Anyone who has visited the event page for LlamaLAN 24 may have noticed three tournaments have appeared, one for each of the variants of Counter Strike that we're seeking your input on. Only one of these will see fruition, the qualifying version will need to have enough players spread evenly across the four teams, and while there isn't the balance just yet we're starting to see information trickling in.

So, we're very happy to see the votes being cast, ELEVEN of the TWENTY FIVE paid signups have shown a preference, but we need MORE!

To reiterate ... if you are attending LlamaLAN 24 we need you to indicate which of the three variants that you own through the GAMES LIST, and place them in the first three slots and then we can see which version is viable for a tournament.

http://www.llamalan.co.uk/events/29

All 3 spaces are next to each other on the RED team. Get signed up! Go! Go! Go!

Good afternoon peoples! Please frolic on over to the forum to check this post:

http://www.llamalan.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=113&t=3179

... which helps you understand what your Games List is all about and encourages you to give yours a bit of a spring clean! :D



Ta!

LlamaLANers,

The cutoff date has come and gone ... in the past this has always been a terrifying date for the LlamaLAN management and those pledged to attend an event, it was the date of no return, or even worse, of no LAN.
It marked a day when, if we hadn't sufficient paid attendees the LAN couldn't run even in its most basic form.

THESE DAYS ARE NO MORE! Technically the date is still there, but with the popularity of LlamaLAN and the commitment of those attending it no longer hold any fears for us!

LLAMALAN 19 SOLD OUT a week before the cutoff date, with the minimum number to run the event being hit almost before the previous event finished!

The LlamaLAN Management Team would like to wholeheartedly thank everyone who has supported LlamaLAN in the run up to this event, be it paying up promptly, to the wonderful word of mouth advertising that many of you carry out in your daily lives. As we have said before, LlamaLAN is a community led event, the management team can only make the best event we can, but it comes alive with the people who attend.

We're so popular that we have a queue of people waiting to pounce eagerly on any cancellations. If for any reason you find yourself unable to attend, fear not, let the management team know as early as you can and we will promote your ticket and re-sell it to the next willing attendee, this means that you will have a pre-paid ticket ready to assign to the next event and have already helped the next event hit its target, and the current event will remain packed to the rafters.

As promised we have reviewed the totals accumulated from the games lists of those attending and have formulated the big games that we will be running and the traditional 1v1 tournament ...

1v1 - Quake III Arena

Big Game 1 - Left 4 Dead 2

Big Game 2 - Team Fortress 2 [free] - King of the Hill

Big Game 3 - Alien Swarm [free] - Time Trial

So, two of the four tournaments are using free games which you can download through Steam, the third is a popular favourite that has been supported well as a tournament before, and the fourth a classic game that defined its genre for a generation has received a recent ground swell of popular support from the community forums.

If you haven't contacted your captain recently, please pop into the forums to say hello and report in for duty by expressing your interest in the games listed. Make sure that you have given them your Steam name and have been added to the general LlamaLAN group, the next event group, and to your team group. This will allow us to schedule event before and during the event and ensure that everyone can start to foster the team spirit that LlamaLAN is renowned for.

See you all online soon, and we'll be at the LAN before you know it!

'der Management

As ShoLAN started to infest every vital system throughout the fleet the remaining crew including the bridge commanders went into a semi-comatose state lasting several weeks after gorging themselves with fine food and drink, after all, a Llama's entitled to several excessive last meals when faced with a malicious artificial intelligence insidiously infecting every last vital life saving piece of equipment and threatening their total annihilation.

But those few who stayed alert had a plan, and began designing one key piece of equipment...

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.llamalan.co.uk/index.php?Section=articles.inc.php&news=0&ArticleID=203&resetcrumbs=1