Have Time Warner Cable? Want an extra raffleticket

I'm looking for two luck Time Warner cable customers who would like to earn an extra raffle ticket at the LAN. How do you go about doing this? Well the first two people with the fastest connections available will win. You have to be able to bring your modem to the event and you have to be on the WOH or western ohio time warner service.


If you want to sign up I need to know for sure that you will be at the lan for the entire event and I need to know the package you have. If someone has a faster connection they will trump someone with a slower connection. That means if you post up first but only have standard cable, someone who signs up later with a 50 down connection will trump you.

This will help out the entire event by helping us have the best internet connection possible for everyone. The raffle ticket doesn't sound like much but as you will see, they are worth their money in gold. We will have an amazing collection of prizes in the raffle this year and with tickets being limited to 1 per person there is a good chance you will go home with something amazing!

Thats a possibility but I know that we have run them on different nodes from Van Wert to Ohio City. I was really hoping we could try out using them from other area's if anyone is interested in bringing one by to test out.

Twodavez wrote: How much would it cost to get Time Warner to come out and set us up with something sweet? I'd be willing to buy "another seat" to fund the cause if i got another raffle ticket. I mean that's kind of what you're doing, allowing people to buy a ticket by brining something they pay for to the LAN for the good of the group. I'm just saying, it might be a way to get more people to invest a little more money in the LAN to make it better. If there are going to be people with multiple tickets, the chances of them winning two items before someone wins anything are pretty good based upon previous LAN's.
I don't mind, just saying give everyone a fair chance to sweeten thier odds, even if they don't live in the area and have the same internet...

Dave the cost of having them come out just for one extra connection is between 500 to 1000, something that is well beyond that we can afford to spend. Selling raffle tickets to cover even a portion of that cost is going to add a LOT more raffle tickets into the raffle than what we are doing here not to mention selling raffle tickets could be just as unfair to people who can't afford it.

"If there are going to be people with multiple tickets, the chances of them winning two items before someone wins anything are pretty good based upon previous LAN's."
The odds of two people out of 120 having BOTH of their tickets drawn before anyone are very slim. You have to remember in the past almost everyone had two tickets, the odds of someone getting drawn twice in a row when everyone has two are much higher.

Dave, you are looking at this too much like its hurting your chances at winning prices but you have to remember its only two tickets... Two tickets that will ensure that we have the best possible internet connection at the LAN. Not to mention have you SEEN how many prizes we already have? With just our first two sponsors and not the 17 OTHER sponsors we have almost 50 prizes, with 122 raffle tickets currently..


Arxon/Linky don't count it out yet until we can actually get someone here with one to try it out. Anyone willing to come visit and give it a try?

I'm not sure why the raffle conversation has to come up again after we made changes to the raffle to correct the issue after the last lan.. But there are a couple things you need to keep in mind.

First, we haven't actually announced that the prizes will be for the LAN tournaments this year. We have had a few sponsors provide prizes specifically for atleast one tournament but we won't know what the prize situation will be for sure until we get closer.

Second, you talk about not being happy when you don't win something in the raffle but then go on to suggest that we give prizes to the winners of the tournaments rather than raffle tickets as we have done in the past. I don't think you are looking at the big picture in this case. If I gave out prizes to each tournament winner rather than the raffle tickets its actually going to take prizes away from our raffle. That means EVERYONE will have less of a chance at winning something in the raffle. By giving out raffle tickets to thw tournament winners we are giving them a chance to win something epic while still giving everyone a chance to win still also.

Anyhow, at the end of the day the raffle discussion is always a bad one. No matter how the raffle is handled there is no way everyone can leave happy and we know this. I work my butt off to make sure we have more prizes than other event of our size and I know for a fact that we offer a better prize per attendee ratio than any event I have ever gone to big or small. When the raffle argument comes up its very discouraging for me, why work so hard at getting prizes if people are going to be upset ether way?

Also we looked into giving the people who help with the internet free entry, the problem is after that there is nothing stopping them from leaving early or even not showing up leaving us short on the net.

IU registers mac addresses because they are using their campus internet and network. They actually have to add your PC into the router for the router to be able to give you access to the internet. We actually have a way to track each user's bandwidth something that I kept a close eye on at the last LAN.

I actually have upgraded my internet all the way to the 50 down 5 up, we actually took it up to this speed before the last LAN specificlly for the event. We have always used Alex and I's internet. The problem really is there is only one other staff member that this could even effect other than Alex and I. Cory, Skyler, Chad, and Jared aren't local or don't have time warner available to them.

That 15Mbps down connection that you are talking about would actually require that we get four of those to get the speeds are are looking for (this is in addition to using my internet already)

thats what TIME WARNER would charge us to come out and install an internet connection then come back out and uninstall it.. Like I said before its a commercial location and temporary connections are not cheap. Even then they won't install the same fast connection that you can get at a home. Even if it was much cheaper it wouldn't be worth it.