NETWAR 15.0 - This weekend
posted by Curium on April 7, 2008 at 12:35 pm
NETWAR 15.0 IS THIS WEEKEND!!!

--Event Details--

NETWAR 15.0 will take place at The Digz Sports Arena in Omaha, Nebraska on April 11th, 2008 starting at 7:00pm and going all day and night for 26 hours straight, ending on April 12th at 9:00pm.

PLEASE DO NOT COME EARLY! The event doors open at 7:00pm on Friday, no exceptions!!

You may arrive at anytime during the event and leave whenever you wish.

--Registration--

If you have registered and you find out that you are not going to be able to make it to the event, PLEASE UNREGISTER on the web site!

If you have not yet signed up for NETWAR 15.0, IT IS NOT TOO LATE! DO IT NOW!

For directions to the event, please visit the event details page and click on directions.

--Waiver--

If you have not signed a NETWAR waiver before you will need to. Please visit our site, print it off, sign it, and bring it with you to the event. If you are under the age of 18, please print the waiver and have your parents/guardian sign it and then bring that waiver with you to the event.


---Call of Duty 4 Game Server Now Up---

To prepare for the upcoming event, NETWAR has setup a Call of Duty 4 server on the Internet for attendees to play against each other between events.

Call of Duty 4
Server address: cod4.netwar.org

Join us in the NETWAR Ventrilo channel for the COD4 server as well:
Server address: voice.cgservers.com Port: 3001
Go to channel -> Public Channels -> COD4 Server

--- Loading / Unloading Computer At The Event---

Please park in the large south parking lot. When you are loading/unloading your computer you may park next to the door. After you have completed unloading, please MOVE YOUR CAR!! to a spot farther away so that other attendees can have an easy time getting their computers in/out just like you did.

Please use the southwest doors to enter the building, they will be marked. PLEASE WATCH YOUR STEP!! THE ENTRANCE HAS A STEP at the door that you MAY NOT SEE when carrying your computer!


When you get to the event, you may come right inside and bring in your computer and put it where you want to sit. Sometime soon come to the registration table and get yourself checked in and paid ($20 if registered on the web site). We will enter you into the raffle drawing and give you a lanyard. This must be worn at all times. This proves that you have paid the entry fee.

Here is a list of items you will need to bring to our LAN party:

1. Computer Tower
2. Monitor
3. Category 5 Network Cable (15 Feet or Longer)
4. Power cable for monitor
5. Power cable for computer
6. 6 Outlet Power Strip
7. Headset
8. Keyboard
9. Mouse
10. Mouse Pad
11. Software (Games of course!)
13. Optional: Your favorite desk chair
14. Optional: Sleeping bag and pillow if you need to sleep.

System Check List Before Attending:

1. Scan your computer for Viruses with Trendmicro Housecall or other software before attending! We don’t want what you might have on our network.
http://housecall.trendmicro.com

2. Scan computer for Malware with Ad-Aware and/or Spybot-S&D before attending!
Ad-Aware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot-S&D - http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

3. All windows updates installed. (Important! If you do not want to get a virus at the event)
4. Anti-Virus software installed and updated.
5. Installed all games you wish to play.
6. Patched all games you installed to their latest version


--Tournaments--

Instead of doing Double or Single elimination tournaments we will be using the Swiss Round Robin System for all of the tournaments. The Swiss tournament system has NO ELMINIATION, it will allow all participants/teams to be able to play in every tournament round of the tournament no matter how good or bad you are doing.

For more information about Swiss Round Tournament go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_system_tournament

Tournament Games:
Call of Duty 4 - 5 vs. 5
Counter-Strike: Source - 5 vs. 5
Unreal Tournament 3 - 5 vs. 5

Please be aware that tournament participation is completely OPTIONAL, you can choose which tournaments you want to play in or you can choose not to play in any tournaments. We cater for both the competitive gamer and the hobbyist gamer who just enjoys playing his favorite games with many other gamers just for fun while winning big door prizes. With so many gamers at the event you will easily be able to find someone else who enjoys playing the games you do.

If you wish to participate in tournaments while at the event but you are not part of any team, you can easily join a PUG (Pick-Up Game) team or join a shorthanded team. We will help you with this during registration for the tournament at the event.

MMORPG players (World of Warcraft, EverQuest, etc.) may also enjoy attending as you will meet and play with other MMO players. You will be able to have many discussions about the game and play together online as a large group.

--Schedule-- (Tentative)

Apr 11th: Friday
7:00pm - Doors Open & Gaming Begins
7:30pm - Suggested Game Period (SGP) -> Team Fortress 2
8:30pm - Unreal Tournament 3 - 5 vs 5 Tournament Starts
11:00pm - Counter-Strike: Source - 5 vs 5 Tournament Starts
Apr 12th: Saturday
1:45am - Razer Rub-on Tattoo Judging Contest
2:00am - Raffle Door Prizes - 1st time
2:30am - Suggested Game Period (SGP) -> Call Of Duty 4
4:00am - Suggested Game Period (SGP) -> Flatout 2
Noon
11:00am - Guitar Hero 3 - Standoff Tournament Starts (Our XBOX 360 on projector)
1:00pm - Call of Duty 4 - 5 vs 5 Tournament Starts
5:00pm - Suggested Game Period (SGP) -> Rainbow Six: Vegas
6:30pm - Suggested Game Period (SGP) -> Battlefield 2
8:00pm - Raffle Door Prizes - 2nd time
9:00pm - End of Event

--- Suggested Game Period ---

This is something new we would like to start for this event. It will be a period of time listed on the schedule where we select one game and urge everyone to play this game on the many public servers that we will have up during that time. The purpose of this is to get as many players at the event playing the same game at the same time. It is not required that you play the suggested game, as the name states, it is only suggested. This is not a tournament, you can join and quit the game at any time.


--Prizes--

To make the prize distribution fair and make the tournament atmosphere less tense. We have decided to shift a majority of the prizes to raffle only. This will allow anyone to win something no matter what skill level you are as well as bring the fun back into the tournaments. Tournament winners will be awarded with a trophy, some prize or swag and bragging rights. Then you can win large prizes in the raffle.

--- Razer Mantis Raffle ---

Congratulations to Cody Cummings for winning the Razer Mantis Raffle.


--- Sponsors ---

This is a list of sponsors supporting NETWAR, for a list of what they are donating please visit the event details section of our web site. We are excited at the amount of prizes we will be giving away for this event. You would have to be crazy not to attend! :-)

Cox Communications
FSP Group
D-Link
Razer
Foxconn
Computer Power User
Computer Geeks
In-Win
University of Nebraska at Omaha - IS&T
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