Second Episode

Nearly fifty of us gathered in Biatorbágy, and the second Ctrl-Alt-GG finally delivered that classic LAN atmosphere we’d all been waiting for. We cranked everything up a notch: the network was upgraded, the lineup expanded, and the crowd was buzzing all weekend.

A particularly hardcore crew even spun up a Factorio server and, in the 24 hours they had, absolutely tore through the entire game. For the first time we also managed a proper Counter-Strike 2 tournament: the group stage turned into a brutal playoff, and the best-of-three final was an exciting two-map affair. Big congrats to the winners, they truly deserved it.

Of course, that wasn’t all. Someone built an industrial empire in OpenTTD, TF2 had people in stitches non-stop, and the trusty CS: Source and LoL scenes were running at full speed. By the end everyone, organizers included, collapsed from exhaustion, but the weekend was such a success we honestly could’ve kept going for days.

Two participants over laptops in the office room, the table covered with energy drinks, a thermos, a chessboard and a red tote bag

A game running on a TV beside a console in the lounge area, with two people eating pizza at a high table behind

Two rack servers stacked on the carpet with network switches and handheld radios on top, aqua and white cables all around

Participants in headsets at laptops and monitors around white desks, two others standing and watching the game

Evening in the big open plan office: a participant in a headset at a monitor, pizza boxes on the desk and groups chatting further back

Wide open plan office with green carpet and rows of white desks, about a dozen participants scattered at their machines

A room full of participants in headsets at night, one playing Minecraft on a laptop, a TeamSpeak channel list on the monitor at left

Daylight in the office: a participant at a laptop in front, others gaming along rows of monitors, packs of cola and bags on the floor

A monitor in the foreground showing the LAN server list with player counts for Minecraft, Factorio, Counter-Strike 2 and more

Looking down the office at a dozen participants side by side at their monitors, strategy and building games running on the screens