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News Archives
| Event webcam [ Comments (10) ] Created By: chewy 8:29 am, 22/11/2008 | We now have a webcam up at the event which you can view via the webcam link in the menu above.
Currently it does not refresh by itself.
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| Web server IP change [ Comments (1) ] Created By: chewy 11:41 am, 21/11/2008 | | Our web servers IP address is scheduled to be changed this evening. There may be an outage. |
| 3xtreme LAN Sixteen Competitions [ Comments (26) ] Created By: dave 10:23 pm, 20/11/2008 | There will be three official competitions this time around, as there always is.
5v5 Counter-Strike:Source
5v5 Team Fortress 2
Call of Duty 5
Registration will be via EMS, the 3xtreme LAN intranet, as soon as doors open up until the competitions are due to start.
CS:S will kick things off at 1pm sharp, be sure to arrive in time and have your Steam client fully updated before leaving for the LAN.
As always flexibility is the name of the game, any number of things can affect timings. |
| Final player limit change [ Comments (23) ] Created By: chewy 2:46 pm, 17/11/2008 | We have now made arrangements which will allow us to bump the player limit up a bit to 200.
This should hopefully make things a little less squishy and greatly shorten the waiting list.
The list will be re-sorted such that unconfirmed players will be moved down the list on Thursday evening. |
| Player limit change [ Comments (44) ] Created By: chewy 11:17 am, 10/11/2008 | Now that registrations have been open for a few weeks we now have a good idea of how many people are interested in attending the next event, as a result we have decided to set the event size to a single hall or a player limit of around 150.
To help us lay out the hall and make sure you are sitting with the people you want to sit with, please use the seat booking system to create a group with your mates so that we can seat you together. |
| 3xtreme LAN Sixteen registrations [ Comments (37) ] Created By: chewy 4:39 pm, 20/10/2008 | Registrations for 3xtreme LAN Sixteen have now been set up to open this Friday the 24th of October at around mid-day with confirmations and seat bookings becoming available on the 7th of November.
I say around mid-day because the server time is most likely wrong thanks to daylight savings. |
| 3xtreme LAN Sixteen [ Comments (17) ] Created By: chewy 8:54 pm, 14/10/2008 | After silence for so long, it is my pleasure to announce that 3xtreme LAN Sixteen is currently in planning for the weekend of November 22nd and 23rd.
Further details such as the opening dates for registrations and seat bookings will be posted up as soon as possible.
Thank you for bearing with us through so much dead air. |
| 3xtreme LAN Fifteen event update [ Comments (32) ] Created By: chewy 11:31 pm, 14/11/2007 | Confirmations and seat bookings are now open for 3xtreme LAN Fifteen; our next event to be held on the 24th and 25th of this month. Registrations will be finalised on the evening of Thursday the 22nd of November so be sure to get yourself and your mates registered and your seat bookings worked out by then. In order to join a seat booking you must first confirm your registration.
Competition details are yet to be finalised but at this stage it looks like competitions will be run for Counter Strike: Source and Team Fortress 2. Further information will be put on the website as it becomes available.
In order to speed up the check-in process, it is advisable to print off your ticket via the registration page on our website, allowing you to identify your registration very quickly.
Lastly we would like to remind all gamers who are enrolled to vote that they must remember to do so, our advice is to visit a suitable polling station on your way to the LAN.
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| 3xtreme LAN Fifteen [ Comments (143) ] Created By: chewy 2:29 pm, 7/10/2007 | At long last it is time for another 3xtreme LAN - it is my pleasure to announce that 3xtreme LAN Fifteen will run on the 24th and 25th of November, 2007 with room for 250 gamers.
Registrations open on the 25th of October at 7PM with confirmations and seat bookings (you must confirm prior to booking a seat) to open on the 8th of November at 8PM. All registrations will close on the 22nd of November, the Thursday before the LAN so make sure you have all your mates in and your seats worked out before then.
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| July 28 event cancelled [ Comments (5) ] Created By: chewy 1:09 pm, 5/7/2007 | We have decided to cancel the event which was to be on July 28-29.
For those who had planned to attend for the WCG DotA competition, you may find alternative events on http://au.worldcybergames.com/schedule.php |
| 3xtremeLAN Hosts WCG Qualifiers [ Comments (13) ] Created By: dave 11:25 pm, 29/5/2007 | We're please to announce a partnership with World Cyber Games Australia to hold the state qualifiers at 3xtremeLAN.
July 28th will see state qualifiers for DotA, winners will progress to the national finals held in Sydney later this year and from there its next stop Seattle, USA.
For more information on the World Cyber Games head to:
http://au.worldcybergames.com/
Stay tuned for more updates. |
| 3xtreme LAN Darkzone Night [ Comments (15) ] Created By: dave 3:42 pm, 18/4/2007 | This coming Friday, the 20th of April, 3xtreme will be hosting a midnight till dawn DarkZone lock-in night, open for any members of the 3xtreme community and associates to attend.
We'll be heading down the Blackburn hotel for dinner before hand, anyone is welcome to join us, then we'll head up to Box Hill DarkZone at about 11:30 and game all night until 7am.
Anyone that's been to one of these private sessions before can testify as to how much fun they are, being able to explore all the game modes that the DarkZone system can run.
Registrations are open on the registrations page, the night costs $30 and places are very limited, so get in quick.
An information sheet is available at:
http://www.extremelan.net/misc/extreme_dz_info.pdf
Anyone that's underage will need to fill out the slip, don't need to worry about organizers details, only the emergency contact and a signature.
http://www.extremelan.net/misc/extreme_dz_slip.pdf |
| 3xtreme LAN Fourteen Competitions [ Comments (29) ] Created By: dave 11:00 pm, 11/4/2007 | Competitions for the next event are as follows:
AIE Counter-Strike: Source
Teams of 5 players nominally.
Double Elimination.
Maps have been drawn, and are as follows:
* Round 1: de_cbble
* Round 2: de_nuke
* Round 3: de_inferno
* Round 4: de_dust2
* Additional maps here, if required. To be drawn at event.
* Final: de_train
Copy of competition rules available at:
http://www.extremelan.net/misc/extreme_css_v1.22.pdf
Battlefield 2
Teams of 6 nominally.
Double Elimination
Copy of competition rules available at:
http://www.extremelan.net/misc/extreme_bf2_v1.01.pdf
Unreal Tournament 2004
Players compete individually.
Single Elimination.
Copy of competition rules available at:
http://www.extremelan.net/misc/extreme_ut2k4_v1.10.pdf
DotA *New
Teams of 5 nominally.
Single Elimination.
Map version: 6.43b (Available via 3xtremeLAN file server.)
Poker *New
Players compete individually.
Single Elimination.
Texas Hold'em Rules.
If you plan to compete in any of the above competitions, aim to be at the LAN, set up, by 12pm on Saturday. Registrations will be taken from this point and the first of the competitions will begin at 1, including CS:S.
If you're unable to attend until after the scheduled start time, organise a substitute player to compete (for team competitions only), substitutions are conditionally permitted in competition rules.
Likewise, if you have to leave early, organise a substitute player in advance. |
| 3xtreme LAN Fourteen confirmations [ Comments (24) ] Created By: chewy 11:57 pm, 4/4/2007 | Confirmations and seat bookings are now open for our next event, 3xtreme LAN Fourteen on the 14th and 15th of April. If you want to come, please confirm your registration and optionally book a group of seats with your mates.
Competitions wise we will have the usual CS:Source competition and most likely 2 other competitions which we are still finalising the details of. If you plan to compete you should plan to be at the event by midday to ensure everyone is registered and ready for the start of competition which will most likely be at 2PM on the Saturday.
Our Dark zone lock-in night is going ahead for the Friday night after the LAN, the 20th of April; if you want to come we will be taking bookings and payments at the LAN looking for a group size of around 30.
As a final note, you may have noticed there is now a "Print ticket" feature on the registrations page. This allows you to quickly print off a ticket enabling you to check in quicker. |
| 3xtreme LAN Fourteen registrations [ Comments (55) ] Created By: chewy 10:06 pm, 12/3/2007 | Registrations for event fourteen will be opening this Thursday the 15th at 8PM with confirmations and seat bookings set to open on the 29th, in order to book a seat you must be confirmed.
Everything closes during the evening of the Thursday before the event weekend so make sure you get all your registrations in and seats booked by then, once registrations close the player list will be re-sorted moving unconfirmed people down below confirmed players.
We do not have a solid timeline worked out for the Darkzone night yet, but when registrations are open, it will be a pre-paid only event. |
| 3xtreme LAN Fourteen and Darkzone [ Comments (22) ] Created By: chewy 4:35 pm, 21/2/2007 | It is my pleasure to announce that 3xtreme LAN Fourteen is now in planning for the 14th and 15th of April, 2007. The registration timeline will be posted up shortly.
Additionally, we are planning to have a Darkzone lock-in session for the weekend after the LAN, so if your interested in that we will most likely be taking registrations on this website soon. |
| Happy New Year [ Comments (13) ] Created By: CapeHorn 1:39 am, 1/1/2007 | And so we say goodbye to 2006,
for some, a good year, for others, the next year looks to be more promising.
From the whole 3xtremeLAN team, I bid you all a happy and safe New Year. |
| 3xtreme LAN 13 Counter Strike: Source Recordings [ Comments (9) ] Created By: dave 11:27 pm, 2/12/2006 | The first of the recordings of the AIE Counter Strike: Source competition have been uploaded and are available from the competitions page. More will be uploaded this evening and in the next couple of days.
To view these recordings, unzip the file into the following directory:
\Steam\SteamApps\*username*\counter-strike source\cstrike
Then enter into the console:
playdemo 'filename'
Unfortunatly a few recordings have gone missing, I'm currently digging around for them and hopefully they'll turn up. But as it stands at the moment:
Round2: online++ vs. syNapse (de_nuke) is unavailable.
Round4: xtr1p vs. online++ (de_inferno) is missing the first half.
Round4: syNapse vs. s6ence (de_inferno) seems to be missing the last round of the first half.
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| 3xtreme LAN 13 Over [ Comments (3) ] Created By: headexplodes 8:44 pm, 29/11/2006 | A big thank you to everyone who came to 3xtreme LAN 13 over the weekend and helped make it such a success.
Congratulations to team xtr1p for winning the AIE CS Source competition, Flaming Daggers for winning the Battlefield 2 competition and player afrikakorps for winning the Medieval 2 Total War Demo competition.
We hope everyone had as much fun as we did running the event, and look forward to seeing you at our next event in Easter.
p.s. We have a number of items of lost property from this event and previous ones. Please contact us ( http://www.extremelan.net/index.php?page=contact ) if you have lost something.
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| 3xtreme LAN 13 Seat Bookings [ Comments (2) ] Created By: dave 12:52 am, 25/11/2006 | The seat bookings for event 13 are linked at the bottom of this post.
They are linked mainly as a matter of interest, it is still required that you be seated by an usher.
While you may notice that only 4 seats are available without a booking, please note that seat bookings are only valid until 12pm midday. Past that time, if a seating group is not filled, it will be filled by us.
For those with a booking, arrive before 12 if you wish to be able to use it, and for those without a booking, arrive after 12 and we will find you a seat. Please also note, that entry to players who are on the waiting list, or unconfirmed, will also be permitted past 12.
If you have not had the chance to register, or would like to bring along some friends whom have no registered, they will be permitted entry past 12 also.
http://members.iinet.net/~nihill/3xl13_bookings.png |
| Something to remember - STEAM [ Comments (0) ] Created By: Sniper 9:18 pm, 24/11/2006 | Well as usual we are letting everyone know that you MUST UPDATE your Steam client and any games you want to play on the weekend BEFORE coming to the LAN.
We will be hosting most stand-alone patches for the popular games on our FTP server but patches for games such as Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source that require content servers will need to be updated before leaving home tomorrow morning.
By updating before the LAN we hope all players will be prepared for a great weekend of intense gaming action! |
| Prizes for 3xtreme LAN 13 [ Comments (12) ] Created By: Sniper 4:06 pm, 24/11/2006 | OK so all our prizes are in and they are awesome!
*25 AIE LAN Survival Packs to give away as door prizes.
*5 Copies of the latest games valued at over $400 as first prize for the AIE Counter-Strike: Source competition.
