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Facebook Event Page

[the_syco]

FREE if you do a sponsored gaming marathon:
Play one game for 4 to 12 hours (you pick the game and the time)
All marathon participants get one free meal and free drinks and snacks.
(Sponsorship money raised must be at least €20)

What's the catch? Single player or multiplayer? If the latter, one could say that a normal LAN goer would do that anyhoo's? If the former, it may be a challenge to keep oneself interested that long. Finally, imagine Mario on Mame, for 4 hours

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well we figure if you can get people to sponsor you we can get more money than we'd get for one ticket. we have funding from the college that can pay for the meals so either way we get more money to fund our cause that way. I guess it could be single or multiplayer.

The difference between normal LAN play would be that it has to be one game and you dont get a break, but if thats ok with the participants then thats fine with us cause we get at least the same amount of money anyway, if not more. Also if you do a marathon you don't have to play a game we have on our server, you can play something else that you have, so that could appeal to people. We're not entirely sure of all of the details yet but it'll be pretty easy going we think.

[Jazzy]

i could totally do another marathon

[Columc]

So we get some people to sponsor us for 20+ euro and play a game from 4-12 hours? sure Ive done bigger sessions on a hungover day.

Hows the seats in the venue? also will there be broadband access?

[IRL_Sinister]

Confirm if there's quality broadband please for SC2.

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We're waiting to hear back from the hotel about internet access. As far as i remember from Gamecon a couple of years ago they had wifi but the organisers blocked some ports so you couldn't play games online, like WoW. I'm not sure what the story is now though, it'd certainly be worth having a good connection since we've got SC2 now. Will let you know once we find out.

The seats are.. comfy I guess =P Theyre like the ones you get a debs in hotels. You can sit in them for 2 days straight so one day should be fine on your arse.

I know a lot of people won't think that a 12 hour marathon is very long, but the point is that it's for charity, so whether or not it's a challenge for you, you're still doing it for a good cause, and that's what people are going to sponsor you for. If we made it too hard then people wouldn't do it =)

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So we found out they have a 20mb connection in the hotel. We'll be able to play games online but the speed will depend on how many people are playing at once.

Also, we've edited the event page with some more details including times of ticket sales, which I've quoted below:

Tickets will be sold along with sponsirship forms at the following times. If none of these suit you, send us an email or a text and we can set up another time and place to give you tickets:

Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th
1pm - 5pm
Wednesday 25th
4pm - 6pm
Stephens Green Shopping centre, walkway on the 1st floor where 98fm is.
Jean will be selling tickets. I'll be wearing a pink top (and a grey scarf if I'm cold) I look like this: http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._2906669_n.jpg (I'm a superhero)
My number is 086 390 4461 if you're having trouble finding me.

Monday 21st - Friday 25th
Lunch time (approx 1pm - 2pm)
DIT Kevin St Snackery
Look for the Gamesoc banner

Tuesday 22nd
DIT Bolton St
Jean will be wandering around selling tickets most of the day

Thursday 24th
DIT Aungier St
Cian will be wandering around selling tickets most of the day

Wednesday 23rd
DIT Kevin St G043
6pm - 8:30pm
At the weekly Gamesoc gathering.

[Kinetic^]

Make sure they've got the relevant ports open for the games you want to play.

[Un-Big]

Thanks for that =)

[Un-Big]

We've dropped the price of tickets to €15 precought and €20 on the door!

[Xios]

Originally Posted by Un-Big

We've dropped the price of tickets to €15 precought and €20 on the door!

Were you talking to dec?

I prefer this idea of buying on the door, i was gonna do it anyway.
I'll mention this to the lads in my college that the lan is on, they may even bring 10 pc's along with them

[Un-Big]

I was, yeah! Yeah we wanted people to buy tickets before the thing so that we'd kinda know how many people would be coming but I guess people prefer to just turn up on the day so we decided that was fine too. But yeah, that's awesome that you're inviting people, thanks

[Xios]

Keep promoting it
only a couple days left, maybe set up a facebook page, and do a little head hunting for other college compsocs, you might wanna go to the campuses around dublin and find the compsoc heads or maybe email/call them. Times a wasting

[DragonLuffy]

Just wondering is this a LAN party of just pc and if you have to take part in the marathon to play ?