Booking for LAN XXXII is now open!
12th - 15th October 2017Head over
HERE (http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?43535-LAN-XXXII-Itinerary) to see the planned festivities.
We hope to make it a great weekend for all. Things we like will come back, things we don't will be swept under the rug like so many crumbs. Kick off is Thursday afternoon, but don't fret if you can't make it til later. The LAN room will not be ready for
gaming until late Thursday evening.
The Oliver Cromwell Hotel (http://www.olivercromwellhotel.co.uk/) offers:
The Noble Suite - an air conditioned conference room
24/7 access to the suite
dMw control of entry to the suite
Late night bar
Gymnasium
Large indoor swimming pool
Eight-person Jacuzzi
Sauna and Steam room
dMw Costs: LAN ATTENDEES Supporting Member:-
£10 (this has not changed)
Non-Supporting Member:-
£25 (this includes an automatic upgrade to Supporting Member status for one year)
SOCIAL ATTENDEESSupporting Member:-
£0 (this has not changed)
Non-Supporting Member:-
£12 (this includes an automatic upgrade to Supporting Member status for one year)
Hotel Costs: Bed & Breakfast:
- Double occupancy £33 per person per night - that means sharing a room with your mate or 'special friend' - let the hotel know if you're looking for a twin (2 single beds) or a double.
- Single occupancy £50 per room per night - double or single bed depending on availability.
If you book a Twin Room and want to share the costs of the room but DON'T already have a roomie, then when you post in this thread to confirm your attendance then also make a note of the fact you have a twin room booked and are looking for someone to share with.
As before, the reduced accommodation and function room rates have been negotiated on the basis that the majority of the attendees will partake of the excellent cuisine offered by either the hotel restaurant's Fixed price, A La Carte or Bar menus.
You are free to book your rooms now directly with the hotel on 01354 602890.
Put your name down when you have confirmed you have booked including when you are arriving
Remember to say it's for the dMw LAN (to get the subsidised rate) and also give your real name and gaming name.
(If you want to arrive early and stay on the Thursday night you will receive the same subsidised rate).[/COLOR]
Travel:- we will do our best to arrange pick up and drop off from the major London airports. If you find yourself stuck or simply want to share a lift, post in the travel plans thread.
Gear:- there will be a packing thread posted soon. The basics are some sort of PC and monitor, with peripherals including
headphones - speakers are a no no. If you're desperate to game but can't get a PC to the LAN, ask around, we have in the past been able to source PCs from generous members of the community willing to lend - in exchange for a beer or 3 of course :norty:
Seating:- seating details will be released closer to the event.
Please note that, as previously, by signing below you agree to sign a liability disclaimer waiver form (if not already signed). This is a condition of your attendance at the LAN. Please pm Penfold if you wish to see a copy of it.
Gaming- Chaosphere sharing with GhostMjr - Thursday
- Ghost Mjr sharing with Chaosphere - Thursday
- Gortex - Thursday
- nopeanuts - Thursday
- Smilodon - Thursday
- Whitey - Thursday
- Albert - Thursday
- Milli - Thursday
- Jewelz sharing with Gibbo - Thursday
- Gibbo sharing with Jewelz - Thursday
- Rouge - Thursday
- Gunda - Thursday
- Sneaky sharing with Asymetrix - Thursday
- Asymetrix sharing with Sneaky - Thursday
- Liberator - Thursday
- Lionheart - Thursday
- addx9 - Thursday
- Penfold - Friday
- Faust - Thursday
- Duvel sharing with Galatoni - Thursday
- Galatoni sharing with Duvel - Friday
- Myopic sharing with Taggel - Thursday
- Taggel sharing with Myopic - Thursday
- Dannage - Thursday
- Michelanio - Friday
- Penguin - Thursday
- Blunt - Thursday
- S_Monkey - Thursday
- SJ sharing with Oth - Thursday
- Oth sharing with SJ - Thursday
- Sulky sharing with Paddy - Thursday
- Paddy sharing with Sulky - Thursday
- Gorliath - Friday
- MikeP sharing with ProtoJay - Friday
- ProtoJay sharing with MikeP - Friday
- Kake - Thursday
- pesteh - Thursday
- Evilntwisted - Thursday
- SithAfrikaan sharing with PawkPie - Thursday
- Turd sharing with Spazmo - Thursday
- Spazmo sharing with Turd - Thursday
- TwoBad - Thursday
- Cheesepuff sharing with Nuka - Thursday
- Nuka sharing with Cheesepuff - Thursday
- Rambo - Thursday
- simagule
Social- PawkPie sharing with Sith - Thursday
- TeaLeaf - Friday
BOOKED! Arriving Friday - 1 Double room for myself. I've made no preference. I'm happy to share - but I snore like heck!!
