Gamerbase Reading LAN (February 28, 2010)

[GBReading1]

http://www.gamerbase.com/reading/images/HoNSite.jpg


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Currently Registered Teams

Team 1 - Jakem, Re1ease, IrSimba
Team 2 - ChrisRipper, robs03, ChrissiTea
Team 3 - myStylez, Tw!st, Leo
Team 4 - Zaccubus, Apollo, Dignitas
Team 5 - JonnyExtreme, Twrs, Edd
Team 6 - leotronx,FractalSound, gokoudaniel
Team 7 - Rooshy, bigjobby, Pojicok
Team 8 - DazzyP, gamefaceon, Piper
Team 9 - Wolfo, Zenajo, Weobaby

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Attention all UK HON players!

Gamerbase Reading will be holding its first Heroes of Newerth LAN event on Sunday 28th of February. 15 Pounds entry per team (5 Pounds per player). The event will be a 3v3 tournament played on Darkwood Vale. Players will have to register their team before 21st February and pay a 5 Pounds deposit to secure their place. Can your team become the new Champion of Newerth?

Prizes

1st Prize
3 x Microsoft Sidewinder x6 Keyboards
3 x 10 hours of Gamerbase LAN Gaming Time available for use at any Gamerbase centre in the UK

2nd Prize
3x Microsoft Sidewinder x5 Mice
3 x 4 hours of Gamerbase LAN Gaming Time available for use at any Gamerbase centre in the UK

3rd Prize
3 x 10 Pounds HMV Vouchers

Rules

3vs3. All heroes available and banning draft will be in force. Each team of 3 will be randomly drawn into a group of four teams. The top two from each group go into a playoff bracket to decide the winner. All matches must be played on Darkwood vale and no multiple hero selection.

You are welcome to use your own account in the event but if necessary we can provide them.

To sign up for this event please either come into Gamerbase Reading or e-mail :- robbie.hancox@gamerbase.com

or alternatively you can post on our forum :-

http://www.gamerbase.com/?a=post&id=45654

Note deposit payment must be made in store prior to 21st Feb to confirm your place. Others arrangements can be made to pay the deposit if you are not able to come into the store due to travel arrangements.


http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y36/chrisripper/HoN.jpg

[GBReading1]

Just to let everyone know, as our first small HoN lan tournament, this is a 3v3 setting as we want it to be easy for people to form teams to come down.

When this tourney succeeds, we will be hosting bigger 5v5 tourneys with bigger and better prizes :)


- Chris from Gamerbase Reading

[HunteR_]

Good lock, let me know if there's anything else I can do to help promote your tournament.

[Lewis]

No Daddy! Will be attending this competition!

[Robs031]

ill be there!

[ChrisRipper]

Me too, wanna make this happen so we get a LAN 5vs5 tournament :D

[Happyfish]

3's is a good size for a tourney but why Darkwood Fail

[GBReading1]

Just thought it'd be more approachable again, same reason we're having it 3v3. Also, we're trying to keep the matches short-ish as it's a 1-day LAN tourney with potentially a lot of teams. FoC is a pretty big map, Darkwood means we can have quicker more intense matches :)

When we do the 5v5 tourney, we'll be doing FoC ofc, but we need to make this 3v3 a success first! :D

[ChrissiTea]

I'll be there :) not playing tho :'(

[ChaosPhoenix]

I will be there and i will be playing :D

Can't wait, though i might need a new team so anyone looking for one add me in game and we shall ROCK!

[ChaosPhoenix]

Just thought it'd be more approachable again, same reason we're having it 3v3. Also, we're trying to keep the matches short-ish as it's a 1-day LAN tourney with potentially a lot of teams. FoC is a pretty big map, Darkwood means we can have quicker more intense matches :)

When we do the 5v5 tourney, we'll be doing FoC ofc, but we need to make this 3v3 a success first! :D


It will be a success :D

[GBReading1]

Just a reminder guys, there's little over 2 weeks left to get signed up!

Got 5 Teams and the list is growning, only 3 more spots left!

We've also changed the tournament to be Banning Pick - All Heroes which should make for some more diverse fights :D

If you'd like to sign up or ask any questions and comments please email robbie.hancox@gamerbase.com

[Zak]

love to join but im away :( next time

[Coldtabasco]

ehm would the final or whatever be casted by honcast staff?

