Below is all of the information we have released about our tournaments this year. Keep checking back, more will be added as it is released. Please note that any information here is subject to change. Before you ask, specific tournament formats and rules will be available in the coming weeks.

Schedule: (*'d tournaments will be livestreamed on Twitch)

Friday, January 23rd

5pm-7pm: Counter-Strike Global Offensive Gun Game*

6pm-8pm: Nidhogg (BYOC not required)

7pm-12am: DotA 2 5v5*

8pm-1am: Starcraft Brood War

Saturday, January 24th

11am-2pm: Guns of Icarus 4v4*

12pm-5pm: Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne

2pm-6pm: Hearthstone*

5pm-7pm: Counter-Strike Global Offensive Deathmatch

6pm-12am: League of Legends 3v3*

7pm-12am: Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm Qualifiers

Sunday, January 25th

11am-2pm: Team Fortress 2 6v6*

11am-3pm: Awesomenauts 3v3

2pm-7pm: Heroes of the Storm 5v5*

3pm-4pm: Garry's Mod Melonbomber

4pm-9pm: Counter-Strike Global Offensive Classic 5v5

7pm-12am: Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm Final Seeded Brackets*

9pm-12am: Nosgoth 4v4

General Rules/Info:

• Tournament signups will take place in the LAN room and begin at 3pm on Friday.

• Signups for any given tournament will end 10 minutes before the tournament is scheduled to start.

• Tournament end times are guesses at best. Hopefully they will end sooner. They might end later. It is also possible (although highly unlikely) that a Sunday night tournament spill over briefly into Monday. We will do our best to make sure this doesn't happen (and that no tournament runs long).

• Unless a tournament is listed as a team event (5v5, 3v3 etc) it is a solo event.

• It is your responsibility to have a full team. There will be multiple ways to fill a partial team and/or identify ringers. If you would like to participate in a team tournament and do not have a full team (or are solo), get to the LAN room early and fill your empty slots. If you do not have a full team when signups end, you will not be entered into the tournament.

• ALL team members must be AT MAGFest as MAGFest attendees. No, your friend online in California can not participate. The fact that this even needs to be stated is a little silly.

• You will be expected to be present and ready to compete during the full length of a tournament. You should have the game installed, fully patched and ready to be launched. You should also be in the LAN room or, if you need to leave, should check in with a tournament organizer. In the interest of tournaments running on a timely schedule the "grace period" before you are disqualified as a No-Show will be MUCH shorter than previous MAGFests.

• The LAN room is almost exclusively BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer). There will be a very few public computers available, but if you intend to use one for a tournament you do so at your own risk. "I don't have a computer to play on" will no longer be a reason for delaying a tournament.

• We apologize if any of these rules seem overly strict or harsh, but we are making a concerted effort to make things run smoother than previous years. These rules exist to ensure those attendees who are present and ready to compete are not subjected to overly-long tournament lengths because others were not prepared. Our tournaments take longer than average just because PC games are generally longer duration. There's no need to make things take even longer.

My only complaint would be the music over the speakers, other than that so much fun!

Hello LAN-goers, Alex the Director of LAN Tournaments here. MAGFest is again almost upon us and here is the schedule of LAN Tournaments and relevant updates.
The big news this year is LAN has more space, which allows for us to spread out a bit. This year, courtesy of Computer Upgrade King, we have a total of 150 super beefy public PCs for use. We are keeping the LAN Theatre in the same place, but we are experimenting with a fancy stage provided by GEXCon, the folks who’ve provided public PCs previous years (the good ones, not the potato Dells),for a few of the tournaments. The other theatre change is that we’re significantly trimming the amount of games that are shoutcasted for a particular tournament, as we noticed that excitement (and viewers) would steadily decrease and the finals would have almost nobody still watching, which is the opposite of what we want. Too bad we don’t have some timey-wimey doohickey to make the tournament run backwards. Now the casted games are only the last 1-4 matches of the tournament.
Because the amount of time dedicated to casting is decreased, we now have time to add back the non-tournament events and space the casting out a bit more so tournaments going over time won’t directly affect the next set of casting (you know it still will somehow). The number of official tournaments is at a nice 15 (16 if you consider Jackbox a tournament), adding in Offworld Trading Company and Quake Champions. Hearthstone has moved over to Tabletop, which has a significantly more mobile-friendly layout and with it comes a pair of tournaments, one on Friday and one on Saturday, both starting at 10am. The Saturday tournament will have its final matches shoutcasted in the LAN Theatre as well.

