A funny thing happened on the way to the server.

[Jez]

So I was at home on my day off from uni, and in my boredom I queued up to join GON's ninth TF2 server. It took me quite a while to get into the server, but as soon as I did I noticed something unusual was happening. First of all, lots of players had very high pings:

Not that unusual, you think, people often play at long distances for want of knowing better or having an alternative. But I also noticed that they were really quite bad, as if they were playing the game for the first time. In addition, there were constant join attempts from somebody called lanner4bsb:

My first thought was that this was some kind of lan party gone awry, either incompetently planned with the choice of a high ping server, or with not enough bandwidth to support that many users.

However, I eventually asked why there were so many high-ping players, and was told that they were Americans. The plot thickened when I discovered that they were all fans of:



Nick Carter of the backstreet boys (who is apparently currently in Australia), who had invited his fans to play with him.

tl;dr Jez joins GON TF2 server to find it's filled with BSB fans attempting to play the game with their cherished pop star.

[SaNE]

Well you've got a different kind of story to tell people.

[tacitus42]

Haha that's pretty funny, man!
Nice bit of sleuthing there, too.

[Trixxter]

Ha!

Oh I feel bad, they were my first Band I listened to as a kid...

[v4moose]

did u ever find out which alias was his? guessing its not nickstar or whatever with a ping of 272

[MunchY]

Rofl! All dem 52 mills.
You're the only guy below 10mil actually.

But yeah, that's a pretty funny story Did you get to own that bad excuse of a musician?

[Jez]

did u ever find out which alias was his? guessing its not nickstar or whatever with a ping of 272

I think he'd left by the time I joined.

http://twitter.com/#!/nickcarter

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/KaoticKlan

Those are his twitter and the steam group he linked to, not sure which one is his or even if he's in the group. The 'balgrott' acount is private so I can't investigate further and see if it's him.

[.♥. Cupcake .♥.]

I saw that tweet!! I was like aahhh I wish I could somehow find him to play haha.

[Glinn Mgraw]

Useful advertising.

[Tim Colwill]

Amazing.

[James Pinnell]

did u ever find out which alias was his? guessing its not nickstar or whatever with a ping of 272

I think he'd left by the time I joined.

http://twitter.com/#!/nickcarter

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/KaoticKlan

Those are his twitter and the steam group he linked to, not sure which one is his or even if he's in the group. The 'balgrott' acount is private so I can't investigate further and see if it's him.

It's him.

https://twitter.com/nickcarter/status/2 ... 1391994880

[Jez]

Amazing.

Ikr? Should totally charge for this stuff.

[revengous]

GoN servers "The choice of the famous!"

[Drakand]

GoN servers "The choice of the famous!"

totally!