Our servers are up and finalized, and we are now to the point of looking for some new admins. If you would like to help seed our servers and bring them back to life you need to simply play in them a few times a week. One PUGG member idling on the server will fill up the server in minutes during high traffic time. If you are interested in being an admin please help seed the servers and drop an email to Dan Kaczmark or me (dmkaz or fatsteveirwin) @pugg.net. We will check the server logs to see who's seeding and appoint admins who help seed PUGG. Happy Fraggin' Chris Rotach

It's that time again! PUGG LAN XLI will be held Saturday April 4th in Tarkington Hall from Noon to 2 AM. Several Local businesses have been kind enough to sponsor this lan including Advance Computer and Vons. Tournaments will be decided at the lan as usual.

Officer Elections will also be held DURING THIS LAN so show up to support the candidates.


Hope Everyone can come!

What: PUGG LAN XLI
When: April 4th, noon-2am
Where: Tarkington Hall

This Saturday, March 7th, is PUGG LAN XL. We will be holding it in Hillenbrand Hall from noon to 2am once again.

This LAN will be sponsored by AMD/ATI with prizes given out accordingly for the tournaments that will be held at the LAN. As always, the games decided for the tournaments will be done at the LAN so make sure to come.


Hope to see you there!

What: PUGG LAN XL
When: March 7th, noon-2am
Where: Hillenbrand Hall
Sponsored by AMD/ATI

http://pugg.net/images/stories/sponsors/44402a_atr_prem_logo_l_e_rgb.png

Do you have mounds of gaming rigs and gear to transport across the barren tundra that is our beautiful campus? Are you worried about being seen in public carrying a weapon of gaming dominance? Are you lazy?

Various members of PUGG, including myself, can help!

Post here if you need a ride, and your location and telephone digitz.

TF2 – 5v5 or 6v6 -Bracket/Team Size depends on amount of people present -Maps are by round: Rd. 1- Granary Rd. 2- Turbine Rd. 3- Badlands Rd. x(if necessary)- 2fort Rd. x(if necessary)- Well -Config is CAL (nocrits, etc) -Class Restrictions are the following: 2 of any class except for Medic and Demoman which 1 is allowed -Matches are best of 3 rounds per map, with winner advancing, overtime if regulation is a draw. -Hopefully all matches will be played on the PUGG server (with password) CS:S Gun Game -Turbo DM -2 rounds -prelims: -finals: -Top 50% of prelim players advance to finals Left 4 Dead -Bracket Format -Rounds will alternate between maps -Team in bottom of bracket matchup will be zombies first -Otherwise self explanatory CS:S 5v5 -Bracket format -Maps are by round: Rd. 1- Season Rd. 2- Dust2 Rd. 3- Nuke Rd. x(if necessary)- Train Rd. x(if necessary)- Inferno -Each team plays 6 rounds on both sides (CTs, Ts), highest total score wins -Configs are CAL TF2 1v1 -Bracket Format, double elimination if possible -map is duel_ovh -CAL config -All classes are allowed except Engineer -First to 10 kills wins, win by 2 -In the event of simultaneous kill, both are counted -Players must play whole match as same class but may change classes between matches -All weapons allowed DOTA 3v3 or 5v5 -RD mode -Team are limited to one sheepstick per team of 3, 2 per team of 5 -Since it’s on a LAN, disconnects shouldn’t happen but if they do before 15 min, restart the match, after that team can either forfeit, come to an agreement (especially in 3v3) with the opposition or play on. -No backdooring bases (Towers outside of base allowed) -Save replays in case of discrepancies Starcraft -Only gonna bother to find tournament rules if anyone shows interest COD4 4v4 -Pending that we can get a COD4 server up we are gonna use Pro Mod -Maps: Crash, Backlot, Crossfire -Best of 7 for win -Search and Destroy mode -Gonna try to run this as smoothly as possible but I have no experience with the mod so problems may occur

Alright, you all have been asking and waiting and here it is. We will be holding the first LAN of the semester next week on February 7th. We are going to be switching the venues up a little this semester and this LAN will be held in the EAST Activity room of Tarkington Hall. What does this mean? It means there is a new place for a LAN and snacks are right below our feet in the tark mart. As usual, we will vote on tournaments at the LAN. So hope to see you all there! What: LAN XXXIX When: Saturday, February 7th noon - 2am Where: Tarkington Hall WEST Activity Room

After our midyear elections we now have two new officers:

Robert Strawsburg (robstraws) will be our Event Coordinator and Andrew Stomps (Mr. Pink) will be our new Tournament Director.

Now that we are back at full strength, we will be beginning to plan out events for next semester.

At this moment, the dates of the Spring semester lans are tentatively the first Saturday of February, March, and April. Firmer, dates will be announce next semester.

PUGG will be holding elections for two open officer positions next week.

We are looking for people interested in either becoming our Tournament Director or our Event Coordinator.

Elections will take place on December 9th (Tuesday) at 8pm in BRNG 1260.

Description of Positions:

Event Coordinator:
Handles general setup and maintenance of equipment and pugg lans. This person will be responsible for making sure that at a lan, the network is properly set up and that the electrical systems are configured to ensure stability during the event (ie. minimal number of blown fuses).

Tournament Director
Runs the tournaments that PUGG will hold at LAN parties. This person must be well versed in the different rules of running tournaments ranging from FPS to RTS.

