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News from First Operation LAN Party

June 7, 2003. Saturday. 6:00 pm. Houston, TX.

Our first Operation LAN party was a big success despite some delays due to a few early technical issues. We had about 90 players/systems and near 150 visitors. All tournaments and competition were completed by 3:30 am the next morning. We gave out $3200-worth of products. Here are the winners:

Case Mod Contest, $223 total worth of 3 products
We had three serious contenders for this contest. Paul Stamatiou won the contest for his mod and installation of an LCD screen on the door of the Chieftec/Chenming Dragon case.

Street Fighter Showdown, $364 total worth of 6 products
Twelve people participated in this single-elimination game. Joaquin did an excellent job making that wood console box to host the hot rod. Each winner took away 3 prizes. Here are the winners:
1st Louis Yang
2nd Michael Nguyen

Battlefield 1942, $736 total worth of 9 products
Judging by the screen on the server, we had 12 people participated in this game. Probably quite a few people didn't get to play due to a network issue. Four rounds of play took place for about one hour. The winners were clearly leading the pack throughout the game. Each winner took home 3 prizes.
1st, Jerome Cortedo (=Magneto=, 14-year old)
2nd, Huan Huang (RuFFus, 19)
3rd, Michael Wei (Spyd3r, 17)

Counter Strike, $1895 total worth of 18 products
Eight teams participated in this 6v6 tournament on two servers: BH, CC-PC, CH4NK, ECONE, HIP, LOOTPACK, TOG, and UNBOUND. A single-elimination format was chosen by the team leaders. The winner was chosen after three rounds. Here are the maps played for each round: 1st - de_aztec, 2nd - de_inferno, and 3rd de_dustz. Many people suggested to play the standard 5v5 format next time.
Team TOG won all three rounds. Each winning member took home 3 prizes. The runner-up was Team HIP. Team TOG members include:
Michael Nguyen - sLiver
Kathy Nguyen - kathy
Hung Le - eXt
Justin Ruth - Mr. CAL-o
Thomas Bui - asdf
Rob Ramshur - Nark

Pictures of Winners of First Operation LAN

Gallery of First Operation LAN

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We'll announce our next LAN party soon. Most likely it will be held in July! Operation LAN will only get bigger and better.

Special thanks to all of our sponsors!

Antec, AOpen, CaseArts, DFI, Enermax, Maxtor, Super-Flower, Thermaltake, & Zalman.

Here is a list of some of the prizes:
Antec Lanboy case
Antec Lanpal case
Antec PLUSVIEW1000 Limited Edition
AOpen mid-tower case
AOpen aluminum micro ATX case
DFI LANParty motherboards
Enermax case and power supply
Maxtor external 250GB & 80GB hard drives
Thermaltake Xaser III cases
Zalman Quiet AMD HSF, P4 HSF, GPU cooler, & fan bus

Interesting Observataions:

12 Players participated in the Street Fighter Showdown.

8 Teams participated in the CS tournament.

Battlefield 1942 was won by a 14-year old.

Every paid player received a free item.

We gave out more than 30 items through raffles.

The three rental machines were gone within 30-minutes of registration.

Two of the Counter Strike winners were using our rental machines.

We had two lady players. One of them was a member of the winning CS team.

We had players coming as far from Woodlands and Clear Lake areas. Unfortunately, the Woodland CS team had to leave early due to the delay.

The event attracted at least two players who claimed as "nationally competitive." One of them didn't get to participate in the Battlefield 1942 due to a technical issue.

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Original Announcement before the Party:

Date/Time: June 7, 2003, Saturday. On 06/07/03, 6:00pm, Directron.com will host the first Operation LAN party, game tournament, and computer show. Operation LAN will consist of three tournament events, Battlefield 1942, Countertrike, and Street Fighter Showdown, all with great prizes. We'll have a case mod contest to select the best mod of the night. Space is limited so register now!

Sponsors: Antec, CaseArts, DFI, Enermax, Maxtor, Super-Flower, Thermaltake, Zalman, and AOpen. (We have now accumulated more than $3000-worth of products as prizes and give-aways).

Prizes:

At least $1000-worth products for the winning team of Counter Strike (six members).

At least $500-worth products for the top three winners of Battlefield 1942.

At least $300-worth products for the top two winners of Street Fighter Showdown.

At least $200-worth products for the winner of case mod contest.

We will give several door prizes through drawing.

Many freebies on a first-come first served basis.

Game Plan:
6-7 pm Registration, setting up
7-7:30 pm Rules, competition pairing
7:30 pm Street Fighter Showdown begins. Individual game. Single elimination.
8:00pm Battlefield 1942 begins. Individual game.
8:30pm Counter Strike begins. Team play.
10pm Case Mod Contest winner announced
11pm Winners of Battlefield 1942 announced
12pm Winner team of Counter Strike announced
(Actual time may vary and subject to change)

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