Darwin Gamers Association

Good Sunday Darwin Gamers,

Firstly I would like to thank everyone who attended our event and for contributing to a near flawless experience.

The admins, DragonXR, Kagestu, Vorly and myself had a great time running the event and gaming with you all.

We fired up the BBQ again and cooked up 120 Sausage and heaps of onions and by the end of the event all the food was gone. It was $5 for all you could eat. Massive thank you to Reece and his crew for manning the food station and made sure everyone got something to eat.

GT5 Best Lap - PS3 Setup

Major highlight of the event was the GT5 Best Lap which was run by Vorly who provided the gear and ran the competition to win a copy of Duke Nukem Forever. The Best Lap time was held by Squires with 5m 57secs.

The lap was around the infamous Nurburgring in a Ferrari F1 Racing Car which Vorly needed to unlock for $10 Million in GT5. Vorly’s lap time was 5m 23secs, however we couldn’t include that in the comp. We had 13 People enter this competition.

Rebmoc's - Arcade 60 in 1 Machine

During this event we had a 60 in 1 Arcade Machine supplied by Rebmoc which provided hours of entertainment for our gamers and spectators. We have asked Paul about this for the next event and he is going to lend it again. Thank you Paul.

The timetable ran like clockwork. We were on time most of the night and each slots transitioned smoothly to the next.

20 person TF2 went off. Such a great game and now free to play from Steam. We will be including this game into many of the future timetables.

.Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 also was great where we had some free-for-all and then gun game. This gave us hours of laughs and screaming just like TF2

See below for more information about the other games we played. Also the photos are now available for view under the Event Gallery – DGA MMXi (delta).

This event we also had our first ever EFTPOS machine and coloured ticket system which we used for Entry, Door Prize Draw, Lucky Draw, Food and Drink. This system seemed to work well and allowed a better cash management cashless system. Thank you to those who used our new EFTPOS Machine.

Thank you to everyone who assisted us in setting up and packing down. This allowed us to run a very issue free event. Big Thank you to Vorly for coming onboard this event to help us organise and run things up to and during the event.

Some feedback from our members about this event:

David Jones Great night, BIG thanx to Rak3r, Dragon and Kagetsu for organising and helping out everyone during the night, and the BBQ Boys for putting up a great feed… Well organised and great admin, makes these nights happen… bring on MW2, TF2 again at next LAN, great fun!

Jonathan Haslett – Good work tonight. Last DGA I went to was in 2004 before I moved to Brisbane. I had a great time. Keen to help out in the future as well.

Lars Gronholt - a really good night, Keith. The free arcade console was very cool and kudos to whoever provided the racing rig – though I’d rather have had a car on the track that more people were comfortable with (specifically me) ;P

EVENT STATISTIC

• Gamers: 32 – we would love to see this higher
• Games Played: TeeWorlds, TF2, Halo, COD MW2, TrackMania, GT5 on PS3
• Sausages Consumed: 120
• Drinks drank: 66
• Hours Played: 10
• Photos Taken by RakeR: 33
• Tweets: 12
• TeraBytes transferred from \\server: 2
• Best GT5 Laptime in F1 on Nurburgring: 5m 23secs

PRIZE WINNERS

Images of the prizes are available in our DGA MMXi Delta announcement post

• Door Prize: Subblime – Gigabyte GTS450 Video Card – Donated by Cut Price Computers & DGA
• GT5 Best Lap: Squires – Duke Nukem Forever PC Game – donated by Cut Price Computers
• Lucky Draws
  • SpiderDUX – Thermaltake Challenger Keyboard – donated by IT Shack
  • Heddles – Duke Nukem Forever PC Game – donated by Cut Price Computers
  • Grey_Leader - Coolermaster Storm Spawn Gaming Mouse – donated by IT Shack
  • Spiritwalker - Plantronic COM367 Gaming Headphones – donated by IT Shack

SPONSORS

An enormous thank you to all our Sponsors who got involved by either coming down and attending the event or donating DGA some fantastic prizes for us to give away.

• David from IT Shack – Prizes and support
• Rod from Cut Price Computers – Prizes and Raffle
• Paul from Rebmoc Leisure & Hire – Drinks and Arcade Machine
• Darwin Community Arts – Event Location
• KikFM – Advertising
• Alan from CIS for providing the Cat 6 Data Cabling

Firstly a big thank you to IT Shack for your continued support, David you are alway on board and donate some of the best prizes. This event David assisted DGA by supplying:

• Nikon Digital SLR Camera for me to take all the photos. I do admit the photos are not my finest work, however I was working in the dark most of the time.
• Full Computer Rig and 19″ LED Monitor for me to use to play all the games, run servers and keep me online. This I thank you greatly.
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• Three of the Prizes we gave away. Please see Prize Winners for the actual prizes IT Shack donated.

Next I would like to thank Paul Comber from Rebmoc Leisure & Hire for the assistance with drinks and allowing us to use the 60 in 1 Arcade console that went off all through the event.

Thanks also goes to Rod Teece from Cut Price Computers who are supplying the Raffle prize which is being held over this event and the next one MMXi Echo. It is $5.00 per ticket and they are on sale over the next two months and on the night of MMXi Echo which is when we will draw it. We are selling these tickets over the internet via credit card. Please contact us and provide your details so you can secure your chance to win.

Also thanks goes to KikFM and DCA for their continued support. Plus CIS for providing the Cat6 Data Cabling.

Thank you to all those who attended and for those that missed out please get along next time.

We have already opened up the new registration for the next event. Please click the button in the header or head over to the DGA LAN Events page.

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