So if you are interested in joining PUGG as an officer, please come to the election

Attendance: Prolly around 50 at peak Games DotA RA3 COD4 TF2 misc Tournaments as of 1am TF2 DotA As compared to the 1st LAN this Lan was faaaarrr better. I think the overall setup of the lobby was much preferable to Wiley or any other old dining court. The gaming was very solid from 2ish until about 6 when the power crashed out which was epic fail. Once the TF2 tournament "started" at 8pm things started to get a bit boring. The TF2 tourney took like 1hr to get setup was a big negative to the participants. Seems like nobody really thought about it either before the LAN cuz it was 4v4, on Granary and Steel LOL. The CAL mod was nice but again, it took forever to get going. Personally too, I thought the tattoo contest for a 60 dollar mouse was pretty silly. I'm glad Rob got it, but imo it should've gone to someone who actually won a game of something. The sponsorship was really nice was awesome and all the stuff Razer sent was cool. If we could get like 4 more sponsors people would be flocking to the LANs like crazy I'm sure. all in all, more tournament planning pre-lan and also fun OMG OMG OMG OMG NEVER EDIT MY POSTS RAWR!!!!!!!

It is that time again for our last LAN party of the semester!

PUGG LAN XXXVIII will be held once again in Hillenbrand Hall from noon to 2am on November 15th.

Tournaments will once again be decided at the LAN and will be held mid afternoon and going on until they are complete.

Razer will also be sponsoring this LAN and we will have prizes and other giveaways courtesy of them.

So let your friends know and we hope to see you Nov. 15th!

What: PUGG LAN XXXVIII
When: November 15th noon-2am
Where: Hillenbrand Hall C102A
Sponsored By:
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Right now I am planning on hosting a small Release Party for the release of L4D. This will be the weekend following the game's Tuedsay (Nov. 18 ) release. I was thinking Saturday night , the 22nd. It would likely be held in Hillenbrand, AFTER the Old Oaken Bucket Game, starting somewhere between 6 and 8 and going until 2, maybe later. There is a room in Hillenbrand that would be GREAT for this. It's in the basement, there's a projector, no windows, tile floors.. very good atmosphere for a zombie thriller. At this point, food will probably be your responsibility, but there won't be an additional cost to members. Please post your interest or suggestions for something like this in this thread. Thanks!

This thread is for discussion of the LAN at Hillenbrand on Saturday, 10/18/08.

My personal brief summary:
1. Power setup is awesome.
2. Itap is "on the fritz."
3. SWAT4 is sweet.
4. Laptops are incredibly popular this year.
5. FortuneCookie hacks.

Games played at this LAN:
TF2, CoD4, DotA, SWAT4, CnC3, CS:S, Crysis, among others.

See you at the next one, thanks for coming out!

As follows:

4:30pm - CoD4
8:00pm - CS:S
10:00pm - TF2
12:00pm - WC3

Game formats will be voted on by players at the designated times above.

Alright everyone, Our next LAN will be this weekend October 18th in Hillenbrand C102A. We will be having tournaments that will be decided at the LAN party, so if you want to compete, come to the LAN. Our two prizes will be USB beverage heaters/coolers so you can keep your drink of choice at whatever temperature you want while kicking ass and taking names. http://www.vat19.com/dvds/usb-warmer-cooler.cfm

Okay, people have been asking and we are giving. We have three LAN parties set up for this semester, there are as follows: LAN PARTY XXXVI: SEPTEMBER 27 @ WILEY LAN PARTY XXXVII: OCTOBER 18 @ HILLENBRAND LAN PARTY XXXVIII: NOVEMBER 15 @ HILLENBRAND LANs start at 12 o'clock noon and run until 2am. Rides MAY be available, look for a "Ride Thread" in the Open Chat forums for those offering rides. We will also try to have smaller single game events throughout the year too, so keep an eye out for those as well

We will be having our annual fall callout this year on Sept. 11th at 8pm in PHYS 112

Come visit us to learn more about what we have planned for this year.

Details:

What: Fall Callout
When: Thursday, Sept. 11 @ 8pm
Where: PHYS 112

We just launched the new PUGG.net website! We are continuing to work on tighter integration with out forums but check back often for new updates and more content to be added soon.

Let us know any comments you have or suggestions for the site.

PUGG LAN XXXV is next week! We will be camping out for 14 hours in the Hillenbrand study lounge this time. The date is next Saturday, April 12, with the usual hours of noon to 2am. Bring your own computer and favorite console (or games) and prepare to pwn even more n00bs than before. We are hoping to organize some tournaments at the LAN, so hop on the forum and sound off some ideas. As usual, we will decide what tournaments to do at the LAN itself. So, bring your games, your gear, and have some fun this upcoming weekend!

What: PUGG LAN XXXV
When: April 12th noon to 2am
Where: Hillenbrand Hall - Study Lounge C102
Tournaments: Decided at the LAN

ALSO:
WILY Radio is hosting a Halo 3 tournament on April 19th from 6-10pm.
More information here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=14820812094&ref=mf

Thanks to all that came! Your new PUGG officers are as follows: President - Stretch Treasurer - Garrett (FortuneCookie) Vice President - Jordan (Jaffee) Network Admin - Ben (BrutalHitman) Public Relations - Jason (Suicide_Guy) Game Server Admin - Chris (Forsaken) Corporate Relations - Erik (EriktheRed) Webmaster/Programmer - Jacob (Darkhorse) The final LAN of the year, on Apr. 12th, will feature a blended officership, as the old officers will be training the new ones for when they fully takeover in the fall.

