NETWAR 17.0 - Successposted by Curium on May 2, 2009 at 10:08 amNETWAR 17.0 has come and gone, another very successful event. I would like to thank all of the attendees and sponsors for helping us put on such a great event. Thank you!
Pictures of the event have been posted in the gallery.
NETWAR 17.0 - This Weekend!posted by Curium on April 20, 2009 at 11:54 pmNETWAR 17.0 IS THIS WEEKEND!!!
NETWAR 17.0 will take place at The Digz Sports Arena in Omaha, Nebraska on Friday April 24-25th, 2009 starting at 7:00pm and going all day and night for 26 hours straight, ending on April 25th at 9:00pm. Please do not enter the venue before 7:00pm on Friday.
Early online registration deadline for the event was April 10th to receive the discounted $20 door entry. Online registration after April 10th up until Thursday April 23rd will be $30 at the door. Registration the day of the event will be $40 at the door. Please get registered on the web site as soon as possible if you have not done so already.
THERE WILL BE OVER $6,000 IN PRIZES FOR NETWAR 17.0! You would have to be crazy not to attend!
Please make sure all of the games you want to play are updated to the latest version before attending, including Steam based games.
PLEASE DO NOT COME EARLY! The event doors open at 7:00pm on Friday, no exceptions!!
You may arrive at anytime during the event and leave whenever you wish.
--- Food & Drink ---
A large selection of food will be available for purchase from the kitchen for the entire event. Pepsi and Coke products, including Mt. Dew and Red Bull will be available for purchase at the event.
YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BRING FOOD OR DRINK INTO THE VENUE. I cannot stress this enough, this is not our rule. The venue staff will evict you from the premises for breaking this rule. You are welcomed to leave and grab food and drink from somewhere else, just don’t bring it back inside with you.
--- Waiver ---
If you have not signed a NETWAR waiver before you will need to. Please visit our site, print it off, sign it, and bring it with you to the event. If you are under the age of 18, please print the waiver and have your parents/guardian sign it and then bring that waiver with you to the event.
--- Loading / Unloading Computer At The Event ---
Please park in the large south parking lot. When you are loading/unloading your computer you may park next to the door. After you have completed unloading, please MOVE YOUR CAR!! to a spot farther away so that other attendees can have an easy time getting their computers in/out just like you did.
Please use the southwest doors to enter the building, they will be marked.
When you get to the event, you may come right inside and bring in your computer and put it where you want to sit. Sometime soon come to the registration table and get yourself checked in and paid. We will enter you into the raffle drawing and give you a lanyard. The lanyard must be worn at all times. This proves that you have paid the entry fee.
Here is a list of items you will need to bring to our LAN party:
1. Computer Tower (or notebook computer)
2. Monitor
3. Category 5 Network Cable (20 Feet or Longer)
4. Power cable for monitor
5. Power cable for computer
6. 6 Outlet Power Strip
7. Headset
8. Keyboard
9. Mouse
10. Mouse Pad
11. Software (Games of course!)
12. Money (Entry fee, food, drinks, etc.)
14. Optional: Your favorite desk chair
15. Optional: Sleeping bag and pillow if you need to sleep.
System Check List Before Attending:
1. Scan your computer for Viruses with Trendmicro Housecall or other software before attending!
http://housecall.trendmicro.com
2. Scan computer for Malware and Spyware before attending!
Super Anti-Spyware - http://www.superantispyware.com
Malwarebytes - http://www.malwarebytes.org
3. All windows updates installed. (Important! If you do not want to catch a virus at the event)
4. Anti-Virus software installed and updated.
5. Installed all games you wish to play.
6. Patched all games you installed to their latest version
--- Quick Tips ---
Q: Why are none of the game servers showing up under LAN servers in the game?
A: Multiple reasons:
1) You have the Windows firewall or third party software firewall running that is blocking the requests.
2) The game you are running is not updated to the latest version equal to the servers.
3) There is a filter setup in the LAN browser, turn all filters to All (Very common in Call of Duty)
Q: Is there an easy way to see every game server running at the LAN?
A: Yes! We highly recommend using HLSW. Just choose Offline mode when you run the software, choose LAN server list under Server list and it will display every game server running on the network and status about the servers. www.hlsw.net
NETWAR 17.0 - Less than 1 month awayposted by Curium on April 4, 2009 at 7:55 pmNETWAR 17.0 will take place at The Digz Sports Arena in Omaha, Nebraska on Friday April 24-25th, 2009 starting at 7:00pm and going all day and night for 26 hours straight, ending on April 25th at 9:00pm. Please do not enter the venue before 7:00pm on Friday.