*2 Extremely Limited Edition Medieval 2: Total War Stein Glasses to be given away as prizes to very lucky gamers in our Medieval 2: Total War Demo Competition
*2 Copies of JAWS Unleashed
*2 Copies of Phantasy Star Universe
*2 Supreme Commander T-Shirts
*20 Supreme Commander Beta Trial Passes
These prizes are going this weekend at 3xtreme LAN 13 so make sure you come down to be in the running.
Competitions being run this weekend:
*AIE Counter-Strike: Source 5v5
*Battlefield 2 6v6
*Medieval 2: Total War Demo competition
We all look forward to see you this weekend.
Now I shall get back to setting up this hall! |
| Victorian Elections [ Comments (16) ] Created By: CapeHorn 2:33 am, 24/11/2006 | Just a small reminder to those of the players that are over 18
It would be election day, this Saturday
and so it would seem to be a good idea to go vote before you come to the LAN...
the fines can be quite annoying. |
| 3xtreme LAN at the eGames & Entertainment Expo [ Comments (8) ] Created By: Sniper 2:39 am, 18/11/2006 | A few of the 3xtreme LAN guys are going to be at the eGames & Entertainment Expo this weekend so if you want to come down and check it out; they have some Wii's, a couple of quad core Intels, some 8800GTX's; or if you want to ask any of our team some questions on LANning feel free.
We will either be at the eSports Zone (look for the 3xtreme LAN banner) or wandering around (most of us will have our 3xtreme LAN shirts on so you can recognise us).
If you are interested in games development or want to find out more about tertiary study the Academy of Interactive Entertainment (our newest sponsor) has a stand at the expo with some student work on display and a heap of information. |
| 3xtreme LAN Thirteen rapidly approaches [ Comments (8) ] Created By: chewy 6:31 pm, 17/11/2006 | With just over a week remaining before the next 3xtreme LAN event now is a good time to confirm your registration and make a seat booking with your friends for the upcoming event.
We will be running the usual range of competitions including Counter Strike: Source, brought to you by the AIE, Battlefield 2 and Unreal Tournament 2004. In order to compete in competitions it is important to get checked in, set up and registered for the competitions as early in the morning as possible.
Additionally we will be running a series of large organised games to ensure there is non-stop gaming around the clock.
Check out the registration page at http://www.extremelan.net/index.php?page=register |
| 3xtreme LAN Welcomes AIE [ Comments (10) ] Created By: Sniper 7:16 pm, 18/10/2006 | 3xtreme LAN is proud to announce our newest sponsor, The Academy of Interactive Entertainment.
In an unprecedented partnership the Academy of Interactive Entertainment is now sponsoring the Counter-Strike: Source 5v5 Competition and putting a a great set of door prizes up for grabs. AIE will also be giving away free drinks to the first 200 people to 3xtreme LAN 13!
Who is the Academy of Interactive Entertainment you ask?
"Since its establishment in 1996, the Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE) has earned much recognition as Australia’s premier Registered Training Organisation for the Computer Game Development and 3D Digital industries.
AIE has grown significantly in the past 10 years and now boasts two campuses in Canberra and Melbourne. AIE is also investigating further expansion to other cities in the near future.
AIE continues to improve and expand its curriculum, offering nationally accredited Diploma pathways in Games Art and Programming. These courses have continued to allow our graduates to find employment in the Games Development industry, as well as offer pathways into other 3D industries; including Film & TV and Visualisations for defence, architecture and science.
Through ongoing consultation with various industry partners, AIE is currently expanding its curriculum to offer Advanced Diploma courses specialising in Games Development and Associate Degree’s in 3D art and programming for 2007 & 2008. Keep an eye on our website for more info as it becomes available.
Head to www.aie.edu.au and check out our latest student works in the gallery or get further info on AIE’s full-time, part-time and online study options or for more information call 03 9820 8201 or email enquiries@aie.vic.edu.au"
From all of us at 3xtreme LAN we would like to welcome onbaord The Academy of Interactive Entertainment. |
| 3xtreme LAN Thirteen [ Comments (49) ] Created By: Sniper 4:40 pm, 15/10/2006 | Well everyone it is time to announce our next event! 3xtreme LAN Thirteen!
Tonight registrations will open for our 3rd event of the year. We are all looking forward to our final event of the year and are confident this will be our best event ever.
Thriteen will be at the regular venue, Monash Uni Clayton, with a player limit of 250 people. |
| 3xtreme LAN Twelve this weekend! [ Comments (25) ] Created By: chewy 8:41 am, 21/9/2006 | This weekend get ready for a weekend of extreme gaming, 3xtreme LAN Twelve is finally upon us.
Competition registrations will be running from the start of the event until the start of each competition.
Remember to update steam and all other games before the event. If possible double check on Saturday morning to be sure no new patches have been released.
Those who are on the waiting list and those who haven’t registered; if you come after 12 noon on Saturday we will endeavour to find you a table. There should be enough room such that a few extras can fit so if you wish you can probably bring a friend too. |
| 3xtreme BBQ! [ Comments (17) ] Created By: dave 7:24 pm, 14/9/2006 | This Sunday, the 17th, shall host a BBQ of 3xtreme proportions! We invite one and all from the 3xtreme community to head down to Jells Park, starting 12pm (that’s mid day folks), for drinks, good times and lots of meat.
The bureau is reporting a sunny day, with a top temperature of 21 degrees, fine weather for some park cricket, soccer, or just throwing around a miniature UFO. We do, however, need some generous souls to provide the equipment for the day, if you’re able to help in this department, I’m sure we can arrange some meat and drinks for your kindness.
Remember folks, that this is next to a totally unorganized affair, so bring what food and drink you think you’ll need for the day, might be a good idea to get talking with a group of people and do a group buy. By all means, bring anyone and everyone along, even if they’re not previously associated with 3xtreme (and see if you can get them along to 3xtremeLAN 12…)
Myself and the rest of the 3xtreme crew are looking forward to an enjoyable day in the sun and I throw down the challenge to face the admin’s elite park cricket skillz. |
| 3xtreme LAN Twelve update [ Comments (8) ] Created By: chewy 9:31 pm, 11/9/2006 | | Confirmations are now open, so if you are coming to the event you must confirm your registration so we know how many people are coming to the event. Seat bookings are also open so you can create a seating group for you and your friends. |
| 3xtreme LAN Twelve announced [ Comments (63) ] Created By: chewy 11:04 pm, 7/8/2006 | Registrations for the next event are quickly approaching, so spread the word, 3xtreme LAN Twelve registrations open this weekend, the 12th of August at 9PM. The event will be held on the 23rd and 24th of September at our usual venue on Monash University’s Clayton campus.
To attend this event, we ask that you register using our online registration system. To access this system you must have an account on this website and select the register link in the menu above. |
| 3xtreme LAN Eleven over [ Comments (43) ] Created By: chewy 10:29 pm, 11/7/2006 | A big thankyou to all those who came to the event over the weekend and helped make it one of our biggest event ever. Photos from the event will be made available shortly.
As for competition results; Zero Remorse defeated Team Defiance in the Counter Strike: Source competition, Death Certificate defeated Clan [FR] in Battlefield 2 and Unreal Tournament 2004 was taken out by Superbeast. Manny`G won the pool competition.
We look forward to seeing you at our next event. |
| Steam Update [ Comments (15) ] Created By: Sniper 11:56 am, 7/7/2006 | Well with all admins preparing to go setup the hall for this weekends event Steam have gone and released a Client Update.
This patch fixes quite a few issues I'm sure many of you encounter regularly with Steam.
Being that we have a limited and sometimes unstable Internet connection at 3xtreme LAN we ask that you ALL load up your Steam clients today (or better yet, tomorrow morning BEFORE the LAN) and get any and all patches available for the client itself and all games you intend to be playing this weekend.
For information about the patch please see the Steam News page:
http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news&id=673 |
| 3xtreme LAN Eleven this weekend [ Comments (24) ] Created By: chewy 11:41 pm, 5/7/2006 | With this weekend’s event rapidly approaching, it is about time for an update; preparations are going well and this event will quite possibly have our greatest turnout ever.
Firstly, due to the overwhelming response from registrations we have made room for additional players and as such the player limit has been raised to 300. To ensure that seats are allocated in a fair manner, the check-in policy is as follows.
Before 12 noon on the Saturday we will only be admitting people who are within the player limit, no one on the waiting list will be admitted during this time. After this time, people on the waiting list will be admitted, with preference going to those required in a clan for competition and people in seat bookings.
Seat bookings are going well, with a large number of groups registering. Seat group teams seem to be fairly balanced so we should be able to seat everyone on the side of their choice. On the morning of the event, seat bookings are held until 12 noon on the Saturday, at which time they are forfeited unless we are contacted and informed that group members will be arriving late. You can inform us ahead of time or if at least one member of the group will be coming early, they can inform us. If check-ins are still in full swing at noon, we will hold the bookings longer. Please also note that empty seat groups or groups with 1 member will be removed.
Now, on to the games; we will be running 4 competitions this weekend in addition to several public servers and a multitude of large organised games to ensure there is never a dull moment. Public servers will be run for Counter Strike: Source, Battlefield 2, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Quake 3 amongst others. The large organised games which will run during the event will be decided based on a poll conducted via the intranet system so we run games that you want to play.
Competition registrations will open at 10AM, when the event opens, for all competitions and will continue until 30 minutes before the competition in question starts, by this time all players and teams wishing to compete must have completed registration and if necessary paid the entry fee. The main prize ceremony will be conducted at 3AM on Sunday morning.
The Counter Strike: Source competition will run first at 2PM on Saturday, followed by Unreal Tournament 2004 at 6PM and Battlefield 2 at 9PM. These competitions have an entry fee of $10 for the first and $5 for each competition after that per person and the prizes will be cash. There will also be a pool competition held on Sunday.
Before attending the event this weekend, we advise all attendees to update all their games that they intend to play at the event, particularly games with steam based updating. With steam it is also advisable that you boot your computer up on the Saturday morning and make sure no updates have come out during the night.
There will be a dedicated multimedia area in the venue offering projectors for movies and console games. We will provide some consoles and games; however you are invited to bring your own consoles if you wish to guarantee that a specific game and console are available. You will need to be able to take care of your console.
Any players wishing to bring their own game servers for the event will be required to place these machines in the organiser area and will be connected onto a switch dedicated to servers for optimal performance. |
| 3xtreme LAN confirmations are open! [ Comments (20) ] Created By: rocket 6:43 pm, 25/6/2006 | Hi everyone,
If you're planning to go to 3xtreme LAN, please make sure you confirm. This tells us you'll be there for sure. It allows us to arrange seats in the hall so there'll be one available for you!
You can confirm your registration for 3xtreme LAN 11 at the register page:
http://www.extremelan.net/index.php?page=register
You should confirm as soon as you're sure you'll be going. Confirming also gives you access to the seat booking system, so you can book yourself a seat with your friends!
And on another note, if you want to arrange special circumstances (eg. you can't get to the LAN until Saturday afternoon) you will need to get in contact with us. I (Chris) am available on my mobile, 0422 299 750, at all reasonable hours.
For everyone who's already confirmed - thanks! We'll see you at the LAN!!
For everyone that has yet to register, do yourself a favour and come and see our great LAN. If just visit this time it's free, but you will definitely have more fun if you bring your PC and play games!!
You can register to come to the LAN at the register page:
http://www.extremelan.net/index.php?page=register |
| 3xtreme LAN Eleven update [ Comments (14) ] Created By: chewy 6:12 pm, 14/6/2006 | Confirmations and seat bookings open this Saturday the 17th of June at midday. In order to attend the event you must confirm your registration, once confirmed you are able to perform seat bookings.
The seat booking system works on the basis of groups. The leader of your group should register a new seat booking group and then distribute the join password amongst your group so other members can join the seating group. Upon seat bookings closing on the 6th of July, the booking administrator will allocate your group the correct number of seats.
This event the theme is Construction vs. Underground and as such your seating group leader has the option to elect which team your group would prefer to be in; the Construction team will be in the side of the hall closest to the large hanger doors.
The bookings page will display which team each group has elected, so if your clan have a nemesis clan you can elect to be on the other team so you can battle with them in the team based activities. If too many people want to be on one team, obviously we will be unable to allocate everyone to that team as we will run out of room.