That will be a big convince for me to travel 6hours down to Reading.

Cheers

[GBReading1]

We are going to be having the final, semi-finals, third place match and any other notable matches casted by Honcast staff. :)

With 9 teams so far it's looking great, just over a week left to get your teams ready. We're extending signups to the 25th, so you've got an extra 4 days to get your teams registered guys!

- Chris
Gamerbase Reading

[Coldtabasco]

Lawl team 9 looks amazing. Thought its only 8teams :( Damn it

[GBReading1]

We were thinking of making it only 8 teams, but decided to remove the cap on the teams to accomodate for the amount of interest we're getting for this tourney :)

[HunteR_]

Matches of interest, and the Finals will be covered by HONCAST.COM

The official shoutcasting network for GamerBase HoN LANs

[Coldtabasco]

Cool cool.

How do u determine that a certain match will be interesting?

[Rooshan]

Coldtabasco has a lot of questions!! Mebe get a team and sign yourself up?? :)

[Fowdall]

I'll be there just watching, not a fan of 3v3 but I'll come and watch for sure :D

[Lewis]

I live in reading give me a shout if anyone needs a good merc :D

[Pi1]

Any idea when the Manchester Gamerbase will be holding a HoN tournament?!

I'm dying to play in a competition!!!

[Avantgardist]

cool!

[Tamachan]

"L"amerbase came in and destroyed the local gaming centres - installed their corporate money grabbing hands on each city they visit - and it is their intention to continue to do so. Do not feed the capitalist extortionists. Gaming should not cost > 3GBP per/hour

[GBReading1]

Tamlar, while your opinion is your own and I can't do anything to change that, I'd like to defend our centre in particular.

Reading had absolutely no form of gaming centre or even an arcade, so we've actually brought gaming to Reading in a way that people would usually have to travel to London to experience. While Gamerbase is part of a corporation, each centre is governed by it's own staff and we're trying to create our own type of events and competitons to get people into the competitive gaming scene without having to face professional teams straight away.

This HoN tournament is an example of this, aside from online leagues there are no HoN tournaments available in the UK (short of i39 which isn't particularly accessible for new players) so we're just trying to bring people together to play and compete for prizes, what's so wrong with that? :)

[dazzyp]

Hey I'm interested in coming to this with a friend. We need a 3rd though so I've msged Lewis, and if anyone else is interested feel free to pm me.

It says on the site that a deposit needs to be paid in store but I wont be able to travel to Reading until the weekend now. If i can confirm a team by tomorrow will that be ok GBReading1? I might call the centre tomorrow regardless just to check.

If not it will be fun to just come and watch the other teams :)

[GBReading1]

We've waived the deposit scheme at the moment, so it's no worries mate, just either post on here, the gamerbase site or send us an email either tonight or tomorrow and we'll add you to the teams!

We've also got a regular player here who's looking for a team, you can PM him on ChaosPhoenix or PhoenixRage

See you on the day :)

- Chris

[dazzyp]

We are struggling to find a decent 3rd player so just keep the teams as they are for now I guess. If we happen to find someone I'll contact you asap and see if it's still convient to sign up.

Looking forward to just spectating regardless so can't lose :)

[GameFaceOn]

Hi guys - I will be happy to be your third.

I am traveling down with rooshy's team - and am looking for a team to play with.

[Zelous]

....

[Saiku]

Lame Post

[Game]

So many good lan tournaments in UK recently. You guys are kicking ass! Good stuff!

[Saiku]

Pig u coming? ill sponser u

[Game]

Pig u coming? ill sponser u


Dinners on me. :smile:

[Saiku]

Dinners on me. :smile:

In that case, Sex is on me :)

[Game]

As long as the girl doesn't look like :sand:. I'm game.

[Saiku]

oh thought ur into guys, nvm then

[GameFaceOn]

Hi guys - I will be happy to be your third.

I am traveling down with rooshy's team - and am looking for a team to play with.

Add me on msn - renegadeandy@hotmail.com

[dazzyp]

I've emailed the guy and confirmed the team as gamefaceon, dazzyp and piper. This should replace team 8 according to gamefaceon. Hopefully thats ok.

