Easter has just ended and I have been spending it with 5000 other persons. Location: "Vikingskipet", Hamar, Norway.
From Wednesday 27th to Sunday 31th (Mars) a lot of people from all over Norway gather up for the second biggest LAN-party in the whole world. Only Sweden got a bigger arrangement than Norway. This was my very first year here, so I was pretty exited when I drove towards TG. The first thing that hits' you when you arrive is really how big it is. and all the people, each with their fancy computer. Some have been exited about TG since last year and have made shelf's and other cool stuff to bring to with them.
I'll post a overview picture so it's be a little clearer how big and how many people it really are there:
I'll actually post the first picture of me on my whole blog, since my computer is....pink. :D
Well moving on.. throughout the week there were many competitions, both serious gameing competitions (LoL, Starcraft, HoN, trackmania +++) and some fun games that were held on stage like: eating competitions, paperplane throwing competition, minigames etc etc, you could win lots of cool stuff, one person won a brand new headset that had not even got out in the stores, so that was pretty big..
If you got tired of playing games or so there were some presentations both on the main stage and in conference rooms. Some of the topics: 3D-modelling, Linux, Javascript, cosplay, Anatomy and posing, android, Win8, and so on, lots of programming presentations and stuff like that..
The biggest problem that week had to be sleeping... First: The music is pretty loud all day and all night so you have to be able to sleep through it.. but it's pretty hard to find anywhere to actually sleep. Most people just lay their head on their keyboard and sleep there.. But that's not really comfortable x) I did that the first night and my neck and shoulders were soooo dead.
You could try to get a sleeping place in the tribune but it's not that many places that are allowed to sleep on because of possible emergency exits. And apparently this years sleeping tents didn't have any heating system and to sleep in MINUS 15-20*C is not very nice x)
Overall it was one fantastic Easter, and I recommend everyone that is a huge gamer and likes to meet up with 5000 others for 5 days to join next year. Even though most of it is on norwegian, it's still possible for foreign people to join too : )
Homepage: http://www.gathering.org/tg13/en/ <--- On English :)
