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StarCraft tournament registration closing on monday
admin posted in Uncategorized on February 7th, 2010

Register for the tournament here

Registration will close at 11:59pm on Monday February 8th.

Entrance fee is $2 for the beginner tournament, or $4 for the advanced tournament. If you wish to pay in-person, we will have a booth in the SLC from 9:30am until 5:00pm on Monday, February 8th. You may pay byPayPal (no account required, just a credit card), but you will have to cover the PayPal fees ($2.37 or $4.43).

If you’re interested, just visit the registration page or the tournament topic on our forums.

StarCraft Tournament Registration now open!
Mike posted in Uncategorized on January 29th, 2010

The signup page is at http://uwgamers.org/starcraft/

We ran a StarCraft tournament last term, and are going to run one again! If you need more information, or have any questions / comments, please check out the information topic on our forums.

Tournament Types
We’re running both a beginner and advanced tournament. It costs $2 to get into beginner, and $4 to get into advanced. If you’re rank D+ or above on iCCup, you should go into advanced. If you’re D or below, or have no idea what iCCup is, you should probably go into beginner. There are exceptions, but we have to trust the players on this one.

Payment / Prizes
We will be running two booths where you can come by and pay us. One will be on Tuesday February 2nd from 3:30pm to 7:00pm, and the other will be on Monday February 8th from 9:30am until 5:00pm.

If you cannot make it to the booths for any reason, you can pay us via PayPal on the registration page. You must cover the PayPal fees, so we require you to pay slightly more ($2.37 or $4.43) if you pay this way.

Prizes will be percentage based, which means it depends on the number of people who enter. Once the tournament starts, the first emails will give you this information. We are hoping to get enough entrants so that we can have first/second/third place prizes, however if the numbers are low enough we may only have prizes for first place.

Game settings
The tournament will be done Swiss style, where after you lose a certain number of rounds you are out. You will always play someone with the same win/loss record as you. You are guaranteed to be in at least two rounds. Rounds are best two out of three. You’re expected to complete a round within a single match period, which will hopefully be a week long. Last term due to the unexpected high number of registrations the match period was half of a week in order to finish on time.

Tournament start date
Registrations will close at 11:59pm on Monday February 8th. Shortly after that, the first match emails will be sent out, along with any information that is dependent on the number of entrants.

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Game On! Today (Wed Jan 27), 5pm, MC 2038
admin posted in Uncategorized on January 27th, 2010

We’re having a Game On event Wednesday Jan 27 from 5pm until midnight in MC 2038. It’s not in the Great Hall like we normally are, but it should be fine.

A Game On is simply an event where we can play a variety of different video games. We’ll even have an SNES with a Super Scope there, it should be pretty fun.

See you there.

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Main planning meeting of this term, Monday, 5:30, SLC2105B
admin posted in Uncategorized on January 17th, 2010

To start of the term, we’re having a planning meeting in SLC2105B on Jan 18th (this coming monday) from 5:30 to 7:30pm. To get to the room, go up the stairs to the left of the Bomber, and turn right. It will be the second room on your right.

This meeting will determine what events we run, what times we’ll run those events, and who the club exec are this term. If you can’t make it, you can post in the planning topic on our forum.

After the meeting, we’ll send out more information regarding the event dates and what the events are. You can’t give your opinion if you don’t come! If you don’t want to have a full executive position, we have event coordinator positions too, they deal with helping coordinate and plan a specific event.

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Winter 2010 – Starting out
Mike posted in Uncategorized on January 15th, 2010

We’re finishing up Clubs Day tomorrow in the SLC Great Hall / MPR from 10 until 3, recruiting new members. After that, on Monday January 18th from 5:30 to 7:30pm in SLC 2105B, we are having our first real meeting of the term. To get to SLC 2105B, go up the stairs to the left of the Bomber, and turn right down the hall. It will be the second door on your right.

If you’d like to help with the meeting planning, and you can’t make it, put your ideas in this forum topic..

At the meeting, the events for the term will be decided, as well as this term’s club exec. If you’d like to help out with the club, come on by. You can also be an event committee member, which would mean you help run a specific event, not all of them.

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Melee & Brawl Tournaments – Pre-register now!
Mike posted in Uncategorized on November 30th, 2009

Next week we are running TWO Smash Bros. tournaments in the SLC Great Hall, just in time before exams! On Monday December 7th at 12:30PM we will be hosting a Smash Bros. Brawl tournament. The next day, Tuesday December 8th at 12:30PM, we will be hosting a Smash Bros. Melee tournament.

Pre-register for the tournaments by clicking here!

Both tournaments will be run using ’standard’ tournament rules, this means only certain stages, no items, 3 stock for Brawl and 4 stock for Melee. For a more elaborate explanation of the rules, see the Brawl rules here and the Melee rules here.

The tournament will be Swiss style like our other tournaments, lose three times and you’re out. You will always play someone with the same win/loss record as you.

Entrance to each tournament is $5. Pre-registering helps us know how many people are going to show up, and it helps us sort out the prizes. I’m sure you wouldn’t like to recieve an IOU or many $5 gift cards instead of a single large one. Pre-register and avoid that problem!

