3.200€ LAN event in Poland

Enemy Territory events with money involved are quite rare but that is nothing new to the common ET player. Ever when there are bigger events popping up, we are more than happy to see someone actually investing into our game. Some events turn out great like Crossfire's very own Challenge series, the Poznan Game Arena back in 2006, the QCups and also the ESL Major Series. And some events - like the Expekt.com Cup, which has been announced recently - turn out negatively as the tournament unfortunately never happened due to uncertain promisses and a weird registration process. The result is a kind of disbelief towards new announcements - which is only logical and understandable.

Now a new promissing LAN event has been announced which is going to take place in ET's probably most active country - Poland. After CC5 and close to the next ET main event, also known as the 'EasyBash' project, initiated by TosspoT, will the Bydgoszcz '09 LAN event appear on the ET agenda. Organised by the Polish multigaming organisation Fast2KiLL - which recently picked Blurred Vision as ET team to send them to Enschede - in cooperation with major partner IBM as well as partners like Fujitsu Siemens, MultiKino, ET.Owned.pl and Pretorian - this event features an Enemy Territory prizepurse of nearly 3.200 € in cash, together with hardware prizes by Fujitsu Siemens and clothing by Pretorian. The venue for the LAN will be the MultiKino cinema in Bydgoszcz, Poland (also known as Bromberg).

As Polish community site ET.Owned.pl had some doubts about the validity of that news, they contacted the man behind all this. Unfortunately the interview has been published in Polish only, so here is just a short extract from the talk. Anyone who could translate it into English would really help us to understand the ideas behind the event and help making it a success.

Quote by Marcin 'Pride' Rybak

How did you come up with the idea for the lan and making Enemy Territory one of main platforms ?

Thats an interesting question, I cant precisely say how the idea was born, but taking into account the marketing and financial potential of Fast2KiLL and some of my personal contacts, I decided to do "the impossible" by creating this Lan Party. You ask why ET? Here's a very simple answer, this will be an alternative for other lans, which favourite the same games all the time, for example CS 1.6, besides that I also play ET and I personally like it very much.

Information:

• Venue: Multikino Bydgoszcz
• Date: Undefined
• Games: Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Trackmania Nations: Forever, TBA
• Sign Up's: February / March
• Entry Fee: 40€ per team
• Qualification: Depending on the number of applications
• Maps: To be announced at least two months before the event
• Rules: TBA
• Accommodation: Self-dependent (eg eholiday.pl - around 4-5 € per night)
• LAN PCs* Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-M68SM-S2L nForce 630a
  * Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000 2x2, 6GHz 1MB Cache
  * RAM [MB]: KINGSTON DDR2 1024MB PC667
  * Hard Drive [GB]: SAMSUNG 80GB HDD
  * Graphic Card: GIGABYTE GeForce 9400GT 1024MB DDR2

Due to the overlapping of the first date for the event with TosspoT's 'EasyBash' project, the admins decided to take some time to find a decent date for the event. Therefore the date is scheduled as undefined until new information get published. As well as that, the admin crew is also thinking about the final name for the event, which should be also announced very soon.

Prize Distribution:

• 1.600 € + Pretorian Clothing
• 1.000 € + Pretorian Clothing
• 600 € + Pretorian Clothing

Of course such news comes pretty early - taking into consideration that the event itself is still more than four months away - nevertheless it is great to hear about such an event for ET. It should raise the motivation for all the top teams who would like to attend LAN events and it is enough time to prepare for it. Further information will hopefully be published within the next months. Thanks to uf0l for translating.

Source: ET.Owned.pl