Finally, tomorrow, the 15th of June, 2006, marks 4 years since our first event. I would like to thank Chris A, Isaac, Adlai, Josh, Chris B, Robert, Manny, Jeff, Jon, Dave and offcourse all the gamers who come to our events and those who have helped out over the years for helping make 3xtreme what it is today.
Thankyou. |
| Anyone for some Ghost Recon? [ Comments (46) ] Created By: rocket 7:08 pm, 30/5/2006 | Thanks to Ubisoft, we have 5 copies of the latest title, Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter to give away!!!
http://www.extremelan.net/misc/el11-ubisoft-ghostrecon.jpg
In case you can't see, there's 5 copies of the full game as well as several hundred demo DVDs in there. There should be enough to give one to everyone - so you can definitely bet on us making a shot at the record for:
"The most people simultaneously playing Ghost Recon at one LAN"!!!
A big thanks to Ubisoft for providing this genuinely amazing prize pack, and also to Cyberslam who are responsible for you having the chance to win it!
If you want to win a copy of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, you'd better head over to the http://extremelan.net/index.php?page=register Register Page now!
Here's a review of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter at IGN: http://xbox360.ign.com/objects/736/736206.html |
| 3xtreme LAN Eleven registrations open [ Comments (37) ] Created By: chewy 10:32 pm, 3/5/2006 | Registrations have been open for just over 3 days now and the response has been great up to this point. Planning for this event is going fantastically and it is shaping up to be one of our best events yet; all we need is heaps of people to pack out the venue.
Tell all your mates; this is going to be a big one.
On another note, I have been reading your thoughts about the Frag-mentation competitions and as such there are two new polls up; so please go and make your vote count. |
| 3xtreme LAN Eleven registration schedule [ Comments (39) ] Created By: chewy 2:36 pm, 29/4/2006 | With less than 70 days left to go till our next event, registrations will commence tomorrow evening at 7:00PM; the full schedule is below.
Registrations open: 19:00, 30-April-2006
Confirmations and seat bookings open: 12:00, 17-June-2006
Registrations, confirmations and seat bookings close: 12:00, 6-July-2006 |
| 3xtreme LAN Eleven [ Comments (153) ] Created By: chewy 10:31 pm, 13/4/2006 | With the lack of our usual Easter event it has been pretty quiet around here; well its time to break the silence. I am pleased to announce 3xtreme LAN Eleven, schedules for July 8th and 9th; so put it in your calendars and tell all your friends, this event will be bigger and better than ever.
This event we have teamed up with Frag-mentation who will be running some great competitions at the event. In addition to this we will be running our large organised games but this time there will be an interesting twist.
In addition to our July event we have two more events scheduled for later in the year.
We are yet to work out a timeline for registrations, confirmations and seat bookings; once we do we will get the info up as quick as possible. |
| CS Source Comp Winner [ Comments (3) ] Created By: rocket 3:05 pm, 11/12/2005 | To [-CC-], your prize is awaiting collection (it's a box of glow sticks).
Can you please get in contact with me ASAP at:
rocket {-at-} extremelan {-dot-} net |
| 3xtreme LAN 10 is over [ Comments (26) ] Created By: rocket 2:59 pm, 11/12/2005 | Wow, what an awesome LAN.
3xtreme LAN 10 marked 3xtreme's first foray into double digits (10), its second event with its fully-managed gigabit network and hopefully the final small event.
Outside the weather was balmy and the sun shone down on a great LAN. Many things will be remembered about this LAN - glow sticks, old 80s music and especially choonga's remix done brilliantly in windows media player!!!!
It's great to have a community LAN where everyone knows each other. That's what 3xtreme has turned into over the years. The admins enjoy the small LANs even though they take the same amount of work as the larger ones.
I'd like to thank KA Technologies for once again being "there like shareware"! Thanks to everyone for coming along and making our turnout pretty good!!! Especially the personalities that made the LAN great (apparently jomo has a fan club now. - and sorry about the lack of dancing comp shogunx!)
Our next event is either going to be in April/May during the commonwealth games (if we can get the power equipment) or else it'll be in June/July. We'll be running a 250-player LAN with an expanded gigabit network!
We hope to see you there.
Until next we meet.. thanks once again for coming to 3xtreme! :) |
| 3xtreme LAN 10 confirmation open [ Comments (8) ] Created By: rocket 1:10 pm, 24/11/2005 | Confirmations are open! Don't forget to only confirm if you will definitely be there, as it gives us an idea of the numbers to expect at the LAN.
To confirm please click on this link:
http://extremelan.net/index.php?page=register
:) |
| 3xtreme LAN TEN OMG!!! [ Comments (43) ] Created By: rocket 2:46 am, 7/11/2005 | We've finally announced it!
3xtreme LAN 10 will be running in December on the 10th and 11th, providing EVERY SINGLE PLAYER with a gigabit network connection and bringing the same great sponsors you've come to expect including KA Technologies.
This event will also sport competitions and decent prizes, and plenty of people who actually play games.. So make sure you're there, cause there's bound to be heaps of Call of Duty 2, Serious Sam 2, FEAR, Q4 and plenty of other games on offer.
On a side note, this lan marks our first foray into double digits!
Registrations will open early in the week, so watch this space. |
| 3 big game releases in only a few days [ Comments (28) ] Created By: rocket 12:53 pm, 29/9/2005 | OK so.. for those of us owning at least a silver edition copy of HL2, we got to take a first peek at Day of Defeat: Source. I'm guessing you've all played it a little bit by now and had a chance to experience it.
Not only that but the Call of Duty 2 demo is now out as well, and so is the serious sam 2 demo. Weighing in at 650mb for CoD2 and 250mb for SS2, I'm going to have to wait until I get home from holidays to try them out..
To those that have played these big name games, what's your opinion? Will they rock or will they be flops? :P |
| Website downtime [ Comments (4) ] Created By: rocket 11:39 pm, 28/9/2005 | Over the weekend we experienced some major downtime. This was very bad for us as we were unable to put up the webcam and were almost unable to retrieve the contents of the database for the LAN.
We'd like to apologise (again) for the downtime and thank Zardoz and chewy for (hopefully more than temporarily) fixing the issues. Yoyo is back on its legs again. |
| 3xtreme LAN 9 over [ Comments (28) ] Created By: rocket 11:56 pm, 25/9/2005 | Well!! 3xtreme LAN Nine is over, and what a great LAN it was. With a single hall and a new gigabit network, every seat was taken. The weather outside helped keep the hall from getting too hot (for a change). Despite a Steam update going out early on Saturday morning before the event, the LAN saw a surprising amount of gaming. Once everyone had their Steam updated we were able to successfully run the CS competition.
We hope you all enjoyed the hub throwing competition and all the other comps we ran - the results will be up on the website very soon.
A big thanks to KA Technologies, for supplying us with their products for the prizes, thanks to GSkill for supplying us with lanyards for our tags, and a big thanks to everyone who came along and made the first 3xtreme LAN with gigabit so successful. (That means you!)
I personally want to take some time and thank the admins (in no particular order) :
* chewy
* headexplodes
* geniesis
* Sniper
* CapeHorn
* G`Dave
* Viper
* PsychoBrat
* MagiAthena (who, while not an admin, gets an honorable mention for his hours of volunteer work)
From the website, to the internal web system, to the barcode system, to the Internet access, to the gigabit network, to the power, to the cabling, to the table layout/seat bookings, to the audio/PA/music system, to the webcam (timelapse movie will be uploaded to the site soon!), to the photos, to the hub throwing, even to keeping the bins from getting too full... you all worked very hard to organise and run the LAN! Cheers guys, and here's hoping there are many more great lans in the future...
3xtreme LAN Ten is coming up, possibly in summer or possibly easter 2006. If we are going to run an event in summer it will most likely be in early December, and it'll make 2005 our first year of having 4 lans. How many people are interested in an 3xtreme LAN in December? |
| Final post before the LAN! [ Comments (8) ] Created By: rocket 12:41 am, 23/9/2005 | Well if you haven't confirmed yet you should know we're about to close confirmations! Make sure you're only confirming if you're definitely coming to the LAN.
It's time for another 3xtreme LAN, and this time it'll be GIGABIT!!! We've been looking over the new gear and you can rest assured it's got the right stuff.
We hope to see you bright and early Saturday morning. Don't forget, on the weekends Monash Uni is only accessible via the Southern (Wellington Rd) entrance. A map is available by clicking on this link:
http://lan3xtreme.ausgamers.com/images/event03/unimap.gif
As usual KATech will be at the LAN selling gigabit network equipment and food and drink.
They have also very kindly convinced Wolfclaw to donate us one of their dedicated gaming keyboards, so we'll be giving this away as a prize. They also have a demo model that you can take and try out on your own PC!
Read the comments for the less interesting stuff, such as: grand final, possible hub throwing contest v.2, and public servers.
Can't wait to see you on Saturday! |
| 3xtreme LAN 9 Comps [ Comments (10) ] Created By: Sniper 11:44 am, 22/9/2005 | Hey guys here are the comps we are running this weekend at 3xtreme LAN 9.
UT2004 ONS
CS:Source (5v5)
Battlefield 2 (6v6)
WarCraft 3 DOTA
Quake 3 Instagib
Comps are starting at 1pm sharp! So be there and be registered half an hour before to ensure your team is in the comp |
| Website issues [ Comments (12) ] Created By: rocket 11:24 pm, 18/9/2005 | OK Some of you may have noticed that the website occasionally doesn't load, this is related to problems with the server we host the site on. This server's name is Yoyo. It got its name because the previous machine called Yoyo was constantly going up and down.
(The old Yoyo was slow, and got replaced by the machine we're hosted on now)
I guess it's nice to know that this Yoyo is living up to its reputation, however it's not normally like this and the admins are in the process of fixing it.
We apologise for any inconvenience it has caused. We will endeavour to have the issues fixed as soon as possible. In the meantime please bear with us. |
| Day of Defeat: Source Pre-loading [ Comments (4) ] Created By: rocket 12:36 pm, 17/9/2005 | Just a quick warning to all Steam users, that DoD: Source won't be released until after the LAN is over.
Release is 8:00AM Tuesday Sept 27th (our time).
To avoid wasting your internet quota on preloading it during the LAN, make sure you pause it, or finish preloading before you take your PC to the LAN.
Cheers! |
| News from KA Technologies: CyberSnipa Group Buy [ Comments (0) ] Created By: rocket 2:32 pm, 16/9/2005 | Hi Guys,
To increase the available prize pool for extremeLAN 9 - KA will be able to obtain 3 CyberSnipa FPS Game Pads if we are able to sell take pre-orders for 5 of these before the event. Link:
http://www.katech.com.au/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=593
Are the details of the product.
Our price is $55 for this promotion.
§ Designed to improves game control, speed and accuracy
§ No learning curve for experienced FPS gamers
§ USB device that will operate alongside your keyboard.
§ Ergonomically designed navigation and function keys
§ Optimally engineered tactile key feedback
§ Can be used with any FPS game that allows programmable key mappings
§ Built in volume control
§ Low profile streamlined casing
§ Removable non-slip palm wrest
§ 1.8m (6ft) USB power cord
Please post comments on http://www.extremelan.net/index.php?page=forum&action=viewthread&threadid=19508 . |
| 3xtreme LAN Announces: GIGABIT NETWORK! [ Comments (29) ] Created By: rocket 7:33 pm, 9/9/2005 | Remember that surprise we had for you a while back? Well we can unveil it now!
Drumroll please, it's:
A 100% GIGABIT NETWORK!!!!
What does this mean? It means no more clogged network, no more waiting forever for downloads, and no more laggy games. This means you'll be able to spend more time gaming at the LAN!
Not only that, but the equipment we have allows us to provide high-bandwidth links between tables - so no-one can ruin your networked LAN experience.
This equipment will be at all future events. So, when you want to go to a quality LAN, you know where to be - 3xtreme LAN. There's no need to go to a more expensive LAN with a slower network! - we've got it all.
This equipment has been kindly sold to us by Netgear, who manufacture the GS724T switch which so wonderfully fulfills our needs. If you were at the last LAN you'd have spotted our test switch at the front of the hall, acting as part of the core of the network. It's quite a capable piece of equipment.
