We have seven hours to transform this badminton club into a 250-seat LAN gaming event.
They got the floor protectors rolled out this morning, but, uh, good lord, is there ever a lot to do?
Yeah, well, we better get moving. We gotta set up the stage. We gotta set up an LED screen.
We have to do the whole VIP area and the networking and power loadout. It's not done at all.
Oh, lordy, I see what you mean. Put me in, coach. What can I do?
Take the bins. Okay, but I really don't know how we're gonna get from this to this
in just now six and a half hours.
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First thing we need to load over from the storage unit is our bolted-together, literally,
power distribution and networking boxes, along with all of the systems for our whale attendees,
as well as our 8V8 gaming system.
All right, let's go. There's nobody in the driver's seat. Each of our power and networking boxes gets one of these whips, which we thoughtfully
configured so that they will land exactly where each of our stations are.
Unfortunately, we thoughtfully didn't label the lengths. Nope.
It's ludicrous overkill, but every seat in this row is going to get a 10 gigabit uplink
thanks to this USW Pro XG switch from Ubiquiti, which they may actually be able to use
thanks to our on-site steam caching server. Of course, that relies on every gamer having a solid uplink to the server room upstairs.
We didn't get our 25 gig SFPs in time, but we will have a 10 gig uplink
with the ability to upgrade in the future. Yo, AJ, I don't see a power plug for the stage.
You know we're going to have the big LED display, right?
It uses like a couple thousand watts.
We don't. We don't have power here, man. You told me before we started this shot that you had a plan.
We're going to try to steal power from this, technically,
but how many watts does that take? A couple thousand.
A couple thousand? Are you sitting on all the prizes? I'm sitting on my sadness.
Shout out Corsair and V1Tech at the very least, I guess, though.
Thanks for the prizes. Okay, we really do need to figure this out. The good news is even if we do exceed our power budget and trip the breaker,
we'll know exactly how it happened. We've installed power monitoring on all of the circuits or the 50 amps.
Technically, I have an app with the Emporia view that is right here.
It's monitoring all the individual circuit and also the main feed.
So I can know exactly how many amps everything is drawing.
Am I helping? Ah, not really. Ah!
Here comes the LED wall. Best purchase I made this year.
Look, Simba. Everything the light touches is our gaming party.
We're rolling out our new and updated steam cache, which is basically the same steam cache, but less obtuse to manage.
Thanks, Pankrats. For its connection, it uses two bonded 100 gigabit per second links,
but it is worth noting that it's plugged into an 8x PCIe slot,
so we're limited to about 120 gigabit per second total.
I'm so sorry, gamers. Alex is going to start building our screen.
We're going to move some stuff out of the way for him. The tables are going to come at like 11.50 noon.
Okay, what's this ROVE lab stuff? We're going to have to pop these out of the boxes later,
so let's move them into the staff area really quickly. Hey, there we go.
All right. They reach full platedge after a little while,
so we got to do these right away to make sure that they're ready to sit on tomorrow.
Hey, Chase. Hi. Did I ever mention to you that I wanted a 5v5 tape-to-tape setup?
No, you did not. We can do that on the stage, though. I don't know if it'll work on the stage.
The input leg's pretty bad. Yeah, maybe we'll have to figure out something else. We'll figure something else out.
Okay. You know the projector screen's still there, right? Yeah, we're not using those at the moment.
That you know of. That I know of, yeah. We could put them in the, probably the VR after hours,
because the VR guys are only going to be here from like 11 to 5 each day. Wow, what turns?
Yeah, so if we want to bust that out like overnight or later in the evening, we can definitely bring that out.
Bust it out. Yeah. We've got the LAN cache pre-filling.
Nice, nice. It's pre-downloading all of the games that we've got on the schedule,
plus a few more that I picked out that people might want to play.
Battle.net servers apparently don't work super nicely
with the LAN cache, so these pre-fill scripts go and grab all that stuff ahead of time
so that if people download it on the fly, it's not going to be falling out.
Got it. Awesome. We still have a 3 gigabit connection here, symmetric.
So theoretically, if people do need to grab something that's not cached,
we should be okay, but you want to cache as much as you can.
It's not a regulation height ladder for how high you are. No.
Dang it, Alex. It was the most convenient size. See, that's what I keep telling people.
It's not about the height. It's about the convenience. I feel like it's too little, too late.
I think they're already done, but I got the ladder. They do need it.
