I am glad Tomas invited to join him at Connect, which was a Codemasters Online games' (MMO's) 2-day premier event. It consisted of LotR, D&D online, RF online, Archlord and Jumpgate Evolution (which as of this writing is still beta) presentations ant playtime. I am not currently an active player, but I had good time in the event. After the presentation of Jumpgate Evolution to the public, we were invited to play it in the ground floor. So we went, stood there for half an hour in the queue, filled some feedback on the Jumpgate's logo and DVD cover design and started playing it. We were told that there is a PvP posibillity, but could not find such option/action, and got a little bit dissapointed. Jumpgate Evolution differs from EVE online, that you control your spacecraft from the first person view directly (similar to Freespace or Descent) other than that it is still not a finished product and it's difficult to evaluate it after playing just a few hours. Anyway I did enjoy playing it with 2 joysticks, which was kind of cool :) Had a little bit of LARP action. Killed some things. Waiting for photos from those people. But the most memorable event I guess was the Colin McRae Dirt competition. The rules were if you finish the time trial:

1. under 4 minutes, you get LotR gold edition.
2. under 3 min 30 second you win the Xbox 360!

We signed up just for the xbox. After some tries, I ended up "just" winning the LotR game. But my friend Tomas was the best driver of all, he beat time trial in just under 3:30.69 Just a little bit too slow! A shame nobody won the Xbox 360, but it was fun, especially hearing the commentator getting excited about the best time! :) Ok here are some pictures of the event.