Hello. I propose a Half Life meet up, and I partially got the idea from reading about the Fallout meet ups, but ours could still be something unique, such as possibly including a dodgeball event using a set of rules inspired by the NES Super Dodgeball game. I’ll be open to discuss any suggestions or modifications to the sample of the plans.
You can choose 1 of 6 Factions:
Resistance
Xen
The Combine
Aperture Science
The Employers
Race X
I’m a former member of the USA Dodgeball Team, and I first began playing at age 14 in 2001, and to make this a fun meet up, we can have a competitive dodgeball series with one team per faction featuring a video series inspired by Extreme Dodgeball from Game Show Network, which could be used as a way to help advertise the Half Life Meet Up. Energy Balls are generated by Combine Dark Energy reactor systems and transmitted through the plasma conduits of Citadel power transfer systems, and may be the ball type used at the events /s
The image attached to this post shows a potential location for the meet up, set on 40 hectares / 98.85 acres in Italy.
We can use this location in Italy as an example, since the official location is TBD.
€1,950,000 / 6 Factions = €325,000 / 4 options = €81,250 / cost of each option below to show how many people are the goal.
4 Potential Half Life Meet Up Options:
HEADCRAB OPTION: €50 (1,625 people per faction goal)
Full access to the video series inspired by Extreme Dodgeball from Game Show Network, with one team for each faction, and the top players selected from tryouts to represent each faction.
HOUNDEYE OPTION: €100 (813 people per faction goal)
Attend the event, play recreational dodgeball, and try to break a world record of largest dodgeball match. Includes HEADCRAB OPTION.
BULLSQUID OPTION: €100 (813 people per faction goal)
Attend the event, tryout for the competitive dodgeball series, and try to break a world record of largest dodgeball match (with the recreational players). Includes HEADCRAB OPTION.
STRIDER OPTION: €1,000 (82 people per faction goal)
Get a vote in the new organization in the decision making process and get the chance to have your voice heard. Includes HEADCRAB OPTION and either HOUNDEYE or BULLSQUID OPTION.
We will have a limit to how many people can attend the first event depending on the location, so we’ll be sure to let everyone know that if they miss the limit, they can support the project and save their ticket for one of the following years.
If this is the most recent record info, “The largest game of dodgeball involved 6,084 participants and was achieved by the University of California, Irvine at a game organised by UC Irvine students and NLA Sports (both USA) in Irvine, California, USA, on 25 September 2012” then we can aim to find a place that will allow for over 6,000 people for world record attempts.
During the other months there, I could host dodgeball events for locals, and help prepare those interested in the annual competitive video series.
I will try to post another update soon if we have any interest.
Judging by the numbers above, the number of people who choose options to attend the event:
6 factions x 813 people for HOUNDEYE = 4,878 +
6 factions x 813 people for BULLSQUID = 4,878 = 9,756 +
6 factions x 82 for STRIDER = 492 people =
10,248 people / 2 year plan =
5,124 people for the first event goal
Update: I made another post showing details of how it incorporates other games into the plans to bring together different communities - https://lemmy.world/post/35752141
I’d love to but I have absolutely no chance of getting to a location. Hopefully this goes viral across various Internet communities and you get a big crowd.
I hope to try to offer something for people who can’t attend, and also hope to create plenty of highlight footage to show everyone the experience. Thank you, and if anyone has any suggestions for communities to post this to, I will try.
probably reddit, twitter and tiktok if you wnat even a tiny chance at those kind of numbers.
€1,950,000 5,124 people for the first event goal
I think it should be on the moon with a Black-Mesa-branded rocket (with a gnome on-board), for thematic reasons. It’s no Xen, but you could probably add some decorations and even without that it’d be a better match than Italy.
Not sure about dodgeball though, I think area combat would fit more as well. Just make sure to have first-aid stations and have everybody sign waivers.
…or maybe you should just do free meet-ups with people to play dodgeball or talk-about/play your favorite games etc. (and maybe you’ll find some overlap) without it being some record-breaking event?
I forgot to post another way it all relates to gaming and another popular game it all relates to while still fitting the theme, to bring multiple communities together, and the record-breaking event was never meant to be a requirement to make it all happen. I will try to post another update soon.
Italy?? Half life was inspired by eastern european aesthetics, the Ukraine more specifically. There’s a colonel Odessa for crying out loud.
We could have multiple locations for different experiences, and I hosted a few dodgeball practices in Odesa, Ukraine in 2021 and I hope to return to Ukraine soon!
I mean I dont have that kind of money and if I did it would go to Palestine but Italy seems weirdly expensive when you have romania right there.
Sounds like a lot of fun. I’d love to see the outcome of such an event.
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