Quakecon 2009 moves to the Gaylord Texan, new hotel reservations required

can't reserve a room till 7/6 is what ive been told

Gaylord. *giggle*

That place is absolutely ridiculous.

Only 2 things come from Texas.

I live in Texas. >:(

Man, in the USVI, there was a guy named Gaylord Francis running for senate.

Needless to say, he was not elected.

I will still be in canada :|

fuuuuck...

Sadly, not only will I be canceling my reservation, but I'll be skipping QC this year since it'll be at the Gaylord. That place is an inconvenient and way overpriced venue for QC.

I've been there. It's like they built a hotel around a shopping district. We wandered around looking for things to do that didn't involve drinking, because some of us didn't drink and the rest of us didn't drink overpriced piss water.

It was funny how the highlight of that trip was leaving. Seriously, that was a big bullet point on the expo's flyer. Fuck that place, it's a cancerous cell on Texas.

Boy, you really don't know, huh..?

Listen to reggae and you'll understand the mindset of many people in the Caribbean.

I went to the Gaylord in 2005 to the quakecon to treat myself after i graduated from my masters degree, (distinction) I actually took a train from New York to LA, went to siggraph, then went to marina del rey for some jet skiing in the pacific, flew down to texas and fragged for a week and got incredibly drunk then on the way back to blighty i had a flight change in Charleston South Carolina and on the way there we flew over Katrina.

was in the US for about a month and I had a great time, something i will never forget flying over that storm. i remember i spent about $5000 :P

Gaylord is a great resort, faux cowboys shooting each other in the complex, spent $150 on a steak in a posh restaurant and got fdrunk on gin and tonics, got laid by this sweet Texan chic called Rachael (a.k.a jewel babe was her frag handle).

got stopped by the D.E.A in Chicago which was a strange experience, had a chilli dog in Alberquerque, I had my lapto with me and i remeber playing Nexus - the jupiter incident on the train at night when i was getting hammered in the on board bar.

would reccomend it highly.

I haven't seen the Quakecon forums since this was announced, but I'm sure you'll see an enormous outcry. Everyone hated the Gaylord. The hotel for the past couple years was substantially better (although going anywhere but the lan was inconvenient).

Oh well. I'll still be there, Quakecon rocks!

Did you know most if not all of the 1v1 winners from last year (the ones that won $1k) have yet to be paid?
Did you know that other prize winners haven't been paid in past years?

Seems like a cheap move for a "the ultimate video game festival, party"; huh?

So - what's the deal here... it's news worthy that QC'09 moved to a different hotel... but not newsworthy that they stiff people and use the promitional materials without paying for it?

The event means nothing to me, but if the Gaylord Texan is the same hotel company as Gaylord Palsm in Kissimmee, FL, then ouch. I feel for the guys needing to shack up there. It ain't cheap.

Woohoo! Goodbye, Hilton!

The rednecks secretly love the Gays.