Intel LANFest NETWAR 22.0 - This Weekend!
posted by Curium on November 8, 2011 at 1:00 am
We are pleased to announce, that Intel LANFest NETWAR 22.0 is this weekend and HAS SOLD OUT! You read right, there is currently 244 paid attendees out of 244 seats, I'll let you do the math. This will be a record breaking event, not only is this our largest event ever and breaking the 200 attendee mark, but is also the largest event ever in Nebraska and many surrounding states. This is going to be an epic event, we appreciate everyones support over the years helping us grow and grow. This event will raise $6,100 for the United Way of the Midlands. Woot!

No Ticket, Do Not Show
Since we are sold out, if you are not listed on the paid registration on the web site. Please DO NOT SHOW UP AT THE EVENT. There will absolutely NOT be a seat available for you. Nuff said. However, you are welcomed to swing by and spectate for a little bit if you wish. If you need a towel to mop up your drool, just let us know. :)

Validate Tickets & Seating
Please review your registration on the web site and make sure everything is in order and that you are currently seated in the correct seat. If there is any issues, please let us know immediately. We do have a few people that have not selected a seat yet, please do so.

Event Time
Intel LANFest NETWAR 22.0 will open at 7:00pm on Friday Nov 11 and end at 9:00pm on Saturday. Please be respectful, do not enter the venue before 7:00pm, we will have the power to the tables turned off and will turn away any early birds. I know you are excited about the event, but this is very disruptive to our staff who are still putting the final touches on the setup.

Driving Directions
Directions to the venue can be found here - http://www.netwar.org/index.php?page=thedigz_directions

Event Schedule & Tournaments
Please review the site event details page for the most up to date event schedule & tournaments.

Check-In Procedure
All attendees must download the Intel LANFest waiver from our site, fill it out, sign it, and bring it along with you to the event.
You must fill-out this waiver regardless if you have signed one for past events. You only need to print and bring page 1 (signature page).
Please note a new field on the waiver, Seat #, you can find your number from the registration page on the Intel LANFest site. We will use your seat number to quickly identify you in the system and get you checked in and registered for the raffle. Please hand the waiver to our check-in staff when you arrive at the venue. If you have purchased two seats for yourself, be sure to mention that at check-in, so we check-in both seats.

If you are under the age of 18, you must have the waiver signed by a parent or guardian. (Please print and bring page 1 and 2).

Grab the waiver here - http://www.netwar.org/?page=files

Food & Drink
A large selection of food and beverages (non-alcoholic) will be available for purchase from the kitchen for the entire 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 do not bring it back inside with you.

Loading / Unloading Computer At The Event
Please park in the large south parking lot. When you are loading/unloading your computer you may park near 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. We will enter you into the raffle drawing.

Case Mod Competition
Computer Power User magazine will be hosting a case mod competition at the event. Registration will open at 7:30pm on Friday and judging will start around 11pm.

What To Bring / FAQ
For information on what to bring to the event and how to prepare your computer before attending, please visit - http://www.netwar.org/?page=gear
Be sure to have your computer in working and stable order, as well as virus and spyware free! Please have all games you want to play installed and patched to the latest version, as well as tested before the event. Please make sure all of your Steam games are fully updated before attending.

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.

Thank you for our attending our events, it is going to be a great time. We will see you this weekend!


Intel LANFest NETWAR 22.0 - Opening More Seats
posted by Curium on October 31, 2011 at 10:00 pm
Due to overwelming amount of registrations for the upcoming event, we have just about sold out all of the existing open seats. We will be opening half of the 5th row tomorrow morning (seats i13 to i24 and J13 to J24), for registration at first come first serve. It would help us out greatly if everyone would please get registered, paid, and pick a seat by the end of this week. In case we need to open even more seats which requires us to rent more tables and chairs, we do not want to be scrambling next week to find more.

Happy Halloween!


Intel LANFest NETWAR 22.0 - 2 Weeks Away!
posted by Curium on October 29, 2011 at 3:00 pm
We are two weeks away from Intel LANFest NETWAR 22.0 taking place! 11/11/11 is going to be the start of one amazing weekend! You are going to need to have a really good reason to be missing NETWAR. Many new games to play and many prizes to win! Exciting I know! Hang in there, the event will be here soon. Here is some further details about the event.

