LanOC V11.0 September 1st and 2nd 2012

It really feels like it was just yesterday that we all at LanOC v10 having an amazing time. But Before long we will be at LanOC V11. That means it's time to open up our early bird registration for those of you who would like to lock in your seat to make sure you don't miss out this is the time to get signed up and pre-paid. We sold out early last event and we expect the same to happen again this time. Spread the word and get signed up early, we want to see everyone there!

Where will the event be?
We are hosting v11 at the same building we used for v9.0 and V10.0 in Van Wert, Ohio at 220 Fox road. We are just down the street from all the food you can eat and hotels and motels are also nearby. Please look up at the top of the website under LanOC LANparties to find out more about the hotels and motels in the area along with food.

Registration and costs
We have a three price breakdown, although we hope you prepay early enough where you won't have to worry about the other two. The three price breakdown goes like this

Now to Tue 31. Jul 2012 11:59 am $15
Aug 1st until August 31st at 11:59pm $20
At Event price $25

By doing the Early Bird pre-pay from now until July 31stth you will also get yourself a pre-printed name badge. Everyone after will have to be written in the day of the event.

Please remember the only way to guarantee yourself a seat is to pre-pay, until you have paid for it you don't have a seat. Once we sell out, if you haven't pre-paid you are out of luck.

Raffle
This is always a touchy subject for everyone including us staff. We are going to follow the same raffle format that we have had in the past with one exception. Each person will only get one raffle ticket for registration, no matter when you register. You will still be eligible to earn other raffle tickets by winning tournaments, contests, and other events both at the LAN and before. Remember also, our raffle tickets are given per person, not per seat as we have done in the past.

Tournaments
Our tournaments are up for discussion on the forums, we are planning on doing an FPS, an RTS, our walk up tournament, and then our old school tournament. If you do not post up suggestions, please do not complain about the games picked. We pick from the games you guys suggest while keeping in mind what will work best for the LAN.

Games
We are open to playing ANY game you guys are up for. In order to get the game you are interested in posted up on our suggested game list we will need to see a few people posting up interest in it. Please post up the games you are hoping to play at v11. Just like with our tournaments, if you don't post up your suggestions, please don't complain about the games picked.

Do I need a second seat?
There are a few situations where you might need a second seat. Specifically if you feel your PC is going to take an excessive amount of power, if you can't fit into just one seating area without hanging out over into another person's area or off the table, and if you want to hook up a second PC. The excessive amount of power would normally only be an issue when you are running triple or quad video card's. People with multiple monitor setups are asked to purchase two seats for both space and power reasons. We can only guarantee a 3 foot space per person, the building we have does have a few 8 foot tables but they will be used where needed to keep the rows spaced correctly.

Registration is open now! Sign up early and we are looking forward to seeing you there!

Because you weren't at the last LAN you couldn't see some of the changes we had to do to the seating layout with adding 40 more seats. Part of that was pushing power slightly farther than what we have done in the past meaning we have to be able to be careful with setups that require excessive amounts of power. Not only do multiple monitor setups require more power, but you also need a more powerful machine to power the additional monitors.

The seating layout with the additional seating is also tighter and didn't allow for monitors to hang into the walking areas even slightly, let alone one to two feet. Here is the only picture I can find that shows what I am talking about. Notice you can see the seat and table on the right.



It's true that your setup brought this to light, because the triple monitor setups brought to the LANs in the past all purchased multiple seats. But it wasn't a stab at you, only adding a rule that should have been there the entire time. This is why I told you in person about the rule even before we added it, because I wanted you to understand why we needed to do it.

I think anyone that came to the LAN can vouch for how great of a time everyone had at v10.0 and in the end I think you would have gotten your moneys worth even if you had to get two seats. But these are things to consider when we are trying to provide power and space for nearly 120 people. And on a personal note I was disappointed that you felt this way and didn't come out because I do enjoy chatting it up with you at the LANs.

We picked that weekend unaware of it being the holiday weekend, we were trying to do it the same weekend as the fair across the street. Something for people do if they would like, also fair food.

for those who are interested on the friday before the lan or the monday after the Van Wert fair runs from August 29th - September 3rd, 2012 and is right across the street from the LAN.

vanwertcountyfair.com/

I tripled checked with the venue and they said that they have never had people parking in their parking lots for the fair. The large empty fenced in area across from the building is actually the main fair parking. The last few years it hasn't been filling up.

The biggest issue we had with parking was actually people blocking the whole parking area next to our building off with their cars. I'm hoping to find a better solution for that, if nothing else we will be having people move their cars.

Myndmelt wrote: Sorry, off topic, Does that fair usually cost to get into, or is it a walk in and pay for everything sort of deal. I've seen both.

I guess if they have not had anyone problems with people trying to park in their lot would mean they are probably offering free parking so people wouldn't be trying to get in on the cheap. Either way that sounds pretty fun!

from their website
$6 day or $18 for all week

I'm sorry guys I thought I mentioned the official cause in one of my announcements. The router we were using was giving us issues. We are working with TP-Link to try to figure them out and make sure we don't have issues in the future. The ip conflicts were caused by this, and then we had an unrelated issue with our managed switch that I caused in all the craziness. Once we went to our backup router we did not have any issues. We actually would have gone to the backup router quicker had we not thought that it was a different issue.

Ether way V11 will have both a fixed router and our backup to make sure we keep the best connection possible up for you guys.

Wanted to give this a bump, we have almost 50 people signed up and we are just over two months away. Make sure to get signed up and pre-paid before that last minute rush a month before when the price goes up.

BUMP