Internet access
The internet access SHOULD be there this LAN as well - it'll be full net access with a download limit. Expect an increase in quota this LAN.
Thanks everyone for being so loyal to us all these years. 3xtreme LAN is where it's at!
Stay tuned for more info on competitions/prizes too. |
| 3xtreme LAN Nine! [ Comments (25) ] Created By: rocket 7:15 pm, 25/8/2005 | Registrations are now open for 3xtreme LAN Nine. Please head over to the register page and register if you wish to attend!
http://extremelan.net/index.php?page=register
Event details:
Venue: Monash University, Clayton campus, Building 60, Room EH4 (Engineering exam halls)
Date: 10am 24th September - 2pm 25th September
Cost: Cheaper than other LANs at $25
Size: 130 players (to be confirmed)
As usual, there will be food available at the event, as well as a pizza run.
We endeavour to get the pizza run and competitions running on time this time around, which involves educating everyone on how to place orders and register for competitions. We don't want a re-enactment of last time, whereby everything ran up to 2 hours late!
For those that have been before, we hope you're looking forward to another 3xtreme LAN.
For those that haven't, welcome to the way Lanning should be! |
| Respect is everything! [ Comments (27) ] Created By: rocket 11:58 am, 20/8/2005 | Hi everyone,
By now some of you may have noticed that you have a respect rating to the left of your name.
So what is this fabled respect?
It's our karma mechanism. We'll increase it if you're good, and decrease it if you're bad. What this means is, depending on your behaviour on the forums, whether you help out packing up after the LAN, etc., you can qualify for earlier registration for the lan, among other benefits.
If you have a positive respect score, head over to the registration page and see if you see anything there.
Registration will become available to everyone during the next 7 days.
And remember, respect is everything.
ps. Next 3xtreme there should be a nice surprise which we wish we could announce right now. Deals are still at negotiation stage.
Here's a hint, it's something that everyone can enjoy! |
| Feedback request [ Comments (17) ] Created By: rocket 12:42 pm, 28/6/2005 | Thanks to everyone who came to the LAN.
We need as much feedback as possible to understand what we can do better next time around; so please post in the forums and tell us what you thought, what was done well and badly, what you'd like to see added to the LAN experience and what you'd like to see removed. We admins have a certain perspective on what the LAN should be, and sometimes it's not quite what the players want.
So please head over to the forums and put your ideas to us!
Forums: http://www.extremelan.net/index.php?page=forum |
| 3xtreme LAN 8 Wrap-up [ Comments (11) ] Created By: rocket 1:03 am, 28/6/2005 | Wow! What a fantastic weekend!
3xtreme LAN Winter Extravaganza, 3xtreme LAN's first event over 250 players in size, was a LAN event on June 25th and 26th, 2005. Players braved the wind and the chilly temperatures to attend, combining heat from all their PCs to keep the hall toasty and warm. While outside the weather was cold and windy, inside it was the perfect temperature for gaming - and things heated up.
To celebrate the release of EA's Battlefield 2, we had the first ever LAN-based 64-player Battlefield 2 game. All 64 players had their retail copy of the game for the "admins vs. players" match which was won hands-down by the admins and their team!
The public Battlefield 2 retail server stayed at 20 people playing for the entire LAN, from start to finish.
More generally, competitions ran surprisingly smoothly - including the hub throwing competition. Much fun was had by all, and the winners received prizes donated very kindly by our sponsors.
EA Games, being the champions they are, supplied us with 6 copies of BF2 to give away to the winners of the BF2 multiplayer demo competition. A big thankyou goes to them for that. Thanks also to Crucial Paradigm for once again supplying us with some web hosting packages to give away. A big thankyou is also in order for KA Technologies, Powercolor, Vantec, Coolermaster and all our other sponsors for supplying their fantastic hardware to give away to you guys, along with some awesome ball point pens!
I've put in almost 150 hours of work to get this LAN to happen, and I'm glad to see it went so well. The new intranet and internet systems worked well and will be used again next time. Please post with your feedback in the 3xtreme LAN 8 Forum if you've got anything to offer.
Next 3xtreme we're going to surprise you, it might be a big surprise but it might not be! You'll need to come to the LAN to find out!
Thanks for coming to 3xtreme - we'll see you at the next LAN. Meanwhile, go play some BF2 or CS or whatever your chosen game. |
| 3xtreme LAN webcam! [ Comments (7) ] Created By: rocket 1:17 pm, 25/6/2005 | For everyone who can't come to the LAN, we've got a webcam so you know what you're missing.
Here's the link: http://www.extremelan.net/webcam/ |
| 3xtreme LAN 8 Competitions [ Comments (21) ] Created By: Sniper 10:02 pm, 23/6/2005 | Ok people here are the competitions we are running this weekend :D
Enjoy.
I will be running the comps in general but some are run by other admins if you need to ask me some questions just come up the front.
You can ask questions in this thread or on the day :D
Battlefield 2 (This will be run on the Demo so everyone can play and the Admins will be competing!)
Warcraft 3 DOTA
Counter-Strike:Source 5v5
Quake 2
Quake 3
Enemy Territory
Unreal Tournament 2004
Need For Speed Underground 2 |
| KA Tech [ Comments (3) ] Created By: Sniper 2:18 am, 23/6/2005 | Alright ladies and gents our wonderful sponsors KA Technologies have just released a new catalog!
Will be debuing at this weekends LAN.
Some great deals here so check em out and grab some stuff this weekend or online through their website.
View the catalog online at:
http://www.katech.com.au/katechhardwarejune.pdf |
| We've got prizes! [ Comments (7) ] Created By: rocket 1:24 am, 23/6/2005 | Sorry it's been so long to announce the prizes; KATech have been waiting on some of their suppliers for a while now, but I thought I'd announce the other prizes while we hang out for the word from them.
Well EA Games have really come through for us with:
* 6 copies of Battlefield 2!
to give to you guys. So everyone hoping to play their way to a free copy of the game can compete in the BF2 competition at the LAN!
Here's a very quick photo: http://rocket.extremelan.net:81/~rocket/extreme8-bf2.jpg
And from our fantastic sponsors Crucial Paradigm:
3 x Paradigm 1k Plans (Valued at AU$93 each)
=====================
Each Package includes:
1 Year FREE Hosting
1 Year FREE Domain registration (limited to .com, .net, and .org)
1GB Space
10GB Bandwidth
24/7 Tech Support
99.9% Uptime Guarantee
10 Parked Domains
Unlimited mySQL Databases
Daily Backups
Unlimited Email Accounts
40 Pre-installed Scripts
Just think what you could do with your own website.
Everyone together: Thanks EA, thanks Crucial Paradigm!
I'm still awaiting KA Tech to give me a list of their prizes, but I'm expecting that we'll have a few cases and some other cool stuff for you guys. More info coming soon! |
| BF2 delivery delayed [ Comments (7) ] Created By: chewy 6:42 pm, 22/6/2005 | Anyone who was planning on picking up BF2 tonight at midnight from KATech:
The delivery from EA has been delayed, at this stage untill tomorrow morning. |
| Battlefield 2 at 3xtreme LAN 8 [ Comments (23) ] Created By: Sniper 5:43 pm, 7/6/2005 | 23rd of June is the new official release date as per EA Games Stock available to stores. This has been confirmed to be by EA Games.
Katech will be selling BF2 during the LAN and are trying their hardest to get you the best price we can.
RRP is $99
The big chains are selling pre-release for $89.95 which they will definately be matching.
But for 3xtreme LAN Players and members
$88.00 for extreme Lan members
$85.00 for extreme LAN prepaid players
Pre-orders through Katech as well as bundled prepaid tickets with BF2 will be on sale on www.katech.com.au in the next day or so. The more orders - the more we can go to EA with in terms of a bulk discount for the Extreme Community. Happy
I would like to encourage everyone to put their orders in ASAP as this Friday 10th they will organising first batch of preorders. After that they will have to wait and confirm if preorders are still possible (as they don't want to sell any pre-orders that wont be available on the first day -23rd)
If you are an existing prepaid player just order the standard product and leave notes with your order details and player name - then they will adjust your invoice to only pay the $85.00
KATech can also ship this to you so it will arrive on the 23rd at your door OR you can pick it up from them on the 23rd or even midnight on the 22nd!
Preorder Battlefield 2 DVD Edition: http://www.katech.com.au/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=529 |
| Registrations open [ Comments (7) ] Created By: rocket 7:51 pm, 29/5/2005 | Registrations are now open for 3xtreme lan and have been for a little while.
You can register for the lan on the following page:
http://www.extremelan.net/index.php?page=register |
| 3xtreme LAN Eight registration [ Comments (8) ] Created By: chewy 11:52 pm, 26/5/2005 | Registration for 3xtreme LAN Eight will open at 8:00 PM on Friday, 27th of May.
That is tomorrow. |
| New Forums and updates [ Comments (46) ] Created By: Sniper 12:07 am, 21/4/2005 | 3xtreme LAN Forums Version 2.0!!
Well they are finally here people!
New Features:
More Forums
That's right. We now have more than just General!
- Gaming
- Trade
- Help
- Community Events
- 3xtreme LAN Eight
- Hardware
Edit Posts
You can now edit your own posts!
Stickys
For those all important forum announcements and such
Lock Threads
That's right we can now lock your threads. (And easily delete entire threads)
So be careful!
Improved Security
We had some people breaking the forums (well trying to) so we improved the behind the scenes stuff.
Smilies
Yeah that's right we added Smilies to the forums! Just something to brighten them up a bit :D
Aesthetics
We changed around the way they look a little bit.
Functionality
We added Multiple pages for Forum View and Thread View to break it up a bit rather than having up to something like 160 replies on one page that we had in some threads.
We also made it easier to navigate around the forums.
We also moved our SQL server to a more stable machine with faster net access so hopefully the site should run a bit smooter.
So yeah, go have a look. Read the rules for the individual forums and ENJOY! |
| Extreme Lan 8: Possibility of having a band play. [ Comments (43) ] Created By: mannyg 6:20 pm, 19/4/2005 | G'day guys, MannyG here again.
I have come to put a question forward to you all. Basically, for the last few LANs, we have been toying with the idea of having a band play at Extreme Lan. Now, with our bigger setup and more space, this is becoming more of a possibility.
There has been a bit of talk lately about having my band play there for Extreme 8. Before you make up your mind, I'll give you a bit of background about the band.
Our name, (I kid you not...) is "ASL". No I didn't come up with the name, I'm the newest member, and just so you know the lead singer is a Network Admin, so I gather thats where it came from :P We are a 5 piece coverband who play your typical rock/pub songs. Anything from old rock to newer stuff.
If we were to play, it'd probably be 1 set consisting of about 10-15 songs. Not sure where we would slot it in. Perhaps after the prize ceremony, who knows.
Anyways, I want your opinions on it. Chewy has put a poll up, but please post in this thread as to why/why not having a band at Extreme.
Cheers,
Manny |
| Feedback results [ Comments (15) ] Created By: rocket 1:28 am, 15/4/2005 | Thanks to everyone who contributed some feedback this time around. Your voice has been heard!
We will continue to do everything that made 3xtreme LAN 7 so successful.
HOWEVER, Next 3xtreme we WILL do the following things:
* Projector at the front centre of the hall displaying game servers and LAN info!
You will be able to access this system so you can tell people about your game server on the projector.
* Better-run competitions!
And we'll have some wicked prizes too - more on this in the weeks to come!
* Another FREE BBQ!! - bigger and more bread!!!!
Complete with MannyG's parents, MummyG and DaddyG!
* Many new features on the intranet web site at the LAN
Including a new chat facility and a competition bracket system, so you can see how the competition unfolds.
* Little prizes to throw out to people
Remember the Netcomm couches a few LANs ago? They were mobile phone couches and everyone loved them. We'll try and get enough stuff for everyone to have a souvenir!
* A relaxation area at the back of the hall!
We've allocated a darkened relaxation area at the back of the hall for Xbox, PS2, Projector and DVDs. This will be a place for you to go to chill out a bit. Perhaps to wait while Windows re-installs!
* Random competitions!
