How? Team Chenbro, etc

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Tengis

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How do people get onto these teams? I know a couple people on Team Chenbro that are just shmucks, I dont see how they find people (or you could find them). I think it would be cool to be a part of a team for a product/brand. Anyone know anything about this type of stuff?
 
Tengis said:
How do people get onto these teams? I know a couple people on Team Chenbro that are just shmucks, I dont see how they find people (or you could find them). I think it would be cool to be a part of a team for a product/brand. Anyone know anything about this type of stuff?
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After great thought and deliberation, we have decided to finally offer you a spot on our team. However you have to go by (TC)Shmuck


LMAO, was looking to see if I could find any old photos from some of the events we went to, however they all seem to be gone now 20+ years later. Someone stole my hard drive that had the OG photos and copy of the website. Still have the sponsored computer in my garage I think.
 
Qlueless TeamChenbro said:
After great thought and deliberation, we have decided to finally offer you a spot on our team. However you have to go by (TC)Shmuck


LMAO, was looking to see if I could find any old photos from some of the events we went to, however they all seem to be gone now 20+ years later. Someone stole my hard drive that had the OG photos and copy of the website. Still have the sponsored computer in my garage I think.
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20yo necro...
 
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NEW RECORD!! 19.92 years, holy shit! the top ten is getting up there....
https://hardforum.com/threads/nooner.1169381/post-1044644086
 
Qlueless TeamChenbro said:
After great thought and deliberation, we have decided to finally offer you a spot on our team. However you have to go by (TC)Shmuck


LMAO, was looking to see if I could find any old photos from some of the events we went to, however they all seem to be gone now 20+ years later. Someone stole my hard drive that had the OG photos and copy of the website. Still have the sponsored computer in my garage I think.
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How do you people even find these threads to necro? :ROFLMAO:
 
Guy was googling for keywords and was oblivious to the date. Or wasn't and posted anyway, who knows.
 
Tengis said:
I have no idea what this thread was even about.
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"How do people get onto these teams? I know a couple people on Team Chenbro that are just shmucks, I dont see how they find people (or you could find them). I think it would be cool to be a part of a team for a product/brand. Anyone know anything about this type of stuff?"


So to answer your original question from 20 years ago..

I use to hit a LAN party every other week or more, for several years in several different states. I was the total geek that rolled in with a mini rack, with 6-7 different servers, one of them being one of the only servers able to support a 64 man Battlefield server at that time, plus teamspeak, ventrilo, a full website that had every single driver, all top 100 game patches, and windows OS patches, plus a corporate AV server, and a Linux router that could support a large LAN just in case all hell broke loose at a party, I would be the guy that was able to get everyone back online, and restore the network if needed (only used the router once). because of my servers, we were able to save a 500+ LAN party, that a virus was ripping through the floor, so hard to melted a few switches down.

David Stellmack, that had worked for Tom Hardwares guide, then moved to Chenbro manufacturing was someone that I would smoke cigarettes with (and the guy from Team AMD) at every single event they sponsored.

Chenbro was trying to get into the gaming market, after being an OEM mostly manufacture, and guess who was at all the events already, and hung out with the right people all the time. Me and my best friend/coworker... we were asked were asked to rounded up a few other people that weren't total douchebags, to join the team. We all were heavy gamers, but not some unstoppable force. Basically we got free admission, travel, food, hotel, and tons of free computer parts. What we didn't get, was paid anything. We were the first team of that kind, more of a marketing team, than professional gamers. We definitely won a few tournaments, and even got called out as running hacks at one event, put they quickly got put in their place when the event explained to them the only reason they had all the sponsors at the event, was because we were there. after winning that one, when they handed me the big old payout of $500, we donated it back to the non profit they were holding the LAN party for. Back in that time a LARGE payout at events was $5,000, most times you got a shirt, and that was it.. It cost them more to move us around and feed the team than that, and it was a cool experience. Some of us even flew to Taiwan for Computex, and played in the booth there.

So all in all it was a good time, and I'm glad for the experiences we had... but some fat piles of cash would have been nice as well.


So it basically came down to I smoked cigarettes with the right people at LAN parties. (glad to have kicked that habit)
 
Qlueless TeamChenbro said:
I was halfway shocked to see forums still going 20 years later, most of the ones I use to post on are long gone, and changed to FB groups, and I don't have time for that BS.
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FB groups are the scourge of the internet. All of the knowledge from forums that was easily accessible was lost and now you have people asking questions and requesting help for things that were solved 10+ years ago.
 
I used to go to some of the giant lan parties... Lanwar, Million Man Lan, and a few other smaller ones. Pretty sure I regularly saw a person or two on Team Chenbro that prompted this thread.
 
Tengis said:
I used to go to some of the giant lan parties... Lanwar, Million Man Lan, and a few other smaller ones. Pretty sure I regularly saw a person or two on Team Chenbro that prompted this thread.
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Yep me, "Qlueless" and "Landrais" use to go to every LanWar and MML for years, and I think I use to have an account on here, but no longer use the hotmail account it was linked to, and probably can't access it anymore.

Definitely agree that forums like this going way, lost so much valuable information. I use to be in the top 10 users for Lanwar for a long time.
 
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Qlueless TeamChenbro said:
Yep me, "Qlueless" and "Landrais" use to go to every LanWar and MML for years, and I think I use to have an account on here, but no longer use the hotmail account it was linked to, and probably can't access it anymore.
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I havent been to a lan party in like... 20 years.

I moved away from KY where Lanwar was in like 2005.
 
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