I'm not useless. Okay, so it's supposed to be six foot and a quarter inches,
so yeah, we overcooked it a little bit. All the retro gaming stuff is in the way of the tables.
Where does the retro gaming stuff go? Because right now, it's right where our tables need to be.
Retro gaming goes on the stage. Oh, where is the stage?
What time is the stage coming? Between one and two. Oh, between one and two.
So it's coming in like an hour or two. That's where retro gaming is going, right?
Yeah. We can always fine-tune it later, though. For now, I think we just need to get the tables down,
and then we can adjust after the fact.
Meanwhile, the professional table movers are moving tables
a lot faster than us. Check this out. This is going to be freaking awesome.
Wow, that's classy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's pretty flesh, man. Only the best for the whale VIPs.
How much is the whale ticket? I think it was 4,000 USD, and StarForge built the computers,
and they're valued at like 5,200 USD. Oh, so you'd basically be crazy not to buy a whale ticket.
Yes, sir. Wait, shut up.
We have the Logitech GX Herman Miller chairs for the...
These are for the whales? That's wild.
I've always wanted to do this. What are you doing? Oh!
Can I come through? No. Time for our first quick test of the LED wall.
It's a little easier if you test each row as you go up and make sure it's working.
And also, we can find out how much power each row is going to use. So we know if we're going to exceed our budget.
Okay, so theoretically, you put this in and then we're G to G?
Well, not really. Oh, okay. I mean, we have to hook up the controller.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Minor details. Details. Sure. Why do we have the controller on this side instead of where the power is?
Because Chase says that it's going to be on this side, whatever is controlling the screen.
Yeah, there's no plugs here. There's no plugs here. Just these two plugs.
Hey!
Most of it! The mark of a throwing everything together last minute event.
Someone will have that look on their face. Hey!
Whoa! Jeez, that was close. The stage is in!
And we've got two rows of the LED wall. Now what we've got to do is unbox our whale PCs from StarForge.
My understanding is they had some special graphics put on them from the one,
the only Sarah Butt. Man, these things are fricking heavy.
It's a good thing we don't have to haul them away. The whale ticket not only includes a VIP experience,
where you get twice as much room as anybody else. It includes this gaming PC, totally not on purpose,
but the theme for Whale Land this year is kind of like out of this world,
you know, and we got a whale with a big, you know, bubble on them and everything.
Well, that's kind of StarForge's theme too. So if I were to say that the branding goes really well together,
that would be a gross understatement. Look at this thing!
That is flipping incredible! Oh, they put their penis on the CPU cooler.
Why they got to be like that? To clarify, that's their logo.
It's not a penis, it's a hammer. It's a penis and you know it.
It even has the little butthole. These are fricking top of the line.
9950X3D 16-core processors, 64 gigs of Fury memory,
and an Aorus RTX 5090.
These guys are going to be gaming so fast that if they lose, they have no excuses.
Even where it doesn't really matter, they put a lot of care into this. Like, look at how clean it is.
It's almost like they knew that they were going to be on camera.
No, in all seriousness, they have a really good reputation for cable management.
This looks amazing. Great job. Great job, StarForge.
There's a power outlet under here that apparently we need, but we've got a plan.
Good news, Evan. You know those whale tables we moved?
We're going to move them again over here, and then we're going to fish it out.
I heard the washrooms are here. Nice.
Yeah, they're awesome. That's not the good ones. Don't go in there. These are the good ones.
They're fancy. It's boutique shitters only for the whales. This is nicer than my washroom at home, bud.
Makes me want to pee. I wish I had to pee right now. Oh, these are for the 8v8 gaming setup.
Okay, so there's a whole video about that. You guys are going to want to check that out in a separate video,
because it's pretty complicated. We're trying to coordinate the power situation
of how many computers plug into which power bar versus monitors into which power bar, because I can't plug 16 computers
into one power bar. Why not? What are you, weak? No, your power is.
We live in America. We have 120 volts.
There appears to be some drama around the power. This really does feel like reality show drama.
They're like, but I don't have enough circuits, but I need the circuits.
The whole thing's a circus. We have enough power within the building.
The problem is with the whale PC location
and a few other things. It's getting it to a specific spot. It's a bit of the issue.
Overall, we're doing okay, so we'll sort it out. And then by the next one, we'll definitely
order a few more cables at certain lengths, and then we should be good.
Dude, we're close. Got like frickin' six more to put on.
If this was a WWE event, you know that,
there'd be some of this onto these. These are great.
