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. ...
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. ...
PixelPop Festival is a Saint Louis based games festival that celebrates a wide range of games and interactive experiences. Their mission is to encourage and empower attendees from all backgrounds and experience levels to develop new skills, explore different methods, and cultivate relationships with other creators and players. In September 2015 PixelPop held their second festival on the campus of Webster University and put a large emphasis on game education. Laclede’s LAN was fortunate enough to be able to participate in the festival. ...
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! ...
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! ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...