News from the staff that relates to preparedness for the event. Stay up to date with information about Tickets, Registration, Schedule updates, Concessions, and other Important Announcements.
PDXLAN would like to extend a warm welcome to Mushkin as a Platinum sponsor with over $8,000 in giveaways!
Mushkin will be giving each attende an awesome lanyard upon arrival! In addition Mushkin will be sponsoring two PDXLAN Fall 2021 contests: the LEGO challenge, and the Factorio Staff Challenge!
Lastly look for awesome Mushkin swag prizing, SSD’s and flash memory!
Huge thanks to Mushkin for once again sponsoring PDXLAN!
PDXLAN is laser focused on helping charity this year and AMD wanted to help PDXLAN’s efforts by providing THREE Halo Infinite AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT GPUs!
PDXLAN charity donors will have the chance to enter for one of THREE of these insanely rare GPU’s. Not coming to PDXLAN? No problem! PDXLAN is working on a system to make sure you can be involved too! Stay tuned for more info!
Massive thanks goes to AMD for helping with PDXLAN’s charity raising efforts!
Greetings Community – A few notes of importance:
– If you have a Fall 2021 ticket, please make sure your information is correct on your ticket. Here is how to do that. For this event only, please edit your email address to be your Newegg email address if you have one. More on that at the event. If you would like to transfer your ticket – you have until Thursday November 4th to do that. Remember, transfers at the door are $25.00
– All tournaments and contests have been announced at this time here
– Charity information here
– Important event reminders here
Greetings everyone!
I wanted to take a moment and let you know about something going on behind the scenes. We’ve been attempting to figure out a way for attendees to digitally participate in PDXLAN Fall 2021 (as a last resort / medical exemptions) for a few weeks now. We still have some “process” things to iron out but wanted to let you know about what we are trying to do. We recognize that some of you may want to participate, but don’t want to be masked the entire time. We recognize that some of you may have anxiety about that many people in a room and we want to try our best to accommodate you as best we can.
First and foremost, if you were planning to come to PDXLAN in November, please don’t let this change your mind. A lot of what makes PDXLAN unique & fun is the live aspect of seeing fellow community members. After two years of not having a PDXLAN, we fully expect people to be super excited about seeing one another, and we’d miss seeing you.
Contests and Tournaments will soon be highlighted on the event page with their ability to be played via remote or not. We are not designing PDXLAN to be remote but instead planning activities on site and then opening those that can be played remote, to remote attendees. Prize winnings from contests and tournaments will be able to be picked up just before the PDXLAN raffle on Sunday from 12pm-2pm, even via a proxy attendee. How to register for the event remotely will be covered later as we iron out the process. Part of that process will be adding “R_” to the Front of your handle in LanReg and making sure your email address is correct on your ticket. (Do that by Nov 5th)
The PDXLAN raffle will be an in-person thing still – and we plan to make it much faster like we did in Fall 2019 – by doing most of it through Discord on site. More details will emerge as we near the event. Those wanting to participate in the raffle will need to bring a computer that can be plugged into our network (not Wi-Fi) and register for the raffle by 2pm Sunday. The process for participating in the Charity Raffle will be possible with a physical proxy at the event as per normal. We’re keeping the main raffle in-person only for those that have made the trek to be with us that weekend. Note: If you are coming for the LIVE in person raffle on Sunday, don’t expect to just get in, there may be a line of registrants and only one staff member to deal with this line. (Plan your time accordingly)
There is one thing, something special… we are attempting to do at the LAN… and remote people may miss out on that… just a fair warning. I’m working with the company involved trying to figure out a way to do it online. I can’t say more.
Generally, our style is to figure it all out before we announce a change, but with around 45 tickets for sale, we wanted people to know about this sooner rather than later in the case that it influenced decisions being made. Everyone’s seat is still being set up, powered, table rented, networked, etc. – so there is no cost adjustment by attending remote, this is just an olive branch to try and help those with seats for sale.
The remote event options should be considered with the understanding some things will not be available to remote attendees.
As always, if you have questions, please hit the staff up in Discord in the “Event Questions” channel. We’ll be happy to try and help best we can. Please keep conversation to the “General Chat” channel.
Matt “Vector” Conwell
PDXLAN Event Organizer
PDXLAN is announcing that Supreme Commander Forged Alliance Forever will be a 1 vs 1 tournament at Fall 2021!
Greetings all!
PDXLAN is on track to host one of it’s largest events ever in just over 1 month. We’ve got sponsors lined up, tournaments being announced, and we’re going to have more than 12 fun PDXLAN-style contests to participate in at the event. The prizes have started to be shipped, and over 40 gallons of hand sanitizer ordered. Special super-secret things from sponsors are being planned.
Because of the pandemic, there are more tickets available second hand if you or a friend is interested in coming. Currently about 40 tickets are for sale from people who can’t make it, perhaps don’t like the mask policy, or aren’t yet feeling like travel.
As a personal favor to me and your fellow attendees, please let your friends know that they can still come to PDXLAN. It’s been TWO YEARS since we’ve been able to LAN, it’s time to cut loose and see one another again! (safely of course!)
If you know someone looking for a ticket to PDXLAN, have them stop by either the PDXLAN Marketplace on Facebook or Discord. Often there are some individuals selling tickets for less than retail – let’s help them find a home for their ticket. We would really appreciate your efforts in helping us with this.
– Matt / Vector
Are you interested in helping set up PDXLAN Fall 2021? We will need about 10-12 people Wednesday November 10th from 10AM – 3pm to help lay network cables, post signs, and do general organizing. If you are interested, please sign up here.
It’s with great pleasure PDXLAN announces ZOTAC will be sponsoring PDXLAN Fall 2021!
ZOTAC, a long-time PDXLAN sponsor, has been sponsoring PDXLAN for over 10 years! This event ZOTAC has a few surprises for attendees – A few MEK systems to give away!
Look for ZOTAC prizes in the raffle! Thank you for sponsoring ZOTAC!
Greetings Community –
As we approach PDXLAN (45 days away) I wanted to remind everyone who is not yet vaccinated that if you want to be fully vaccinated by the time PDXLAN rolls arround, you will need your final dose by October 29th. If you have not yet started your 2 dose vaccine, you’ll want to consider getting that done ASAP.
There will be zero exceptions to our COVID policy at PDXLAN, and every person that enters must be vaccinated or provide a negative test.
More on our Covid-19 policy can be found here.
Thanks for your time,
Matt Conwell | Event Owner
Easter Egg. Because why not.