5.5. We'd have competitions throughout the night and the winners will contribute points towards whoever they chose. At the end of the LAN, the loser (read: MrMan5.5) will have to suffer a punishment. There are a few things we are unsure about with this idea.
How do we go about team balance? It will probably be hard to balance based on skill, as that is subjective, and I doubt anyone could really give an honest appraisal of their own skill (for instance, Vinnie underrates himself by a lot, and a certain person from SEE thinks he is much better than he really is). There might also be a problem with more people being on one side than the other. Add to that the fact that people will probably want to play with their friends (e.g. I don't see Nem and George being split up at all). I guess we can have people pre-register which game they'd like to play in, and which side they want to play for, and if we need to move people around, we can contact them beforehand to see if they're OK with it.
The last problem is games. Here are the games we've come up with so far:
- Team Fortress 2
- Goldeneye: Source
- DotA (maybe HoN if we have access to the Internet)
- Starcraft 2 (if we have access to the Internet)
- Super Smash Bros. Melee/Brawl
- Mario Kart
- Pictionary
- Blazblue
- Armagetron
- Band Hero/Singstar
- QWOP?
There's probably a bunch of things we haven't thought of, all we have at the moment are these rough ideas and a guest list. Please give us feedback/ideas!
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