Chasse, we looked at the map. Yes. It says stage plus retro gaming.
What does that mean? So basically what ended up happening is we have the 8v8,
we have the stage, we have the knocker at the staff area,
and then we have the VR station. Yeah. So for certain segments, and when we're not doing
any stage activities, we were just going to have some VR gaming here with the couches and stuff like that.
I mean retro gaming. Retro gaming, yeah. What do you mean, like, so.
It's not 24 seven. Where did the couches go? They're going to have to live on the stage
or go behind the stage for a bit. Things are kind of
pushed together. We're doing like a lot over here. Where's the ASUS stuff?
That's for like when we're doing certain activities on the stage.
So there'll be like set up and tear down on the stage? A little bit, yeah.
Yeah. New plan. The retro area is going to be over here
and we're going to put all the couches over here. It's going to be grand.
Boom. Nice. So I'm thinking big projector screen right there, huh?
Do we have a projector and screen? We have, yes.
Who needs this in our boardroom at the office when we can have it here?
All right. A.J. from our info team printed these
thick little 3D printed bracket things
and theoretically I should be able to just...
Oh. So the spacing is not the same on every wall, A.J.
Hey, new plan. The couches go this way.
And here we go.
Dude, that's thick. Okay, now we just need to move all the couches again.
Hey, there we go. Oh, yeah. Nice. There we go.
Let's go get a projector. Yeah. Oh, where are we going to put that?
We have a pedestal. Dude, it's 330 already, which is pretty stressful,
but also like all the chairs are out of here,
almost all the wheel and stuff's out of here. Is there a sign on this section of the parking lot?
Only people whose cars have depreciated by more than half? Yeah, rich DBs only.
Nobody put the power cables or HDMI in here, so I guess we need to go track those down.
Is there a cool mount, huh? Yeah, well, it's blue.
Why did you go for like a jazz version of that? So Adam, I'm kind of thinking wall of bins here.
Why? Because I don't want anybody walking through here
and tripping over the power cord for this projector. Oh, okay, yeah.
Yeah. So we'll just make a wall, the B-wad, the blue wall of death.
Okay. Theoretically, this should keep people from trying to walk through
and knock over things that are here. Can you not?
We should have made a wall of the robe lab boxes. That would have been way better.
They wanted them hanging around here anyway.
Here we go. Pattern. Okay, we're not quite aligned, I think.
A little bit of work to do.
Let's go. Oh, now hopefully nobody is dumb enough to bump this once I'm done.
You didn't account for me coming in here.
Adam, how much lens shift do I have? Oh my God, I have even more.
Holy crap. I love this projector. Epson LS-12000, everyone.
I see you've got the audio system working. Yeah. Is that all you got?
All right. What if we need to talk to the people?
That's awesome. After all that, I don't think Adam's side was actually notched all the way in.
The whole screen is tilted this way, so I went and I aligned the projector to a not aligned screen.
I have to leave for Wancho in 45 minutes. Okay, we just need to show you something, okay?
Do you know what the whale cup that's happening? I do, yeah.
It's a challenge of gaming prowess. We got engineer to make a cup.
Check this thing out.
That is sick. Look at this whale. Well, now I'll have to win it.
I'm not going to lift it up because I have to win it to raise it. They told me the whale PCs are set up and,
dang, this looks sick. We got the WAN desk pad.
Fricking, wow, that's really late. Pulse our mouse. Okay, I always removed the eskates.
You haven't even seen the best part yet. Dang.
Oh, that is so cool. These are awesome.
We also got an awesome peripheral set up with a hall effect gaming keyboard
and wireless headphones from Corsair, pulse our gaming mouse,
and an Alienware 360 Hertz 4K monitor.
It's going to be a good game in here. This is exciting. We haven't even talked about our vending machines yet.
These are from G&A Robot, and they brought out three different vending machines.
One will cook up just about any beverage your heart could desire.
One of them does hot meals, including like bento boxes and stuff.
And then the last one is ice cream. I have no idea if they're any good.
This will be my first time drying them, but they're loading them up right now.
Evolve events is here with their VR multiplayer gaming setup.
Check this out. They've got a live feed of everybody who's in there right now. Before we get in there,
we can take a look at the hardware we're using. Basically, it's on MetaQuest 3 with extra steps,
and the extra steps are the Bobo VR S3 Pro headset,
which gives them swappable batteries. Super convenient, not to mention a cooling fan for your forehead.