PUGG will be having it's election for officers this coming Tuesday, April 1st in BRNG 1243 from 8pm-8:45. If you want to help run the club that makes all of these LAN parties possible, then come and apply for a position.

Positions up for election:
President
Vice President
Treasurer
Network Administrator
Corporate Relations
Publicity Director
Webmaster/Head Programmer
Lead Game Server Administrator

We will be having our fifth LAN party for the year on Saturday, March 29th from noon to 2am at Wiley Hall . Bring your computer or console for some great gaming! If you have not paid dues for membership, cash, check and PayPal can be taken upon arrival - dues are $10 for the remainder of the year (spring semester) and need to be paid before you can start gaming! What: PUGG LAN XXXIV When: Saturday, March 29th from noon to 2am Where: Wiley Hall Tournaments: We will be deciding/voting on tournaments at the LAN. We felt like many of the people that voted for the tournaments weren't present, leaving those that did show up with their choices. We'll stick to this method for Spring 2008 LANs. Discussion/General Games: Discussion of the LAN is taking place in this thread!: http://forums.pugg.net/showthread.php?t=933

"Yesterday, Purdue utility workers were messing around with the circuit breaker and turned off our circuit. I talked to a worker here and he turned the circuit back on. It appears they killed all the circuits in the entire office area since none were labeled. Our circuit is now labeled to be never shut off and this shouldn't happen again. All the servers and equipment are back up and running and should be functioning normally." -Jason Go figure, another outage that was out of our control! Everything should be back to normal as Jason said.

Here is some information on upcoming IUCGC events that I was asked to pass along:

IUCGC is bringing you another round of the action with LAN War XIV this April 5-6! Keeping with tradition, this 24+ hour event will be stocked heavily with swag; we already have big commitments from many sources, including at LEAST one 8800! Our 5 tournaments will be determined by your votes when you register for the event, which can be paid for through our web service for $15. As per the other LAN Wars, XIV is to be held in Briscoe Quad's student activity room. OH, and BIG news! We will be featuring access to IU's lightning fast broadband for each of our attendees! No more fussing about versions of Steam or patches, all thanks to the magic of INTERNET! For more information, please visit www.iugaming.com!

Also, our first annual Console Chaos (the console-based, sister event to the LAN War) will be the previous weekend on March 29-30. Competition will be fierce in Smash Bros. Brawl, Halo 3, Guitar Hero 3, and more! Hosted in the exact same room as the LAN War, the Briscoe SAR, Console Chaos will charge no entry fee for observers, but competitors and eaters-of-food will be charged a small fee.

We will be having our fourth LAN party for the year (first one for spring) on Saturday, Feb. 9th from noon to 2am at Wiley Hall. Bring your computer or console for some great gaming! If you have not paid dues for membership, cash, check and PayPal can be taken upon arrival - dues are $10 for the remainder of the year (spring semester) and need to be paid before you can start gaming! What: PUGG LAN XXXIII When: Saturday, Feb. 9th from noon to 2am Where: Wiley Hall Tournaments: We will be deciding/voting on tournaments at the LAN. We felt like many of the people that voted for the tournaments weren't present, leaving those that did show up with their choices. We'll stick to this method for Spring 2008 LANs.

From Purdue's Operations and Maint. Dept: "The electrical service a large section of STEW will be shutdown on Saturday, February 2, 2008, from 4:30am until 5:30am. This is required to balance some of the load on the temporary generators at STEW. This should not affect all of STEW, but it would be advantageous for the building occupants to plan for a total outage. It will not affect HIKS at this time." While our equipment isn't kept in STEW, STEW is our network next-hop... so this bulletin is thus pertinent. Our equipment should only be out for an hour or so during the very early hours of the morning.

We will be having our spring semester callout this thursday from 8-9pm in BRNG 1222. Come on out if you're interested and bring your friends!

Long story short, the electrical service to STEW, WTHR, and HIKS was shutdown on Dec. 27th at 6:00pm EDT. It was out for probably 3-6 hours in total for some work on the High Voltage project. While our equipment never powered off, there was no network access from PMU to other parts of campus because STEW is its next-hop. Everything at this point should be back to normal.

We will be having our third LAN party for the year on Saturday, Dec. 1st from noon to 2am at Hillenbrand Hall. Bring your computer or console for some great gaming! If you have not paid dues for membership, cash, check and PayPal can be taken upon arrival - dues are $15 and need to be paid before you can start gaming! What: PUGG LAN XXXII When: Saturday, Dec. 1st from noon to 2am Where: Hillenbrand Hall (for real this time!) Tournaments: We're doing tournaments a little different this time. Because of low interest in tournament play at the last LAN, we will be deciding/voting on tournaments at the LAN. We felt like many of the people that voted for the tournaments weren't present, leaving those that did show up with their choices. We'll try this method out at this LAN and depending on how it fares, decide how to proceed for Spring 2008 LANs.

We will be having our second LAN party for the year on Saturday, Oct. 13th from noon to 2am at Shreve Hall. Bring your computer or console for some great gaming! If you have not paid dues for membership, cash, check and PayPal can be taken upon arrival - dues are $15 and need to be paid before you can start gaming! What: PUGG LAN XXXI When: Saturday, Oct. 13th from noon to 2am Where: Shreve Gold Room Tournaments: * Team Fortress 2 * DoTA * CS: Source Note: The venue has been changed from Hillenbrand Hall to Shreve Hall. Please make note of this!

