i41 Insomnia LAN

On the 11th on November, me and 800 other people traveled to Newbury Racecourse for another Multiplay LAN, Multiplay LAN's are the biggest LAN parties in the UK with 3 events a year, Obviously this event was the winter event, due to the cold weather me and my friends decided to stay in a hotel as camping when it is -4 outside is not fun.
We went to play in the Team Fortress 2 tournament, as it was the winter LAN there wasn't a huge turnout, this meant that the real competition was between 4 teams, TwistedPlay 1, TwistedPlay 2 (the team I was playing for), Team Coconut, and NervousEnergy. The original prize money was set at;
1. £1000
2. £500
3. £250

However unfortunately half way through the tournament the 3rd place money and 1st place were combined, so this meant only 1st and 2nd place got money, we knew we had to pull our socks up as we we're seeded 3rd and we knew we could achieve that, however we really would of liked 2nd place as this would mean playing on the main stage, unfortunately we couldn't do it, we put up a good fight however we just couldn't break Team Coconut.

However TwistedPlay 1 (who were predicted 1st) managed to pull it off, in a very close and energetic final, they walked away with £1250 and 6 free tickets to the next event!

Here are some pictures from the event

TwistedPlay accepting their over sized cheque

A few moments after winning

A Spec being taped to his chair by some people in the Exhibition hall