And they swapped out the stock gasket for one that's like a cooling gel style
and then removed little nose skirt, because apparently some of the corporate events they do,
some of the people who've never been in VR before, they get kind of scared if they can't peek at the floor and see the real world.
I'll run you through a few of them here. Oh my god. What's 3v3?
3v3? There is no versus games that we do here. What? It's cooperative stuff here.
Pack it up. Pack it up. Get out. The cops versus robbers, where you're all cops against robbers.
All right, we're all cops.
The poor GPU on this Quest 3 just freaks out
when there's a whole bunch of like particle effects. Am I being hit?
I can't even tell. Oh, I'm dead.
Is anyone covering the other side? Guys, nobody's covering the side.
GG. Very cool. I think the attendees are going to enjoy the heck out of this.
Right now, we're playing office chair shuffleboard. The goal is for them to get as close to that X as possible.
Whoever gets close gets to the next round. And then we have a winner's tournament
and they're going to win a prize.
You missed the bit where I ordered my ice cream. Maybe we'll have to link it on G&A's social down below.
But basically, you can see people are already lining up to try these things.
Pretty freaking cool. And shockingly fast, I want to show tape to tape working.
I think I can have it done in five minutes. Bet. Let's go.
It's my daughter's laptop set up. She's not here yet.
Dad, where's my laptop? That's fine. She can just use this computer.
This is also just taken from home.
Power. I'm at two and a half minutes. Yeah, I know it should be booting.
I think Bluetooth pairing is going to slow you down. No, dog.
Bluetooth is going to be fine. So I have these ones ready for Bluetooth pairing.
I still have a minute and 50 seconds. But you can get time.
Come on, ROG flow. You need to boot up, buddy.
There we go. How much time you got? Just a gosh darn second.
Why aren't these ones connected? Dang it. I have 30 seconds.
No, I have 13 seconds.
Man, is it going to be the controllers that bone me? Dang it.
We're at five minutes and six seconds. That's pretty good. You know what? I'm going to, that's commendable.
Some of these are powered by the power plug and some of them are not.
Oh. Oh, wait. No, no, that's not the issue.
No, some of them are charging only. Okay, hold on. You got to be kidding me right now.
Why is nothing ever simple? That's it.
We have 10 players. Fine. I'm late. 10 minutes and 40 seconds,
but we're in with 10 controllers. I think I can have it done in five minutes.
Not too bad. This is like my favorite game right now.
It supports 5v5 with all human players.
It's basically NHLPA 93,
but you can like throw your stick and drag and shout
and shit like that. Okay, hold on. Everybody, I did it. Everybody stop doing stuff.
Just a second here. No, no, don't, don't do anything.
Oh, guys, don't press stuff. Just a second.
Okay. You may want to press. Guys, guys, don't press whatever button you're pressing.
Okay. Here we go, boys. Here we go. Pass across. Okay.
Or just shoot it. Shooting directly at the goalie is not a good strat.
There we go. Let's go. You got to pass over.
Oh, oh my God. Don't pass me. All right. Let's go.
Christopher Han, please. All right, GG, guys.
Now you might be wondering how to win Lord Landly's Cup.
And that is where our stage setup comes in. ASUS ROG provided these six gaming machines,
and we've got them all run into an HDMI switcher
so that we can broadcast
with some reliability the various feats that our ultimate winner must perform.
It will be a combination of games to prove that you are a true gamer,
not simply a master of one title. And we'll be using the stage for a variety
of other showcase challenges throughout the rest of the event like typing of the dead.
We've got a full separate video on this, but here's our 8v8 gaming setup,
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Check out the link in the description. The wildest part of all of this is that the badminton club is totally still running right now.
We just locked all the doors over to the other side. Wow. A madman they called me.
It'll never work, they said. They called you a madman because this is the work of a madman.
This is nonsense. Dude, I love it. It looks incredible, doesn't it?
Yeah, but you know, I'm kind of tired of talking about it. So maybe we should talk about our sponsor.
All right, I don't know, am I doing a second? No, I was gonna say, let's go play games.
Oh, and thanks Threatlocker. Oh yeah, Threatlocker.
Stop Threatlocker. Appreciate you. Let's begin to redo this thing.
No, it's great. I love it. No, I don't. I'm not doing another one.
If you guys enjoyed this video, why don't you check out the very first video
where I unveiled Smash Shamps. The contrast is...
It's crazy. Night and day. It's crazy. It's like OLED level contrast.