4 minutes :D I made good time.
Ladies and gents we have a winner. Post up in the roommate thread Gal, maybe someone will take you up for it :)
Book and arriving Thursday. :D
Anyone coming from NL want to know my flights to meet up (Pete?) catch me on TS.
Yay !!!1!2 Post your flight details in the transport thread mate and we can arrange pick up :D
Booked....Thursday onwards
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Sign me up. No doubt I'll share with gibbo, again
i have booked up to arrive on the Thursday and leave on the Sunday, cant wait for this weekend to come around
Quote from: Jewelz^;424377Sign me up. No doubt I'll share with gibbo, again
Soon as he signs up let me know!
:taz:
room booked Thursday to Sunday see you all there :)
sneaky and aceymetrix booked thursday to sunday cya there.
Great stuff!
I suppose I have to attend at least one of Bens shindigs.
Meh, why the hell not, it'll at least stop him from asking every time we're on teamspeak. Although he'll probably make a point of doing it now.
Double Booked - Thursday onwards.
ill be arriving with jewelz
I'll be there, Thurs to Sunday. No room required.
Booked thursday till sunday! driving meself from leeds can pick up on the way have space for 3 if needs be.
Friday - Sunday for me please.
Great news guys. List updated.
Booking e-mail sent to reception for the entire duration, awaiting reply.
Edit: Booking confirmed.
Tentatively as gaming. Might be social.
Awesome! I shall put you down as attending for gaming now then and please let me know if your plans change xD
Count me in for this one also please! I will book flights (same as Albert) and the hotel tonight. Not sure if I'll be a social or LAN-attendee. It depends if anyone has a spare PC and such.
Looking forward to it anyway!
@ Sith: For sure this time! :flirty:
I'm in!
I've booked a twin, arriving Thursday.
I will put you down as gaming for now mate, let's try and find you a rig!
Edit - nice myopic!
Booked, Thursday - Sunday, Twin room sharing with JarvisA (both gaming)
Great stuff, glad Jarvisa is joining us again!
Hotel booked! Wil be arriving on Friday and I will be gaming.
Great stuff. List updated.
I'm in bois sharing with sniper again me thinks
woop woop
Booked! Going solo, arriving thrusday.
Double room booked. Thurs.
Filling up fast this one!
Checkpoint.
Flights booked, same as Albert. Up there from Thursday untill Sunday. Twinroom booked.
Thursday :cheers:
And with you're own copy of Overwatch too xD awesome!
Quote from: Chaosphere;424508And with you're own copy of Overwatch too xD awesome!
...I wonder if Toby will lend me his computer to play it on :flirty:
Well I am attending so it might happen
We (SJ and I) are booked from Thursday :) Looking forward to this years main event! We are bringing our laptops as well. :boxing:
Awesome, get your flight info in the transport thread so we can arrange pick up ! :)
Fantastic :)
paddy on thursday twin sharing with sulky
Sulky on thursday twin sharing with Paddy
Yay Sulkster
Great stuff. List updated.
Booking is now open to all members :)
Booked, ariving Friday, hopefully just in time for STEAK!
Booked Mikep1212 sharing with ProtoJay arriving Friday.
What's that you say? LAN Virgins? Nice. ;)
Booked . Thursday. Same flight as Faust.
i'll be there thursday
Checkpoint. I will be posting some more info soon that relates to the mystery events so keep your eyes peeled.
I have just paid my supporting members fee. Please count me in for the LAN. I have booked the time off and will travel up with Jewelz^
That is awesome news!
Just so you know for future reference, supporting member is not a requirement to come to the LAN - but it does save you some £.
Supporting members may book a LAN spot 1 week early.
