The event starts at 11am and will run until midnight. Throughout the day we’ll be playing all sorts of PC games from Starcraft to League to TF2 to DotA. There’s room for more obscure games too (especially if they’re free!), there will probably be people willing to play with you.

There will also be tournaments and raffles throughout the day, and there’s no entry fee! There will be a Warsow 1v1 tournament at around 1pm for all of you people who like gun shooty games. Then there will be a Starcraft II tournament in the evening (around 6pm) for those who like clicky man games. Winning these will net you $30 in Steam credit, as well as a sense of accomplishment and the admiration of at least one person in the room.

You will get a raffle ticket just for showing up, and there will be raffles throughout the day. Having your number drawn will get you about $10 in some fashion (Future Shop, Riot Points, Steam Credit), or possibly a DotA 2 key.

We’ll have pizza available around lunch and dinner time for $1.50/slice, and pop will be available all day for $0.50/can.

Come on out and have some fun, you’re a great person who has been working very hard and you deserve a break.

We’ll be starting at 11am, and will be going essentially all day. There will be pizza and pop available to purchase, $0.50/pop, $1.50/pizza slice. The pizza should show up around lunch time and dinner time. Unfortunately we don’t take credit card or watcard as payment, so you might want to prepare beforehand and grab some cash.

Game Preparation
If you have the bandwidth to spare, you can come to the LAN event completely prepared by installing games! We’ll be trying to get some free games going, so by downloading and installing them now you save time later.

• Warsow, a Quake 3 Arena-like game
• Urban Terror. It’s some kind of counter strike of duty warfare game and is free, so why not?
• Tribes 2 (via TribesNext). It’s abandonware that has been picked up by the community, we’d like to get this going if we have enough people
• Lix is 8 player Lemmings. Kind of fun I suppose
• There’s also soldat but it looks like it comes packaged with some kind of spyware and we don’t want to inflict that on everyone if we can avoid it.

Any other free games that are multiplayer and don’t get played too often are welcome!

There’s also the “big” free to play games which you should also have installed:
Team Fortress 2
League of Legends

If you can’t spare the bandwidth, we should have a DC++ server setup at the event so you can quickly get copies of these games.

If you have any copies of random music games that don’t require a lot of equipment, feel free to bring them. If you want to bring your own music stuff that’s fine too, but we don’t expect anyone to do this.

As far as Left 4 Dead 1 goes, you’ll need to bring your own laptop/ethernet cable, we will have a way to get everyone networked together in the room.

We’re going to go over information for the LAN Event, League of Legends tournament finale stuff (the tournament emails are going out in the next few hours), Game Night on Tuesday next week, and anything else we can think of!

The room can be a bit tricky to find, but fortunately there are maps and vague directions. Don’t get too lost!

• Melty Blood: Actress Again
• BlazBlue: Continuum Shift 2
• Arcana Heart 3
• Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core
• Hokuto No Ken
• Capcom Vs SNK 2
• King of Fighters 2002

This event will be fairly casual, no scheduled tournaments or anything like that (but there could be spur of the moment ones!). Come by and play some video games. We’ll have some extra sticks available, but of course it’s much easier if you bring your own controller.

If you like these kinds of games, there’s a group of 5-10 people who get together a couple times a week and play these games with each other. There’s a “Fighting Game Casuals” thread on our forums where you can see the planning. If you’re interested in finding more people to play with, you don’t have to look too far.

If you’re a fan of Street Fighter or Marvel, don’t feel left out! We’re running a tournament on November 26th with the people from Bison’s Auto Shop. There’s no official stuff up yet, but it will exist in the next week or two.

We originally had a Battlefield 3 Event scheduled in this (Oct 29th) slot, however it had to be cancelled due to unfortunate last minute circumstances (which you can read all about on our forums if you’re curious!).

Feel free to drop by whenever you want, we’ll be around all day.

The event is pretty casual, if you want to play something just ask the room and see if you can get something started. If you like a more obscure game that requires a whole lot of people, you might want to talk to us and we can try to work something out.

We’ll have pizza and pop available most of the day, bring some cash it’s probably good for you. If you have extra power bars or extension cables, please bring them if it isn’t too much of a hassle. We can always use more stuff to hook people together at the event.

Remember, if you want to play PC games you have to bring equipment – all we have are ethernet ports and power bars. This means a laptop and an ethernet cable, or a desktop and monitor if you are really dedicated.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Starts at 9pm, every Monday.

The easiest way to get up and running is to join our Steam Group here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/UWGamers

From there, we do most of our organization through the steam group on the night of. On the community page there’s a “Enter chatroom” link, but you can also get to it through your Steam Friends list by clicking Join Chat. From there we’ll pick a public server and play some TF2. If you have a friend that’s participating you can probably just join through them.

David Wang (desire) is planning on streaming the TF2 night here: http://david-wang.ca/stream
It may be entertaining if you have nothing better to do.

The first thing is that our membership is very no obligation. You’re a member if you consider yourself a member. We have a bunch of ways of communicating which are all outlined below.

We’ve got this front page which has an RSS feed
Social Media things echo our posts, via Facebook and via Twitter

We have a Steam group, LAN event notices are cross posted there. We have TF2 nights most terms, it’s looking like they will be at 9PM on Mondays this term. You’ll find event notifications there.

Most of our planning is done on our forums. We’ll have a meeting schedule and everything shortly, but in the meantime the vast majority of the planning will be over there. If you ~really~ want to get involved with the club, the forums are a good place to get yourself started.

Finally we have a mailing list that you can sign up for to learn about our events + meetings. This has traditionally been the biggest way we get word out about our events.

That’s it!

For those of you on a work term, it’ll still be running at 5/6pm or whenever you stop working so you could still drop by for a few hours and play some games.

We will be ordering pizza twice during the day, and there will be pop/energy drinks/other beverages available the whole time. Pizza usually winds up at around $1.25 per slice, and drinks around $0.50.

Common games include Team Fortress 2, Starcraft 2, and League of Legends. But we’re always looking for new things to play, so bring whatever your heart desires.

Especially if your heart desires to bring an ethernet cable. While the club will have a few spare cables, and connecting wirelessly is an option, it’s best for everyone if you bring your own cable.

If you need help getting your rig to/from the event, or want more information, check out the planning topic on our forums.

It’s the last event of the term. So come on out next Wednesday for a day-long, end-of-term gaming extravaganza.