Well, the LAN is over. The pizza boxes have been thrown away, the Mt Dew cans have been recycled, and pictures will be uploaded shortly (hopefully).
Registration for the next LAN, which will be happening September 22nd, will open to Stout Students on Wednesday, the 11th. If you are not a Stout student, you will have to wait until the 18th to preregister. You can create your account on ALP at any time, but please wait until your time to preregister. More information can be found at http://pong.uwstout.edu/alp.
This event will be a 48 hour event starting Friday, the 23rd at 4PM and going until Sunday, the 25th at 4PM. Attendance is free but limited. Make sure you guarantee yourself a seat by preregistering at pong.uwstout.edu/alp by creating an account there. You can also pick your seat, view the event schedule, and sign up for tournaments at the ALP site. By preregistering, you are guaranteed a seat. If you do not preregister and the event is full, we will have to turn you away.
Make sure you are able to attend and preregister before its too late.
All people who preregister before the event starts at 4PM on the 23rd are guaranteed a seat. If you preregister after that time, you may not be guaranteed a seat; it depends on if there is still space available and how many walk-ins we have. The sooner you preregister, the better.
Finally, if you have preregistered, but are now unable to attend the event, please e-mail pong@uwstout.edu so we can remove your registration and give that seat to someone else! Thanks!
PONG will be having another general meeting next Tuesday, the 28th, at 8PM in Northwoods. At this meeting, we will be discussing some major changes to LAN events, as well as other PONG matters.
It is highly recommended that people be in attendance at this meeting so they can hear the changes we are implementing for our LAN events.
That’s right! PONG’s first overnight since the MSC was closed was a huge success! We had over 133 people attend the 30 hour long event, and had even more people walk through the event checking out what was happening! We had no problems during the event; our network ran fine and no breakers were blown. It is so awesome to be back in the MSC.
During the course of the event, we had over 133 people attend, with another 80 to 100 people who just walked through checking everything out. There were 212 unique IP addresses assigned on our network, and we downloaded over 1.1TB from the internet during the course of the event! Our new server performed extremely well, giving us download speeds of 400MBps on average with spikes upto 500MBps without even breaking a sweat!
Sadly, we do not have as many pictures of this event as previous events. However, we do have a time lapse of the event on Youtube. You can watch the video below.
Join us for our next LAN on March 23rd in the Great Hall. We will be limited to 120 people, so make sure to preregister to guarantee yourself a seat at the LAN. Preregister here by registering a new account for yourself. That’s it! Once you are done with that, you can select where you want to sit by clicking Map, then clicking where you want to sit, and selecting Sit Down.
Here is the time lapse of the Forever A LAN. The very beginning of the LAN was not recorded due to camera issues. Sorry about that!
This Tuesday, the 31st of January, PONG will be having their first general meeting of the Spring semester. At this meeting, we will be discussing things to do with the upcoming Forever A LAN, such as tournaments, setup, and prizes. There will be other things we will be discussing too, so you should be there to give your opinion and to know whats going on with the org. The meeting will be in Northwoods, which is on the first floor of the MSC (Memorial Student Center) and will be starting at 8PM.
Now that the final LAN of the year is over, that means Winter break is coming soon. Congratulations to team Trunk Dragon for winning the League of Legends tournament. In other news we have a new sponsor. The fifth LAN of the 2011-2012 school year will be a 30 hour overnight, that’s right we are back to overnights! WOOT!! Don’t forget to preregister by going to the forums by clicking the link on the right.
Get ready for the final LAN of the Fall 2011 semester, the event goes from 10 AM to 10 PM this Saturday. We will have a League of Legends tournament with prizes from Riot games. Also during the event there will be a live stream, watch it here.
The Child’s Play LAN is over, we gave away a mystery prize that turned out to be a bag of candy corn. We also raised money to help Child’s Play charity.
Event photos are posted in the gallery, there are even photos of a Skyrim Dragon! The final LAN of the Fall 2011 semester is almost a week away, be sure to preregister by clicking the link to the WinterWonderLAN thread on the right.
The Child’s Play LAN is almost here, the event takes place in room 184 Micheels Hall on the UW-Stout south campus. LAN starts and ends at 10 AM to 10 PM on Saturday. This event is FREE to everyone, though we encourage a $5 donation to support Child’s Play. There will be tournaments and prizes.
If you are interested in attending, please preregister by going here and clicking “Yes” or “Maybe”.
Well, the PONG Expo LAN was a huge success! We had the highest number of people since we lost our overnight LANs. In total 102 people were in attendance.
Even though the event is over, do not worry. We have another event in a short couple of weeks. PONG OctUberfest will take place on October 8th in Room 184 Micheels (same location as PONG Expo). Once again, the event will be FREE to everyone.
Since we almost filled the room (we only had 6 open chairs), we really need people to preregister for this event so we know if we need to find more space somehow. Please go here and preregister by clicking Yes or Maybe. Thanks!
