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It seems that a lot of people who use the forums are tourney players or some sort, myself included. I really got stoked about tourneys last year and went to everyone that I could in Alberta, Canada, and did pretty well at some and got my hairy orbs handed to me at others. I like tourneys and spending a Saturday with my buddies going and talking nerd. But the question I want to pose to you is this: What is the worst tourney location/setting you've played in?

There was once a tourney in a large gymnasium, like college sized, where were on one side and people playing basketball/bagminton/dodgeball/yougettheidea were on the other. There was a big net separating us, so there was no Revenge of the Nerdsesque basketballs flying our way (although the odd "NERD!" or "Nice Star Wars shirt, pal." did). The problems were that it was really noisy (enough with the yelling and whistles, already), it REALLY stank of BO, you couldn't drink in the gaming area and everytime you went to the washroom or to your car for a smoke you had to sign-in and sign-out.

I'm just wondering if anyone else has gone to a tourney at a crummy venue.

Worst place I ever had to play was in a basement, started out nice and cool, but pack in 20 gamers and it turns into a sauna.

Best place I ever played was in a bar with a bartender. You could tell who was losing by how many drinks they had.

Worst place was in a fire hall. The people running are nice, but fairly clueless. Instead of having set tables they let everyone pick 3 pieces of terrain. First come first serve. So after the rush to the terrain tables, you had some with three HUGE pieces and the slower/nicer folks ended with 3 trees. Literally 3 small trees on 3 individual bases.
Then after each game, the players took their terrain from table to table. It was ridiculous.

Best I played at was Bugman's Bar. Because yes, drinking, gaming, and watching a football match all at the same time. FANTASTIC!