LAN cost for supporting member is £10. For non supporting it is £25 which gives you a year of supporting member.
If you consider that the year membership when given alone costs £12, by attending a LAN you are £3 better off (10+12 instead of the 25). Think of it like a free beer at the LAN if you do it this way around :)
So really the only differences are early booking and a free beer on us :) Supporting members keep the lights on, so it is always great to support regardless of LAN activity, and support is always appreciated!
Now, will add you to the list!
Thank you. Going to call the hotel now. I have just bought Battlefield: Bad Company 2 in the steam sales and will keep an eye out for Overwatch to drop in price.
Cool, do keep in mind that all tournaments / scheduled events are entirely optional. If a game isn't your thing, or you don't fancy putting the cash down to just have a go, don't worry! There are always other things going on (beer beer beer), other games you can jump into. By all means join in with whatever you want, but don't feel you HAVE to, is what I am saying :)
A member has informed me the hotel has no more free twin rooms.
This means for anyone yet to book you either have to book a room with a double bed, or post up looking for someone to share with just in case anyone has a free bed in a twin.
Yep I had to book a double.
I've booked a twin, got a spare bed but same as Galatoni, I snore as heck. Unless he doesn't mind bunking up in my twin.
Quote from: Galatoni;424364BOOKED! Arriving Friday - 1 Double room for myself. I've made no preference. I'm happy to share - but I snore like heck!!
Booked Arriving Thursday (pending holiday req at work) with the lovely Mrs Sithy in a Double room. :norty:
1x Lan
1x Social
I'm now sharing with DuVeL, who has kindly offered to share rooms with me to prevent me bed blocking - Chaos will sympathise ;)
Was that meant to be 'now', Galatoni?
List updated. Good news Sithy & Mrs Sithy!
Might have been ;)
Edited to prevent issue.
Awesome, will change the list... it did read a bit funny otherwise "I'm NOT sharing with Duvel! That guys is a total cheese wheel!!!"
Yes, a cheese wheel.
This means there is currently 1 available Twin Room!!! Book up fast if you want it!
Quote from: Chaosphere;424756Yes, a cheese wheel.
You've weird ;)
I never claimed otherwise.
Quote from: Chaosphere;424756Awesome, will change the list... it did read a bit funny otherwise "I'm NOT sharing with Duvel! That guys is a total cheese wheel!!!"
Yes, a cheese wheel.
This means there is currently 1 available Twin Room!!! Book up fast if you want it!
Ehrm? Play nice? Ty!
Whey!!
Count me in, me and Spas will be sharing a room again. All booked with the hotel and i'll get spas to confirm here shortly! Can't wait!
nice one lads!
Nice one! Are you guys arriving Thursday?
Sign me up!
Yay Tuna
Nice tuna. When are you arriving?
Hello, just came back from holiday this evening to find the booking has started :g:
Have just been onto the Cromwell for a long long phone call to try and book 3 of us in .....
Puff and Nuka booked in one room from Thursday
And me booked in on Thursday in one and then having to change rooms for Friday and Saturday
Sorry to cause you some post-holiday stress TwoBad!
Guess the cromwell are struggling for rooms now then :S
Glad you managed to get it sorted even if it is a bit of a faff!
I'm Gonna book tomorrow Thursday to Sunday. See use there!
Nice rambo.
List updated.
We are now at our cap of 48 gaming. If anyone else is interested in going let me know and we will add you to the waiting list in case anyone has to cancel.
Ahh. Guess I picked the wrong week to be in the mountains with no signal :)
Ah tut! Shall I put you on the waiting list?
Get on the list Tut mate would be great to have you there.
Are you bringing a laptop Tut?
If so I don't mind hot-desking with you. I know Duvel has said the same so we could swap ourselves in and out as needed.
Provided that's OK with you Ben of course?
I know they are trying to get him a spot but otherwise indeed sharetime a spot! Let us know!
Quote from: DuVeL;425097I know they are trying to get him a spot but otherwise indeed sharetime a spot! Let us know!
What about WiFi'ing from your room. That way you can play naked.
I spoke to Tut via PM. As far as I know he isn't yet sure he can go either way. With regards to seating... It's hard to stretch to 49. I see 2 ways we could fit tut in.