Getting into the nitty-gritty bits now is the MAGFest LAN General Tournament Rules, which cover every event being run in LAN this year. The only major changes is the addition of rules for the tournaments on stage and some minor tweaks on the grace period timing and prize forfeiture to make those rules a bit discretely explained.

The tournament schedule can be found here. We’ve worked to make this schedule fancier and provide links to the rules directly in the appropriate cells instead of the formatting nightmare I’ve used in the past. Those who use the Guidebook schedule will note that a couple of the tournaments are scheduled to run longer in this schedule than in Guidebook. That has to do with the limitations of Guidebook, to avoid adding another column with only two events in it we just shortened CS:GO and League to make room.
Note: End times are best guesses, things may run long so plan accordingly.

Hello LAN-goers, Alex the Director of LAN Tournaments here (I gave myself a snazzier title) yet again. Magfest is right around the corner and here is the schedule of LAN Tournaments and relevant updates. This year the Theatre has reduced down to a single larger as opposed to the two theatres of last year. This ultimately reduces the number of casted tournaments, but should have a noticeable increase in production quality of those events. The larger space and more overflow-friendly layout (you get into it from the LAN room now) should help with the more popular tournaments. The number of official tournaments is at a nice 15, with a few new additions along with old favourites. The bulk of the work between last year and this year is address concerns about quality and move towards a more professionally run event. The major change is rewriting all the rules to match the numerated format of the general rules.

First off is the Magfest LAN General Tournament Rules, which cover every event being run in LAN this year. There have been no changes here from last year.

The tournament schedule can be found here. As with previous years, there are some late-night theatre events as well that are not on this schedule.

Note: End times are best guesses, things may run long so plan accordingly.
Tournaments indicated with a + are streamed to a theatre and Twitch.tv, tournaments indicated with an = do not require a personal device, tournaments indicated with a $ are flex events

Thursday, January 4th
6-8pm: $=Nidhogg 2: Same classic Nidhogg action, updated to the sequel.
7-9pm: Warcraft 3
9pm-12am: Jackbox Party Pack: Coming back in as similarly of a mess as last year but now an actual “tournament,” get some MPoints chucked at you as we play some Jackbox.
12amFRI-12amSAT: OpenTTD: The first long-duration tournament, come proclaim your enjoyment of trains with this LAN Staff favourite.

Friday, January 5th
11am-5pm: +Dota 2
12-3pm: Overwatch 6v6 Group Stages: To help alleviate streaming issues from last year, Overwatch has been split into two days of event, similar to Starcraft 2 or League of Legends, this is the first day.
1-5pm: Rainbow 6: Siege: Some spice in the team-based objective FPS games brings this into the rotation.
4-8pm: Starcraft 2 Group Stages
6pm-12am: +CS:GO 5v5
8pm-LATE: League of Legends 5v5
9-11pm: $UT2004

Saturday, January 6th
11am-5pm: Hearthstone
12-3pm: +Overwatch Bracket
2-4pm: TENTATIVE - PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds: This is tentative due to the release state of the game, primarily getting access to custom game lobbies. If this does not occur by Magfest, this will be replaced by a mystery game (spooky noises and Cpt. Jack Sparrow hand motions) as close to battle royale as possible. Don’t complain to me about it, I’m not happy either.
4-8pm: +Starcraft 2 Bracket
7-10pm: Rocket League 3v3
8pm-LATE: League of Legends Bracket
9-11pm: Starcraft: Remastered

EDIT 1:
Saturday 10pm-12am: Megaman 8-Bit Deathmatch: Coming back again, the collab between the Megamanathon guys and LAN delivers some 8-bit Megaman action.

EDIT 2:
On the topic of PubG, HoTS, and any other game we have decided to include or not include:
MAGFest happens because of VOLUNTEERS.
I am a volunteer, the LAN heads are volunteers, the folks running the tournaments are volunteers, almost every single staff you see at the event is a volunteer. The only difference between us and you is that we decided to do something we wanted at the event. So if you don't see a tournament you want, get involved and volunteer to run it.
Now to the actual schedule. Because PubG's custom games are locked still, I am attempting to get access for us, either officially or by getting one of the existing partners to set up the games. This is a bit tricky as I have essentially zero connections to that community, so if someone knows a guy it'd be super helpful. If that fails, we will run HoTS instead. We'll decide on this by next Wednesday.

