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 Post subject: Geek.Kon 2010 LAN
PostPosted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 11:12 am 
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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... :)

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 Post subject: Re: Geek.Kon 2010 LAN
PostPosted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 1:39 pm 
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Unreal Tournament, any version, please. Not necessarily for tourney, just for fun.


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 Post subject: Re: Geek.Kon 2010 LAN
PostPosted: Mon May 03, 2010 6:41 pm 
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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 :?


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 Post subject: Re: Geek.Kon 2010 LAN
PostPosted: Mon May 03, 2010 9:28 pm 
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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!!!

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 Post subject: Re: Geek.Kon 2010 LAN
PostPosted: Mon May 03, 2010 11:45 pm 
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What I meant with DRM is... hopefully we don't have to be online continuously :o to play it. Since they are part of Activision and all :(


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 Post subject: Re: Geek.Kon 2010 LAN
PostPosted: Sat May 08, 2010 2:46 pm 
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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!

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PostPosted: Sun May 23, 2010 9:52 pm 
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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.

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 Post subject: Re: Geek.Kon 2010 LAN
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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.

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 Post subject: Re: Geek.Kon 2010 LAN
PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 11:17 am 
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I will have the main LAN page updated as soon as I can get one of our web people to respond. >.<

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 Post subject: Re: Geek.Kon 2010 LAN
PostPosted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 7:15 pm 
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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.


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PostPosted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 11:55 am 
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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.

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 Post subject: Re: Geek.Kon 2010 LAN
PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:51 pm 
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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.

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 Post subject: Re: Geek.Kon 2010 LAN
PostPosted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 1:24 pm 
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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 ;)

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 Post subject: Re: Geek.Kon 2010 LAN
PostPosted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 7:05 pm 
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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.

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 Post subject: Re: Geek.Kon 2010 LAN
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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.

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 Post subject: Re: Geek.Kon 2010 LAN
PostPosted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 1:42 pm 
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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. :)

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 Post subject: Re: Geek.Kon 2010 LAN
PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 9:53 pm 
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Some new sponsors have been added. Check out the main site for more information!

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

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

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 Post subject: Re: Geek.Kon 2010 LAN
PostPosted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:56 am 
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I'm in for starcraft and UT, but I'm hoping it's going to be starcraft 2.

I guess TF2 also.

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 Post subject: Re: Geek.Kon 2010 LAN
PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 4:56 pm 
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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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