Registrations
If you have not done so, get yourself registered, paid and select your event seat. The event tickets are going very fast, so be sure to get yours before they are gone. At this time we have 151 paid attendees, and another 40 registered waiting to pay.
Your entire entry fee for the event goes straight to charity, The United Way of the Midlands here in Omaha.

Event Schedule
Please review the site event details page for the most up to date event schedule.
At 9:00pm Friday night, a representative from United Way will be speaking to talk about United Way and to thank you for your contribution to the charity (your entry fee).
At 2:30am on Saturday morning M36ABIT3 will be performing chiptunes. These are Nintendo Game Boys that he has modified to produce synthesized electronic music.

The Event Network
Cisco has stepped up HUGE for this event! They will be providing us with networking equipment to be able to have gigabit network handoffs to all attendees, with 10Gb fiber uplinks back to the network core which consists of a 320Gb backplane switch.

There is going to be a lot of popular games being played including but not limited to:
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Comes out the week of our event!)
Battlefield 3
Starcraft 2
Minecraft
Team Fortress 2
Counter-Strike: Source
Quake Live
Left 4 Dead 2
League of Legends
Dead Island
Half-Life 2: Capture the flag
World of Warcraft and many other MMORPGS
and many other games

Tournaments
Tournament have been updated on posted on our web site, please visit for more details.
Minecraft Scavenger Hunt - 1 vs All
Counter-Strike: Source - 5 vs 5
League of Legends - 5 vs 5 or 3 vs 3 (This game is FREE!)
Portal 2 - Speed Challenge - 1 vs All
StarCraft II - 1 vs 1
Team Fortress 2 - 6 vs 6 (This game is FREE!)
Dodge Ball - 5 vs 5

Table Space for BYOC (Bring your own computer)
Due to space and power restrictions, your entry into the event allows you to bring (1) computer and (1) monitor, you will be provided with table space with (1) power plug (you'll need a power strip) and (1) network port. If you wish to bring a second computer or a second monitor and wish to consume an entire 2 person table for yourself, you will need to register for an additional seat.

Bring Your Own Server (BYOS)
For those of you who would like to bring a server, you may do so at no charge. Please contact us at least 1 week prior to the event and confirm a spot in the server area for your server. We will provide you with a static IP address to have setup on your server before you bring it. Your server must be remotely manageable over the network. We will provide you with (1) power plug and (1) network plug, no monitors or keyboards will be allowed.

What To Bring / FAQ
For information on what to bring to the event and how to prepare your computer before attending, please visit - http://www.netwar.org/?page=gear
Frequently Asked Questions - http://www.netwar.org/?page=faq
Be sure to have your computer in working and stable order, as well as virus and spyware free! Please have all games you want to play installed and patched to the latest version, as well as tested before the event.

Prizes
Our sponsors have stepped up and have donated an enormous amount of prizes to give away. At this time we do not have quantities or exact models, that is decided based on the amount of paid registrations we have in the next few days. So if you have not registered and paid yet, please do so as soon as possible.

Prize list: (So many door prizes!)
Intel SSDs
Intel high-end processors
Intel motherboards
Western Digital Raptor drives
MSI (Video cards)
InWin (Computer Cases)
Antec (coolers, cases, etc)
Coolermaster (laptop cases, coolers, mice, cases)
ThermalTake (Keyboards, Mice etc)
Logitech (Keyboards, Mice, headsets)
Corsair (Memory, headsets)
Gigabyte (Motherboards)
Steel Series (headsets)
Noctua (coolers)


Intel LANFest NETWAR 22.0 - 40 Days Away!
posted by Curium on October 2, 2011 at 8:00 pm
We are 40 days away from Intel LANFest NETWAR 22.0 taking place! 11/11/11 is going to be the start of one amazing weekend! You are going to need to have a really good reason to be missing NETWAR. Many new games to play and many prizes to win! Always expect a great time when you attend NETWAR.

Your entire entry fee for the event goes straight to charity, The United Way of the Midlands here in Omaha.
What can be better than that? Attend a very large LAN party, play video games for 26 hours straight , eat some good food, maybe play some dodgeball or participate in the many other activities we will have going on, all while knowing you just contributed to a great cause. We would like to thank our sponsors listed below for making this all possible.