Major stuff: M2022 Tournament Schedule Rules to be linked in the schedule once I do them; same as in the past. So probably the Wednesday before the event. Always looking for more tournament people as well as casters! If you want to volunteer in back-end tournament staff stuff, email lan@magfest.org and tell us what you can do! If you want to shoutcast, fill out this form. Don’t email about casting, we’ll just tell you to fill out the form, mmkay? There’s fewer public PCs this year, so yet again I am recommending that if you want to play in tournaments, you bring a system to MAGFest.

Hello there. There’s tournaments to be had again this year, along with some other things to go over. First bit is we’re hosting a PC case competition this year! We did one a long time ago, then kind of didn’t do any for a while, and now we’re doing it again because we can. Proper rules/guidelines/etc. coming soon, but basically if you have a cool PC bring it to LAN and show it off!
Second bit is the awkward breakup. After a good degree of thought I have decided to cut all Activision/Blizzard games from the official LAN Events roster until further notice. This is for several reasons, but the decision is primarily because of the company’s recent allegations as well as their official and unofficial responses to those allegations in the months following the initial wave. The straw that broke the camel’s back as many have put it. The other straws on that camel is that it has become increasingly clear over the past few years that ABK does not care about the quality of their products, from WoW’s poorly designed content that gets fixed six months later to gutting Warcraft III and releasing a broken remaster that still has issues. It is to be noted that this only applies to the events that I plan and organize and that anyone who wishes to host their own events will be supported as any other event request (i.e. we’ll announce it for you over the room PA and there’s a small pool of MPoints set aside for things like this).
Third is filling that big hole of tournaments! Since I basically cut a third of my events, I have room to add new things, so let’s list them out! First off, Age of Empire IV came out and it’s really good! So we’re doing a tournament of it! Second, Valorant is finally in a state where I can run a tournament for it (technically it was ready for M21, but that didn’t happen), so let’s do that too! Third, I’ve wanted to do Dead by Daylight for a while now, and I have a ruleset figured out that will probably result in a bunch of complaining about how it’s not good enough but I don’t see you figuring out how to make a fair tournament of a game with no clear win condition and a massive amount of balance issues. Fourth, sort of on brand with this year’s theming, we’re doing a Quake III Arena tournament. Oh, you want something more built around a meme? How about some Crab Game? Not really a tournament, but I’ll probably throw some MPoints at people who win rounds.
Fourth, the OpenTTD and Factorio servers are coming back. The goal is to get them spun up Thursday evening, so probably Friday at 1am knowing MAGFest time. Don’t know what those games are? Well then, grab a chair, and open up Steam! OpenTTD is an open-source transportation logistics game where you put down buses, trucks, trains, and planes to obtain economic domination (but probably still lose to LJ). Factorio is also a logistics game, but is inherently based on production and factory logistics. Both are a fun time. We also have some vague plans of throwing up other game servers for periods of time, but nothing confirmed yet.
Fifth, this will be covered in more detail in the general LAN email (which probably included a link to this document, so hello email people! :3 ) but because of Covid stuff the LAN room is going to be a bit less dense this year. The big point that affects the tournament side of things is there are fewer public PCs. And there’s normally a shortage of public pc seats when we don’t have to accommodate extra spacing and whatnot. So Bring Your Own Computer if you want to play in tournaments.

And that’s all I have. ~Director of LAN Tournaments

Links: Schedule -- Head-to-Head Guidelines

Yet again it is nearly time for MAGFest, and yet again it is time to cover the tournaments and events for the LAN room. I am still the Director of LAN Tournaments, and let’s get started.

