After all contestants gave there creation a place we all got a personal spot at regroup.
The problem was that most of us (like me) didn't have a system to use on the lan party because it was on display for the contest.
For those contestants who decided to be present everyday it where long though days, but fortunatelly everybody got along very well and there even was some room for pulling weird faces once a while
Me and my girlfriend booked a hotel around the corner an we left on friday around 23.00 (I can hardly remember hitting my pillow )
We didn't really sleep late, my girlfriend went home on saturday and I arrived at tBCL around 11.00.
Saturday evening I did go back home because 2 nights in the hotel would be a bit too expensive and a friend of mine wanted to come along on sunday.
Once we got up to the price winner announcement they started with the winners of the regroup compo's after which it was tBCL's turn.
It was really exciting until the 2nd place was announced, normally I'm a quite modest person, but when I knew I won the first place I went crazy, I even think I acted like a complete idiot on stage
But If you see the price package you can imagine why that is a bit:
The final results for both categories where:
Caseconstructions:
1- Floriske.nl with XIXIV
2- X-Gamer-X with Stealth
3- Terw_dan with Tombraider
4- Godric with Red Rogue
5- Teamikke with The Kings castle
Casemod's :
1- Frenkie with The machine
2- Mydogisgone with Illumini
3- Koradhil with Gemini
4- Farried112 with Stacker 830
5- Kenny+ friends with Bouweenpc (BEP case)
After collecting the prizes and congratulating everyone it got about time to head on home again..
We didn't wait to long because the bus had to be back that same night.
Once I got home and unpacking everything I hooked up one system so my girlfriend could browse the internet again and took some pictures of the prize package.
So far my short (but hopefully interesting) review of tBCL 2006.
Now it's time for saying thanks:
First of all the guy who did the organization of the event Ed Buijs a.k.a. "Ediejo" of www.need-modding.nl whom you might know of the Extreme Lian-li and Batcase
His Need-Modding crew mate Neander and all other crew members.
They made sure the event went flawless and everybody had a great time.
In second place the organization and crew members. of regroup for making tBCL possible.
Of course the jury has a spot in the list, Ediejo, Waterkoud, A.P. Versteeg, ribbi en soefkonijn
All people who took the time to look at the mod's closely and voted.
All Gotters, Casejunks, Need-Modders, etc. etc. etc. who make the dutch casemod scene what it is and hooked me up with a great hobby.
The sponsors for making possible the amazing prize package.
-Icomputers
-Corsair
-Freezing Hardware
-Star Systems
-Be Quiet
-MSI
-Point of View
-H.Essers
-Skywest
-Lian Li
-AMD
-Coolermaster
-Recom
-Thermaltake
-Zalman
-Airbrush studio Ribbi
-NZXT
-Traxdata
-and even more I think.....
My girlfriend (who should actually be at the top of the list ) for supporting me in my hobby even though I can imagine it must have been quite annoying to here sometimes
And everybody I forgot.
Furthermore I want to congratulate all contestants once more and my motto to make friends not enemies turned out a 100% success
See you next time!
Cabinet in it's place and signage foil removed
After not modding much for about a week I did a few hours of work again today.
First of all I have some pictures of the day after arriving back home from tBCL.
That day I finally put the cabinet in it's final spot in the living room.
Here you can see what a cable mess 4 systems make.
To mount my kvm switch into the cabinet I had to drill some holes in it because there weren't any mounting holes in it.
The router on the other hand has a mounting bracket so mounting it was just a matter of a few screws.
And there it is, a bit blurry , enjoying it's final place in the living room
but...............not for long because I removed the signage foil of the fronts, because the signmaker will resign them with the correct color soon.
First of all I de-mounted all front- and usb panels.
After which I peeled of the signage foil, fortunatelly this was quite easy
And there they are, ready to be brought to the signmaker, Again!
And this is what it looks like atm, less attractive then on the first picture, but if all goes well with the correct colored front panels soon
Finally got my fronts back
Unfortunately I reached my quote on my website, so I had to scale down the images to a poorer quality, sorry for that, but at least I can continue updating again.
* floriske.nl hates the fact that the weather isn't to good so I have to use the flash to take pictures.
I'm going to remount the interior CCFL's in the cabinet after which the project is about done. If I get to that point I'll borrow a decent camera and some film lights for a proper photo shoot.
Till next time!