1. Either fit 3 in an area for 2 (basically as you have suggested above). Maybe 3 laptops would be ok all at same time? Could be too snug. Or as you said you can swap around. I don't mind this option.
2. I can make a place next to the social corner (tv). Probably if we did this we would put 2 people there so you aren't sat alone, and move the server back to a main table. The only downside is that then 2 people are sitting next to the social corner. It may be a bit of an odd place to be sat. The upside is you should have good amount of room rather than fitting 3 people in a space for 2. If there are 2 people happy to sit slightly removed from the main tables like this then yes we can fit 49 in.
I'm happy with either option. So if tut decides he does want in, we can make it work...
Neither of those options sound amazing for other attendees to be honest. If the LAN's booked up and full, then it's full - please don't try and move mountains to accommodate me, especially if that means someone else's weekend isn't as great as it should be.
I'll catch the next one (maybe), it's no big deal.
Agreed Tut, but we like to move mountains to make sure everyone is involved. But no problem hope to catch you next time, and of course feel free to let me know if you change your mind.
Tut. Even if you turn up as a social you can always borrow my pc a bit. I get migraines if I game for too long anyway
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Put me down on the waiting list please.
Should probably read the thread a little bit dan xD we are currently at capacity. I think there are ways to squeeze an extra 1 in.. But only if we have willing volunteers to make the special adjustments.
Please read the posts above to see more info. I will add you to the waiting list for now but can't guarantee you a gaming slot unless we can work something out via volunteering etc. I'll send you this same message via PM so I know you have it.
Quote from: Chaosphere;425290Should probably read the thread a little bit dan xD we are currently at capacity. I think there are ways to squeeze an extra 1 in.. But only if we have willing volunteers to make the special adjustments.
Please read the posts above to see more info. I will add you to the waiting list for now but can't guarantee you a gaming slot unless we can work something out via volunteering etc. I'll send you this same message via PM so I know you have it.
Aye no worries, only got confirmation paperwork through today to say I could have the time off.
No worries if there's no slots I'll come down for the meal as I'll have the time booked off now anyway ;D
I think pesteh has messaged you some options. Have a think a let me know! Either way will be great to see you there!
.editfdsaf
Unfortunately JarvisA has had to back out due to a last minute change of plans creating a clash with the LAN!
The silver lining here is that Mr Dannage has been changed from a social attendee to a full on gamer :yahoo:
JarvisA mate I hope we can catch you in May!
And I am the bearer of bad news again, Sparko has also now had to pull out due to a (different) last minute clash.
These things happen and can't be avoided sometimes :(
This means we have 1 gaming space spare! Currently I am waiting to hear back from DZ, as he was next on the potential waiting list. I will know by Monday if he can make it or not, so if anyone else wants to come along let me know and we will see what happens.
Quote from: Chaosphere;426737And I am the bearer of bad news again, Sparko has also now had to pull out due to a (different) last minute clash.
These things happen and can't be avoided sometimes :(
This means we have 1 gaming space spare! Currently I am waiting to hear back from DZ, as he was next on the potential waiting list. I will know by Monday if he can make it or not, so if anyone else wants to come along let me know and we will see what happens.
Let me know once you've heard from DZ. I could potentially be available now...
Ok mate I will do. Perhaps PM me your number? I'll speak to DZ on Monday and if he can't make it then I'll let you know.
Super annoyed, but I now cannot make this one :/
Sorry!
Tuna
Sad to hear it mate :/
Tox this does mean there is a slot for you pal if you are able to take it!
We have at least 1 open slot for the LAN should anyone wish to come along last minute! I have checked with everyone who has been on a 'waiting list' so far, so if you're interested and can make it let me know!
Hi Chaosphere
I am taking the last slot
Quote from: simagule;427210Hi Chaosphere
I am taking the last slot
yay. Welcome aboard.
Nice one pal. Have been keeping up with peng and pnuts on WhatsApp. Are you coming thursday or friday? If thursday please have a look at the meal thread and let me know what you fancy, I believe pnuts has linked you :)
Thursday but after work so, i will most likely be getting in after the meal as started unfortunaly.
No problem mate we will sort you out some food when you arrive!