PDXLAN would like to welcome BeQuiet! back as a sponsor of our next event! BeQuiet makes great cases, powersupplies, and quiet fans for your computer. Be sure to check out their booth while at PDXLAN Fall 2022.
Thanks BeQuiet!
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Pinball FX to Sponsor PDXLAN!
PDXLAN would like to welcome Pinball FX as a sponsor of the Fall 2022 event. Pinball FX has given 50 codes for in game currency that will be given away during the Pinball FX contest! If you haven’t heard of Pinball FX yet, don’t worry – it’s a FREE game on the EPIC store that we’ll be using as a contest for prizing from other sponsors.
Pinball FX is digital pinball evolved. New tables release every month, ranging from themes like Back to the Future, Homeworld, Star Wars, Jurassic Park to digital recreations of the best real pinball tables like Attack from Mars, Medieval Madness and more!
Huge thanks to Pinball FX for the sponsorship!
MUSHKIN to sponsor PDXLAN!
Please join me in welcoming MUSHKIN as a sponsor of the fall 2022 event! MUSHKIN makes Solid State Drives, Memory, Flash Memory, and NVME drives. Look for MUSHKIN swag and prizes in contests and raffles!
Thank you MUSHKIN!
INWIN to sponsor PDXLAN!
INWIN will be back on-site at PDXLAN this fall. Check out the INWIN booth for all the latest INWIN products and a chance to talk to the INWIN rep (Andy). If you didn’t know, INWIN makes some of the best computer cases in the industry!
Huge thanks goes to INWIN for their continued sponsorship!
GAMDIAS to sponsor PDXLAN!
PDXLAN Would like to welcome back GAMDIAS to the growing list of sponsors. GAMDIAS makes cases, power supplies, AIO processor cooling, fans, gaming chairs, and more! Check out GAMDIAS at https://www.gamdias.com/en
Thanks GAMDIAS!
EK to sponsor PDXLAN!
EK will be back at PDXLAN this Fall sponsoring TONS of amazing water-cooling products for the raffle and Case Mod Contest. In addition, EK has contributed nearly $3k in cash to buy over 100 T-shirts, over 100 special event coins, and all PDXLAN badges! EK Kat will be joining us for the event – make sure to find her and say Thank you!
Element TD2, an awesome tower defense game!
One of PDXLAN staff’s favorite genres of games are Tower Defense type games, and Element TD2 is a game you need to check out. Playing Element TD2 can be played in a campaign mode, or in a number of multiplayer modes including co-op and versus. Element TD2 has been a blast to play with friends, and also as a solo player progressing through the campaign.
With 6 elements that combine to create 59 unique towers, players will need to anticipate incoming waves, their elements, and tailor their approach to maximize their defense. Each element has its own strengths and weaknesses, so choosing the right upgrade paths is crucial to winning.
Where the game really shines is in the very fun combination of elements to create unique blends of elemental towers to defeat enemies.
PDXLAN is excited to announce that Element TD2 has sponsored the Fall 2022 event with 100 copies of Element TD2, a $1,500 sponsorship! Huge thanks to the creators of Element TD2 – for a truly awesome game.
You can check the game out on Steam here, or watch the trailer in the below news article.
Monster, PDXLAN’s go-go juice!
PDXLAN is excited to welcome back Monster Energy drink to the growing list of PDXLAN Fall 2022 sponsors. Monster Energy has been providing literal tons of Monster Energy drinks since 2010 at PDXLAN, and for Fall 2022 Monster will be providing nearly unlimited drinks to Fall 2022 attendees.
Monster will also be sponsoring “Monster for a year” to someone local – meaning you’ll get 12 or more cases of Monster throughout the year to help you with your daily energy needs.
Thank you Monster for being such a long-term and awesome sponsor! Monster’s sponsorship is valued at over $10,000 per event!!
What would PDXLAN be without Internet?
Looking back 20 years ago – the very first PDXLAN had just a simple DSL connection to the Internet. Attendees shared just 1,500 kbps for all 500 attendees. Back in 2003 games weren’t required to be online and the LAN was truly a LAN.
In 2004 with Steam gaining popularity and online authentication being a requirement of newer games, PDXLAN barely had enough for Steam authentication purposes.
Starting at PDXLAN 3 in July of 2004, Comcast began sponsoring PDXLAN. At first PDXLAN used 16 cable modems working in a load balancing configuration to pump a little less than a gig (cumulative) to the attendees. With Comcast’s sponsorship PDXLAN was able to keep going. As home cable modem speeds grew, so did PDXLAN’s cumulative speed across the 16 cable modems.
Fast forward a handful of years and Comcast paid to have a dedicated 1 gb fiber optic line run to the Holiday Inn on NE Columbia Blvd – just so we’d have enough Internet to allow gamers to continue playing. At the time over $30,000 was spent to put in the line.
Over a decade later in 2017, when the venue at the Holiday Inn became hard to work with – we began searching for other venues that could allow PDXLAN to grow – but the problem was always “Would it have enough Internet?”PDXLAN looked into both the Portland Convention Center and the Expo Center – but costs of Internet alone were over $300,000 for the weekend. Yes, you read that right, $300k. (Thanks Portland Metro)
With these costs being so high, PDXLAN was unable to move. But in early 2018 that all changed. We began looking at the Clark County Fairgrounds as an option. The problem? They had just a glorified DSL line as their internet connection. The venue checked all the boxes – except internet connectivity.
Comcast stepped in and gave the venue a 10 gig fiber business connection – at a cost of over $100,000! Today, we still use that connection.
It is with great pleasure and thankfulness that we welcome Comcast to PDXLAN events. They may not give prizes like other sponsors, you won’t see them sponsoring tournaments or contests – but their sponsorship is the life-blood of why we are able to do the event.
Thank you for the sponsorship Comcast! It means so much to us!
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