Geek.Kon 2010 LAN

Red · **Posted:** Tue Apr 20, 2010 11:12 am

Hey everyone,

I thought I would start leaking out some information about this year's LAN. To start, we have added some room. Well, we have added a LOT more room. Last year we were in a room of 575 square feet. This year we are going to be in a room of 2,450 square feet. Yes it is over four times bigger. This year I am planning to have 100-125 spaces for people to bring their PCs to an awesome three-day LAN. Geek.Kon has been collaborating with MidWestLAN to really get this convention's LAN in the books.

Here are some tournaments being considered:

Counter-Strike:Source (cash tournament)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare (or Modern Warfare 2, we'll see)
Team Fortress 2 (This will be done this year dang nabbit!!!)
Left 4 Dead (1 or 2, we'll decide later)
Other suggestions to come

Other games considered to be played are:

Battlefield 2142
Starcraft 2 (If it's out)

The games listed are subject to change until finalized. I'll have more information out to you as it comes out.

With the advertising push we are going to be doing for the LAN, there is a high possibility that we will run out of seats. We are considering doing a LAN registration system where you simply say you are going to come and want us to save a spot for you. I'll let you know when this will happen if it does.

Toodles for now...

Docta Phreak · **Joined:** Wed Feb 04, 2009 2:59 pm **Posts:** 94

Unreal Tournament, any version, please. Not necessarily for tourney, just for fun.

Scratchy · **Posted:** Mon May 03, 2010 6:41 pm

It's official, Starcraft 2 is coming on July 27!

If it's not delayed it should be good to go for Geek.Kon. Now let us see what kind of DRM it has

Red · **Posted:** Mon May 03, 2010 9:28 pm

Scratchy wrote:

It's official, Starcraft 2 is coming on July 27!

If it's not delayed it should be good to go for Geek.Kon. Now let us see what kind of DRM it has

MAKE SURE YOU BUY YOUR OWN COPIES!!!

Scratchy · **Posted:** Mon May 03, 2010 11:45 pm

What I meant with DRM is... hopefully we don't have to be online continuously

to play it. Since they are part of Activision and all

chief · **Posted:** Sat May 08, 2010 2:46 pm

Docta Phreak wrote:

Unreal Tournament, any version, please. Not necessarily for tourney, just for fun.

Don't worry, we will have it on every machine!

Desterion · **Joined:** Sat May 22, 2010 9:27 pm **Posts:** 22

Oh my GOD I would love to see team fortress 2. Been playing since release and I've never seen a tournament for it anywhere.

Red · **Posted:** Mon May 24, 2010 6:20 am

Desterion wrote:

Oh my GOD I would love to see team fortress 2. Been playing since release and I've never seen a tournament for it anywhere.

More to come on this. At MidWestLan I believe they did a whole one side of the room versus the other with the winning side getting prizes and the loosing side getting runner up prizes, but I would like to see a tournament for this as well. I will get more information up soon on this.

Red · **Posted:** Thu Jul 15, 2010 11:17 am

I will have the main LAN page updated as soon as I can get one of our web people to respond. >.<

Amish Ninja · **Joined:** Sun Jul 18, 2010 7:12 pm **Posts:** 5

I'm not sure what kind of attendance Geek.Kon had for last year's LAN party, but if there is enough interest, it would be great to see a Starcraft 2 tournament. It might be a little too close to release time, however I'd imagine that some of us have been playing in the beta.

If nothing else, I plan on participating in the SC1/WC3 competitions. There are always the classics.

Red · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 11:55 am

Amish Ninja wrote:

I'm not sure what kind of attendance Geek.Kon had for last year's LAN party, but if there is enough interest, it would be great to see a Starcraft 2 tournament. It might be a little too close to release time, however I'd imagine that some of us have been playing in the beta.

If nothing else, I plan on participating in the SC1/WC3 competitions. There are always the classics.

I will deffinately be looking into the plausibility of having a SC2 tournament. Depending on the overall interest and how many people register for the tournaments, we could run both SC1 and SC2 at the same time.

Red · **Posted:** Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:51 pm

Just an update, we have the staff to keep the LAN open throughout the entire convention so we will not be closing it from 2:00am to 8:00am as previously stated.

ubersoph · **Joined:** Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:54 pm **Posts:** 38

Are we going to have good enough internet to play SCII?

By the way, I will be quite excited to be playing UT99 with you guys again

Red · **Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2010 7:05 pm

SCII is an unknown factor right now. If we cannot do that, we are just going to do regular SC. I would like to do SC2 for the tournament though because it's a newer game and people would be on a more fairly level playing field.

alown · **Joined:** Mon Aug 09, 2010 6:43 pm **Posts:** 41

Red wrote:

Just an update, we have the staff to keep the LAN open throughout the entire convention so we will not be closing it from 2:00am to 8:00am as previously stated.

amazing

screengurl2007 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 11, 2010 1:42 pm

Red wrote:

Amish Ninja wrote:

I'm not sure what kind of attendance Geek.Kon had for last year's LAN party, but if there is enough interest, it would be great to see a Starcraft 2 tournament. It might be a little too close to release time, however I'd imagine that some of us have been playing in the beta.

If nothing else, I plan on participating in the SC1/WC3 competitions. There are always the classics.

I will deffinately be looking into the plausibility of having a SC2 tournament. Depending on the overall interest and how many people register for the tournaments, we could run both SC1 and SC2 at the same time.

I can do SC1.

Red · **Posted:** Tue Aug 24, 2010 9:53 pm

Some new sponsors have been added. Check out the main site for more information!

http://www.geekkon.net//gaming/lan.php

screengurl2007 · **Posted:** Tue Aug 24, 2010 10:41 pm

Starcraft - Saturday 10:00am to 12:00am
I AM SO THERE! SC1! (i don't have sc2)

ubersoph · **Joined:** Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:54 pm **Posts:** 38

I'm in for starcraft and UT, but I'm hoping it's going to be starcraft 2.

I guess TF2 also.

Red · **Posted:** Thu Aug 26, 2010 4:56 pm

Make sure you bring an ethernet cable that is at least 10' long should you happen to be in a spot that requires such a length.

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