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     Ah yes Badlanz, where the pale and somewhat antisocial venture into the daylight to engage in battle. A fight in which death holds no consequence. For with death comes rebirth. Soon after, the cycle is again new and the battle continues until the limitation kept by time has expired. To the victor go the spoils and due bragging rights. For the less of these is only shame  and the bitter sting of defeat. As to whether or not you should join this fight of true honor. That choice is yours... and yours alone.

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To all gamers,
  While preparing for our next event (Section-8) we applied for sponsorship with quite a few companies. Some generated an automatic response that were sent through email and some have yet to respond. But of all the companies we applied with one stood out. Matrix Orbital, they also replied with an email, oh but there was something strangely different about this email. It was from a REAL person. I know what you’re thinking. Liar, liar, pants on fire, but my friends your wrong. Candace Buchart of Matrix Orbital sent us an email explaining the terms of sponsorship with Matrix Orbital and even though we don’t qualify for their sponsorship Candace was kind, professional and most of all a real person. So if any of you gamers out there get the opportunity to support Matrix Orbital please do so. I know that I will.
                                                                                                                                                           -BEAULONEA-

      First of all BADL.A.N.Z would like to thank our sponsors, Technology USA for the AWESOME prizes that were given away and Bawls for making it possible to play all night long. Secondly we want to thank all of you that helped set up, maintain, clean up, take down and pack up( Thank you Tommy). Third, we would like to thank everyone who came out to play. Without you there would be no party. With a bit over 40 in attendance Fall Frenzy is our largest L.A.N. party to date. To those who were unable to attend do not fret, there is much more to come.
                                                                                                                                                -BEAULONEA-

A little history lesson
          "LAN parties originated from early single-player Unix games such as Larn, Hack, Rogue, and Hunt the Wumpus that kept scoreboards on a centralized server. At this point the majority of the people playing these games were university students who had access to such systems for schoolwork. Another early incarnation of network gaming was Xanth Software F/X's MIDI Maze. Programmed for the Atari ST, the game allowed up to 16 computers (though any number above four caused instability) to be linked together via the ST's MIDI ports and deathmatch games to be played over the makeshift network. With the release of Id Software's Doom in 1993, the gameplay that MIDI Maze pioneered was perfected, allowing four players either to cooperate in the game's singleplayer campaign or to fight each other in a deathmatch game. As a result, network gaming (and consequently LAN parties) grew. The initial explosion for the LAN Party scene occurred with the release of the shareware version of Id Software's Quake in 1996. The release of Quake closely coincided with the release of many low-cost Ethernet NIC and hub packages from companies such as Linksys and Realtek allowing for easy ad-hoc LAN building. An additional factor was ease with which computers were able to be networked domestically with the then recently-released Windows 95".
       "LAN Party." Wikipedia. 19 Feb. 2007. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.,. 25 Feb.2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAN_party#_note-1>.