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Kid Antrim · « **on:** November 22, 2003, 03:37:10 PM »

What: A LAN... duh

Where: Western Iowa Tech Community College Campus

When: January 17th

Games: There will be tournaments in Battlefield 1942, Halo, Call of Duty, and Enemy Territory.

Details: It's still early in the planning, but we have Nvidia, Gateway, Microsoft, and Bawls on board so far. Other sponsors are in the works.

Tournaments and Prizes are not set in stone yet, but we're working on some very VERY nice prizes.

We're still working on details. I will post more info as it becomes available.

opiesilver · « **Reply #1 on:** November 22, 2003, 04:22:59 PM »

Imagine that. Gateway as a sponsor for you.

How bout so old school UT? Please.....

I'll try my best to be there. You have to try your best to come to our next one. NO HOCKEY this time.

Boomslang · « **Reply #2 on:** November 23, 2003, 12:41:40 AM »

Wow! someone has the top 4 rated games at a lan party. What a thought:eek:

Kid Antrim · « **Reply #3 on:** November 24, 2003, 10:31:24 AM »

Sorry gang. There won't be any UT in tournament play. If someone wants to fire up a pub server, that's fine.

We opted to go with the top games off of TWL, although I'm not sure what's up with HALO. I've only played it once, not sure if I liked it. BF is fun, CoD is definitely fun, and ET is a blast and a half.

I hate to say it, but UT2k3 just isn't nearly the game that the original UT was.

[Edited on 11-24-2003 by Kid Antrim]

opiesilver · « **Reply #4 on:** November 24, 2003, 02:30:41 PM »

I agree with the ut2k3 comment. I'm really hoping that 2004 brings a lot more of the old attraction back. I still play UT (origional) every day.

Kid Antrim · « **Reply #5 on:** December 01, 2003, 01:46:19 PM »

Here's the site:

http://www.napalmlan.com

[Edited on 12-2-2003 by ZWarrior]

Kid Antrim · « **Reply #6 on:** December 02, 2003, 02:28:01 PM »

What did i goof up Z? lol

We've got some nvidia cards in the door prize category I guess. I'm not in charge of the prizes.

[Edited on 12-2-2003 by Kid Antrim]

ZWarrior · « **Reply #7 on:** December 02, 2003, 04:36:01 PM »

forgot the "www" originally. I fixed that.

dinglenut · « **Reply #8 on:** December 04, 2003, 12:10:18 PM »

hey guys, buddy of antrim. I hope to see some of you guys up here and if you can spread the word please do so because we want to do more of these if they are successful. And you never know if in prompt to events might pop up if we have enough prizes

ZWarrior · « **Reply #9 on:** December 04, 2003, 03:12:28 PM »

For me, timing is an issue. I can only get so many kitchen passes, and everybody and their freaking brother, including us, has an event in the first 3 months of the year.

Kid Antrim · « **Reply #10 on:** December 09, 2003, 10:26:26 AM »

Kitchen pass or not, here's what's in store:

ATI has come through. They are giving 6 9800 XT's for the Call of Duty Tournament winners, and 6 9600 XT's for the Wolfenstein ET tournament winners.

We are just waiting for the final announcement for the battlefield 1942 tournament winners (Nvidia).

Wolverine of Ambush! · « **Reply #11 on:** December 09, 2003, 10:57:57 AM »

HOW do you get 6 9800 XT's ? What sold them on that...How many people usually come to your parties up there?

just curious.....

dinglenut · « **Reply #12 on:** December 09, 2003, 11:04:35 AM »

well this is our first event and we have no clue how many people will show up because sioux city has not done anything like this. And lets just say we have some friends in good places

We need to draw some people from out of town for this to work and the best way is good prizes. Hopefully this will entice some people to sign up and drive up and do some fraggin

[Edited on 12-9-2003 by dinglenut]

Kid Antrim · « **Reply #13 on:** December 09, 2003, 11:16:33 AM »

Quote

Originally posted by Wolverine of Ambush!
HOW do you get 6 9800 XT's ? What sold them on that...How many people usually come to your parties up there?

just curious.....