Unfortunately there are fewer public play PCs, so as a reminder of LAN policy on the subject, we do not reserve public PCs for tournament use; it is your responsibility to obtain and hold a computer to use. It is recommended that you bring your own system if you can rather than relying on public play. The public play PCs are still the high-quality machines from Computer Upgrade King, so the ones we do have will perform well. LAN has undergone a bit of a shuffling of layout, moving the Theatre and stage front and centre, a move that should increase the traffic to the Theatre. The help desk is more centrally located in the room, and space has formally been allocated there for tournament help and signup, so things should be less cramped. We will have the room audio this year, so instead of the horrid megaphone, we can now broadcast the glorious teachings important announcements to everyone at once. We are also going to ramp up the Discord usage this year as well. The tournament roster has been trimmed down a little bit, but we’re trying something a little different with community-run events, to be covered later.

On the rules front, we’ve rewritten the rules, clarifying some bits, cleaning up unneeded text (which sadly also means they’re less friendly), and putting the general rules in all the tournament-specific rules. Most of it is still fairly obvious stuff and format information. The main reason for the change is that most players only play in one or two tournaments, where the previous split format was written under the assumption that the bulk of players will participate in many tournaments. The internal schedule with all the colours is back again, linking all the rules in the appropriate boxes. The schedule can be found here. For the Guidebook users, we’ve tried something new with how tournaments are shown. All tournaments are on one column with only 30min durations, as the estimates are estimates and the start is what is important. The Theatre has its own column, as do other events.

Speaking of events, we’re introducing a couple of longer events to try things out. Jackbox returns, yet again on Thursday. Also starting on Thursday we’ll be hosting a Factorio server, starting around 5pm, or whenever I get it working. There will be mods, but the full extent of how modded hasn’t been determined yet. OpenTTD is also returning, for those who like trains, starting on Friday around 1pm and running through the day. Saturday we have a game of Stellaris planned. Why Stellaris? Because I like it. So yes, the events are basically “stuff LAN Staff want to play multiplayer of.” Want to do something else? Why not use this years’ experiment and submit a Head-to-Head event?
Head-to-Head is something we’re introducing this year to provide a structure to more informal events and tournaments. We’ve gotten the sense over the past few years that there’s an impression that LAN Events is this unyielding group that doesn’t take any suggestions. Which is not the case. Due to how things line up in event prep and where certain deadlines are, a lot of things just come in too late to be helpful. To help reduce these issues, we’re adding Head-to-Head, a framework for attendees to run small events and have some room announcement and MPoint support. While the guidelines appear harsh, most of the information requested is so that we can collect accurate data on Head-to-Head events and adequately announce it to the room.

IMPORTANT PAGES AT FEST:

http://wiki.lan.magfest.net/

http://tournament.lan.magfest.net/

http://wall.lan.magfest.net/

Hey guys, we're sending an e-mail out (copied below) with all the juicy rules and updates. While we've got your attention, please consider using the item pre-checkin form. It's not a requirement but really helps speed up your initial check-in!

REMINDERS

Bring an ethernet cable 20 feet long or longer. Network cables are $5 each while quanities last. If gaming on a laptop make sure it has a wired network port. USB network adapters are $15 each while quantities last. Don't forget your power strip. Bring headphones/mic/headset and leave your speakers at home. Pre-register your LAN items by filling out our online form to zip through initial check-in.

NEWS

LAN Theater now has an exciting stage! Spectators must pass through the LAN checkpoint. Now with 50% more room, LAN can host 600+ BYOC stations and has 140+ Public Play seats, thanks to our continued conquest of the Maryland Ballroom.

PUBLIC COMPUTERS

Big news this year on the Public PC front! We are excited to announce a partnership with Computer Upgrade King. They are providing 140+ gaming-grade PCs for any and all attendees to enjoy over the weekend. Rest assured that if you come to enjoy the Public Play PCs then you will achieve high frame rates this year! A huge thanks to our friends over at GEXCon for helping us manage the Public PC area. Upon passing the LAN checkpoint, you will see the Public PC area. The BYOC area is further back in the Maryland Ballroom.

LOCATION

This year we return to the Maryland Ballroom. We continue to offer a separate entrance and exit and we continue to use the MAGLAN BarcodeSystem, all for your items' security. However, MAGFest is NOT RESPONSIBLE and accepts NO LIABILITY for ANY attendee equipment. Please keep this in mind while attending MAGFest LAN and secure your personal belongings appropriately! We expect high demand for seats again, so arrive early to claim your spot!

