Hey there LAN-goers, it’s only four days till our next gaming night! It’s happening this Saturday the 15th of June from 7pm onwards, with early set-up from 6pm (arrive early to start playing early!). For those of you who who’ve never made it to any of our previous LAN nights, this is a fundraiser for Galway’s Makerspace. Our other LAN nights were great fun, sometimes lasting until the following afternoon. The details for this event have changed since our last post, so here they are in their entirety:
Location:
091 Labs,
6 Commerce House,
Flood Street,
Galway (next to Gallery Beag)
Price:
Entry for the night will be 10 Euro, for both members and non-members.
Capacity:
20 people MAX
We will do our best to gauge how our attendance will look closer to the night and update this page accordingly.
Tournaments:
Tournaments have been reduced to one, with super-secret prizes. On the night we’ll be having a Free-For-All tournament using a special version of the Gun Game Mod for Call of Duty 4 (we’ll have the mod ready to be installed on the night).
Games List: (we will be assisting with version compatibility for all games listed).
Call of Duty 4: Gun Game Mod
Company of heroes : Blitzkrieg Mod
Homeworld 2
World In Conflict
Quake
Unreal Tournament 2004
Star Wars: Battlefront 2
Rainbow 6 Vegas 2
Team Fortress 2
Worms: Reloaded (hotseat play)
Sub Rosa
We’re planning to run Ignite Galway #5 on Thursday, June 27th from 8pm in Kelly’s but we need a few more speakers to go ahead. Last time, we had to postpone when a few speakers had to cancel last minute. We didn’t have enough backup speakers to really make it a good time for everyone and we don’t want that to happen this time =)
So if you’d be interested in giving a 5 minute talk on a topic that interests you, please email ignite@091labs.com before the end of this Sunday, Jun 16th, and let us know!
Ignite is a global lightning presentation format where speakers have five minutes and twenty timed slides to enlighten and inspire the audience about their chosen topic. Entry is €5 and the enlightenment is free!
The talk can be on whatever topic you want. The only thing we ask is that it be something that inspires you, something that you’d like to share with others.
And don’t to worry about making the most perfect talk ever either, we actually prefer our talks to be a bit rough and ready as the event is itself. The aim is to have fun, have a laugh, have a pint, enjoy the night, and maybe learn something and get inspired too =)
What we need:
5 minutes of you talking on your topic.
20 slides made by you that we can run in the background (they’ll autoforward every 15 seconds).
The slides saved in .ppt, .odp, and .pdf because something always goes wonky with presentations!
Steps to making a talk:
Figure out the story you want to tell, it can be whatever you want!
Write down the 5 main points you want to mention – that’s one minute each.
Get 4 pictures for each of those points that’ll help it flow in the background.
Turn the photos into slides and add some text if need be.
Tweak the above to your personal preferences afterwards.
If you want some ideas as to how they usually go, check out the playlist of our past Ignite talks. Below is one by Eoin Madden about Organ Donation, and Zombies!
**Warning – This event is postponed a week! NEW DATE 15TH OF JUNE Sorry for the inconvenience **
We will be running a LAN on the 1st of June and a gaming Tournament with prizes on the same day. Doors open at noon so you have some time to set up your rigs, grab a coke from our fridge and get comfortable. The tournaments should start at 2pm. The event will run till late.
Here is a list of the games and prizes we are currently considering, they are picked because most people can play them and some of the prizes are donated
Tournaments
Quake
Counter Strike Source
Age of Empires
Worms
Call of Duty – Gun Game
*Super Secret*
Rules
€10 entry fee for the event (regardless of time of arrival)
Matches will be set up and game modes picked by referee
No cheating etc
Tournaments start at 2pm
