Eugene Weekly : Culture : 03.09.06

Attack of the 200 Gaming Geeks
Video game aficionados converge on UO for Eugene's largest gaming tourney.
BY TIM O'ROURKE

Hide the valuables. Secure the children. Gamers are invading the UO campus in unprecedented numbers, and there's nothing your feeble weapons of limited destruction can do to stop them.

The largest Local Area Network (LAN) gaming event in Eugene's history, emuLAN, is taking place March 11, drawing gamers out from their bedroom fortresses of solitary digital mayhem for 24 hours of no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners video gaming to the death. Well … the gamers won't actually die, but there'll be plenty of on-screen mutilation to quench the blood-thirst of even the most intrepid of virtual warriors.

Five servers will power multiple games and tournaments, some showcased on a 20x16-inch high definition screen. There will be an Xbox 360 room and plenty of tournaments calling for 16 to 64 players at once. Pepsi will be providing complimentary beverages and local businesses are expected to donate pizza and coffee — meaning there will be plenty of the most essential of weapons for the gaming god: caffeine.

Just like any righteous party, this event is BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer). When the dozens of maniac gamers overrun campus they'll be lugging around their heavy computer towers and monitors. Once inside, they'll hook up, chat with friends and enemies and then get down to the business of shooting, maiming, decapitating, vaporizing and embarrassing one another.

"For lack of a better word, it's going to be a gaming orgy," says Paul Wells, one of the students organizing emuLAN. "A lot of these people play over the Internet and don't get a chance to meet who they're playing. For these guys, it's a special event. They get to show up and showcase their skills."

The 24 straight hours of gaming gore runs from 4 pm Saturday, March 11 to 4 pm Sunday, March 12 in the EMU Ballroom. Tickets run from $10 to $18 and are available by phone at 346-4363. For more info log on to emulan.uoregon.edu

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		Attack of the 200 Gaming Geeks Video game aficionados converge on UO for Eugene's largest gaming tourney. BY TIM O'ROURKE Hide the valuables. Secure the children. Gamers are invading the UO campus in unprecedented numbers, and there's nothing your feeble weapons of limited destruction can do to stop them. The largest Local Area Network (LAN) gaming event in Eugene's history, emuLAN, is taking place March 11, drawing gamers out from their bedroom fortresses of solitary digital mayhem for 24 hours of no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners video gaming to the death. Well … the gamers won't actually die, but there'll be plenty of on-screen mutilation to quench the blood-thirst of even the most intrepid of virtual warriors. Five servers will power multiple games and tournaments, some showcased on a 20x16-inch high definition screen. There will be an Xbox 360 room and plenty of tournaments calling for 16 to 64 players at once. Pepsi will be providing complimentary beverages and local businesses are expected to donate pizza and coffee — meaning there will be plenty of the most essential of weapons for the gaming god: caffeine. Just like any righteous party, this event is BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer). When the dozens of maniac gamers overrun campus they'll be lugging around their heavy computer towers and monitors. Once inside, they'll hook up, chat with friends and enemies and then get down to the business of shooting, maiming, decapitating, vaporizing and embarrassing one another. "For lack of a better word, it's going to be a gaming orgy," says Paul Wells, one of the students organizing emuLAN. "A lot of these people play over the Internet and don't get a chance to meet who they're playing. For these guys, it's a special event. They get to show up and showcase their skills." The 24 straight hours of gaming gore runs from 4 pm Saturday, March 11 to 4 pm Sunday, March 12 in the EMU Ballroom. Tickets run from $10 to $18 and are available by phone at 346-4363. For more info log on to emulan.uoregon.edu






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