Email from the IU Computer Gaming Club, in case anyone is interested!


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Greetings, gamers!

IUCGC is back for yet another installment of the LAN War! This is our 13th such event, and we're really excited to be putting it on for some more fragging/pawning/fixing broken wagon wheels.

INFO:
Date: Oct. 27th-28th, 12pm-3pm (27 hrs)
Location: Briscoe Quad Student Activity Room (same as last time)
Fee: $15, which covers food, drinks, swag, and future events!

What to bring:
Computer
Peripherals, such as mouse/keyboard/headset (NO SPEAKERS)
Snax
Your "A" Game.
Oh, and games. We do not provide copies of games.

What to expect: Tons of fun; 5 tournaments, voted on by YOU guys! A Twinkie-eating contest, a possible dance-off, a mysterious prank war, two 42" Plasmas with the latest and greatest in console gaming, at least seconds, probably thirds on dinner/drinks, lots of great swag!

Something to note: We need some help! Our officer pool dwindles every year due to the fact that they, y'know, graduate. We would ideally like this club to be completely student-run, so if you would like to offer us help, contact me, Hamstar, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or just PM me on the forums.

Something else to note: In order to get better swag, we need higher attendance, and in order to get higher attendance, we need better swag, so invite your friends!! Spread the word!

Anyway, enough rambling. Thanks for being a part of the club, and I hope to see you there! Registration opens VERY SOON, so keep an eye out!!

We will be hosting a Halo 3 tournament with Microsoft on Sunday, September 30th at 12PM. It will be located in the Wiley East Activities Room (same room as the LAN). It will probably be a random 4-man team tournament. You must sign up ahead of time at http://www.pugg.net/halo3.php to participate as this is open to all Purdue students and not just PUGG members. Prizes will include various Microsoft games (including Halo 3) as well as some Microsoft hardware.

Hope to see you there!

Thanks for coming to the LAN! We had close to 80 people at the event altogether. There was lots of TF2, CS:S, and Smash Brothers with some other games mixed in. Tournaments were held for Gun Game and CS:S (Supreme Commander was canceled due to lack of interest (where the hell were all the people who voted for it?)).

Congratulations to Forsaken for winning the Gun Game tournament, and to team Hyped for winning the CS:S tournament. They are Forsaken, Yoda, Nascarnick88, Gwai Lo, and Ettiave.

And of course, the path of destruction left on Resnet.

http://www.pugg.net/scott/bandwidth 9-22-07.jpg

We will be having our first LAN party for the year this coming Saturday, Sept. 22nd from noon to 2am at Wiley Hall. Bring your computer or console for some great gaming. If you have not paid dues for membership, cash, check and PayPal can be taken upon arrival - dues are $15 and need to be paid before you can start gaming! What: PUGG LAN XXX When: Saturday, Sept. 22nd, 12pm (noon) to 2am Where: Wiley Hall, East Activity Room (just next to the main office) Tournaments: * Supreme Commander * Gun Game * CS: Source

If you want a reserved slot on our CS:S servers please see this thread.

http://forums.pugg.net/showthread.php?t=786

Thanks to sneveTs we now have an official dedicated PUGG ventrilo server. The cap is currently at 30 slots, but we can get it raised to 100 if needed (The company hosting us pays royalties on the number of slots in use, so having a 100 slot server with unused slots is bad).

Here is the connection info.

Server: Chicago.Cevo.NationVoice.com
Port: 3786

For those who haven't noticed yet, all 4 of our game servers are up and running. The Gun Game and CS:S servers have already had a decent number of people on them. Check out http://www.pugg.net/servers.php for connection info and stats!

We have updated the webpage! New links have been added to the menu bar for Servers and IRC.

The servers page has been updated with live server status as well as a link to the stats page for gun game. Once the rest of the servers are set up they will be listed on the status and have stats links as well.

The IRC page contains connection information for our IRC server as well as a IRC web applet if you wish to join from your browser.

If you registered on our forums before our callout (before 9-04-07) and were awaiting email confirmation in order to activate your account, then your user account has been activated by hand. We had some issues over the summer with sending out emails from the forums, but they are fixed now. Please make note of this if you joined during the summer and hadn't received a confirmation email - your account is now active. Thank you, The Management

For those interested in making games, the Game Developers Club is having their callout tonight, September 5th at 7pm in KNOY B16.

We will be having our callout on September 4th, 8-9pm in PHYS 112. The callout is a great time to find out more about the club, ask questions, and join up. I hope to see you all there!

Just a heads up: We'll be having random outages at night because the Memorial Union is having some electrical work done for the coming weeks. If you try to visit the site and it's down, that's most likely why Check back in a few hours or in the morning, and it should be back up again.

I was informed that some users could not post new threads or reply to threads. I think I fixed the issue. If you still can't post anything please email/PM me.

