Atomic Live - AUS

[Elenril]

http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/atomiclive07.asp

What: The greatest tech, games and all-round entertaining event of the year
Where: The Badgery Pavillion, Sydney Showgrounds, Olympic Park
When: October 20th. Doors open 10am, show finishes at 6pm

I'm going, Simon's going. Any other Aussies planning to go? It'll be fun and awesome!

[simon275]

It will be great with tons of giveaways, competitions on the day new unreleased games to check out extreme over clocking demonstrations. Also the highlights of seeing professional gaming teams battle it out for prizes on big screens.

The best part it is free and you get a show bag on entry.

So if there are any Aussies out there join me and Elenril for a day of fun at Atomic Live

[crenn]

Unfortunately, this is another year I'm not going to be able to go..... can someone grab me a showbag? xD

[AJ@PR]

Wow nice!!!

Snap lots of pics!!!

And don't you two go running around spray painting
TBCS pW3d 4t0m1c!!1

:p :p

[Zephik]

And don't you two go running around spray painting
TBCS pW3d 4t0m1c!!1


ROFL!

Have fun guys, wish I could go! But I don't live anywhere NEAR Sydney. lol

Bucko, you better go and make sure they stay out of trouble. ...wait... scratch that. If Bucko goes, Elenril your in charge of looking after him. He's a trouble maker that one. :p ;)

[Elenril]

crenn, you fail. How could you let us down like that? Spoilsport. How are we going to achieve our TBCS pwnage now?

Zephik, not living near Sydney is no excuse! :p Bucko definitely doesn't have an excuse, he's only 2 hours away. C'mon guys! Where's your TBCS spirit?

[crenn]

I don't fail.... just don't have a job and also live in Melbourne not sydney. And anyway.... I'm saving up for my holiday in California to go see someone special.

[Killdrath]

*looks up airfare from Las Vegas*

Nope. Not even a smidgen of a chance...

[calumc]

well if anyone feels like giving me around $3000 to get there, then sure i'll go!!

[Bucko]

If I'm not working I will try and get there for sure!

[crenn]

Make sure to take pictures of the booth babes!

[.Maleficus.]

Make sure to take pictures of the booth babes!
Now we're talking.

But um yeah, I think I'll sit this one out *looks at airfare from Wisconsin to Sydney..*

Yeah, nope. God, maybe I should just move to Australia already...

[xRyokenx]

But if you move to Australia you can't order from Newegg. Sucks... and I'm the lunatic that wants to move to Antarctica, lol.

[Elenril]

I went to Atomic Live today! Unfortunately Simon couldn't make it because of uni, but I did meet Bucko there, which was nice. It's great to meet fellow forum-goers IRL.

To be honest, it wasn't as good as I expected. It was basically a big advertising-fest. I did get a lot of freebies, but most of it was useless junk, like pens, shirts, and a hell of a lot of lanyards. Thanks to Bucko I did get a free 1GB USB drive, which was probably the best free thing there. There were a few games on display like Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and Fury, overclocking displays, a CS tournament, but most of it was company stands advertising their products. The company stands weren't even good either because they all seemed to assume that I was the unwilling girlfriend dragged along by the geeky boyfriend, and tended to address my friend far more. There weren't even case mods or anything. I ended up leaving pretty early.

However, there were some very worthwhile booth babes (or at least they were worthwhile in my friend's opinion). We only managed to get a photo with one of the nvidia girls, but I'm sure the atomic booth boy and the vested people are just as good.

So, on with the obligatory photos:

Speedbuilding competition (it was a bit unequal because the guy on the far right (who isn't in the picture) hadn't been given any cables, and he had a dud monitor which didn't turn on. The guy on the left won.) :
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/1534/p1020749qb4.jpg

GRAW & Fury gaming:
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/4158/p1020757do9.jpg
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/5997/p1020766ur9.jpg

There were some pretty sweet overclocking setups:
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/3492/p1020758pq8.jpg
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/3927/p1020763yl9.jpg
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/8584/p1020760kg2.jpg

Booth babes & boys:
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/3072/p1020770zv1.jpg
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/683/p1020772ts9.jpg
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/1913/p1020773lr6.jpg

[Zephik]

Sweet pics Elenril! All those 900's make me jealous. :( (kicks piece of crap that I call a case)

Is that you in those last couple pictures? lol, Diggin' the shoe laces. :p

Lanyards and nVidia babes FTW! Can never have too much of either if you ask me. :D

[Elenril]

There was a very sad lack of computers aside from the gaming machines, but they were pretty nice. The only computer manufacturer there was Asus with their notebooks, the other stalls were just cooling and graphics cards and stuff like that.

Yep that's me. Thanks, those shoe laces go (or rather, clash) with every item of clothing I own, they're awesome!

I've decided that being a booth babe would be awesome, because you get to wear geeky clothing and advertise computer parts, while looking totally hot. I seriously have so many lanyards I don't know what to do with them all. I think I'll give them to my friend who works at a shop where the only thing that identifies the staff from the customers is a lanyard around their neck.

[Eclecticos]

Looks like ya had fun! Nice shoelaces :)

[Bucko]

I had to laugh at the AMD guy when he did his presentation on how good the ATi cards are.
They played their fancy high definition video to show it off, and, *snigger* it lagged when the going got tough!

[jdbnsn]

You didn't get a picture with Bucko?

[Bucko]

nope, we were too dumb to think of that.

[Elenril]

Bucko vanished while I was on my photo-taking spree, and only appeared again when I was leaving.

...Or maybe we didn't ACTUALLY meet up! Maybe it's all a big conspiracy!

[crenn]

Pity it's hard for me to travel... maybe next year