zP! Announces Bad Company 2 LAN

www.zpgaming.eu/team/2357-zp-announces-bad-company-2-lan.html

We have already revealed a little bit about this event when announcing the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 lineup for the organization. Entering this relatively new game opened up the door to a whole new adventure for us and we decided to grab on to it firmly and capitalize on the lack of LANs for the new multi-player. There has to be a first with everything right? Why not us?

The zP! Bad Company 8on8 event will take place at WZZRD's gamecenter in Enschede, Netherlands between the 16th and 18th of July 2010. We will be using the cafe's brand new PC's. The specifications can be found below. We even offer teams a choice to bootcamp on Thursday, the day before the tournament will kick off. Do not hesitate to ask for information! We will open the registration today!



Once we have received your registration mail you will receive further information about the actual payment. After payment your team will be validated on the registered teams list. At this point we have set a maximum amount of 24 teams, with a minimum required amount of teams of 16.

The more teams registers the more prize money we will add to the event. Prize money will be handed out in cash at the event!

16 teams - €2750 + hardware
20 teams - €3750 + hardware
24 teams - €4750 + hardware

You can also expect our sponsors and partners ROCCAT and SPEEDLINK to support the event once more with awesome products!



Rules will be announced shortly.

All information you will need at this point can be found below:

# Working title: zP! Bad Company
# Game: Battlefield: Bad Company 2

# LAN Date & Times: (Times might change for the actual tournament)
16th-18th of July 2010 (15th is optional, tournament starts Friday 16th)
Thursday - 15.00 - 23.00 (Bootcamp option, €15 p.p, pm 4nkor or APaX for more info)
Friday - 12.00 - 23.00 (Groupstage starts at 17.00)
Saturday - 09.00 - 01.00
Sunday - 09.00 - 17.00

# Location:
WZZRD Enschede/Cinestar
Colosseum 60
7500 BC Enschede
Tel: +31 53 8504759

# Amount of Teams:
The current maximum is set to 24 teams but if we get enough sign-ups we will increase it.

# Amount of Players:
Each team must have atleast 8 players for the event. We will be using the 8on8 game mode.

# Costs per Team:
€250 (€31,25 per player)
Note: zP! Gaming will not refund the entrance fee if your team decides not to attend after payment.

# Accommodation details:
There are bungalows on sight, this will probably not cover for all the teams. There are hostels and hotels around as well. Booking with WZZRD is cheaper than booking with a hotel directly! If you wish to book a bungalow or hotel for your team, please contact either 4nkor or APaX for information. Be fast as the amount of bungalows and hotel rooms are limited!

# Computer specs:
CPU: Intel QuadCore Q9550 2.83 Ghz
Graphics: Geforce GTS250
Memory: 4GB DDR
Screen: Samsung SyncMaster 931BW (19", Wide, 2ms)
BRING YOUR OWN GEAR!! Plug n play!

Guys, how good would it be if we could take a team to this?

I'm up for it, anyone else?

look intereting that pig, keep it up. :laugh:

great prizes ? what do u guys think shall we send a team ? whos up for it ?
ahhhhhhh and look where its... :laugh:

This could be an epic team rush outing

Shall be fun indeed.

I´m in if you need a 8th.

i think im available

For us UKers it shouldnt be that hard for us to get there.

Cheapo Flight/Ferry to Ammsterdam then we'll all meet up and hire a car or van or whatever for the weekend. Its only about 2 hours drive at the most.

Might be up for this as well

To give you some dutch inside info ^^.

You can either go by train which is an +/- 2 hour journey or you can get a car, with a car it will take about the same time. I don't know which will be cheaper.

erhm other stuff to know...

it is Holland and I know some ppl are interested init, there are coffee shops in Enschede (place where the lan will be) and Amsterdam is a 2 hour drive back

the Colosseum (The building where it is in) is next to the FC Twente Football stadion (just a FYI).

Anything else just give me a shout.