The migration to vBulletin is complete. We imported user data and posts from the old phpbb forums, so you don't need to re-register. Just log in as normal. I would recommend you visit the User CP and set up a few things as noted below. - Timezone was set to GMT for all users when imported, set this to your timezone. - The default view is to only show threads with posts in the last 30 days, I personally set this to show all posts, it's up to you. If you are only seeing a small number of threads check this. - Make sure all other data is correct as there could be errors in the import. - I would also recommend you change your default post editor to the standard instead of basic, since the basic one sucks. Another thing to note, in phpbb post count doesn't go down when posts are removed, however it does in vBulletin. Post count was recalculated after the import so pretty much everyone's post count went down. The theme for vBulletin was designed by yours truly, and I think I worked all the kinks out, but if you see something wacky like yellow text on a yellow background in some obscure place, let me know immediately so I can fix it. Also, in order to not piss someone off, the images for the buttons came from the Black and Gold Theme by Andrew ( http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=124439&highlight=black+gold ). We tried to configure everything correctly, but vBulletin has a massive number of configuration options (like 20x that of phpbb), so we likely missed something. Please contact us if you find something you think needs changed or fixed. We hope you enjoy the new forums. vBulletin is much more powerful and robust than phpbb, and it will help us maintain a better system not only for the forums, but for our user database for LAN's and such. Have fun!

Sometime in the next week or so, we'll be migrating the PUGG forums from phpBB to vBulletin. We feel that it'll enhance the overall forums experience.

Additionally, it should allow us to facilitate member dues/payments within the forums rather than using a pseudo-separate system as we do now. In turn, it should also allow us to take member dues/payments via PayPal, in addition to plain old cash money and check.

The system allows for a lot more detail/granularity as far as options and configuration goes, which gives us greater control over how posting works, forum management, and most importantly, spammer control/CAPTCHA.

We'll let you know when we have a more precise timetable of when the forums will be down and when we except to have everything migrated over.

But a question for everyone... should we migrate over all the posts or leave them behind? If we left them behind, the forums would basically be empty. All user accounts and forums will be moved regardless, but the officers would like to know what the community thinks about the posts contained within these forums.

EDIT: vBulletin upgrade will happen June 1, at about 6pm EST

Thanks for coming all! The room at Hillenbrand ended up working pretty well, and we had no network or power issues to speak of, which is I believe is a first for this year. We had about 35 people at our peak, a slightly below normal number, but considering the rain/snow and other events going on, it was an excellent turnout.

Look for us this fall as we kick off the semester right with some more LAN action.

Here are your new PUGG officers for next year!

President - Scott "Ettiave" Richter
Treasurer - Harsha "the_rizzle" Ranganath
Vice President - Dan "daedalus01" Frein
Corporate Relations - Nate "ShizNate" Meyers
Publicity Director - Alex "stretch" Yeager
Network Administrator - Dan "daedalus01" Frein
Webmaster / Senior Programmer - Jacob "darkhorse" Feisley
Server Admin - Jason "suicide_guy" St. John

We will be having our sixth and final LAN party for the year on Saturday, April 14th from 4pm to 4am at Hillenbrand Hall. Bring your computer or console for some great gaming. What: PUGG LAN XXIX When: Saturday, April 14th 4pm to 4am Where: Hillenbrand Hall, Study Lounges C102 and C102A Here's the general layout/location of the LAN in the building: Hillenbrand Floor Plan Hillenbrand Table Layout Tournaments slated for this LAN: * FPS: HL2: DM * Non-FPS: Garry's Mod 10 * Counter-Strike (we'll be having a CS tourney each LAN)

We will be having our officer elections on Thursday, April 12th, from 8-9PM in BRNG 1242.

If you are at all interested in running for a position in the leadership of PUGG, I encourage you to come and put your name on the ballot. Voting will take place at the elections, so if you want a say in who is leading the club next year, please come and vote. I expect the elections to take less than 30 minutes, so if you are pressed for time you should be out of there pretty fast. Typically we have very few people show up, and I'd like to see that change this year.

If you cannot make the elections and still want to run for a position for next year, please email or PM me your name and what position you are running for, and if you want a brief statement about why you are running, etc.

Here are the officer positions we will be having this fall and a brief description of each for those interested in running. Along with these, I am also interested in getting a dedicated game server admin who will maintain the dedicated servers we have set up. He would be in charge of finding other admins for the servers, and handling all general server related things. If you have experience in this area and might be interested please let me know and come to the elections if you are able.

President:
The President has the final say on all matters of the club. They are primarily in charge in the planning of PUGG events and all things administrative. The President may assist or take charge of any other area of PUGG if he/she so chooses.

Vice President:
The Vice President takes on a supporting role to the President, helping him/her in all ways possible.

Treasurer:
The Treasurer keeps accounts, deposits the organization's funds, and makes expenditures in a manner approved by the Business Office for Student Organizations. They must sign off on all club disbursements.

Publicity Director:
The Publicity Director is primarily in charge of the promotion and public relations of PUGG by posting flyers on campus, chalking, word of mouth and the like in accordance with Purdue guidelines. They are responsible for informing local media of events and handling all press inquiries.

Corporate Relations:
The Corporate Relations officer is responsible for contacting local and national companies for sponsorship. They should keep listings of all communication with such companies and follow up in a timely matter after an event.

Network Administrator:
The Network Administrator is responsible for the maintenance and management of the PUGG network switches and servers during the PUGG events, as well as the PUGG game servers. The Network Administrator is also partly in charge of updating and maintaining the network system used at LAN parties.

Webmaster / Head Programmer:
The Webmaster / Head Programmer is in charge of the upkeep and expansion of the PUGG website. The PUGG website is a key factor in the effective communication between PUGG members and officers and should strive to be the central meeting place for all Purdue University gamers. He/she is also responsible for updating and maintaining the PUGG network system used at LAN parties along with the Network Administrator.