We need your help! The amount of prizes for us to raffle at the event from our sponsors is directly dictated by the amount of paid attendees we have in the next few weeks. What we need is for everyone to not wait till the last minute to register and pay for their seat. This makes it hard for the staff to plan for the event and reduces the amount of prizes we have to give away. Last event we gave out around 10k worth of prizes, including computer processors, memory, SSD hard drives, and many other high dollar items. Expect the same this event, but we need your registrations! If you have the slightest desire to attend the event (which you should have). Get yourself registered and paid, you can always cancel and request a refund. Make sure to help us spread the word about the event and help others get registered.

There is going to be a lot of popular games being played including but not limited to:
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Comes out the week of our event!)
Battlefield 3
Starcraft 2
Minecraft
Team Fortress 2
Counter-Strike: Source
Quake Live
Left 4 Dead 2
League of Legends
Dead Island
Half-Life 2: Capture the flag
and many others

Tournament voting
Help us decide what tournaments to host during the event, deadline extended to October 7 (Friday).
http://www.netwar.org/?page=tournament_vote_standings

Sponsors
Intel
Cox Communications
MSI
Western Digital
InWin
Antec
Coolermaster
ThermalTake
Logitech
Corsair
Gigabyte
Steel Series
Noctus


Intel LANFest NETWAR 22.0 - Registration Live!
posted by Curium on September 25, 2011 at 11:13 pm
The NETWAR staff is excited to announce that registration for our next event Intel LANFest NETWAR 22.0 is open! This is our second event under the Intel LANFest program, our last event was spectacular. We had 178 attendees and gave away almost $10,000 worth of amazing prizes to the attendees and raised $4,400 for charity (United Way of the Midlands).

Event Details
Intel LANFest NETWAR 22.0 will take place November 11-12, 2011 starting at 7pm that Friday evening (yes that's right 11/11/11 think you can remember that?). The event will run straight for 26 hours till 9pm Saturday night.
Location: The Digz Sports Arena in Omaha, Nebraska.

Registration Details
Please get yourself and everyone you know registered and pre-paid for the event as soon as possible, the quicker we sell our seats the more prizes from our sponsors we will have to offer. Through LANFest, we now have a seat registration system, where you can select and reserve your exact seat for the event. It will be there waiting for you to arrive at the event.

What happened to the donation matching?
You might be asking, what happened to the charity donation matching from Intel? You guys announced you raised $8,800 at the event, why are you saying $4,400 now? Well, it's a long story, but the short answer is miscommunication between NETWAR and the LanFEST organization, and LANFest organization and Intel. See we are just a select few events (I believe one of the largest) that is not hosted on an Intel campus. When the charity donation matching was created, it was meant only for events that are hosted on any Intel campus in the world. Since our events are not on campus we are not eligible to receive the matching, this did not become apparent until we put in the request for the check to be mailed to United Way. Anyways, long story short, we still raised an amazing $4,400 and hope to break $5,000 from this next event! Please help us do so, by getting yourself registered and telling everyone you know about our events. Even though we are not receiving matching, we are still very grateful with LANFest and Intel that they are able to help support us so that the door entry you pay can go to directly to charity and we receive amazing prizes to give away to our attendees.

Split Web Sites (LANFest and NETWAR)
Please bear with us through the integration between NETWAR and LANFest, currently there is content on both sites (NETWAR and LANFest), the registration for the event is on the LANFest site. We are trying to make this a smooth as possible, if you have any suggestions or issues please let us know.

Game Voting
Please help us determine what PC based games will be popular at NETWAR 22.0 by letting us know what games you will be playing. You can do this by visiting the NETWAR web site and click on 'Vote for Games'. Please have this done before September 30th.

Tournament Voting
Please help us decide what official PC based tournaments to run at NETWAR 22.0 by visiting the NETWAR web site and clicking on Vote Tournaments. Please have this done before September 30th, we will be counting up the votes on 10/1 to decide what tournaments to have for the event.

Spread The Word
Please help us spread the word about this amazing for charity event. Do your part and post about it Facebook, Google+, Twitter, forums and any other places you think would help. You can also download our flyer from the NETWAR site, print it and post it in locations where it will be seen.

Summary and Actions You need to perform:
1. Register for Intel LANFest NETWAR 22.0
2. Prepay
3. Select your seat
3. Vote for Games you will be playing (Due Sept 30)
4. Vote for Tournaments you want at the event (Due Sept 30)
5. Like our Facebook page
6. Spread the word about our event (Forums, Twitter, Google+, Facebook, etc.)
7. Join the NETWAR community on our forums