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When is the next Respawn?
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29th July 2008 - 09:45 PM |
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We're defintely glad to hear people asking that question more often than not!
Unfortunately, the only weekend available to us for the rest of the year is the weekend of September 27-28th, which is the Grand Final Weekend and clashes with a small LAN that many of our gophers and some of our admins are directly involved with. So our choices are:
- Screw the other guys, we'll run an event anyway and take our chances with a reduced team on that weekend. We could all watch the final on the projector...
- Run a smaller event on October 4th/5th October with a max player count of 150 in the smaller venue, The Odeon (right next to our regular place).
- Run the smaller event, and convince Extreme LAN to run on the Sept 27/28th weekend and let's all rock up and invade the event with our awesomeness.
So we've put up a poll (clicky clicky) to gauge what you, the community thinks we should do about this dilemma.
The next dates we are looking at will be mid to late January 2009 for a 350+ player event. |
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by Zardoz |
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v8 wrap-up
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10th July 2008 - 08:44 AM |
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We hope that everyone who rocked up had a fantastic time. We've fully recovered (most of us!) and planning for the next event is already underway. Photos are now uploaded for those who have been patiently waiting.
To improve things somewhat for the next event we will be very strict about reigstrations and confirmations. This is so that we're not running around at the last minute trying to find extra seats for people - but we must say, this has been the biggest Respawn event yet!
A big thankyou to all those who helped out, the gophers, the admins - and everyone who pitched in and gave us a hand when we needed it - this stuff doesn't go unnoticed.
Onto the competition winners - a big thumbs-up to our sponsors ThermalTake and Centre Com for making this possible. We also applaud Centre Com for the great job they did at providing PC hardware and accessories (such as network cables) throughout the event - a fabulous effort!
Counter-Strike Source 5v5: ZR $500 cash
Counter-Strike Source GunGame: Cheeser ThermalTake Ruby Orb CPU cooler
Call of Duty 4: Inertia $250 cash
Worms World Party: 1st: Snowman who won a Z2 Laser Mouse
Flatout 2: 1st Oohms, 2nd: Lotuk, 3rd: Dead_Man
Real Life PONG: 1st: DJ Damon (lge mushroom) second: Spite (sml mushroom)
Warcraft III 1v1: Ors $150 cash
Warcraft III DOTA 5v5: Melbourne Elite $250 cash
Case Mod Competition: Slov - THermalTake Magic Sound PC cooler
Door Prizes:
Z2 Laser mouse: Holdenrulz
Xazer bag: Spite
Wolfmother: Empty Box
Z2 Laser Mouse: Sarge
Netspace Shirt/Mini Shroom: Vaash
Wolverine Keyboard: Scryer
Xaser Case: Goose (this would have been mang had he not left on the Saturday!)
Lanyards: Zed, eskymobob and others
Once again, a big thanks.
Some of us are descending upon the BELGIAN BEER CAFE EUREKA for some beers on Saturday night (12th July) from about 7PM onwards - all are welcome!
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by Zardoz |
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Remember to update steam
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4th July 2008 - 04:04 PM |
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Tomorrow is the big day, everyone has been working tirelessly over the past few weeks to get ready for what is looking like it will be the best Respawn LAN yet.
Just a quick reminder to anyone wishing to play CS/TF2/HL or any steam based games.
To please update your steam games before arriving at the venue.
Limited internet access will be available to login to steam, but players will be shaped to 64kbit/sec therefore downloading 100’s of megabytes of updates will be very slow. Due to the limited amount of bandwidth available for internet access, no exceptions to this will be made during the lan.
Looking forward to seeing you all at the LAN tomorrow.
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by XiTatiON |
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Less than three days to go!
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2nd July 2008 - 02:25 PM |
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THE FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION
Q: I'm registered but I'm number 380 which is over the 350 limit for capacity. What's the go?
A: Please CONFIRM your registration. If there is any contention for remaining places, we will give priority to those who have registered and confirmed.
HERALD SUN MISPRINT
Page 45 of Today's edition of the Herald Sun states "LAN Thursday and Friday: www.respawn.com.au". The LAN is in fact Saturday and Sunday.
CALL OF DUTY 4 COMPETITION
During a meeting on Friday night, we decided to offer $250 cash first prize for COD4. Beer was involved in the making of this decision. We look forward to supporting the COD4 community for v8 and future events.
CASE MOD, DRESS-UP ETC
We'll be looking for some creative and spiffy case mods as well as looking for those who are best in-theme. Prizes will be awarded.
CONSOLE GAMING/OLD SCHOOL CONSOLES/GAMES ETC
Drop us a line via the forums if you want to bring any old gear and we'll sort something out. If anybody has an original IBM PC XT or similar with CGA/EGA graphics, let us know... |
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by Zardoz |
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Respawn welcomes Centre Com
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1st July 2008 - 01:34 AM |
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Respawn LAN welcomes CENTRE COM, supporting Respawn LAN v8 with the following prizes:
- A Z-Board "Fang" Gamepad
- 3x "Z2 Laser Mouse" gaming mice
- A Laser Wolverine Gaming Keyboard
In addition, Centre Com will be selling computer peripherals and network cables on-site including:
- Vantec NexStar 360SU - External 3.5" HDD Enclosure - Black
- Seagate Barracuda 500GB 32MB cache and Samsung 750GB 32MB cache 3.5" HDDs
- Razer DeathAdder 'Blue' Precision Gaming Mice
- Razer eXactMat Dual Sided Gaming Mouse Surface
- Razer Copperhead
- Logitech G15 keyboard
- 10m network cables
- Belkin 4-way surge protection powerboards
- Logitech Premium stereo headsets
Once again, we look forward to seeing the Centre Com team at Respawn again.. maybe we'll challenge them to a few games this time!
On Sunday morning, a Van Go Coffee Van will drop by for an a short while, offering good value premium coffee and juice around 9:30am to co-incide with the free breakfast BBQ.
In other news, we are also running a best-dressed competition for those who come dressed in-themed attire suitable for our 8-bit theme!
Stay tuned for more news including some more competition announcements. Feel free to jump on IRC at irc.oz.org in #respawn and say hi to the team or join us for our nightly CS games which are organised through this channel. |
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by Zardoz |
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