Just a quick note to let you all know that we’re going to be attending the LAN Party Northwest’s 400 Man LAN in Everett, WA from January 29-30th.  It should be 24 hours of rockin gaming and general good times. 

We love any opportunity to chug Red Bull, live on Pringles, and tweak out on games for hours with our fellow gamers, so we’re really excited about this event.  If you happen to live anywhere near Everett, WA you should come check it out.  We’ll definitely be playing a lot of Halo 2 (there are two official tournaments: one individual slayer and one 4vs4) and with luck we’ll have some other console games there.  Maybe we’ll even get to jump in on some of the PC game tourneys going on. No matter what happens we’ll be having good, clean gamer fun.

Learn more about the 400 MAN LAN and LAN party Northwest at their site: LANpartyNW.com.  We’ll give you more updates later and a full run-down about the shenanigans later. 

UPDATE:  We just received the rules for the two Halo tournaments.  Here they are:

4v4 HALO 2 Tournament

Best 2 of 3 maps
Each team picks one map
Team Slayer - 50 kills - no radar
Weapons - map default

If there is a tie, the 3rd map is picked by the admin.
3rd map gametype will be decided on tournament day.

::..:: Double Elimination ::..::

Map List:
Lockout
Ascension
Midship
Ivory Tower
Beaver Creek
Colossus
Zanzibar
Coagulation

Waterworks, Burial Mounds, Headlong and the unlockable map are not available for this tournament. 4 people on each team. Best 2 of 3, and double elimination insures everyone gets some good games in. With more than 8 teams, it will be single elimination.
5 second spawn. No radar. Default map weapons with Battle Riffle to start.

Halo 1 FREE FOR ALL tournament:

GameType – Free For All - Slayer Pro – 25 Kills to win
Wizard, Battle Creek, Hang Em High, Rat Race

Format:
Maximum 64 players – Single Elimination

8 players will compete in each game
The top 4 players will move on, the bottom 4 players will be eliminated.

For the final 8 players, only the bottom 2 players will be eliminated from each game.
The best 2 players will then 1v1 for the top prize on separate TV’s.