I hear on the grapevine theres a new Dreaming Reality LAN coming up in the very near future!

Check out their new website for information: dreamingreality.neszone.com.

(Or read the post further down this page)...

Well the Respawn LAN last weekend was pretty good. 'nuff said :P

Ok ppl,
We are finally going to hold another DRL after all this time. The event will be held at The Odeon at Latrobe University where the last few have been run.

At the request of Phantasm, this time around we're going to make it an over 18 event..... does he have something special in mind that will require it to be over 18? or does he just hate everyone under the age of 18? No one knows, you will have to register for the event and come along to find out. (The event following this one will not be age restricted).

We are currently still in the early stages of planning so more will be revealed as time goes on but anyone that has been to a DRL in the past will know what to expect. FUN COMPS AND PINEAPPLE JUICE. Also battlepainter with a moving projector screen and tug of war always a part of the highlight reel.

To anyone that went to the Game1 event but hasn't been to a DRL before, expect a great LAN with no restrictions on when you can and can't leave the venue.... PLUS, you can also sleep anywhere you like. YES, YOU HEARD ME RIGHT - Eat, Sleep and Wander in and out anytime you like (as long as you have a player tag of course) during the event. We will also be doing a Pizza run and selling drinks at the event as per usual.

....Will we hold another PC throwing competition?
....Will Chode bring another box of Hungry Jacks syrup along for a chugging contest?
....Will Mac the big inflatable Dolphin find a job?
....Will Dan (Phantasm's Dog) eat someone's mouse?

When - 10th-11th Feb 2007
Where- Union Hall @ Latrobe University in Bundoora
Cost - $20

Registrations @ http://roystontech.com.au/game1/viewtopic.php?t=63

Register now and secure your place.

Shafted LAN has agreed to run a Cyber Athletes Professional League Qualifier for Quake 3 on
behalf of PING at the upcoming Game1 300 Player Event on 4th-5th of November.

The finalist of this event will qualify for the Australian National
Qualifier in Perth, Western Australia. They will receive free airfare and accomodation
to compete in Perth and a chance to qualify for the CPL Championship Finals, taking
place December 16-20, 2006 in Dallas, Texas. Prize money will be announced shortly.

Come one come all, registrations for Game1 PC Tournament are NOW OPEN. Please click to go to
the official Game1 PC Tournament website for event information and registration. Remember it's first come first served.

So don't miss out on this rare chance to play PC Games and LAN for 36hrs with 300 players whilst enjoying all the action the Autosalon Car Show has to offer!

Heard the rumours? Well it's true! For the first time ever, Shafted in conjunction with Autosalon Car Show is proud to present, Game1 PC LAN Gaming Event.

Game1 will be running on the 4th-5th of November at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre (2 Clarendon St, Southbank). Running from 10AM on the Saturday overnight to Sunday 5PM.

For $22 you can register for a seat in a massive 300 player LAN Event including comps for all your favourite game titles. Thanks to our sponsors CNET, GameSpot and Xbox360 Major comps will have some serious prize money, be sure to register for:

* CounterStrike Source - 5v5 Single Elim
* Need for Speed Most Wanted - 4 Player Sprint
* Unreal Tournament 2004 - 4v4 Onslaught Single Elim
* Flatout 2 - 8 Player Race
* Trackmania Nations - Quali then Finals
* Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne - 1v1 Standard
* Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne DOTA - 4v4

Besides entry to the PC tourneys, you can also register for the Xbox tournament which will be running side by side with the PC LAN.

To top it all off you will have FULL ACCESS to the Autosalon event, all the tech tricked out cars, Autosalon showgirls, and exhibitors completely FREE (entry to Autosalon is normally $22 on it's own!).

REGISTRATIONS OPEN THIS MONDAY 9th OF OCTOBER!

Pick up a registrations form, available on Monday, from www.game1.com.au - a weekend of fun has never been a better deal!

Any questions please email admins@shafted.com.au

Or download the high quality version here (Google Video player required)

Thought you might be interested in this little nugget I found lying around on my computer a little while ago and I stuck up on Google Video.

Or download the high quality version here (Google Video player required)

We're only two weeks away from this fabulous event! Located in Union Hall (same venue as Shafted), we've allocated a maximum capacity of 500 people. Some of our competitions are as follows:

* Battlefield 2 8v8 (cash prize + 8x Wolf-Claw Combat Edition Type II keyboards)
* CS Source (5x AudioFX headsets)
* CS 1.6 (5x Wolf-Claw Combat Edition Type II keyboards)
* Warcarft 3 1v1
* Quake 4 duel.

These include various prizes thanks to Wolf-Claw, CyberActive, CyberSlam and AMD.

More info can be found here and you can register on AusGamers.

Another sleepless weekend at Latrobe has come and gone. This Shafted LAN like many before it included the usual computer gaming, new games such as Quake 4 were played.

Setup went smoothly as usual we even had time to screw around in the early hours of the AM, what began as hey, here's an old 1gig hdd, lets open it and then run some power through it, woo look at it spin.. now lets scratch it' ended up in it being compleatly destroyed.

Onto Saturday... Well that also all went smoothly, everyone came in and setup to the blissful images of 2 guy's battling it out UFC style on the projector (sorry about that guys, I didn't have anything else on my computer at the time).

About midday someone pulled out a helicopter, yeah, you herd me right. And this was shortly followed by a tank, and this lead to a camera being mounted on the tank and some sort of weird battle going on.... Well, to each their own I guess huh.

We had all sorts of stupid ass shit up on the projector, much of it from google video, people seemed to enjoy that so we'll try and keep that going. Unfortunately some people who don't understand how to control the volume ended up on that pc and turned it up way too loud.. That. We'll try and make sure that doesn't happen again.