Pop will be available at the event for 50 cents per can.

Helping out with hardware is appreciated. If you have any copies of the game, gamecube controllers or consoles that we can use for the event, please let us know in the planning topic on our forum. If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please ask us in that planning topic.

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UW Gamers LAN Party
Markster posted in Events on November 27th, 2009

Tomorrow we’re having the UW Gamers LAN Party!

Saturday, November 28th.
RCH 307
10am to 10pm

If you’re planning on coming, here are a few tips for you before you do! Please read over this!

Things you should bring:

DESKTOP supplies: (for those bringing a desktop computer)
1) Your computer + power cable
2) Your monitor + power cable
3) Power bar (don’t assume that there will be 2 power outlets just waiting for you)

LAPTOP supplies: (for those bringing a laptop computer)
1) Your laptop
1a) A laptop lock
2) Your power cord (label it!)
3) A power bar anyway! Sure, you only use one outlet, but if you can’t find a free outlet, you’re out of luck. Bring a power bar!

OTHER THINGS:
4) A mouse (and mousepad)
5) Headphones
6) Your longest network cable (label it!). With a 25 foot cable, you shouldn’t have any problems plugging in. Wireless will be provided as an option, but do you really want to do that?
7) Games! If you have a favourite game and want others to play it, bring your install CD
Money! We’re going to have some food/beverages available for nominal cost.

GET PREPARED:
1) Update your games with latest patches
2) Keep a copy of all those patches for those who forget to do item 1
3) Install DC++ ( http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/ ) We’ll set up a server for it and it will be the main IRC chat channel. It’s also a file transfer system for sharing those patches from item 2. This will be much easier than moving USB sticks around. For sharing those files, it has to hash everything beforehand, so setting it up tonight is a good idea.
4) Label your belongings! If anything is left over at the end, UW Gamers will hold on to it, but it would be nice to know who owns it.

That’s all!

See everyone tomorrow.

LAN Event Pre-registration, Warrior Weekends Nov 13th 9pm
Mike posted in Uncategorized on November 8th, 2009

Our LAN event is taking place on November 28th in RCH 307 from 10am to midnight. Pre-registration for the event is now open, it will allow us to know how many people are coming, and what games they’d like to play. Pre-registering makes running the event more predictable for us, which means you get to have a better event! Additional planning information for this event can be found on our forums here.

Pre-register for the event by clicking here!

On November 13th we’re helping out with Warrior Weekends in the SLC Great Hall. Officially, the event starts at 9pm. Unofficially, we will be there starting at 5pm playing all sorts of games.

For those that don’t know what Warrior Weekends is, they run events in the SLC every two to three weeks, and everything there is free with your watcard. You can find more Warrior Weekends information at their website.

Every half hour during the event (starting at 9pm), we are going to have a featured game with a skill challenge. Play and we record your score or time (depending on the game). At the end of the half hour period, the person with the highest score / time / whatever will win a $20 gift certificate to Game Stop.

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Fight On – Nov 2 – SLC Great Hall – 5pm
admin posted in Uncategorized on November 1st, 2009

Tomorrow (November 2nd), Fight On will be from 5pm until midnight in the SLC Great Hall. There will be free play on every TV for the first hour, and then mini-tournaments will start. We expect the mini tournaments to take up 4 TVs when they’re running, but midway through each tournament the TVs will open up once again. We should have 6 TVs there, plus a few extra monitors.

Tournament rules can be found here: (CLICK ME). If you’ve been to our events before, you should know how it works. Otherwise, it’s essentially double elimination after best two our of three.

Registration begins a half hour before the tournament starts. Please get there early, as the faster everyone registers, the faster the tournaments can begin. We would like everything to run on time, so after a certain point we will be cutting off registration and starting the tournaments.

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Online Starcraft Tournament – Registration is open until Nov 1
Mike posted in Uncategorized on October 22nd, 2009

We’re running an online Starcraft tournament this term, and registration is now open until November 1st! Even if you haven’t played in a while, this is a pretty good excuse to get the game out and start playing.

Signup by clicking here! – Full rules can be found here!

We know not everyone is of an equal skill level, and so we’re holding two tournaments. One for beginners, and one for advanced players. There are guidelines in our rules about whether you are a beginner or advanced player, but a good general rule is if you could potentially consider yourself an advanced player in the eyes of most people, you are probably advanced. The prize for winning the Advanced tournament is a $35 gift certificate, while the Beginner prize is $15. As long as the store that you want the gift certificate from is close enough in Waterloo we will get it for you. You can also accept the prize in WatCard money.

Once the tournament starts, you will have between a week to two weeks to complete your matches against your opponent. Matches are best two out of three games. Matches will be played on iCCup, unless agreed upon otherwise. In order to connect to iCCup, please see http://www.iccup.com/starcraft/sc_start.html

It is the winner’s responsibility to report the win. If both players report they won, we will request replays of the match and settle it that way. If you accuse your opponent of cheating or not obeying the rules, you must provide a replay to prove it. Replays will be judged by a highly professional panel of judges (club members).

The maps that you will play your matches on are Heartbreak Ridge, Outsider and Shades of Twilight. Other maps may be played if the two parties agree to it.

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