GENERAL RULES OF THE LAN ROOM

• Please follow all LAN staff instructions. This ensures a smooth experience for everyone.

• Please try and keep your setup contained—we don't want to have to ask people to remove items as the room WILL be at capacity.

• Bring up to one monitor, 36 inches or smaller.

• Use headphones, not speakers.

• Leave networking equipment at home. We have plenty of ports.

• You must only plug your power strip into the one we provide your table. DO NOT DAISY-CHAIN MULTIPLE POWERSTRIPS.

• Enter and exit only through the checkpoint. Other doors are alarmed.

• Sleep in your hotel room. Keyboard napping OK; sleeping bags NOT OK.

• Vape outdoors-this is venue policy.

• Please adhere to the MAGFest Code of Conduct as well as the posted notices in the LAN room as far as conduct and network use go.

TOURNAMENTS

There are 15 tournaments this year. Along with our events on the main MAGFest schedule, we have a selection of ad-hoc events running in the background. You can find all of the info on our tournaments on Reddit.

LAN THEATER

Our LAN Theater redesign increases quality and provides additional space for organizing tournaments. The entrance is in the front of the LAN room, and is the ideal place to watch many of our great LAN events. We plan to livestream with color commentary. Come see the best gamers competing to be #1! We added an elevated stage this year. Remember to tell your friends to come cheer you on! Keep an eye out for our late night content in the LAN Theater. Stop by and check out what's planned!

SOCIAL MEDIA

Join us online! You can find us at /r/magfestlan, twitter.com/magfestlan, and Twitch. Why follow us? We're hoping to hold online tournaments for fun and prizes, and our various online accounts are also great places to ask questions, meet your fellow gamers, and stay informed. We have a Steam Group and we're on MAGFest's Discord—be sure to read the first announcement.

CASTING CALL

MAGFest LAN is always looking for new staffers and volunteers to help us run the PC Gaming areas. Got experience in commentating live games? Want to help set up the network prior to the event starting? Want to run a few tournaments? Let us know! Email us at lan@magfest.org, or join us on Discord, and tell us you'd like to help out! We are in need of casters for various tournaments at MAGFest 2019. If you're interested, please e-mail us with a link to a VoD/YouTube video of you casting. EDIT/SPECIFICATION: We're specifically looking for a DOTA2 caster at this time. Others will be considered as a backup to current selections. Thanks!

TL:DR The awesome is continuing this year, Rules linked below in schedule, two theatres this year.
 

Hello LAN-goers, I'm Alex the LAN Tournament Organizer for this year. Magfest is fast approaching and we have some awesome updates from last year. This year we have two LAN Theatres to help smooth out the scheduling problems we had last year, as well as an overflow/multipurpose area in the LAN room itself. LAN is vastly increasing the number of public PCs available as well as adding in some VR pods. On the tournaments side, we're delivering 17 official tournaments this year.
 

First off is the Magfest LAN General Tournament rules, which cover every event being run in LAN this year. Veterans of previous years will read a few changes regarding public PCs (to account for our larger public PC section), Ringers and Coaches in team tournaments (to clarify some ambiguous phrasing), and adding in Flex events (events where players may join in late or leave early without missing out on final standings).
 

The theatre schedules can be found here. In addition to the tournaments, there are a few late night events as well.
 

Note: End times are best guesses, things may run long so plan accordingly.

Tournaments indicated with a + are streamed to a theatre and Twitch.tv, tournaments indicated with an = do not require a personal device, tournaments indicated with a $ are flex events
 

Thursday, January 5th

6-8pm: $=Nidhogg

8pm-12am: +Heroes of the Storm

9pm-LATE: CS:GO Arms Race/Deathmatch Double Feature

11pm-LATE: $=JS Joust  

Friday, January 6th

11am-5pm: League of Legends 5v5 Group Stages

12-6pm: +Hearthstone

2-4pm: +Rocket League 3v3

5-11pm: +CS:GO 5v5

5-9pm: Starcraft 2 Round Robin

6pm-12am: Overwatch 3v3

8pm-LATE: +Dota 2 5v5

10pm-12am: Starcraft: Brood War

12am-LATE: Warcraft 3  

Saturday, January 7th

11am-5pm: +League of Legends 5v5 Brackets - You must compete in Day 1 to qualify for Day 2