Thanks to everyone who came! At our peak we had about 55 people, which is a great turnout. We had some power issues, and blew a total of 5 fuses, which is as far as I know a PUGG record. :)

The Supreme Commander tournament didn't happen due to not enough players, however the Day of Defeat: Source and Counter-Strike: Source tournaments were a great success. DoD:S had 2 teams and CS:S had a whopping 7 teams play.

Congratulations to team Huevos Grandes for winning the DoD:S tournament. They are Chimp_On_Stilts, Eulogy, Nuiker, Cryptite, and the_rizzle.

Congratulations to team Explowned for winning the CS:S tournament. They are Ettiave, Forsaken, The Source Effect, Yoda, and Unseen Spectre.

I hope everyone had fun, and we look forward to seeing you at our last LAN this year, tentatively scheduled for April 14th, and tentatively set for Hillenbrand.

We will be having our fifth LAN party on Saturday, March 3rd from Noon-2am. Bring your computer or console for some great gaming.

What: PUGG LAN XXVIII
When: Saturday, March 3rd Noon-2am
Where: McCutcheon Hall

Tournaments slated for this LAN:
* FPS: DoD:S.
* Non-FPS: Supreme Commander
* Counter-Strike (we'll be having a CS tourney each LAN)

Copenhagen, Denmark -- February 7th, 2007 -- SteelSeries, a leading manufacturer of innovative professional gaming gear, today announced a new sponsorship of Chinese multi-gaming organization wNv teamwork (wNv). With the new sponsorship SteelSeries and wNv will be affiliated throughout 2007 and the full SteelSeries product line of headsets, keyboards and mouse pads will be used by wNv's players.



As the most successful eSports club in China, wNv has won many championship titles in both international and domestic Counter-Strike competitions since their inception in 2003. The Chinese powerhouse has proven nearly impossible to beat on Asian soil. On May 2nd 2006 wNv made gaming history by winning the prestigious WEG Masters 2006, thus becoming the only team ever to win two consecutive WEG tournaments.



SteelSeries was founded in 2001 and is a leading manufacturer of professional gaming gear, targeted at the hardcore competitive gaming segment. The company manufactures headsets, keyboards, software, mouse pads and other equipment for gamers striving to take their game to the next level. The company's mission is to create performance enhancing gaming gear that reduces reaction times and enhances precision and accuracy.



"Our cooperation with wNv teamwork illustrates our commitment to the Chinese gaming community, which is probably the most vibrant and dedicated eSports culture on the planet," says Kim Rom, Head of PR & Communications for SteelSeries. "Our cooperation with wNv has always been nothing short of amazing and in 2007 we look forward to working with wNv on two fronts - both as their provider of gaming equipment, and on new development of future products in our line of professional gear."



"The great cooperation between wNv and SteelSeries paved the way for wNv's victories in the past year, and we believe that the close cooperation in 2007 will clear away obstacles in the way of wNv carrying off new champions," says Mr. Jie Li, CEO for wNv teamwork. "SteelSeries and wNv will cooperate closely with each other in the field of professional eSport equipment, and together we will concentrate our efforts, energy and mind on popularizing e-sport worldwide."



SteelSeries and wNv will cooperate on product development on a wide range of new products, including mice, keyboards, headsets and mouse pads.





About SteelSeries



SteelSeries is a leading manufacturer of gaming accessories, including headsets, keyboards mouse pads and mouse accessories. SteelSeries have been on the forefront of professional gaming gear since its inception in 2001, thanks to continued innovation and product development in cooperation with leading professional gamers. All SteelSeries products are developed in co-operation with professional gamers to ensure optimum performance and durability. SteelSeries supports the growth of electronic sports through aggressive sponsoring of teams and support of organisations, news sites, communities, tournaments and LAN-events all over the world. For additional information, visit http://www.steelseries.com.

We have created boards in our forums for discussion about our new dedicated game servers. Currently there are boards for CoD2 and CS:S. The boards for BF2 and DoD:S will open when we get those servers running (hopefully this weekend).

The forums now have open registration to allow for players from our servers to join.

We transferred our website to a new server during the LAN. The files server is now back up and has its own domain. Enter files.pugg.net into your browser. You can also click the files button at the top of the front page.

We will be uploading patches and demos, etc. as time permits. If you have any game related files you want us to host, let us know. We cannot host anything that violates copyright laws of course.

UT2004:
Ettiave
FalcoNoclaF

Starcraft
kvisuth

CS:S
Used 2 Be Good:
chankywanky
ctrl_alt_de1337
Mister Fister
monkey
tupac

I am pleased to report that after much configuring and playtesting, the official PUGG CS:S server is ready for players. Tell all of your friends and clan mates, and lets get this thing populated. If there are any problems with the server email me at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

IP: 128.210.109.141:27015

We have an official PUGG COD2 server up and running! Go check it out and invite your friends so we can get some people playing on it.

IP: 128.210.109.141:28960

Enjoy your insane pings!!!

We jumped through all the bureaucratic hoops and finally got our game servers. They'll be configured by me and Ettiave sometime this weekend. We'll let everyone know when they're up for public use. We expect to pick a small handful of users to "beta test" the configuration to make sure we didn't miss anything important, like reserved game slots, etc.

