may 9th!?!

[CaptnIgnit]

ok, so i was going through my PC Gamer mag when i stumbled across the Bawls Lan Parties list. i glanced over it and noticed lanpartynw.com listed. but listed for may 9th not may 17th!?! OUTRAGOUS, i cried! someone needs to smack whoever got the wrong date put on there! atleast they actually listed us though, last month they didnt.

[slayemin]

yeah!! and I saw may 9th listed in some other pc newsprint! I was wondering if they rescheduled it, but I will assume its on the 17th or 18th. I'll find out if I bring my computer and nobody else is there..heh
~slayemin

[Deuce Bravalo]

I would trust the LPNW website over a mag....  

[DECIM8]

They may have been told that we have our LANs on the 2nd weekend of every month at some point. In most months that is true though we had to push it back a week this month because we didn't want it to land on mothers day. That could be the confusion that some of these publications are having. You would think they would bother to check though.

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To help explain the screw up....

BAWLS is the company at the fault here.  When I requested sponsorship for the May event, I told them that the LAN was a 24 hour LAN party which would be on a Saturday and a Sunday May 17th and 18th. I don't know how they got May 9th (which is a Friday). So, after the mistake of the date, BAWLS created a two page ad for PC Gamer with the incorrect dates. From this mistake, a different publication called "ComputerUser" used the incorrect info from PC Gamer's BAWLS ad to help fill up their new "local events" page and listed the same incorrect date. So, one mistake became two. Both BAWLS and ComputerUser have be notified of this error and both will display the correct info for June's event. Hopefully this doesn't happen again.

We fill up these LANs without the help of these type of listings but, it sure helps get more sponsorships if we are "in print". Now we can get big name sponsors to start knocking on our door for the opportunity to sponsor our events. Look for some bigger named sponsors for our future events....