To fulfill your deep need for a tournament structure, you can find whole bushells of rules and configs at these precise locations. We want you to rest assured that these tournaments are going to be run, and run with the intent of distilling the best of you from the total sum of the LAN. We're not going to just let you run your own goddamn tournaments on your own choppy servers and hope that the best and fairest amongst the LAN actually prevails, and a true winner steps forth from the melee, bloodied hands held outstretched for the imminent awards ceremony.
Instead we've decided that we're going to make you experience real competition for that fleeting lick at the sweet golden prize ring.
Currently we've held off a whole bunch of announcements in order to confirm things with sponsors and such first, but we may as well start generating some proper buzz other than "Hey, other than Insomnia we're the only LAN left in Newcastle!" and "Come or I'll brain you with this bottle!" but considering that myself and thrax see about an hour's worth of LAN work every weekday I think it's only right that we share some of the excitement with you if we're going to ask that you pay a premium to come.
Atomic Magazine has heated up and dished out some fantastic swag for the Beatdown, the gloss veneer of their monthly periodical in fact, simply included as a freebie in the price of admission! Perhaps you should go to their event and see if there is anybody there available to hug.
The venerable Mr. Momowang of Gamestah fame has suggested that he may be coming down to the LAN from the faraway kingdom of Queensland to give us his professional brand of shoutcasting for our Call of Duty 4 tournament. Those wonderful people at Netgear have pledged a portion of their switching apparatus for our humble gaming venture, and a couple of other large companies have shown some healthy interest past the initial 'Who are you and how did you get into my office?' phase.
I think back to ivLAN8 and wonder where I would have been after my power supply had fallen over not 20 minutes into the LAN, and no amount of cursing would repair it's smoking husk. So I'm also personally excited to have The isLANd LAN café on board for the event, as they have promised to come provide power supplies and other hardware for us, in the event that some attendee other than myself find themselves victim to the same random act of hardware failure.
I sort of wish I could tell you more about the future and the plans we have for December, but until we get this first event down and rehearsed before the fact, our confidence will stay firmly grounded in reality. You however are not bound by the same restriction so you may feel free to dream and hope for the greatest event possible. I think we will come and meet you in that magical imaginary place this December.