Online registration deadline for the event is April 10th. If you are not registered for the event on the web site before April 10th you will be paying $30 at the door instead of the discounted $20 door fee. Please get registered on the web site as soon as possible if you have not done so already.
New NETWAR T-shirts will be available in limited quantity for purchase at the event.
THERE WILL BE OVER $6,000 IN PRIZES FOR NETWAR 17.0! You would have to be crazy not to attend!
We have some new rules for this event:
1) Attendees are not allowed to bring televisions or console gaming systems. This is a computer only based LAN party, consoles make too much noise and distract attendees from the real reason for the LAN party, which is computer gaming.
2) You may only consume half the space of a table with your gear, you are required to allow enough space for another person to share the table with you.
3) This is not a new rule, but you are not allowed to bring outside food and drink into the venue.
4) Do not enter the venue before 7:00pm on Friday
What we provide you at the event:
1) 3 foot wide of table space for your gaming machine
2) One power outlet for your power strip to power your system
3) One network port on our network switches
4) Food & Soda sold by the venue
5) A fun atmosphere
6) Organized tournaments
7) A Ton of Door Prizes! Provided by sponsors
--- SPONSORS ---
Cox Communications will be providing a large Internet pipe for the event as well as over $1,000 in door prizes!
NETWAR welcomes CRUCIAL MEMORY as a sponsor! The Crucial LAN staff will be in attendance to facilitate the now-infamous "Crucial Dodgeball Game" -- w00t! Crucial is providing more than $1,000 in prizes, including some Crucial Ballistix Tracer memory kits with activity-indicating LEDs. Check out Crucial's line of high-performance Ballistix memory at www.crucial.com/gamer.
NETWAR welcomes Garage Games as a sponsor! They will be at the event hosting a Fallen Empire Legions tournament for large prizes. This is a browser based first person shooter game, it is completely FREE and only takes seconds to begin playing. Take control of a futuristic warrior and battle online foes in diverse locations. Armed with a jetpack containing light-speed capabilities and an arsenal of deadly weapons, take on the other team and feel the liberation of total freedom of movement. Check out the game and get some practice at www.playlegions.com
NETWAR welcome Computer Power User as a returning sponsor! They will be at the event organizing a timed computer assembly competition. How fast do you think you can build a computer? Think you are faster than everyone else? Let's see it! Take home prize is a brand new gaming machine! - Check them out at www.computerpoweruser.com
In Win is providing some very nice computer cases and power supplies to give away at the event. - Check them out at www.in-win.us
NETWAR 17.0 - Less than 2 months awayposted by Curium on March 1, 2009 at 9:40 pmWe are pleased to announce the public release of the NETWAR 16.0 video that Cox Communications produced for us. If you have Cox digital cable, tune to Cox On-Demand on Channel 1, you can find the video under Cox Local - Entertainment. We have also posted the
video on our web site!
NETWAR 17.0 will take place at The Digz Sports Arena in Omaha, Nebraska on Friday April 24-25th, 2009 starting at 7:00pm and going all day and night for 26 hours straight, ending on April 25th at 9:00pm.
The event was originally scheduled for April 10-11th, but due to a scheduling conflict we have decided to move the date. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Please help us decide what 3 official PC based tournaments to run at NETWAR 17.0 by visiting the web site and clicking on 'Vote Tournaments'.
Please register for the LAN as soon as possible, as it helps us out tremendously in the planning phases. You can do this by visiting the web site and registering for the event. Registration does not cost you anything, it just saves a seat for you at the event. You will only need to pay when you arrive at the event. If you think you might be able to make it to the event, get registered, you can always un-register at any time.
If you are NOT planning on attending because of other reasons besides schedule conflicts, please let us know why. Reply back to this email, or post on our forums, and give us some details on what is making you not want to attend. We are always looking for ways to make additions, changes, or improvements so that our attendees have a more enjoyable experience, but we can not do this without input from you.
For more information about sponsors, prizes, tournaments, directions, and the schedule for the event, click on event details. While you are there you can get yourself registered.
Feel free to sign in to our forums to post about tournaments, teams, upcoming game releases, and pretty much anything else that sparks your interest.
Don't forget to grab the event flyer from our web site and get them hung up where you can. Help spread the word about the event. Thanks!
