The Pittsburgh LAN Coalition

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It’s a whole lot easier and safer than donning a beard of bees or underwater jump roping. All you have to do is download Firefox 3 when it goes live on Download Day — some time in June. In the meantime check out Download Day Headquarters and pledge to download Firefox 3. We’ll let you know when Firefox 3 goes out the door, kicking off our 24-hour attempt.

Here are some other ways you can help in the run up to Download Day:

* Get the word out; tell your friends, your neighbors, your grandma, anyone and everyone to participate in Download Day.
* Host a party to download Firefox; you provide the people and we’ll provide the party favors.
* Put a Download Day badge on your blog, profile or website.

With your help the Firefox community can go down in history! If you have any questions or ideas please drop us a line at worldrecord @ mozilla.com.

Greetings,

Iron Storm 8 is now only one week away! Here is your pre-event information you will need to know for the event.

Registration will be closing on Thursday, March 13 at 11:59PM. No payments will be accepted after this date at the Pre-Registration rate of $25. Anyone who hasn’t signed up or haven’t paid by this date and are coming to the event will have to pay $35 at the door. However, you are not guaranteed a seat, so make sure that you pre-register and pre-pay.

Date/Time:
Saturday March 15th - Sunday March 16th, 2008
2:00pm Saturday - 3:00pm Sunday

Location:
Castle Shannon Volunteer Fire Department
3600 Library Road
Castle Shannon, PA 15234

Official Tournaments:
- 5v5 Counter-Strike: Source
- 5v5 Call of Duty 4
- 5v5 Battlefield 2/142
- 2v2 or 3v3 Unreal Tournament 3 Team Deathmatch or Capture the Flag
- 1v1 UT2004 DeathMatch

Console Tournaments:
- Halo 3
- Guitar Hero 3
- DDR
- Super Smash Brothers: Brawl

Also look forward to:
- Jackass Tournaments
- Console Gaming
- Prizes
- ROFL’s (Raffle’s)
- 3 Great prizes + Cash!
- And much more!

How to pay for the event:
1. Log into ALP
2. Go to the pay for the event
3. Go through PayPal
4. Click the return link after payment is done
5. WAIT for Bob K to verify payment and mark you as paid. (Within 24 hours)
6. Register your seat for the event

If you have any other questions regarding payments or seating please post your problem in the Registration Support Forum.

What to do before you get to the LAN:
- Go through the LAN party checklist for what to bring
- Bring a signed waiver form (Parent signature required if under 18)

As most of you know we will be having a 50/50 ROFL(Raffle) at the event. This event we have bumped it up a notch and added some real prizes to the ROFL that we think you will enjoy:

ROFL(Raffle)
- EVGA Superclocked GeForce 9600GT Video Card
- Acer 22″ 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor
- G.SKILL 4GB(2 x 2GB) DDR2 1000 RAM

Please be sure to check out our Sponsors for Iron Storm 8
• Alienware
• ATXPowerSupplies.com
• Bawls Guarana
• BDA Gamer
• Danger Den
• FSP Group USA
• Hyperglide
• Ideazon
• In Win
• Patriot Memory
• Razer
• Red Bull
• Steel Series
• Thermaltake
• Velocity Micro
• Vision Tek
• Vroom Foods

Expect a prize list to be posted before the event.

See you there!
The Pittco Staff
www.pittco.org

Hyperglide will be supplying some prizes for our tournaments at Iron Storm 8. Since its products are very specific, we need to know what kind of mice most of the gamers will have.

Please take a vote in the poll to help determine which Hyperglide products we will be having at the event. The Hyperglide poll is available in the forums.

Deadline for voting is Tuesday, 2/19 at 11:59pm.

For more info about Hyperglide products, visit www.hyperglide.net.

Discuss this in the forums.

Pittco has presence on a few social networks which members frequent. If you are active on another social network and would like to see Pittco have an official presence there, let us know!

Facebook

Pittco has a group and a fan page. There are two events (1, 2) for Iron Storm 8.

MySpace

Pittco has a MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/pittco.

Steam

Pittco has a group on the Steam Community at http://steamcommunity.com/groups/pittco.