Fall 2016 Charity LAN

October 29 - 30, 2016

This was our second event in the Busch Student Center Wool Ballroom; we mixed up the seating quite a bit as we were still feeling out the space. We also mixed it up by hosting a Smash Bros for WiiU tournament! BlackMagix brought his HTC Vive and sectioned off a nice big 15x15 foot chunk of the LAN for people to give it a whirl. We also set up a League of Legends 2016 Championship viewing area / party. This event was our first to include Twitch streaming content and OBS overlays to our three-projector system!

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Spring 2016 Charity LAN

March 12 - 13, 2016

ROOM UPGRADE! We moved our event from the Il Monastero Banquet Hall into the Busch Student Center’s Wool Ballroom with awesome lighting (electronic shades!), better internet, and wide-open spacing. We had numerous tournaments, but our Rocket League tournament final was the real show-stopper. Participants at our LAN gathered around Saturday night to see the final bracket played out on the giant projector above our stage. A Hearthstone tournament on Sunday and the CS:GO finals are just a few items that helped to keep gamers engaged on Sunday.

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Summer 2015 Charity LAN

August 8 - 9, 2015

Laclede’s LAN 15 was our biggest event in quite a while, tipping the scales at 149 gamers! Gamers packed up their PCs and came from all over the country to… play Rocket League?! We had fourteen Counter-Strike teams competing for Micro Center gift cards and Counter-Strike keys. We’d like to thank LANFest for their continued support, Ranken for their Counter-Strike tournament sponsorship and attendance, and Saint Louis University for the venue! Thanks also go out to our tournament winners: Power Dumpsters in Counter-Strike: GO, Those Meddling Kids in League of Legends, and of course Bsquaredb in Hearthstone! “Flash Tournaments” made a comeback with TF2 Blind Frag and QWOP as our headliners! Our DOTA 2 room was a staff favorite – DOTA 2 fans gathered in a darkened room with a projector to watch the first North American win at the DOTA 2 International 2015 Grand Finals in style. We had a great time – see you at the next LAN!

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Winter 2015 Charity LAN

January 10 - 11, 2015

LANFest presents Laclede’s LAN 14 was a resounding success! We managed to cram 125 PC gamers into our original seat count of 120, drank Monster and Bawls, ate pizza, played Smash Bros, ran four tournaments and generally had a blast! Big thanks go out to our community and their enthusiasm, to LANFest for inviting us to be a part of their mission, and to Saint Louis University for providing everything else we needed to make this event possible! And thanks also go out to our tournament winners: Mad Mesh Hatters in Counter-Strike: GO, Brick Squad in DOTA 2, Memento Mori in League of Legends, and last but not least, Pinilla in Hearthstone! We want to know what you think makes a fantastic LAN party. Hit us up on Facebook and on our main site to tell us what you like and what you want to see at our next event! Thanks for playing!

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Laclede's LAN 13

March 29, 2008

Laclede’s LAN was our last event before a 9 year hiatus. Our staff had reached a point where it was time to focus on other things. We had no idea if LL would ever return; but we knew that putting things on hold was better than hosting mediocre lans just to keep things going.

“I got into LL because of my passion for video games. Not just for the simple act of playing the games themselves, but for the interactions that they allowed and provided. Everyone who attended an LL event was a part of the video game culture. There are those moments in a video game that make you go ‘WOW. What I just did/saw there was amazing!’ And you remember those moments as fondly and vividly as any other memory. What makes playing video games so fantastic is that they allow you to immediately connect with someone who you’ve never met before and reflect on your shared experiences and memories of a certain game. Games connect us to each other. And Laclede’s LAN served as our real-world hub where gamers from all over the country could come together and delight in reliving those shared memories, while at the same time providing an avenue where we could make new ones together.” Most-Killed-in-Flash-Tournaments-Staff-Member, BraveSirRobbin.

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Laclede's LAN 12

March 24, 2007

Laclede’s LAN 12 marked a bittersweet first: our LAN had become popular enough that we ran out of space and had to turn away gamers at the door. Those who hadn’t pre-paid to reserve their seat ended up losing it to an earlier arrival. The staff, meanwhile, could not get Valve Anti-Cheat to work at all the night before the event, and finally managed to restore it at 5 AM, mere hours before the first walk-ins. Despite the close calls and some disappointment at the front door, this was (in our opinion) our best event – because once everyone was in the door and seated, every part of the LAN experience ran smoothly. LL had finally hit its stride, and our Ranken and U.S. Army sponsorships allowed us to back up our tournaments with big prizes. Wedge, Bean, and Lodsiek’s new Wii all joined the staff at this LAN (although the Wii didn’t last long as a staff member, since it didn’t know what online multiplayer was). Our LAN was growing faster than we could have imagined – pro gamer Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel attended this event, and one of our door prizes was an entire gaming PC.

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Laclede's LAN 11

August 4 - 5, 2006

Laclede’s LAN 11 really started to drive home just how valuable Laclede’s LAN was to our community – we were amazed to find out that we had drawn gamers from California, Vermont, and Nova Scotia, Canada. We introduced a Laclede’s LAN General Store, run by staff member PurpleMint, that allowed us to offer a wider variety of sugared snacks and caffeinated soda and coffee to drowsy gamers. This was a welcome service, since this was our first and only two-day event – a grueling gauntlet of Counter-Strike competition. Saturday was 1.6, and Sunday was devoted to Source. On an extra-nerdy note, this was the first LAN to feature a real server rack behind the staff table, adding an extra note of legitimacy to our increasingly professional setup.

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Laclede's LAN 10

April 8, 2006

Laclede’s LAN 10 was our first event that featured a professionally made LL event T-shirt. Every attendee received their very own way to show their world their favorite way to game. Our Quake 4 tournament was explosively fun to watch, and Counter-Strike: Source returned as a perennial favorite. We experimented with selling cheap, hot pizza to the attendees after the complimentary lunch, and new staff member Cypher automated our game servers for the first time – flawlessly.

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Laclede's LAN 9

January 14, 2006

Better space, a better network, and new sponsors! Laclede’s LAN 9 set yet another high bar for attendance at 112 gamers, and we moved into the cafeteria at West County Technical School, while gaining Allhawkeye85 as a staff member. Our sponsors showed up in force, with Nathan Kirsch from Legit Reviews doing hardware demonstrations for the latest technology, and Nerds on Site bringing the Nerdmobile and a fully stocked booth showing a potential career path for the PC enthusiast. Adrenaline Gaming Zone, a console gaming group, ran a Halo tournament to complement the PC tourneys we were offering.

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