Hey folks,

We can now officially announce that our first Bring Your Own PC (BYOPC) LAN of the year will be held the weekend of November 29th/30th (next Sat/Sun) in the Hub, in DCU. The event is a 24 hour overnight LAN party with tournaments running in the following games:

-- Call of Duty 4 (5v5) -- CounterStrike: Source (5v5) -- Unreal Tournament III (1v1) -- RTS to be decided (1v1)

Teams can be made up on the day if you don't have one and the winners and runners up of every tournament will receive really cool prizes of games, game vouchers and other cool gaming gear!

Of course aside from the tournaments, lots of other games will be played throughout the night. Games such as Team Fortress 2, Supreme Commander, Quake 3, C&C 3, ET:Quake Wars, Red Alert 3, Dawn of War, Battlefield 2, Call of Duty: World at War, CS 1.6, World in Conflict, Left 4 Dead and loads more will all make appearances!. We will also have a console area setup with our XBox 360's, Wii, PS3 and RockBand if you feel like a break from all the PC gaming that will be going on!

For everyone bringing a PC to the event you will need the following:

- LAN Cable - Power Adapter - Headphones (no speakers will be allowed) - PC + Monitor - Food!

So the LAN starts Saturday 12pm November 29th and ends Sunday 12pm November 30th, Admission will be 10euro for members. You can register for the event at www.byopc.dcu.ie on Monday, the site will be offline until then.

Hope to see you all at the LAN which should be the highlight of the semester and of GamesSoc's amazing year so far! So make sure to register at byopc.dcu.ie on Monday!

Robby ------- Chairperson, DCU GamesSoc http://games.dcu.ie