I have no idea about what we'll do, but you can be sure it'll be fun! And yes we'll also be running the karaoke comp :)
And the final one is a definite maybe:
* STEAM ACCESS DURING THE LAN
If you don't know, Steam is the new way to play Counter-strike. If we get Steam access there's no need to mess with Steam's offline mode to play Steam games at the LAN. We are considering a small once-off charge if your Steam needs to update. We have to pay for our internet use! |
| BBQ Donations have been given to charity [ Comments (17) ] Created By: rocket 1:00 am, 6/4/2005 | $40.75 has been donated to the Tsunami Charity Fund from 3xtreme LAN.
Thanks to everyone who donated money to this great cause! And to MannyG, MummyG and DaddyG for making the BBQ happen. |
| Comments & Feedback [ Comments (31) ] Created By: rocket 11:37 am, 5/4/2005 | So far we've had comments for improvement in several different directions. It's best if we get your feedback now while your mind's still fresh with ideas for the lan.
At 3xtreme LAN 7 we had 15 playing Quake 3, 30 playing UT2004 instagib, 8 playing Call of Duty and several maxed-out Raven Shield servers. That's a decent effort - but once again, we can do better! Everyone has to work as a team and play the same games for us all to have fun!
People seemed quite happy with the prize ceremony which was good. We've still got some buckets so you may see this system again.
Among the things that need improvement next 3xtreme are competitions and "LOGs" (large organised games). Basically we still need to increase the amount of gaming. We are considering ways to encourage more people to play games. It's getting harder as the number of available games increases, especially since some of them are very similar. Although it's hard for one game to stand out in the current climate I really hope to see Battlefield 2 become the next big PC gaming blockbuster. Hopefully it'll be out before the Winter Extravaganza... cos it supports 64 players!
I'd like to have a BF2 server which knows your ranking just like Internet servers will. This way if you're a die-hard BF2 player there's no excuse to stay home! You will always get to be Commander 'cos you'll have the highest rank.
Like I said, tell us what you want to see extreme lan become cause it's not for the admins - it's for the people.
Please, if you've never posted in our forum, start posting now! Some of the best ideas ever sound crazy when people first hear them.
And to our forum regulars, make the new people welcome :) |
| 3xtreme LAN 7 is over!!! [ Comments (14) ] Created By: rocket 1:51 am, 5/4/2005 | Wow, well I don't know about you but I had an incredible LAN!
3xtreme LAN Seven was a LAN event run on the 2nd and 3rd of April by our enthusiastic team of admins, with the help of our new team of promoters and one of our sponsors KA Technologies. Almost 250 gamers braved a heat-wave to turn up for the event, and for those that played games it was incredible fun.
Our sponsors really came through for us at 3xtreme LAN Seven. A big shout out goes to EA Games for supplying us with a whole bunch of posters and 12 awesome games. Crucial Paradigm Business Solutions were fantastic, coming to the party with $1184 in prizes, in the form of 7 web hosting packages. KA Technologies and Powercolor brought us a new video card, and lots of cooling equipment to give to you guys. Thanks to all our sponsors, we couldn't do it without your support!
Competitions were well-run on the whole, and the final results are on their way. The respective clans got their prizes out of buckets, and were very happy with them! Thanks to everyone who ran a comp, but mainly Manny!
A big thank-you from 3xtreme LAN goes out to everyone who made the effort and came down to the LAN despite the extremely hot weather. A big thankyou to KA Tech, not only for their sponsorship but their support and help in making 3xtreme happen. Another thankyou goes to our promoters, and also to Jomo for really contributing to the LAN. Our promoters helped get people in the door. Huge thanks to everyone who helped clean up at the end, particularly G`Dave! Finally, thanks to all the admins who put in a stellar effort and made the LAN happen, from comps to power to network to servers to table layout to the pool table to the audio system. We've got webcam footage archived until 9:30pm on Sunday - and we didn't even get out of the hall until 10:00pm! What were YOU doing at 10:00pm on Sunday after the LAN?
Anyway on to the memories..... I am sure going to take a whole lot of awesome memories away from that LAN - things like the final match in the UT Onslaught comp which [teh] won in the final round by a hair's breadth (5% to 0%). But not just that, during the match there were the golden moments, like when I was squashed from high above by mojo's manta and all I could do was watch it loom above and prepare for pain... the guy vanguard hit in the face with a redeemer, the karaoke comp (what about me???), the Q3 comp which I ended up winning (oops), to name just a few!
I'm sure you have lots of fun memories from this LAN. Please, share!
That's all for 3xtreme LAN Seven. Please feel free to give us some feedback because the Winter Extravaganza is coming up (read the back of your tag!) and we can't always tell what we're doing right and wrong. We need you to help us out and tell us what worked and what didn't!
Thanks again to everyone whose combined effort allowed us all to have a really relaxed weekend of network gaming.
NOW GO POST IN THE FORUMS! |
| KA Technologies prices [ Comments (16) ] Created By: rocket 4:46 pm, 30/3/2005 | Hi all,
KA Tech have some special prices for us Lanners. If you are interested please email adam@katech.com.au . KA Tech would like to get any orders you have BEFORE the LAN if possible, so you can pick your order up on Saturday.
LAN Special prices: http://www.katech.com.au/aprillanclearancesale.pdf
April Price list: http://www.katech.com.au/april.pdf
Make sure you check them out!! You can say hi to them at the back of the LAN as they'll be selling drinks and lollies :) |
| 3xtreme LAN Webcam [ Comments (26) ] Created By: rocket 1:02 pm, 30/3/2005 | For those of you who aren't going to the LAN, you can watch the event and the pre-lan on our webcam. :)
http://www.extremelan.net/webcam/
It updates every minute! |
| 3xtreme LAN Hopefully-final Update [ Comments (13) ] Created By: rocket 12:50 am, 30/3/2005 | Alright!
Time to go to 3xtreme LAN! I sure hope you're pumped cause this one's going to be big. The LAN starts at 10am sharp, and it's $25. Turning up earlier = being closer to the front of the queue = you getting a better seat.
Map: http://lan3xtreme.ausgamers.com/images/event03/unimap.gif
For more info, please see the Lan Guide page.
Lan Guide: http://www.extremelan.net/index.php?page=languide
Make sure you've registered. Registrations will be closed at 8:00PM on the 30th.
Please also make sure your seat booking group is complete; Seat bookings will close on the 31st at 9:00PM. You can only see the seat booking system if you're confirmed, and confirmations close at 8:00PM on the 31st.
If you're prepaying you'll need to go to the rear entrance where you'll find me waiting to receive your printed ticket.
Since the turnout is lower than planned, you or others are welcome to turn up as a player no matter what. Don't worry about being on the waiting list. If you're not confirmed or not registered then bear in mind that you'll be waiting behind the people who did register. This is just because we have to put you in the player list manually which will take a little longer.
On the other hand, please confirm so we have an accurate idea of who's going!
If you have any questions in the lead-up to the LAN, you can call me on 0422 299 750. If you are wondering if there'll be room then don't worry - we'll have heaps.
Don't forget that as usual, seat bookings are forfeit at 12pm sharp. If one of your people need to turn up after this you can send an email to me to make sure we know.
Here's a short list of the activities available at the LAN!
See http://rocket.extremelan.net:81/~rocket/extreme/extreme7timetable.xls for more info on the event timetable.
Gaming:
7 competitions: CS 1.6, UT2004 Onslaught, BF: Desert Combat, War3: 3 corridors, Quake 3, KARAOKE, HL2DM
13 large organised games: Blockland, MTA: VC, MoH:AA/PA, Dawn of War, Call of Duty, Joint Ops, BF: Desert Combat, Flatout, War3: 3 corridors / "Get in the lobby now", LotR: Battle for Middle Earth, NFS Underground 2, HL2DM, Far Cry (assault maps), plus a replay of the most popular LOG.
Sports:
Cricket outside on Saturday arvo
Food:
Subway run
Pizza run
BBQ on Saturday afternoon and possibly again on Sunday
And don't forget that we've got in excess of $2000 worth of prizes available at the event from our great sponsors, including EA Games, KA Tech and Crucial Paradigm Business Solutions. Kudos go to all our sponsors for everything they do to make things great for you, our customer.
SEE YOU THERE!!!! |
| WTFBBQ? [ Comments (17) ] Created By: mannyg 3:22 pm, 29/3/2005 | Not quite, but how about an Extreme Lan 7 BBQ... and a FREE one at that, and that's the best type of BBQ you can get.
That's right my pretties, because we are so nice and stuff, your friendly Admins have decided to throw together a free BBQ for all you hungry gamers courtesy of us, with a little help from my Mum and Dad (from hereon known as MummyG and DaddyG) ^___^
It's gonna happen at about 4-5pm, so for you lanners who don't want a pizza run or just feel like a snag or 2, MummyG/DaddyG and myself will be throwing a few hundred sausages on the bbq (its an OMGWTFBBQ :D) to feed you scavengers. And by scavengers I mean lovely lovely people.
We've had suggestions that possibly a gold coin donation is in order, what I'll do is setup a bucket at the BBQ and if you feel like chucking some change in there, it'll go to a certain Children's Aid fund for the victims of the tsunami. This is totally optional.
So there we have it kids, be there at about 4/5pm for a free feed :D
Cheers,
Manny |
| 3xtreme LAN 7 Prize Announcement [ Comments (21) ] Created By: Sniper 11:53 pm, 28/3/2005 | HI GUYS!
OK so this is probably one of the biggest announcements of 3xtreme 7! This is the first release of our prize list.
And so far the list is valued at over $2000!!!
Thanks to the brilliant folks over at EA Games have provided us with:
3x Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth
3x Medal of Honour: Pacific Assault
3x Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2
3x Star Wars Republic Commando
That's a total of 12 games to give away!
EA Website: http://www.eagames.com/
And thanks the out latest sponsors Crucial Paradigm we have the following to offer:
4 x Paradigm 1k Plans (Valued at AU$93 each)
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Total Crucial Paradigm Prize value: AU $1184
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So get ready people because this LAN is going to be one hell of a show! |
| Welcome! [ Comments (19) ] Created By: rocket 11:09 am, 9/3/2005 | Update (9/3/2005 6:30pm):
Some changes have been made to the info sheet; it now gives a bit more direction on how to go to the LAN.
Welcome to the 3xtreme LAN website.
If you're looking for more info about who we are and what we do, check out this link:
http://www.extremelan.net/forms/info.pdf |
| Why am I on the waiting list? [ Comments (26) ] Created By: rocket 11:23 pm, 7/3/2005 | If you just registered then you're not actually on the waiting list, it's just that we've made 100 prepaid tickets. We've never sold the entire supply of tickets.
In other words you'll be pushed up the list once we find out how many prepaid tickets we sold.
Have a look and you'll see that the registrations start at position 100. |
| Prepaid tickets are on sale [ Comments (8) ] Created By: rocket 8:30 am, 6/3/2005 | Update (11:30am 9/3/2005):
- Prepaid tickets are now available via KA Tech's website
- Everyone who prepays goes into the draw to win a prize!
- The odds of winning are 1 in 100 - it's better than the lottery :)
- Tickets are available via KA Tech's website
http://www.katech.com.au/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=475&osCsid=e25d7b9b82b9420a365fc6023cac80e1
If you've been following up till now, you'll know we're selling prepaid tickets for 3xtreme LAN through KA Tech.
Prepaid tickets are available from KA Technologies at the swap meet or online via their website at http://www.katech.com.au/ .
If you're buying at the swap meet you can get a ticket at the following places:
Sunday March 6th - Malvern Town Hall - in the foyer
Sunday March 13th - Springvale - in front of stage
Sunday March 20th - Camberwell - on the stage
Sunday March 27th - KA Tech will not be at any swap meet.
In order to smooth the process of getting your ticket, please complete a signup form and bring it to the swap meet.
Signup form: http://www.extremelan.net/forms/signup_form.pdf
If you have problems getting your ticket or questions about when you can get it, you can call Adam on 0418 598 456. |
| First round of sponsors announced [ Comments (10) ] Created By: rocket 12:53 am, 4/3/2005 | Hi everyone,
Thought I'd take a break from sleeping to announce our sponsors for this 3xtreme.
3xtreme LAN will be run in conjunction with Monash IT Society in an effort to strengthen ties with the university that provides our great venue. It should also put us more in touch with Monash students.
