AI-Con Lans

General Info:

Another fortnight, another LAN! After LAN #13, we’re convinced that the Hobart Showgrounds are the place to be, so our next event is going to be there too. Our next event will be held on Saturday, 17th of July.

13 hour event as per usual, Noon start-up, though doors open at 11.30AM. Event wraps up at 1AM.

No Internet will be available, so Steam users please switch it to offline mode. We encourage attendees to place their box on the table, however we will try and accommodate those who choose not to. We also remind people to bring a surge protecting device as the LAN cannot provide that equipment.

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LAN 13 - Midway

LAN #13 was a big concern for us as were debuting a new venue and we were running end on from Dark-Media. However those concerns were misplaced as we had our biggest LAN yet, with 25 boxes on-site and just a touch over 30 attendees between the consoles and tabletop gamers.

Massive props to everyone who stood up and helped run the different events, it made things alot smoother in general and it was great to see the community help each other. Read the rest of this entry »

General Info:

After the awsomeness of LAN #12 we’ve decided that LAW131 can no longer contain our humble event. We thought long and hard and eventually we came to the conclusion that we simply must move to a larger venue! So I’m proud to announce we’re moving to the Hobart Showgrounds for our 3rd of July LAN.

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LAN #12 early on

LAN #12 was likely our most successful LAN to date with over 24 boxes on site all participating in some pretty fun LANing this Saturday past. Whilst some early on difficulties were had, we managed to have a great time. The (d)admin was suffering the flu which hurt organisation but otherwise it was a blast.

Whilst attendance was up, an early bug with the v1.5 patch for Battlefield 2 threatened to ruin things for the entire room. Luckily the patching process was stopped before too many installations was corrupted. The exact cause is still being investigated but there’s a lot of confidence that the culprit will be found so that v1.5 can be played at the next LAN.

Beyond the BF2 errors, network and power were fault free and drink sales were brisk.

The schedule once again creatively interpreted with CnC Generals being dumped from the play list due to time constraints. The console game turnout was also pretty small with Uriumaru saving the day once again with SF4 on the big screen. There should be a bigger showing next LAN I’m told. Read the rest of this entry »

General Info:

Sorry for the late promo. LAN #12 has now been confirmed for 19th of June! We will be running parallel to the Hobart Zombie March, so feel free to show up a little bit later and covered in blood!

Tthe LAN will be a 13 hour event, beginning Saturday June 19th at Noon, stretching on until 1AM the following day. No Internet connection will be available, so if your using Steam please switch it to offline mode.

We will once again be following a timetable, however consider it a guide rather than an absolute. We are taking into account failings at the previous LAN to make sure that doesn’t happen again.

Dedicated server/File server will be running once again so  if you’d like something to be running on the server, please email with a request. Hopefully wireless will be active this time around, which should prove useful for laptop based users.

The new event timetable is the following. Whilst the list is published, things may fall slightly askew. Read the rest of this entry »

LAN #11 was an extemely solid event being held in our usual location of Law131. Attendance shrunk with 19 people showing up however a great time was had by all. Organisation suffered with yours truly failing to adhere to the timetable but the gaming was incredibly solid.

Network and power were running fault free and we continued to have a strong sale of Rockstar (500ml) and 300ml cans of soft-drink.

As mentioned previously the schedule wasn’t really adhered too, mostly because of complications stemming from problems with unvalidated games. All in all everyone had a really good time so that’s what mattered most. Read the rest of this entry »