The Slam event actually had about 40 people two years ago.

As for the prizes... fringe benefits of working in the industry I guess. People who used to work here, now work for some of our vendors. It's a buddy network thing. I'm anxious to see what Nvida will volley with.

Zeet · « **Reply #14 on:** December 31, 2003, 12:26:41 AM »

Kids... Wives... Blah,Blah,Blah!

I got all those and I still go to LAN Parties! |DUG|'s; Ya can't live with'em and ya can't FRAG'EM (because they don't show!)
:mg-lft:

Kid Antrim · « **Reply #15 on:** January 07, 2004, 04:45:50 PM »

What can I say... They always have an excuse. :;(:

[Edited on 1-7-2004 by Kid Antrim]

opiesilver · « **Reply #16 on:** January 07, 2004, 05:18:45 PM »

What's that Mr. Microphone?:lol

Morpheus · « **Reply #17 on:** January 07, 2004, 06:23:55 PM »

Well I know I won't get a kitchen pass to this event, cause I used my Jan pass for the network and I had to promise that the next one would be the March Lan-Bush in March. I will make a concerted effort to make the next one.

ZWarrior · « **Reply #18 on:** January 07, 2004, 10:37:33 PM »

To be honest, the first 3 months of the year are the worst because EVERYBODY wants to have a LAN party. But then the laste few are also because nobody wants to GO to a party.

opiesilver · « **Reply #19 on:** January 07, 2004, 10:46:42 PM »

No kitchen pass for me either bucko....

ZWarrior · « **Reply #20 on:** January 07, 2004, 11:00:16 PM »

heh no PC either!

Kid Antrim · « **Reply #21 on:** January 13, 2004, 07:38:46 PM »

Well, we finally have our hardware for the LAN. Allow me to brag (and probably pull my hair out on saturday)

The Server
1x Gateway 4-Way 995 Server with the latest and Greatest Xeon Processors (due to NDA, I cannot disclose what they are but you can imagine...)
6 gig of RAM
65gig RAID-5 SCSI Array
3x Intel Gig NIC's

OS: Windows 2003 Enterprise Server

Games:
The three NICs have been assigned 6 IP's each. Each game will have it's own NIC, and 6 IP's. I've got them configured now for 4 match servers and two pub servers per game.

The LAN
1x Extreme 7i Switch with 24 GIG Ports with fiber on board

5x Extreme 48 port 10/100 Switches with Fiber Gig uplinks

That's all I can brag about I guess.

Oh, and please pray for me on Saturday... I think I'm going to need it... even though I'm not a game admin, I'm sure I'll be up to my neck in just about every problem that can spring up... lol

ZWarrior · « **Reply #22 on:** January 13, 2004, 11:46:09 PM »

WOW! Nice to work for the sponsor huh?

opiesilver · « **Reply #23 on:** January 14, 2004, 01:25:37 AM »

:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol

Kid Antrim · « **Reply #24 on:** January 14, 2004, 08:51:56 AM »

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Originally posted by ZWarrior
WOW! Nice to work for the sponsor huh?

You don't hear me compaining!

We are spoiled I won't deny that. I am learning a lot about setting this monster up.

Each NIC has been assigned 8 IP Addresses. Each Game is assigned to one NIC via command line IP Address configs. We're going to try to run the whole show (game wise) from this one system. So basically there will be 16 servers running at any given time for people to compete on, or pub/practice on when they're not in a match. It's quite a site, luckily I have some smart fellers here showing me a few of the ropes on this IP stuff. It's not hard, I've just never done it. It sure does make multiple servers a breeze. Wow!

I will try to get some good pics of everything. And post the results as to performace status running this much stuff on one box. It should be interesting. lol

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