Above- Josh Hamrick, David Jorgenson, and David Brown

Early on last week we found out that Josh Hamrick, the Sandbox Designer from Bungie Studios, was going to be doing a presentation on Full Sail Campus on Thursday, October 14th. We started planning for it then. But, at 6:15 on Oct. 11th, using Twitter, Josh decided to ask if his Full Sail peeps were throwing a Halo: Reach LAN Party while he was here. He comes in on Wednesday, his Presentation is on Thursday, and he mentions this on Monday…Short notice, huh? Oh HELLLL NO! The race was on.

In response to Josh’s Twitter, Sick, myself, and a few other students hit him up with questions. We started talking amongst ourselves. The first person we talked to was David Jorgenson. He and Tyler Berry were in class when Josh had Tweeted this request. They used that opportunity to ask a few instructors if they could help throw this thing together. David Brown stepped up and procured us some space.

We got the final word that the room was approved for 9pm-1am at about 1:45pm on Wednesday. It was ON!!! Josh landed close to 5pm with the info waiting for him, and we had work to do. Jorgenson, a few other students, and myself started spreading the word using Word of Mouth and Twitter. Rob Coble from Career Development helped out in that department as well.

Getting Started

At about 8:45 people started showing up. Sick and myself came in closer to 9 and there was already a decent crowd set up and playing. Josh stood back and watched it all come together piece by piece before setting up shop on Jorgenson’s 50″ Samsung. This dude was no joke. I would swear Hamrick was my “most killed by” with beat-downs for the majority of the night. He’s deadly with the Sniper too…

Now for the stats:

• 6 1/2 hours of game time in (scheduled from 9pm-1am, ended up grinding ’til 3:30am)
• 50+ students and faculty showed up bringing in 16 consoles, 15 TVs, and 1 Projector. (I’m sure Playing Halo: Reach on a Full Sail wall is definitely an experience!)
• An Average of 25 games played per person

Most of the group

Special Thanks:

• David Jorgenson- Organization
• David Brown- Organization/ Procuring Space
• Tyler Berry- Organization
• George Kokoris- Food & Refreshments
• Last but not least, Josh Hamrick- Special Guest

Everything came together really well. Everyone was respectful of each other and we had absolutely zero problems. Everybody had a blast, and we would love to do this again in the future.

To all of those who helped put this together, and those that came out to join in on the fun, Thank You!

More Pictures have been posted on our Flickr. Thumbnails above in the center.