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Thread ID: 80915 2007-07-09 06:27:00 [AUCKLAND] BGLan #12 - Lan in Comfort Neongreen (6358) PC World Chat
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567292 2007-07-09 06:27:00 BGLan is a social gaming event called a LAN Party, which takes place every 4-6 weeks. Our last event was fantastic, with 80 people present, and we were on ZM Radio. Also, four Red Bull minis pulled up - and eight chicks spilled out. There was many a Red Bull given out.

HIGHLIGHTS:
- Free pizza Saturday night
- Red Bull chicks will be coming to the event to distribute free Red Bull
- Cafe breakfast Saturday morning, %20 discount
- Gigabit network
- Prepay prize draw(Prepay before 20th of July) - an offical PurePwnage tshirt
- CoD2, GunGame, and UT2k4 Unco tournaments
- Comfortable conference center as the venue.
- 42 hours
- Seperate sleeping room - feel free to bring your own pillow, sleeping bag, and/or mattress.
- Prebook your seats along with your mates by prepaying! (Prepay earlier so you can get uninterrupted seating between your mates)

WHEN:
Prepays Close: 8th of August
Starts: 8PM, the 10th of August
Ends: 2PM, the 12th of August

WHERE:
The Apollo Health Centre, 119 Apollo Drive, Albany. In the upstairs conference rooms. The venue is consistantly said to be the best by our lanners, with a Zen peace garden outside the windows and a tasty cafe downstairs.

PRICE:
Spectator: $0 - Just show up and have a look around!
Prepay before event: $25
Pay at event: $30
*NOTE that there's a good chance that the seats will be booked out before the prepay end date. So please prepay ASAP.

NETWORK:
The network is fully gigabit, we have a decent internet connection at the event. Additionally, we will run a DC++ hub to facilitate the sharing of game patches, etc. Our intranet will allow you to download these patches as well, along with some other features.

TOURNAMENTS:
Everyone loves tournaments! We will be running the following three tournaments:

Call of Duty 2: Teams of 4 - Will begin Saturday at 12PM.
Counterstrike Source: GunGame - Will begin Saturday at 4PM.
Unreal Tournament: UnCo - Will begin Saturday at 5:30PM
Prizegiving: 7PM during Pizza, outside in the garden. Might be cold so bring a jumper!

GAMES:
Most anything decent will see gametime. CoD2, CSS, Starcraft, Warcraft 3, Soldat, Trackmania Nations, Flatout2, Battlefield 2, CnC3, Carball, UT2k4, Halo, etc. We will have gameservers on tap for most anything that's in demand from our new dedicated Core 2 Duo gameserver.

PRIZES:
Prepay prize: 1x Offical PurePwnage "i pwn n00bs" tshirt.

Register before the 16th of July and go into the chance to win a $10 off voucher for the eGaming webstore!

Prepay before the 20th of July to win this prize!
The draw will be announced on the 27th of July on the BGLan IRC Channel, at 8PM.

Gaming Spot prizes: 40x $5 off voucher at the eGaming webstore
All of the above have been donated by Elemental Gaming at http://www.egaming.co.nz/
More TBA.

FOOD:
We have a cafe downstairs which is open on Saturday - along with a 20% discount. We have a huge breakfast on the Saturday morning. You can get the discount just by saying you're from upstairs. On the Saturday evening, around 7PM, we buy pizza for everyone, at no cost. Spectators will need to leave during this time. There's also a Burger King literally a minutes walk from the venue, right across the road.

I can't wait to see the event packed out again, we're setting up an awesome lineup for you guys. See you there!

Please visit us at www.bglan.co.nz to register and suchlike. We recommend registering(you recieve updates), and prepaying(you get gauranteed a seat). Feel free to join in the community's forums at forums.freedompc.co.nz/ and the IRC at http:
Neongreen (6358)
567293 2007-07-09 22:00:00 Wicked... wish i lived in Auckland!!! Well... not really. ;) wratterus (105)
567294 2007-07-10 05:34:00 By all accounts the BGLan is a goodie, but it kinda pales compared to the xLan shown on TV last night eh! ;) Greg (193)
567295 2007-07-11 06:15:00 I was actually at xLAN ;)

I personally prefer my lan but I might be biased. Bigger doesn't ALWAYS mean better, despite what the women tell you!
Neongreen (6358)
567296 2007-07-11 11:14:00 Bigger doesn't ALWAYS mean better, despite what the women tell you!I never heard that before! :D

But I agree with you - your LANs obviously work and the guys like it, so keep em coming.
Greg (193)
567297 2007-07-12 09:59:00 :D I already have my PC already that time, but no car license yet, and I don't see the point hanging out there since I don't have games that suited for that LAN.
I'll be nice to suck up the power over there if you have Intel Extreme Edition CPU. :lol:
PedalSlammer (8511)
567298 2007-07-15 20:17:00 PedalSlammer - what games do you play? I can only actually list a fraction of the more played games on that list. Also there's something awesome about playing good games for the first time in a well set up multiplayer setting ;)

It's looking good people, don't forget to sign up and prepay now if you're interested in coming! Today's the last day to go into a draw to win a 10$ discount voucher from Elemental Gaming. Also, Thursday's the last day to enter the prepay prize draw of a PurePwnage tshirt.
Neongreen (6358)
567299 2007-07-15 23:44:00 PedalSlammer - what games do you play? I can only actually list a fraction of the more played games on that list. Also there's something awesome about playing good games for the first time in a well set up multiplayer setting ;)

It's looking good people, don't forget to sign up and prepay now if you're interested in coming! Today's the last day to go into a draw to win a 10$ discount voucher from Elemental Gaming. Also, Thursday's the last day to enter the prepay prize draw of a PurePwnage tshirt.
Neongreen you really don't want to encourage PedalSlammer to attend your LAN hes banned for a reason ;)
Pete O'Neil (6584)
567300 2007-07-16 00:08:00 X-Lan 07 was my first ever LAN, gotta say it made me want to go to more.

I might stop by to have a look, maybe even do an interview or two. How many people are expected at this event?
Jan Birkeland (4741)
567301 2007-07-16 00:17:00 I'll be there, might be a food chance to finally meet you Jan :)

Usually there's around 75 pplz IIRC
Chilling_Silence (9)
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