Official Games List:
Counter-Strike: Source
Day of Defeat: Source
Call of Duty 2
Battlefield x?

I might be personally adding UT2K4 and anything else that catches my fancy. The web site will also be moved over to one of our 3 servers, so expect some PUGG.net downtime in the near future. We'll let you know when we expect this to happen.

Update: We just got our IP addresses assigned and our DNS names created! All that's left to do is start building the boxes, which will take place this weekend.

We will be having our fourth LAN party on Saturday, February 10th from Noon-2am - we're still looking into a location and will update the post when we know that information. Bring your computer or console for some great gaming.

What: PUGG LAN XXVII
When: Saturday, February 10th Noon-2am
Where: Wiley

Tournaments slated for this LAN:
* FPS: UT2K4
* Non-FPS: Starcraft
* Counter-Strike (we'll be having a CS tourney each LAN)

Just a reminder that the Spring PUGG callout is tomorrow (1/23/06).

Location: EE270
Time: 8:00pm - 9:00pm

We'll talk about what the club is, what we do, and the other intricacies that make up the Purdue University Gamers Group. You can pay dues if you haven't already, and we *might* be taking T-shirt orders.

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Game on!

We will be having our third LAN party on Saturday, December 2nd from Noon-2am in the Wiley East Activity Room. Bring your computer or console for some great gaming.

What: PUGG LAN XXVI
When: Saturday, December 2nd, Noon-2am
Where: Wiley East Activity Room

"Be there, or be tetrahedral"

Tournaments slated for this LAN:
FPS: Unreal Tournament 2004
Non-FPS: War3 Dota

We will be having our second LAN party on Saturday, October 28th from Noon-2am in the Wiley East Activity Room. Bring your computer or console from some awesome gaming.

What: PUGG LAN XXV
When: Saturday, October 28th, Noon-2am
Where: Wiley East Activity Room

Hope to see you there!

Thanks to everyone who attended our first LAN of the 2006-2007 school year! According to ALP, we had 75 people attend, which is a great turnout! This number doesn't even include some of the console gamers who didn't bring their computers. We had over 40 new members sign up at the LAN. I am very happy to see so many gamers interested in our LAN parties and I hope to see even more at the next one!

Please use this thread for feedback and discussion related to the LAN.
http://forums.pugg.net/viewtopic.php?t=1477

Pics: http://www.pugg.net/gallery/LAN_09_30_06/LAN_09_30_06.html

Thanks again for coming!

We will be having our first LAN party this Saturday, September 30th from Noon-2am in the Harrison North Activity Room. Bring your computer for some intense gaming action!

What: PUGG LAN XXIV
When: Saturday, September 30th, 12 (Noon) - 2 AM
Where: Harrison North Activity Room

See you there!

Just a reminder that the PUGG callout is tonight (9/6/06)!

Location: EE270
Time: 7:30pm-8:30pm

The callout will be a good time to sign up so bring your $15 cash which will cover you for all PUGG events of the year. We'll also be taking orders for t-shirts, which will run you $10.

"be there or be tetrahedral"

Anyone on campus on Tuesday, August 15th should stop by our booth at the BGR activities fair from 11-1. Harsha "the_rizzle" Ranganath and Matt "Eulogy" Johnston will be there to answer questions and hand out flyers for our callout.

Speaking of which our callout will be September 6th at 7:30pm in EE270. I'll make a more official announcement later.

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/07/24/amd_acquires_ati/

Sunnyvale (CA) - AMD today announced that it will acquire chipset and graphics chip company ATI in a deal that is valued at about $5.4 billion. AMD believes that, with the help of ATI's assets, it can build a new "more formidable" company that can grow especially in commercial, mobile and consumer electronics markets.

Bandwidth Limit Change
Jun 28, 2006
Beginning June 28th, 2006, the official bandwidth limit on ResNet will be changed from 3 GB (3072 MB) inbound and outbound to 5 GB (5120 MB) inbound and outbound.

Off-campus traffic will continue to be counted in this 5 GB and on-campus traffic will still not count against the limit.

https://my.resnet.purdue.edu/

Just a note. If you get redirected to some guys web page when you click on the forums link above, please clear your cache and try again. The link was directing to the wrong page for a while.

Here they are, our sexy brand spanking new (read, refurbished) HP ProCurve 4000M switches. Each has 80-ports of networking goodness. We are going to be doing some cool things with a combination of these switches and the ClarkConnect operating system this fall, like forcing people to register on ALP before they can do anything. What happened to the old switches you ask? Well, they were never actually PUGG's, they were on loan to us from Purdue, and we decided it was time we got our own set. These will serve us well in the coming years. We now own all the equipment necessary to run a LAN party.

We owe a thanks to HorizonDatacom for giving us a great deal on these switches. Visit their web site at http://www.horizondatacom.com.

Thanks to our webmaster Jacob, the forum registration page should be working again. Thanks for your patience.

*Edited for spelling by Daedalus01*

It has been brought to my attention that our forum registration is broken. It always denies the security code even if it is correct. I have notified our webmaster and we are looking into it. It should be fixed shortly. If you are trying to register and can't, please try again in a few days. Thanks.

Officer elections are complete. Here are the new officers for 2006-2007.

