Here’s the planning forum discussion for this event if you’re interested in that.

Basic information

The event will start at 10am. We’ll be ordering in Pizza for lunch and dinner (unless someone has another easy meal suggestion). Lunch will be at noon, and Dinner will be around 7pm. Bring a bit of money, each pizza slice should be between $1.00 – $1.50, and we’ll be selling pop for $0.50 per can (energy drinks for $0.75/can).

Games

We’ll be playing a ton of different games all day. Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Starcraft and Defense of the Ancients have all proven to be pretty popular. At 12:30pm, we’ll be organizing a giant game of Tribes 2. Tribes 2 is a fairly old game, and is now free. Everyone should be able to play it, even with an older laptop that your brother used to have but it was too slow for him so he got a better computer and gave the laptop to you.

Computers aren’t provided, ethernet cables are hard to come by

We won’t be providing computers at the event, so remember to bring your own! Ethernet cables are also fairly important, otherwise we’d just have a LA and that’s only 67% as amazing. Please bring one for yourself, and bring any extras if you have them, those who forget their cables will appreciate it!

Play2MorallyWin: help us out at the event

If you’d like to help us out by bringing equipment or setting up, post about it in the planning topic on our forums. If for some reason this whole post is not informative enough, we have more elaborate information on the LAN page.

Still interested?

If you’ve read all of this information, click here to let us know you’re coming. Having a rough idea of how many people want to show up can be pretty useful.

TF2 Nights are awesome and somewhat PC game related

We have a Steam Group, and hold TF2 nights every Monday at 9pm. Join the steam group chatroom and explode some other UW Gamers members.

Our LAN event is coming up, it’ll be running from 9am until midnight in RCH 307. We’ll be playing all sorts of different PC games. Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead (2), Starcraft and DotA were the most popular games last term, but all sorts of other ones should be around.

We’ll have food available if you don’t want to go to the plaza to get it. Be sure to bring a couple of dollars.

All sorts of event information can be found at the LAN section of our site. If you want to learn more about the event, go there.

Presented by UWGamers and in association with POWNZ Gaming Centre

Date:
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Time:
1:00 pm-12:00 am
Location:
Student Life Center Multipurpose Room
Event Summary:
Fighting game free play will be available all day in the MPR (much like a Game On, but fighting game themed). We are running two tournaments, Street Fighter IV and Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, at 2:00pm and 6:30pm respectively. Entry to each tournament is $5.

Pre-register now!

Prizes/Prize pool breakdown:
Future Shop gift cards, prizes will be based off of entrance fees, with 70/20/10 being for first/second/third place in the tournaments.

OFFICIAL TOURNAMENTS:

Street Fighter IV
1:00 pm – Registration Begins
2:00 pm – Street Fighter IV Begins
Entry Fee: $5

Tatsunoko vs. Capcom
1:00 pm – Registration Begins
6:30 pm – Tatsunoko vs. Capcom Begins
Entry Fee: $5

Format for official games:
$5 entry
Double elimination tournament [99 sec timer]
2 out of 3 games per match
3 out of 5 games per semi final match
4 out of 7 games grand finals

Extra tournaments:
There may be a few side tournaments run during the day. Whether or not they are run depends on the amount of interest at the event. If you wish to participate in a tournament that isn’t Street Fighter IV or Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, let us know on the pre-registration form.

Other info:
Please bring your own controllers/sticks/adapters, as we do not have enough to provide for everyone.
If you are going to step outside and you are still in the tournament, please tell somebody so we are not looking for you. There is a 5 minute window before disqualification.

We will have many different games in the Multi-Purpose Room in the SLC at 5:00pm on Tuesday February 23rd, you can come and sign up then. The games will start at 5:30pm. You’ll play games against the other people who registered. If you win, you get points. The top players will advance until we end with one winner.

If you’re interested in coming to this event, please click this link to let us know. Having a rough estimate of how many people are coming is very useful.

Here is a partial list of games that you can look forward to playing:

• Metroid Prime – Echoes
• New Super Mario Bros Wii: Coin Mode
• Star Fox Assault
• Ikaruga
• Donkey Konga 1 or 2
• F-Zero GX
• Mario Golf 64
• Lumines
• Trackmania
• Kirby 64: Crystal Shards
• Worms
• Tomeno Sanner

The last man standing / fastest time / highest score in each game determines the winner in that event.

Format
We’ll start off with an open round where anyone may enter. Eventually we’ll move to round 2 where the top 16 players move on, then onto round 3 where the top 8 go. Points from rounds 1-3 are cumulative, so if you do well in the beginning you have more leeway towards the end.

Round 4 is only the top 4 people, and the top two in this round robin will advance. The finals will be a best 2 out of 3 of highly secret games known only by the Omegathon committee.

The planning topic on our forums is a good resource if you want to know more information.

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.

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.

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.

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.