Note that this is only the first-run sponsor announcement; there's more on the way. Prizes are being negotiated so hold onto your hats :)
OK.. so the list so far is as follows:
* KA Technologies will have a stall at the back of the hall. They'll be selling food, drinks and PC parts. (including hard drives)
* Crucial Paradigm will be providing us with some web hosting prizes, for all those clans eager to get their websites off their ISP's webspace
* Finally, Dynamic Billiards are yet again providing us with a pool table for the duration of the LAN. These guys are fantastic. The next time you or someone you know buys a pool table, go buy it from them.
More sponsors, and more prizes, will be announced over the coming week.
If you haven't registered yet, what are you waiting for... head over to the registration page and register now! |
| 3xtreme LAN seven is announced [ Comments (26) ] Created By: rocket 2:35 am, 1/3/2005 | Update (6:30pm 1/3/2005):
-The LOGs (that's Large Organised Games if you're seeing this for the first time) are now available for voting via the polls page. On each one you can either vote Yes or No, or else not vote at all.
-Polls page: http://www.extremelan.net/index.php?page=poll
-If you want to see the results of a poll (ie. without voting) then just log out.
It's time for the Easter 2005 3xtreme LAN. Have you missed us?
3xtreme LAN Seven will be another 250-player weekend LAN event at Monash Uni in Clayton.
It's going to go from 10:00am on the 2nd of April until 2:00pm on the 3rd.
The cost to you, our number one customer, is $25.
If you want more information, please see our LAN Guide or Photos.
LAN Guide: http://www.extremelan.net/index.php?page=languide
Photos: http://www.extremelan.net/index.php?page=photos
Stuff we've continued from version 6:
* Pizza run!
* Awesome prizes from lots of sponsors, expect to see some of the usual crowd showing up to provide you guys with great free stuff as well as some new ones.
* Gigabit network. So your games can lag even less. Yes, I said Games. :)
* Our trademark FUN atmosphere, without which it wouldn't be 3xtreme LAN
* Competitions for the most popular games out there right now, including Battle for Middle Earth, Warcraft 3 (Corridors - an extreme lan tradition), and lots more that Manny hasn't gotten back to me about yet
* and the rest
New features in version 7:
* Outside sports - to burn off the excess energy from that 6th bottle of V. Also, there's nothing like a relaxing game of cricket while your OS is reinstalling and/or your CPU died.
* LOGs (Large Organised Games) - look for new polls on the site. We'll be deciding the results a week out from the LAN, so make sure you vote when you come back to the site to confirm. You should see the polls for the most obvious LOGs tomorrow. (Wednesday)
* Bigger, better karaoke contest.
* More variety of music on the PA system - and clearer audio for those who complained that they couldn't hear manny tell them they're planmmn mm the cnmshpht cmmsh nssht rmmm. (PLAYING IN THE COUNTER STRIKE COMP NEXT ROUND)
* Sponsors. I'll post news as soon as it comes to hand!
So head over to the registration page and register!
How to attend 3xtreme LAN if you wish to pay at the door:
1. (Now) Go to the register page and register yourself. You may need to create a new account first.
New Account: http://www.extremelan.net/index.php?page=newaccount
2. After March 19th, or 19/03/05: When confirmations open you'll get an email. Come back to the site, visit the register page and click the confirm link. You can then choose a seat booking.
3. Turn up on Saturday morning for the LAN
How to attend 3xtreme LAN if you wish to prepay and gain priority entry:
1. Go to the swap meet and buy a ticket for 3xtreme from the KATech stall.
2. Rock up at the LAN and jump the queue! You're a prepaid!
100 prepaid tickets are available for 3xtreme. |
| 3xtreme LAN Seven Timetable [ Comments (11) ] Created By: chewy 1:23 pm, 27/2/2005 | 27/02/2005 06:00PM Registrations open
19/03/2005 12:00PM Confirmations and seat bookings open
30/03/2005 08:00PM Registrations close
31/03/2005 08:00PM Confirmations close
31/03/2005 09:00PM Seat bookings close
02/04/2005 10:00AM LAN begins |
| Feedback results [ Comments (24) ] Created By: rocket 3:16 pm, 1/10/2004 | Thanks to everyone who contributed some feedback this time around. Your voice has been heard!
Next 3xtreme we WILL do the following things:
* Outside sports:
Possibly cricket, rugby, footy, frisbee, soccer or anything else, admins/gimps will be umpiring
* More LOGs (large organised games):
99% of the funny memories of last 3xtreme were from playing in either our Call of Duty or Joint Ops games.
We'll be holding polls to determine what games people want LOGs for, closer to the date of next 3xtreme.
Next 3xtreme we'll announce all our planned LOGs and tell you what you'll need to install AT THE START OF THE LAN - so you're ready to jump into the game straight away.
* A bigger and better karaoke comp
So polish up on your singing skillz.
* More variety in the music on the PA system:
Techno, trance, dance, garage, speed garage, jungle, rave, goa, psy-trance, psy-psy-trance, pseudo-trance, pop-trance. Just kidding.. We'll try and please everyone with a good mix of lots of genres.
And here comes the big one..
* FOUR INSANE EVENTS PER YEAR!
3xtreme LAN Summer will be our 120-player summer LAN in December/January (this will start in 2006), we will continue to run our traditional 250-player events in April and September and we will also now run an all-new 350-player Winter extravaganza. Note that these are still working titles.
As you can see, we're working hard to make 3xtreme the very best LAN Melbourne's community has to offer.
We'll see you at our next event. |
| Comments & Feedback [ Comments (17) ] Created By: rocket 6:56 pm, 27/9/2004 | So far we've had comments for improvement in several different directions. It's best if we get your feedback now while your mind's still fresh with ideas for the lan. I think that announced games was a very successful thing. We had 30 playing United Offensive, and 29 playing Joint Ops. That's a pretty decent effort - but we can still do better!
We're looking into getting a band up on stage during the LAN. Also, playing games with teams of admins vs players would be wicked. Like I said, tell us what you want to see extreme lan become cause it's not for the admins - it's for the people.
Please, if you've never posted in our forum, start posting now! Some of the best ideas ever sound crazy when people first hear them.
And to our forum regulars, make the new people welcome :) |
| Extreme Lan Six: ITS OVER! [ Comments (29) ] Created By: rocket 4:53 pm, 27/9/2004 | Starting at 10am last Saturday morning, Monash Uni's exam halls were taken over by 250 hardcore gamers from all over Melbourne who brought their PC's along to the hall for an entire weekend of intense networked gaming.
Blah Blah blah.. we all know how awesome extreme lan was! If you weren't there, you missed a classic lan.
I will be taking lots of memories away from this LAN. Capehorn fixing the power, the network not working until midday and this time it was only half my fault, the karaoke contest which was a competition to see who could sing the best - but which turned into a freestyling contest when one of jixor's mates showed up and showed off his rapping talent - we've got it on film. The UT2k4 comp which died in the ass, Call of Duty (I missed it cause of ut2k4.. doh!), Joint Ops on Sunday arvo (what's the parachute button guys??? ALT-F4 rocket!), finding out that "Port" the footy team refers to Port Adelaide not Port Melbourne, and the unclaimed pizzas. The Q3 comp - especially watching the playoff for 2nd (that was a great match guys), Shonkyman's incredible server collection, the prize presentations (is Jesus here) - and sorry about the lack of a case mod comp guys... the list goes on. I'll post some other people's memories in the comments - check it out!
Admins have now finally finished everything off for the weekend, having dropped off the stage and power gear. What a marathon weekend.
Well! Where would we be without our wonderful sponsors. If you've won something at the LAN it was provided by a sponsor. If you wanted to nick a poster - that poster belonged to a sponsor. Hehehe.. no poster for you. They're fantastic and I'd like to extend a big thanks to all of them. Thanks atomic, OCZ, Powercolor, Everglide, Sparkle, Coolermaster, Sunbeam, Dynamic Billiards, and last but not least, KA Technologies. Warm fuzzy feelings all around.
Shonkyman and crew have been awarded lifetime gold memberships to extreme lan - you deserve some recognition for all the effort you've put in over the years to make the LAN truly awesome. This will grant these guys free entry to extreme lan forever. And we're not going to make the membership invalid by changing our name!
CONGRATS EVERYONE ON ANOTHER AWESOME EXTREME LAN! |
| Final LAN Update [ Comments (15) ] Created By: rocket 12:15 pm, 23/9/2004 | Planning for the LAN is pretty much finished and we're all pumped up and enthusiastic about Saturday - as Big Kev says, I'm excited!
If you need directions for how to get to the LAN, you'll find Monash Uni's Clayton campus on map 70 of the Melways. Failing that, search for wellington road over at http://www.street-directory.com.au/ .
Once you make it to the campus, you'll need to enter via the Southern (Wellington Road) entrance to the campus, go straight ahead at the roundabout and take a left onto Union Loop Road.
Here's a pretty map to help you find us:
http://lan3xtreme.ausgamers.com/images/event03/unimap.gif
Traffic in the union loop will be a bit hectic, so please try to clear the area nice and quickly once you've put all your gear down. Get a friend to watch it if needed.
Doors open at 10am on Saturday morning. As usual, there'll probably be a big queue by then, so if you turn up earlier you'll get a better spot in line. Prepaids will be admitted first; they are also welcome to jump the queue if they turn up late, but you should still wait your turn behind whoever's currently being admitted. We've been working hard at making checkin as efficient as possible, so as long as everyone plays nice, everyone should be in the door by 11am.
Prize presentation is Sunday at 2pm, if you're not there for your prize you won't get it. Of course, you don't have to stay at the LAN; you can come back at 2pm Sunday and get your prize then. Unfortunately we can't give away any prizes any sooner than this, sorry guys.
With that all said, we the admins would like to formally thank everyone in advance for making 3xtreme lan the great lan it is. I hope to see YOU at extreme!
Oh, and I bet you can't guess what our theme is going to be :) |
| Pre-paid tickets sent [ Comments (9) ] Created By: chewy 6:52 pm, 17/9/2004 | Pre-paid tickets have been sent out to players, if you have not received them, reply to this thread or email info@katech.com.au .
Some ticket emails have bounced because of full email boxes, particularly hotmail accounts. These should be re-sent soon. |
| COMPETITIONS!!! [ Comments (21) ] Created By: mannyg 9:54 pm, 15/9/2004 | Alright guys, I'll get off my ass and announce something ;)
Well as you all know RockeT has been as busy as a beaver organizing various things and im sure you all saw his post on Competitions... well I'm gonna shed a bit more light on things.
Counter-Strike 5v5 Competition:
* CS Version 1.6 on Steam
* Double Elimination Tournament
* 8 Teams Max (if theres heaps more, then more it shall be)
* Maps and Draw Decided on the day
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne - 3 Corridors Competition
* Hehe, this is the one some of you have been waiting for, map and format...
* 5v5. That's right kiddies, 10 player carnage :D
* Map: 3 Corridors FT LE 5.21. Not 5.2, it has a MAJOR bug in it...
* Format will most likely be Double Elimination
Unreal Tournament 2004 Onslaught Competition
* 6v6
* I'm gonna trial a new-old system that worked really well at Shafted 30 for this Competition. One team decides the Map, the other team decides the Team Colour, and YES it makes a difference in some maps.
* Format to be decided on the day
Battlefield 1942: Desert Combat Competition
* 6v6
* Maps and Sides decided by the same system as UT2004
* Format will again be Double Elim or Knockout.
Quake 3 Duels Competitioin:
* I'm not touching this one with a 10ft pole, RockeT she's all yours ;)
Any questions/issues with anything at all, feel free to email or msn me at toolgasm462@hotmail.com
See you all next weekend :)
Manny |
| Competitions!! and Pool table!! [ Comments (5) ] Created By: rocket 12:52 pm, 15/9/2004 | These are the comps not announced above:
Quake 3 Arena Competition:
* 1v1
* 8,12 or 16 players, depending on demand
* OSP, Duel mod on the players' choice
* Dual-elimination style
Pool (8-ball) competition:
Yep, real life pool on a real pool table.
The pool table has been confirmed for extreme lan!
Some small comps for when everyone's busy reinstalling their OS:
StarCraft competition:
Remember this game, I think most of you were too young back then to know but it's a classic.