Hours went by, you all did your thing as your pc as you do... At some point there was a fight (not cool guys) and people were ejected from the venue. We don't really know what happened, and we don't really care... This is the first time 2 people from an event have resorted to physical violence in my 6 years of lanning and I hope it never happens again.

Now onto less serious business!

Custard!

So someone thought it'd be a good idea in the spirit of Christmas to get some custard and make people skull it.. It seems to have worked. People enjoyed it.. Although there was a fair bit of mess . And i think some people enjoyed having white creamy stuff on themselves a little too much, see the following images here, here and here.

All the photos can be found here plenty there, some are fairly high res so be carefull :)

I hope to all had fun, we'll keep bringing you these weekends of LANage as long as you keep coming. We are always striving to make it a more enjoyable event for you in any way we can, so please let us know of anything we can do to improve on our events here via the comments and the poll's on our website.

Thanks to KA tech for their support again at our event, and we hope to see them back again next time.

Further info such as comp winners etc to come, keep an eye our here for details on that and our next event!

Thanks to the guys from KA Technologies we will have a ErgoDex DX1 Input System to give away as the first prize in the Warcraft III 1v1 tournament!



KA Technologies will at Shafted LAN having a big end of year clearance sale along with their current Christmas catalog specials.
Lots of products will be selling at or below cost and we will welcome the Shafted players to make us an offer on products ranging from PC modding gear to under car neon kits.
Check out www.katech.com.au for more info.

Ok just posting to say that the details page for this event has been updated. Also it should be noted that Pings will be open for this event.

Ok well theres been alot of whingeing, alot of crying, and no offeres of any soloutions or any help in any way shape or form, so heres how the CS comp is going to work.

Standard CS comp rules apply, however there will be 2 comps which combine into 1, that that i mean there will be a single elim bracket for CS 1.6 and another for CS:S. A team can enter ONE OR THE OTHER and no player may play in both CS:S and CS 1.6 (though this will be hard as they will both run at the same time anyway), any player found doing so will be the cause of their team being removed from the comp.

Instead of there being 2 1st, 2nd and 3rd places, there will be 1 1st, 2nd and 3rd. The 1st place teams of the CS 1.6 comp will play off against the 1st placed team in the CS:S comp. It will be best of 3 on CS 1.6, then best of 3 in CS:S. If it ends up as a tie (team 1 CS1.6 1 win, CS:S 2 wins or any other variation) then another round of each will be played till there is a winner.

So 1st place from the CS:S comp plays the 1st place of the CS 1.6 comp for 1st and 2nd place, 2nd place from the 2 versions play off for 3rd place.

I know some of you may not like this idea, but its the fairest way to do it.

Ok ladies and gents heres the official list.

CS 1.6 OR Source. It will be decided later but it is NOT a priority comp.
Bf2 8 V 8
Fear*
Quake 4 duel
Quake 3 duel*
Quake 3/4 CTF or RA3*
Warcraft 3 1v1 (TFT or ROK to be decided by the players who register)
Jedi Outcast CTF*
DOD: Source*
Splinter cell chaos theory*
worms world party*
Quake world duel*
Mario kart DS*

Comps marked with a * will run ONLY if there is enough interest

If people want some other comps I am more than happy to run them provided there is enough interest. Obviously there is a lack of flavour in RTS games here, so if you want it once again let me know.

Prizes TBA.

Ok as its getting close to time to start organising competitions for the upcoming LAN we're asking for some input from you guys so we know what to run and what to allocate prizes to. We've just put up a poll over there on the left <--- for you to vote in. If theres an option you want added to it, just post about it on thread below this news item.

Ok peeps you all know me, Sgt_RaVeN

yes, i am advertising another lan on the shafted site as i have done in the past but as you all know this will not bother the shafted team becasue we all know how loyal us "shafted goers" are :D

Anyway, my company is running an upcoming lan called OVERLOAD which are "run" you might say by PLG (phoenix lan group)

"Overload 4: Did someone say Santa?"
30 Hours of pure LANage.
Pure Gigabit Network.
Awesome Competitions & Prizes.

Overload 4 will run on the 3rd and 4th of December, at Sandringham College (same place as always), with its fresh gigabit network, prizes, competitions, and all our greatness.

so pop on down home in on your CS skills before attending shafted and meet and greet the KA Tech Team. We will also be running a PIMP MY RIG workshop as well as a 2 big supprizes and a special guest appearance.

anyway pop over to http://www.plg.net.au sign up and register.

see you all there

and a special thanks to the Shafted Community for allowing me to post this event on their forums.

we are all about the VICTORIAN LAN COMMUNITY!

Over and out......*static*

Hi guys just posting to announce the door prize for out upcoming December event Shafted 34. And that is one of these babys:



Yes, thats right a sweet sweet widescreen 24" TFT display will be taken home by one lucky gamer*.

* Door prize will be drawn at 3pm on the Sunday (18th of December) of the event and the winning player must be present to claim the prize (within a reasonable amount of time).

hey all,

Got a new lan group doing a lan in Dandenong, well organised, good venue, great kickin network. It’s called Miscreant LAN. Lan #1 is for 60players. They provide network cables and power boards for everyone, all laid out when you get there. Anyway all are welcome but if you’re in the area defiantly come down.

www.miscreant.com.au/lan/

It looks like BulkBuyer are doing a bulk buy on the leet Dell 24" 2405FPW widescreen LCD monitors for a very nice price. Head on over there if you want to be one of the cool big screen kids at the next Shafted! (It appears today is the last day you can get in it...)

Are open! So if you want in on some hardcore gaming action at the start of next month head on over and register.

If theres something you would like to see happening at this event games, competitions, etc post about it in this thread.