President: Scott Richter (Ettiave)
Vice President: David Richter (flashlight)
Treasurer: Harsha Ranganath (the_rizzle)
Publicity Director: Zak Butler (Chimp_On_Stilts)
Tournament Coordinator: Jeremy Parniuk (nuiker)
Event Coordinator: Dan Frein (daedalus01)
Corporate Relations Officer: Matt Johnston (Eulogy)

Thanks to everyone who came! It was a good LAN. The use of the Autonomous LAN Party software was somewhat more successful than last time. At our peak we had around 40-45 people. Gaming consisted mostly of CoD2, UT2k4 dodgeball, Mechwarrior 4 Vengeance, and Guitar Hero.

Here are results from the CoD2 tournament:
1st: Wiley South East 2
2nd (tie): Questionable Talent
2nd (tie): Team Rawr

Stay tuned for our next LAN party before dead week!

*Ninja edit courtesy of Ettiave*

Thanks to everyone who came! It was an awesome LAN party. The use of the Autonomous LAN Party software was a success. At our peak we had 60+ people at the LAN and 41 people using ALP. Gaming consisted mostly of Call of Duty 2, Day of Defeat: Source, and various mods for UT2004, especially Dodgeball UT. Console gaming consisted of Guitar Hero and Super Smash Brothers along with others. Tournament results are posted below.

Day of Defeat: Source
1st: to
Catstrator
Chimp_On_Stilts
Eulogy
nuiker
ralse

2nd: Big Smokey!!!!
bmanders
Bobaab
cdos
drive2fast
Nichfoolas

Call of Duty 2
1st: Wiley South East 2
Ettiave
falconx04
Flashlight
Jish
nbirt

2nd: Rejects
Catstrator
Csel Poiuy
Eraser
ralse
the_rizzle

3rd: Team ROFL
CompACE
daedalus01
ErikTheRed
evilstanley
Zetinal

4th: Bad Mother Fookers
aaahhh
administrator of pain
Chief Ben
TheOnlyHalfrican

5th: ht75
cappy
deltaes
flyingace200
Lt_Bertsch

Thanks again, and stay tuned for our next LAN party sometime after spring break!

We will be having our first LAN party of the spring semester on Saturday, February 4th. Come to the Wiley East Dining Room for 14 hours of gaming and tournaments! If you missed our callout and aren't a member, you can pay your dues as well.

What: PUGG LAN XXI
When: February 4th, 2006 12pm-2am
Where: Wiley East Dining Room

Hope to see you there!

PUGG will be having our spring semester callout on Tuesday, January 24th from 7-8pm in EE270. Come along for free pizza and find out when our first event is! If you are not yet a member of PUGG you can pay your dues and join. Hope to see you there!

What: Callout
When: Jan 24th 7-8pm
Where: EE270
Why: Pizza

Welcome back to the website and forums everyone!

As I'm sure everyone is well aware, out website has been down for over 3 weeks now. This was due to a hardware failure on the server that hosts our website. We were finally given access to our data last night, and Andy has managed to restore everything from that. We are taking steps to ensure that this does not happen again, primarily constant backups of this site and the database.

Let the posting being!

The DLC has posted lots of pictures from the LAN. They can be found at the link below.

http://www.dlc.purdue.edu/game_creators_challenge.htm

The results from this weekend's tournaments have been posted. Please click on the link below to be taken to the results. Thanks to everyone who participated, and congratulations to the winners.

http://forums.pugg.net/viewtopic.php?t=1089

A little under 36 hours to the event and we have 84 spots still open. A sudden rush of new signups just came in all from word of mouth which is awesome. Keep telling your friends about this event, let's hit that 200 person cap!

The first 170 people in will get a free tshirt from newegg!

DLC/PUGG EVENT REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

Event Details
=================
Location: McCutcheon North Dining Hall
Date: Saturday October 29th 2005
Time: 12pm until 2am

Free pizza, unlimited soda, demo and giveaways of Microsoft's Age of Empire III, tons of other prizes!

Visit http://register.pugg.net to register!

Great LAN everyone! The LAN party Friday night went off without a hitch and started us off right. Thank you everyone who came. We had over 60 computers on the network at our peak, as well as some console gaming.

We had blocked ports for World of Warcraft, Everquest 2, and Guild Wars, as the vote on the forums was yes for doing so. I believe this went over well, as we had the majority of people stay until well past 2am, which normally doesn't happen. We will continue to do this so long as the members agree with it.

Stay tuned for more information on our next event, which will be even bigger and better than this one!

We are having our FIRST EVENT of the year this Friday, the 23rd of September!!!!! Come to Wiley for a night of gaming fun!

What: PUGG LAN XVIII
When: 7pm - 7am, Friday September 23rd - Saturday September 24th
Where: Wiley Hall East Dining Room

In the past our events have been in Tarkington, so many of you might be wondering where Wiley is. Wiley is the residence hall directly south of Tarkington. The doors to the east dining room will open at 7pm for all PUGG members and Wiley residents. Anyone who is not already a PUGG member can pay at the event. We are currently out of T-Shirts and will be taking orders for sizes.

COME ONE COME ALL!

Fall callout will be THIS THURSDAY, September 1st, at 7:00 PM

It will take place in EE 170 and there will be FREE pizza!

The callout will be a good time to sign up so bring your $20 cash which will include the first ever PUGG T-Shirt and cover you for all PUGG events of the year.

EE 170. 7pm. Thursday. Be there. Bring friends!


-Edited by Ettiave: Sheesh Lauren you can't spell. =D