Jedi Knight 2 nostalgia competition
3xtreme lan's first ever comp. Kudos to Madd Dog whose skill with yellow/red stances beat out my blue stance saber spam in the final back in 2002, but only just. |
| We got Prizes!!!!!!!! [ Comments (14) ] Created By: rocket 12:35 pm, 15/9/2004 | Well guys, it's time for another major announcement. WE HAVE OUR PRIZES FOR EXTREME. Hold onto your hats people, here it comes!!!
Now these aren't all the prizes we'll have there, but it's most of them.
The total retail value of the prizes at extreme lan six is in excess of $2500 - 100 TIMES what it costs to attend the lan!! Is that awesome or what?
The prizes we've so far confirmed are:
* Cooler Master ATC-500
* PowerColor 9600XT EZ 256MB TV/DVI-I
* OCZ DDR RAM Booster
* Atomic Magazine
* Few set of Vantec accessories (Slot protector, Cable Sleeving)
* Everglide pads
* Katech modding prize: Atomic mag
* Katech prepaid lucky prize drawer: TBA
* Katech prize: Clear Acryllic Case
* Katech prize: CoolerMaster Jet 7+ or Jet 4 CPU Cooler
* Katech prize: UV paints
* Katech prize: cable sleeving
* Katech prize: molex replacement kits
* Katech prize: lollies
* Katech prize: sunbeam overclockers kit
* Katech prize: Dual 30CM Cathode kits
I'd like to extend a huge thanks to Katech for arranging for us to have these prizes to give to you. If you skimmed that list, read it again!! There're some incredible prizes in there.
In case you don't already know, KA Technologies is a company which sells all sorts of case mod gear. Their range extends beyond that of their most obvious competitor and their prices are often better. They've been a part of the 3xtreme lan community for 2 years now and they'll be at the hall selling their full range as well as food and drinks. Make sure you go up and say hi to them during the lan!
To all of our major sponsors, Netcomm, Powercolor, Coolermaster, Sparkle, Sunbeam (a brand of case mods that's about to take Australia by storm), and now Everglide, OCZ and Atomic magazine, we extend a huge thanks for donating such an amazing range of your products to our players.
Enjoy!
http://www.katech.com.au/ |
| 3xtreme Lan Wireless [ Comments (2) ] Created By: rocket 9:39 pm, 14/9/2004 | | Yep we'll have wireless. If you want your computer's mac address added to the list then please come see an admin at the lan.. but wait until checkins are over.. |
| 3xtreme Lan Grand Final action [ Comments (16) ] Created By: rocket 1:35 am, 11/9/2004 | | Thanks to the awesome Greek man MannyG we would like to proudly announce the projectorage of the AFL Grand Final at extreme lan. It'll be projectored from his TV Tuner card, and followed shortly by some intense console gaming action on my xbox! |
| ADVERTISEMENT: Lantopia #4 120 players FREE! [ Comments (5) ] Created By: rocket 12:03 am, 10/9/2004 | Transcript from the forum follows... enjoy :)
As some of you may know me and my admin crew run an event called LANtopia.
This event will be taking place on the 19th of september at knox http://lantopia.ausgamers.com
The rezidue crew are one of the few good melbourne lans and we are working our way up there with them, not to compete but just so as bring more to the melbourne/australian gaming community.
FREE.....yes you heard it. our way of bringing more to the melbourne gaming community is to provide our time/effort/funds towards a free even for all. Comps, prizes, lot-a-fun ect.
Some sponsers will be there ect.
So please, SIGN UP here and help us stay free and full. This one should be a big one 120 players with a gigabit backbone.
Regards
Sgt_RaVeN and the team at LANtopia
Source: http://www.extremelan.net/index.php?page=forum&action=viewthread&threadid=7470&forumid=4 |
| Registration update [ Comments (4) ] Created By: chewy 9:25 am, 6/9/2004 | The LAN is rapidly approaching and confirmations and seat bookings have now opened, in order to attend the LAN you MUST confirm although booking a seat is optional but recommended if you have a group you want to sit together with.
KA Technologies have informed me that all the prepaid tickets have been sold and will be emailed out shortly; all those who have purchased tickets do not be alarmed if you are not listed on this site as prepaid however it should be updates soon. |
| Prepaid tickets and You [ Comments (20) ] Created By: rocket 12:29 am, 29/7/2004 | Just a quick message about the rego system this time round, any places available to prepaids (ie. places 1 to 100) that aren't sold will be automatically given to normal registered players. Which means that, even though if you register now you're in the waiting list, you'll most likely be pushed back into the player list if we don't sell all the prepaid tickets that are available.
So for example, if we sell 86 prepaid tickets, everyone on the waiting list up to #14 will be put on the player list in time for the LAN.
Of course, if you want to guarantee your entry, you can prepay, meaning you pay for your entry now, jump up the list and can get into the LAN that much quicker. Check out KA Tech's website (the link's on the right) for locations you can purchase your ticket...
Or else check out this thread: http://www.extremelan.net/index.php?page=forum&action=viewthread&threadid=6237&forumid=4 |
| 3xtreme LAN Six update [ Comments (40) ] Created By: chewy 5:39 pm, 24/7/2004 | Planning for our sixth event is coming along nicely and we will be opening registrations for the event at 8PM Sunday (tomorrow). KA Technologies will be selling pre-paid tickets at the computer swap meets from this weekend onward and on their website.
Tomorrow KA Technologies will be at the Kingston computer swap meet, and tickets will be on sale on their website at all times that their not at the swap meet. The KA Technologies website can be reached by clicking their logo to the right.
Pre-paid positions are limited to 100 in order to avoid people being pushed off the player list as more people pre-pay.
As with last event, the seat bookings will be done in a group-booking fashion, allowing players to specify a group of people they wish to sit with but not the exact position of the group, the position of the group in the hall is decided on by the administration team.
As you may have noticed, the poll script on this web site is now working so please vote on whatever questions we put on it. |
| 3xtreme LAN SIX [ Comments (168) ] Created By: rocket 8:52 pm, 21/5/2004 | Alright people.....
You asked for it, it's time to present 3xtreme LAN SIX.
Lots of cool stuff planned for our sixth LAN event, including the usual comps and sponsorship from several of the big names you already recognise... so stay tuned!!
Registrations will be open soon; bug us in the forums about it!!
BTW To all the forum regulars.. hi2u! might give some of you people an award at next 3xtreme for posting regularly the last month or so :)
GL HF.. TTYL
3xtreme Lan will rock you. |
| Sponsors [ Comments (10) ] Created By: rocket 3:37 pm, 8/4/2004 | We'd like to extend a special thanks to sponsors Powercolor, Coolermaster and Sparkle. They provided us with the great prizes that some of you lucky people took home :)
Thank you guys for supporting extreme lan. You're awesome. |
| 3xtreme five wrapup [ Comments (25) ] Created By: rocket 1:43 pm, 5/4/2004 | What a bloody awesome LAN!!!!
3xtreme ran its 5th event on the weekend, catering for 250 awesome gamers. While the network had its occasional hiccups (we had to re-crimp a few network cables here and there) overall everything went to plan. I'm sure there's lots of stories of funny stuff that happened at 3xtreme, so feel free to share them.
Competitions were run smoothly as always by MannyG with his band of assistants - there's already some stuff he's posted in the forums about the comps :)
Sponsorship as usual was fantastic, with EA Games providing us with copies of BF:Vietnam and NFS:Underground. Aussie Disposals provided the "18 x 24 metre" camo net - much <3 to them for that (they sell sweet chairs and beds.. worth looking at if you're a regular lanner). Netcomm (not netgear :) ) Supplied the network, I supplied the crappy network cable. If only cable was being sold at the LAN... bit of an in joke that one! Dynamic Billiards made the extra effort and provided us with a pool table and the prize of a cue for the pool comp, <3 to them too.
From 3pm on Friday until 10pm on Sunday (minus 6 hours of sleep in my case) the admins were hard at work setting up, running and packing up the LAN for you guys. My thanks goes to the rest of the guys on our team - you do an awesome job.
Thanks go to the admins people don't see - Capehorn, Viper and headexplodes. They took care of the stuff that's important but subtle. Thanks also to our honourary assistants - especially Greven, G'Dave, Crab, Foo, psychobrat and everyone else who hung around and helped. Even the people who only wound up one power or network cable - you know who you are :)
KA Tech were fantastic as usual, taking care of the supply of food and drink. We'll be preselling tickets next time through them at the swap meet and also online. If you don't know their website yet.. click on their logo :P
KA Tech actually do a lot behind the scenes - much more than take care of selling food and computer parts for us. They've been instrumental in a lot of the cool stuff we had at the LAN - they are the ones we have to thank for Netcomm supplying all that network gear, they helped us organise the sponsorship from Aussie Disposals and they came up with the idea of prepaid tickets. Thanks guys, you really helped us out.
Thanks to everyone who brought stuff to the LAN - servers, network gear etc. ShonkyMan and co, you guys brought the majority of the public servers - even if they didn't get used. GG guys. We really appreciate it. Also thanks Xitation for the UT2k4 servers :)
I'm bloody exhausted! :)
After we finished packing up at about 10pm last night, I went home and fell asleep pretty much straight away. I've only just become awake enough to post a wrap-up here :)
I don't know about anyone else, but I had a hell of a lot of fun at extreme lan 5. I have many great memories of this LAN, including the "Noll-off" (much <3 to Crab, dero, mesnee and everyone else, who sung "what about me" and actually didn't sound that bad), visits to the lan from my parents and their gobsmacked friends, playing TrackMania (<3 Superbeast, dero, Kane), people asking me whether I truly needed 4 monitors on my desk, Steak on a scooter in the breezeway (wheeeee), the lethal air hockey table, the Quake 3 comp (GG guys), War3 corridors (<3 CoBy, Azrael, Belial), Netcomm's supplying us with gigabit network gear and the crappy cables I crimped that let it all down (stop leeching!!! :P). If you've read this far I'm sure you have lots of your own memories too.
We loved it, and we hope you loved it too. If you weren't there then you'll have a chance to be there next time in 3 or 6 months.
Thanks for coming guys, it wouldn't be a LAN without everyone. You really make 3xtreme the awesome LAN it is.
We hope to see you there next time :) |
| 3xtreme LAN Five - final update [ Comments (6) ] Created By: rocket 1:06 pm, 2/4/2004 | w00t!!!!112!@@
3xtreme lan tomorrow :)
This is the final update before the LAN. If you know someone with a question answered here (ie. parking, when to turn up etc.), please tell them about this page (or tell them the answer from here).
To everyone wondering, my advice is to turn up bright and early in order to get a good spot in the queue. If you are prepaid we'll be letting you in first.
We will have 2 entrances to the LAN in order to get people in faster. The nearer of the 2 will be for confirmed players ONLY (ie. no prepaids!).
All going well, prepaids will get let in from 9:30 am onwards. SO - if you're prepaid, 9:30am is on time.
Prepaids who turn up later get to "jump the queue" - but only at the farther away of the 2 entrances to the LAN.
If you have a seat booking, please tell our ushers and they can direct you to your seats.
Please claim all the seats in your booking by putting the chairs on top of the tables in the area you are claiming. Chairs that aren't on tables are fair game for people without a booking.
Seat bookings are forfeited at 12 pm SHARP. Any unclaimed seats in your booking are also forfeited at this time. There're a few exceptions to this rule as usual - those people know who they are.
To get into Monash you'll need to use the Main (Southern) entrance on Wellington Road. All other entrances are closed on the weekend.
http://lan3xtreme.ausgamers.com/images/event03/unimap.gif
Competition registrations need to be in by 12 for some of the comps. If you need to register for a competition please ask to use an admin's (or another player's) PC to do so.
If you're a long way away and don't want to risk being turned away at the door - give me a call on 0422 299 750!!
I'll tell you if it's worth coming along.
Can't wait to see you all at the LAN. |
| EA Games [ Comments (9) ] Created By: rocket 12:00 pm, 31/3/2004 | OMG!!
EA Games' prizes have shipped. :)
We've got some copies of BF Vietnam and NFS Underground, some flyers and some posters for you guys.. if you think you're good enough to win the comps.
/me applauds ea games on being bloody awesome |
| GOMG [ Comments (10) ] Created By: rocket 12:15 am, 31/3/2004 | OMG!@(%^(^*!#%
EXTERME LANNAGE!(@$*^*( SOON
Also seat bookings are closed.