Grtz Micro

thanks micro for infos

coffee shops was the thing i wanted to see

so looks like we have enough intrest to send a team rush to the lan
so anyone intrested in playing for us at this lan pleae join the new community group on rush-zone called zeroPoint Lan 2010.

Ferry might be a good option tbh.

I don't know where else we could depart from but i totalled it up and 4 of us and a car on the ferry from Newcastle to Amsterdam ends up about £125 each.

As opposed to flying which ended up as closer to £160 each, then on top of that we'd have to find a way of getting to Enschede from Amsterdam.
That said, I was searching from Newcastle Airport. It might be cheaper from somewhere else.

I'm in if you want , its not far from brussels

For the ppl who live in scotland or near HULL , the cheapest way to travel is to take the ferry from HULL TO ZEBRUGGE in belgium. From there i can meet you and then we take a train ( 2 hours ) to ENSCHEDE ( holland )

BNP.Soul

theres some real cheep flights, speak to duky he found some amazing offers

Problem with flying is we than have to find a way of getting to Enschede.

Maybe a Rental car/van, maybe a train but in the end it might end up more expensive.

We'll investigate further tonight!!!

The cheapest rental car I could find from of schiphol start at 105 euro, but this is a Ford Ka, ( a very small car ).

A train ticket from "Schiphol - Enschede Drienerlo" will be 23,10 euro for a single trip per person.

If you guys consider going, you can get cheap tickets from stanstead to dusseldorf for 30 quid both ways. Depends how much extra luggage you guys take with you. Still one hour and half to two hours drive, but being at dusseldorf there should be a high amount of car rentals there too. You can get a touran or passat for £270-280 for 5 days from the 17th-22nd or so you can fit like 5 people in there or so instead of a ka which is 2.5 depending on luggage / how big the people are xD and you dont have to drive a girls car

<strong>Micro wrote:</strong>

The cheapest rental car I could find from of schiphol start at 105 euro, but this is a Ford Ka, ( a very small car ).

A train ticket from "Schiphol - Enschede Drienerlo" will be 23,10 euro for a single trip per person.

Apart from Greeny, we're a pretty "Compact" bunch anyway lol

Well, we had a big talk about this last night and we think it would be a good idea for some sort of big rush road trip.
Problem we're runing into is getting enough cars. I can bring mine but thats only 4 (small) people at the most with a little tiny bit of lugage space. We couldn't really take Jay's hairdresser-mobile as it drinks petrol and only has 2 seats and no boot. Greeny can't leave his Mrs without a car fot the week, Richard's van only has 2 seats and nobody else drives

Stoner has suggested we rent some sort of big motorhome or camper, but by the looks of it they're very expensive, we'd need 2, we need drivers with special licenses. The driver problem is an issue too if we where to get a minibus of some sort.


The road trip plan would consist of tounding everyone up in the UK, heading to Dover, getting the ferry (very cheap) to Calais, driving to Amsterdam, spending a night there, then going to the LAN the next day. And the return journy would be pretty much the same.

Drivers we would have:
Pig - car with 4 seats, probably too young to drive most rentals.
Jay - car with 2 seats, not really an option to take this.
Richard - Van with 2 seats, possible this could take the luggage if needed.
Greeny - Can help out with driving but no access to a car.

Non Driving passengers:
Ducky
Stoner
Born(Probably)
Ghostchanter
Scribbles


Flying would be an option too.
We've managed to find cheap flights to Amsterdam from Leeds/Bradford and London.
This would mean Stoner, Jay and Richard could go from London.
I could drive to Leeds and get Ducky and fly from Leeds/Bradford.
That leaves Greeny and Lucifer in Liverpool and Born in Wales(lol) Without any way to get to either Airport.
Then even if we do all fly to Amsterdam we'd have to find a rental car (or more likely 2) to get us to the venue.


Sorry if i've missed anyone off, this is just a sumary of all the stuff we where talking about last night. Put your name down, where you live, if you can drive, if you have access to a car, ect and we'll see about fitting you in.

MEEEE

can't drive at all sorry.
live in newcastle.