[GBReading1]

Great news guys :) It's all edited up now, looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

If you guys feel like turning up early to get some practice in or just to chillout and play some xbox/ps3, the centre's open from 11am.There's food venues really close by too, so it's easy to grab some lunch before if you're travelling down. :)

We'll be looking to get signups done by 12.30 and to start the tournament around 1pm.

[Lewis]

Well I live 5 in from the place so Ill be heading down anyway. If anyone has a last minute crysis etc ill happily merc for anyone. ( am 1834 psr 1.6 125/15 ) Failing that I might see what the gamerbase guys think about me setting up a little shoutcast for the tournament (used to cover all the uk cs 1.6 lans back in the day). Cant wait for this even tho :)

[Saiku]

Hon cast staff are gonna shout cast some of the games and I would like to hear breaky say ALLLLLLLLLLLRIGHT GUYS

[myStylez]

3v3 Team 5 to win! =DDDD

[Saiku]

Team 7 yes please

[GBReading1]

http://www.gamerbase.com/reading/images/HoNSite.jpg

First of all, a huge thank you to everyone that came down last sunday and congratulations to the eventual winners [M4M]Saiku, [M4M]Rooshan and [M4M]Holahu!

Some of the match ID's have been sent to HoNCast and I'll update this thread when they are complete! :)

Teams present on the day

Team 1 - Mayonnaise & Mustard - Saiku, Rooshan, Holahu
Team 2 - PSOP - DazzyP, GameFaceOn, Piper
Team 3 - PTP - Pedro, ChaosPhoenix, Toriah
Team 4 - No Daddy Not The Cupboard - Zaccubus, Lewis, Smit
Team 5 - WCO - Wolfo, Sniggles, Weobaby
Team 6 - IoN - myStylez, Tw!st, Leo
Team 7 - Farmer Boys - EdwardONeill, Extr3meOwnz, cuf1sh

The day was brilliant with some very intense matches in the group stages, leading to some very hard fought finals. All the Match ID's can be found at the bottom of this post.

The only downside of the day was that the final match had to be cut short as team WCO had to leave early due to travel arrangements leaving them no choice but to take a very early concede in the final match to team M4M.

The teams were fine with this decision but we're waiting on an online rematch to determine the "true" winner of this tourney :)


http://www.gamerbase.com/reading/HoN/img/M4M.jpg
First Place winners "Mayonnaise and Mustard" with their Sidewinder X6 Keyboards

http://www.gamerbase.com/reading/HoN/img/WCO.jpg
Second place winners "We Could Own" with their Sidwinder X5 Mice

The tournament brackets can be found here :-

http://www.gamerbase.com/reading/HoN/


The Match ID's for all the matches in the tournament were as follows :-

Group Stages

Game ---- Match ID
M&M Vs PSOP ---- 29447532
WCO Vs Farmer Boys ---- 29453939
WCO Vs PSOP ---- 29461924
PSOP Vs Farmer Boys ---- 29487016
WCO Vs M&M ---- 29477019
Farmer Boys Vs M&M ---- 29464970
No Daddy Vs PTP ---- 29449199
Ion Vs PTP ---- 29456963
Ion Vs No Daddy ---- 29480332


Knockout Stage

Semi-Finals
M&M Vs No Daddy ---- 29487094
Ion Vs WCO ---- 29504050

Third Place
No Daddy Vs Ion ---- 29518794

Final
WCO Vs M&M ---- 29515364
REMATCH :- WCO Vs M4M ---- 30482018



Once again, a huge thank you to everyone for making this tournament a success, keep your eyes on these forums and our Gamerbase (http://www.gamerbase.com) site for the announcement of our first 5v5 tournament later in the year :)

- Staff of Gamerbase Reading

[GBReading1]

Updated with Final Rematch Match ID :)

[VeNuM]

mystylez - such a let down :(

[weobaby]

So Saiku who won the rematch??? Yes that's right! Not you <3

[d3shi]

Is the final going to be put on honcast?

[GBReading1]

Yes, it will :)

I've sent all the match ID's to BreakyCPK to be shoutcasted, but the guys over at HoNCast always have a hefty schedule so I'll update as soon as I hear any news :)