Now it's time for us to begin the evil task of placing the bookings.
kthx~ |
| Security and patches [ Comments (14) ] Created By: rocket 1:43 am, 29/3/2004 | Take some time out from gaming this week to go download the latest updates to windows. Make sure your people do too.. we don't want another outbreak of blaster on our hands :)
Also.. since we're running CS 1.6 in non-steam mode (Manny can you fill us in on this?), apparently you need to jump on steam from home and get your CS patched up right to the latest patch to support LAN play.
There will be no internet connection at the LAN! So do your steam updates before you get there!
This has been a community service announcement. We do not encourage the kicking of possums, especially when they're still in the tree. |
| To everyone who's a little confused about when to turn up [ Comments (16) ] Created By: rocket 12:58 pm, 28/3/2004 | If you're prepaid then turn up to the LAN whenever. You'll be let in first.
If you're confirmed and on the playerlist (there shouldn't be anyone on the list who's unconfirmed since the bump) then turn up early to beat the other confirmed people. You'll be let in after the prepaids.
If you're on the waiting list but you're confirmed then turn up bright and early and you will probably find you get let in. Bear in mind though that everyone who's there by 10 and is on the list will be let in before you (but not everyone turns up by 10).
People on the waiting list who aren't confirmed.. sorry guys. We've got 300 combined confirms and prepaids. If you really want to get into the LAN you can ring me on 0422 299 750 after 10 and I'll tell you whether we're likely to fill up. |
| Aussie Disposals [ Comments (23) ] Created By: rocket 5:23 pm, 27/3/2004 | Hey everyone...
Lots of people have been speculating about Aussie Disposals' sponsorship.
Well.. we're not gunna tell you what it is, you'll just have to wait until the lan and find out.
^_^ |
| Tickets sold out completely [ Comments (19) ] Created By: rocket 2:58 pm, 27/3/2004 | Hi guys.
There'll be no tickets for sale at the swap meet this Sunday. Registrations are closed. Confirmations are closed. We're sold out.
As it is, people who've been waiting to go to the lan for weeks have been getting pushed off the playerlist, for no reason other than some people (who may well have just decided they want to goto 3xtreme) gave us money in advance.
We have to make a decision about where to draw the line between allowing queue-jumpers and listening to the pleas of the people using the conventional system.
Once again all tickets to extreme lan are sold out. If you haven't already confirmed (waiting list or not) or prepaid you will very likely be turned away at the door.
Complaints, death threats etc. can be directed to my mobile phone on 0422 299 750.
Sorry guys, but we've only got so many seats. We can't just make more because more people want to go. We'd sure like to though. |
| List bump [ Comments (22) ] Created By: rocket 10:21 am, 24/3/2004 | Everyone who you know hasn't confirmed yet, get them to come to the site and confirm their registration - because we're going to "bump the list" very soon.
This basically means that unconfirmed people will go to the bottom of the list; it's another way we allow people on the waiting list who'll definitely be at the LAN to get in the list. |
| Seat bookings are up [ Comments (12) ] Created By: rocket 10:15 am, 24/3/2004 | OK guys, chewy's put the seat bookings up. Congratulations on an awesome coding effort on his part - he only just finished it last night :)
Make sure you get your people to add THEMSELVES. You can't add your people.
That again once more, your people will have to add themselves to your booking group.
We place booking groups. If you would like your group to be placed in a particular area of the LAN then please email me at extremelan.net (rocket to the left of the @)
Oh - and seat booking groups must have more than one person to get placed! Otherwise why bother booking a seat.. :p |
| Desert Combat and Vietnam [ Comments (12) ] Created By: rocket 5:44 pm, 22/3/2004 | OK. Here's the final word on the DC and Viet comps:
We're running both! :) |
| Seat bookings [ Comments (14) ] Created By: rocket 11:58 pm, 21/3/2004 | | Seat bookings are definitely available and it'll be up soon. Note that your people will have to add themselves to the group and they have to be confirmed for the LAN. |
| And the MaNNyG said.. BAM! [ Comments (26) ] Created By: rocket 11:30 pm, 21/3/2004 | Hello children, I am Manny G. I am also known as Manny, Mangee or "that weird greek guy" :D
As some of you know I will be running the majority of the competitions at Extreme LAN 5 along with the help of a few admin's (<3<3) and this post is gonna go over a few of the larger competitions including rules, maps etc...
First of all: Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne 4v4 3Corridors Competition
Map: There has been a lot of talk about what map to use, I've finally decided to use a map that one of our fellow Lanner's has made (much thanks to Foo). The map is called "3xtreme Corridors 2.0" and can be downloaded @ http://phantoms.customer.netspace.net.au/3xtremeCorridors2.0.w3x
Format: 4 players per side. Dual bracket tourney styles. For a diagram of the layout please visit http://members.iinet.net.au/~ian_o/wc3%20corridors%20comp.JPG
Choosing the sides will be decided by coin toss or you can agree to choose.
Secondly: Counter-Strike 5v5 Competition
Format: Counterstrike 1.6 in Offline Mode will be used. I've been informed it’s legal and all that jazz so we will use it.
Rules: The Rule set used will be based on the MGL Rule set but modified for the use of the LAN. The short of it is that the MGL Server Config will be implemented to prevent people from using higher rates and interp etc. The only other real rule you need to know is about restarts and crashes etc.
If a player’s computer crashes out whilst playing, the team is entitled to a restart PROVIDING that no more than 4 rounds have been completed. If 4 rounds have been completed, the game is paused until the player rejoins and then the match continues. In the event of a server crashing resulting in everyone dropping, if more than 4 rounds have been played, everyone joins back in and the match continues from where it crashed however, every player has $4500.
The other rule is regarding Messagemode 1 speak. Each team has a captain, only he may use mm1 and it MUST be relevant to the game. Nothing like LOLZ TRIPLE NADE KILL and the like... any improper use of MM1 results in loss of a round.
Any queries about grey areas, please email me at toolgasm462@hotmail.com
Next, Battlefield 1942: Vietnam 6v6 Competition
Don't know what’s going on here, ask chewy ;)
We'll be the first LAN to have BF1942:Viet and we've got EA Games on board supplying some awesome prizes for the lan. Much <3 and applause all around to EA Games for being so awesome :)
Jedi Knight 2 Saber Duels:
See above
Pool Competition:
Now here is something I know about! Thanks to the lovely people at Dynamic Billiards, we will yet again have a pool table at Extreme LAN; and when there is pool there is Competitions!! (and crazy shots from Capehorn who nearly kills morph :D:D:D)
The format is yet to be decided, but most likely Double Elimination. There will be a $5 entry fee from each player to either a) be put into a kitty for winner to take all or b) pay for a cue from Dynamic Billiards in which the winner will receive.
Just a quick note, be nice to the table, its very expensive and we want it back with no felt ripped and shiz like that...
Cheaty CS:
This has rules??
Need For Speed Underground: Drifts/Drags etc...
This will be run by ^Sunrise on the day and most likely made up on the spot, talk to him on IRC for information :)
Unreal Tournament 2004: Onslaught
Now this is going to rock, the game is finally out and people will have the full version at the LAN. Hence, much onslaught is needed. It will be 6v6 going by Telstra Gamearena's rules running on
ONS-Torlan. If anyone would like other maps to be played please email me at the aforementioned address.
Quake 3 OSP Duels:
Speak to RockeT, he is quake3KNG!
(I sure am Manny. - ed)
OK this comp will be dual elimination on any map that is agreed to by both players. Note here that by starting the match you agree to play on that map. 10 minute duels, the recommended maps as always are ztn3tourney1, pro-q3tourney4, q3tourney2 (prot2 is GHEY) and pro-q3dm6. If both players really really want to play on dm17 (that space map everyone loves) then it's ok, but beware - anyone halfway decent at rail will own you sideways on that map.
Phew, I think that’s about it, stay tuned for prizes and shiz, and we do have a comp schedule which will be released shortly so you can see if you are triple booked or not
GLNHF dudes, see you at the LAN :)
Manny |
| Confirmations [ Comments (10) ] Created By: chewy 1:29 am, 21/3/2004 | | Confirmations have now opened for 3xtreme LAN Five. Click register in the menu and select confirm. |
| Registration [ Comments (18) ] Created By: rocket 12:20 am, 10/3/2004 | Hey guys...
We're approaching the 250 limit on the rego system. This is just to tell you guys not to be discouraged from registering! There's still a 100% chance you will get into the LAN!
If you want to guarantee your seat you can pre-purchase your ticket at the swap meet. |
| 1 week of new extreme websiteage! [ Comments (16) ] Created By: rocket 2:28 pm, 9/3/2004 | | EYYYY |
| A word on our registration system... [ Comments (20) ] Created By: rocket 12:36 pm, 6/3/2004 | If you want to go to 3xtreme LAN five, you have 2 options:
1. Visit the swap meet and find the KA Tech stall (hint: Look for the 3xtreme lan posters!) and pay $25. (ie. The same amount as the LAN costs on the door.)
Then on the day when you turn up you get to push to the front of the queue (it's expected to take over an hour to get everyone in at first) and you'll get the first pick of non-booked seats at the LAN.
Prepaid players will also get more prizes during our giveaway on Saturday night. (Note that competition prizes are presented on Sunday at 2pm)
2. Our alternative registration system is the same system used by every other LAN party in Victoria:
i. On a particular day, registration opens. This is when people register to say "I will probably be there." We are currently here.
ii. During the week before the LAN (in this case on or after the MONDAY before the weekend of 3xtreme lan five), people come back to the site and confirm their reigstration. Only confirm if you're definitely or almost definitely coming. This is when people say "I will definitely be there."
NOTE: If you need transport, ask in the forums or in IRC at #lan3xtreme on irc.oz.org. Chances are someone else will carpool with you.
iii. Turn up to the LAN and pay on the door.. and get ready to have an awesome time lanning :D
To register for 3xtreme LAN, please click on the 'register' link in the menu above. |
| Pre-purchased tickets [ Comments (20) ] Created By: rocket 8:43 pm, 1/3/2004 | Don't forget - you can pay for your ticket in advance in order to guarantee a seat! KA Technologies will be selling tickets at every Sunday swap meet leading up to the LAN.
* Malvern Town Hall
* Box Hill Town Hall
* Camberwell Town Hall
* and all the others.
Check out the scrolly banner on KA Tech's website ( http://www.katech.com.au ) for more info on where to go to get your ticket! |
| Some of the other cool stuff we will have at 3xtreme five [ Comments (36) ] Created By: rocket 3:19 pm, 1/3/2004 | * Pool table
* Air hockey table!
* KA Tech - selling food and drinks (for more info check out the forums)
* KA Tech will also be selling lots of hardware at the lan. Check out their website at http://www.katech.com.au/ and post in the forum for suggestions on what you want to see from them.
* Sleeping area
* Plenty of public servers for people who come to LANs to play GAMES!
* Special comps for prepaid ticket holders (if you've paid for your ticket and given us your login details you should have an account on the site.) |
| The state of comps [ Comments (17) ] Created By: rocket 3:14 pm, 1/3/2004 | There will be NINE huge comps at 3xtreme lan 5:
1. CS 1.5 - 5v5, usual rules apply
2. Battlefield 1942: Desert Combat
3. Warcraft 3: 3 Corridors! this one's a classic
4. Jedi Knight 2 sabre duels!
5. Pool competition (this time don't let manny take the title people!)
6. Cheaty CS - where firing out the back of your model is encouraged ^_^
7. Need For Speed Underground SIMULTANEOUS MULTIPLAYER drifting and drags
8. UT2k4: Onslaught mode (most likely this will only be the ut2k4 demo)
9. Quake 3 OSP Duels!!
NOTE: There'll be public servers up the whole lan for the above games (exluding pool.. of course) - especially Quake 3!
NOTE: People competing in the cheaty CS comp most likely won't be allowed to compete in the CS comp. This has come after some complaint by some vocal members of the community ;)
And for people asking about prizes, look for our prize list soon! But at the very least we've got a whole bunch of cool prizes being given away by KA Tech.
OH - and we've actually got a comp schedule this time, so everything actually will happen! |
| Welcome [ Comments (48) ] Created By: chewy 11:03 pm, 29/2/2004 | Welcome to the new 3xtreme LAN website.
Some features are not yet completed so please be patient. |
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