Party At Backman Hall - View Log


Well, I hope that you’ve been able to recover from last weekend’s party by now. There were a ton of new comers who attended and I hope that you all had a great time and felt welcome!

I think the new Backman Hall facility worked out quite well (with the exception of the A/C going down later in the day on Saturday). The Power Boss (Dr. Death) was able to bring one of the two A/C units back online later that evening but we’ll definitely have to keep an eye on that at the next party. On a positive note, thanks to the extra efforts of Dr. Death, we had no power outages what-so-ever throughout the entire party!! Thanks Jeff! And the ever-so-familiar “Fun-Love” virus showed its ugly head once again but didn’t seem to affect too many folks because most of us had an up-to-date anti-virus program running.

I really want to thank Michael Baumbach and Kyle Corrigan from Intel for coming out and showing their support for our event. Here’s a picture of Jason “LiL_J” Lari who won the 2.53 Ghz Pentium 4 processor that Intel donated.


And in case you didn’t hear, in addition to the processor Intel gave us at the last party, they’re going to be donating a 2.8 Ghz processor for our next party too!! Woohoo!! Check here for the latest details…

The tournament went great with the exception of one map causing problems whenever we’d load into it. Congratulations to Archimedes for taking 1st place. By the way, there was some confusion about the “Death King” winner due to the fact that the statistics for the event were being misread. So instead of taking the prize away from Mark "Sobedragonz" Schneider who we mistakenly announced the Death King, we gave another prize to Acrid who was the actual Death King winner with 472 deaths. The prizes given were identical Everglide mouse pads donated by www.gamersport.com. My apologies for any confusion.

Many thanks to the following people for all their help:

Our next party will be held at the same facility (Backman Hall) on August 16-17th. Sign ups should be online this week! The pictures from the party should also be posted soon… (Do you have any you’d like to send me?)

Those Who Attended
1) Acrid 2) Ajax 3) Blitzkrieg 4) phU|CrUM 5) Shermanator 6) Dan "Unga" Ocenar 7) David "PhaseBurn" Bauman 8) Disruptor 9) Dr. Death 10) Eric "SpecOps" Rhetta 11) Frank "TechnoSpawn" Machado 12) Gordon "Nightwolf" Austin 13) Jackal 14) JAG 15) LiL_J 16) Napalm 17) Jim "Cyberman0" Stilwell 18) Joe_RockHead 19) Layton Wedgeworth	20) MadDogg 21) Mark "Bullfrog" Atkinson 22) Mark "Sobedragonz" Schneider 23) Ops 24) Smatt 25) Michael "Diabolist" Wysong 26) Michael "MyKuL" Fredrickson 27) Archimedes 28) Mike "TopDog" Jones 29) Monkey 30) Mr. Buns 31) Pendragon 32) Queen Rabbit 33) Rat Attack 34) Scythe 35) Storm 36) Tasha "JadeFox" Machado 37) Ultra_Man

Q3A Tourney Prizes Have Arrived!!
Dr. Death sent me this photo of some of the tounament prizes that were just delivered! In addition to these prizes, there will be a "Mystery Prize" too! And of course don't forget the 2.53 Ghz Pentium 4 processor that will be given away too!! Ohhh... this is going to be good!


Sign Ups End At Noon Today!!
Don't forget to sign up for the party!!! If anyone has problems using PayPal before noon, please let me know and we can work something out.

Party Schedule
Here's the schedule for this Saturday! Medal Of Honor will be taking a larger role than previous events because there have been many requests for team-based gaming over deathmatch. Friday night will be mostly used to make sure all the games you'd like to play on Saturday are loaded properly on your machine and that you can connect to the network etc. Directions will be emailed to the group soon.

	Saturday	Event
	7:30AM - 8:00AM	Wake Up Call
	8:00AM - 10:00AM	Quake III Arena deathmatch warm-ups
	10:00AM - 10:30PM	Welcome and introductions
	10:30AM - 12:30PM	Quake III Arena tournament!!
	12:30PM - 1:00PM	Tournament cool-down and group photo
	1:00PM - 1:30PM	Lunch
	1:30PM - 1:45PM	Presentation of tournament prizes and kudos
	1:45PM - 5:45PM	Massive Medal Of Honor team game
	5:45PM - 6:45PM	Dinner brake (Quake III Arena CTF/Team DM)
	6:45PM - 7:00PM	Presentation of Intel CPU Prize!!
	7:00PM - 9:00PM	Need For Speed V, Star Wars Star Fighter, & Age Of Empires II
	9:00PM - 11:00PM	Others - Warcraft III, Dungeon Siege, Jedi Knight 2, Soldier Of Fortune 2, Motocross Madness 2…
	11:00PM - 12:00AM	Tear down and load up!
	12:00AM	Good Night!

Saturday's Pentium 4 Prize Confirmed At 2.53 Ghz!!!
Michael Baumbach from Intel confirmed that the processor speed for the drawing this Saturday is indeed a Pentium 4 - 2.53Ghz processor! It has the new 533Mhz front side bus and it's the fastest desktop CPU available! Pendragon noted that it's lowest cost online at www.pricewatch.com is $618.00!!

The New JLF Server!!
Here are a few shots of the new server that Intel donated (see full specs listed below):


Late Fee Reminder
Don't forget that If you’d like to avoid the $5.00 Late Fee for the June 28-29th party, then you’ll need to sign up and pay by 11PM tonight!! Hope to see you at the party!!

Intel Server Arrived!!
Kyle from Intel just dropped by last night with the new Jaguar LAN Fest game server (that Intel donated) and IT ROCKS!!! Here are the specs:

I’m working hard at getting it built and ready for game action for the June 28-29th party! You’ll be able to see it in all it’s glory then. And remember that the sign up late fee for the party adds another $5.00 to the total cost if you don’t sign up by 11PM TOMORROW NIGHT (June 24)!!

Also, don’t forget that there’s going to be drawing for an Intel 2.26 Ghz processor (or better) if you sign up and attend the June 28-29th party!!!