The OperationLAN was upgraded to a world-class location - Downtown Hyatt Regency, the largest hotel in Houston. The AC and electricity were both nice and efficient. The Exhibit Hall was roomy. Some players also enjoy the coffee shop and other amenities upstairs. Parents now have a nice place to wait.
For the first time, we had vendors setting up booths during the event. We welcomed AMS, AOpen, CaseArts, SnapStream, and Zalman. Their reps showed their latest products and interacted with our hard-core gamers. Don from Zalman drove all the way from California to attend this event. He said after the show, "I may bring my kids next time." (We are that good!
We gave away a total $5200-worth of products - about $1000 more than last event. So far we have given away $12,600 value of products. Our gamers appreciate the support from and the interactions with the vendors. Hopefully, our gamers will help sell more products for our vendors and give them feedback to design even better products for them.
We finished all the games at about 12:30am. I got home at 2:00am. That's a significant improvement from the last two events when I didn't get home until 6:00am. I just want to let our gamers to know that we worked hard to make it possible for you guys and girls to enjoy.
Operation LAN 
As long as you don't want to enter a tourney or something. 
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