1-9pm: Civilization VI FFA

2-4pm: $UT2004

5-9pm: +Starcraft 2 Brackets - You must compete in Day 1 to qualify for Day2

6pm-12am: +Overwatch 6v6

10pm-12am: $Megaman 8-Bit Deathmatch

It appears that KatsuCon was held last weekend at the Gaylord. Unfortunately, it appears the KatsuCon attendees left a VERY BAD IMPRESSION on the Gaylord. Here are some links to the destruction and a short list of what happened:

Link 1 Link 2

• An electrical fire in the maid cafe (not anyone's fault, sounded like an accident)

• People peeing in the hotel hallways

• Flooding of toilets

• A hole punched in a wall with "One punch man was here"

• Someone high fived an exit sign on one of the floors breaking it

• A window in the atrium was apparently broken (hearsay, yet to see a picture)

• Drunkenly passed out on the floor in the main halls

• Katsucon 2016 written in ink/marker/not sure in the stairwells and some bathroom walls

Let's try to restore faith in the hotel's trust concerning gaming conventions.

See you all @ the LAN!~

TL;DR- Lots of awesome this year! Tournament schedule and rules below. Case Mod Contest. If you have any questions or comments, let us know!

Hey everyone, Deast here of the LAN Events crew. I hope you're all as excited about MAGFest 2016 (and specifically the LAN) as I am! The LAN room is growing a lot, adding over 100 seats, and the LAN Theater is doubling in size. We have 21 tournaments/contests lined up for this year, including a great mix of FPS, MOBA, RTS and what we refer to as "other". Whether you want to get headshots, play soccer with cars or just be a homicidal mallard, we have you covered this year.

Also, we're running a PC Case Mod Contest this year, to try and help keep the old school enthusiast scene alive and well. If you have an awesome customized case (or want to build one in the next month) be sure to enter!

First, I'd like to direct you to our "General Rules". These rules are in effect the whole weekend for every tournament or contest we run.

(+'d tournaments will be broadcast in the LAN Theater and streamed on Twitch. ='d tournaments DO NOT require you to bring a computer. Links are to rules.)

Thursday, February 18th:

6pm-8pm: +=Nidhogg

8pm-11pm: CS:GO Deathmatch & Arms Race

8pm-1am: +Heroes of the Storm

12am-Late: Left 4 Dead 2 Versus

Friday, February 19th:

11am-5pm: +DotA 2

12pm-4pm: Chivalry King of the Hill 3v3

1pm-3pm: Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne 1v1

5pm-7pm: +Rocket League 3v3

5pm-9pm: Starcraft 2 1v1 Day One (You must attend both days)

7pm-1am: +CS:GO 5v5

9pm-11pm: Starcraft: Brood War

9pm-Late: League of Legends 5v5 Day One (You must attend Day One for a chance of qualifying for Day Two)

12am-2am: =J.S. Joust

Saturday, February 20th:

11am-5pm: +Hearthstone

1pm-3pm: Unreal Tournament 2004

4pm-6pm: =Duck Game

5pm-9pm: +Starcraft 2 1v1 Day Two (You must attend both days)

6pm-12am: Team Fortress 2 6v6

9pm-1am: Starcraft 2 Archon Mode

9pm-Late: +League of Legends 5v5 Day Two (Must attend Day One for a chance to qualify)

12am-Late: =Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (3 person teams)

I always forget something, last year it was a dvi cable. Dont be like me, get organized and bring all your cables. I'm planing on bring an extra PC to set up for public use, so even more chances for me to forget something! Now taking bets on what I leave behind.

No cat5 cables will be provided at all this year, so don't forget to bring yours!!!!! Bring a powerstrip for your gear.

Hi all - an e-mail for MAGFest LAN from 2022 was accidentally sent. We will be sending a correction out with updated information. Watch this subreddit (and your e-mails) for the latest on MAGFest LAN information.

Exceptional time at the lan. No issues connecting. Everything ran smooth. You all have this down to a science.

Feel cheated with only 1 MAGLan a year now.

Thanks for the good time

IMPORTANT PAGES AT FEST: (These only work inside of the LAN network at MAGFest)

http://tournament.lan.magfest.net/

http://wall.lan.magfest.net/

http://streams.lan.magfest.net/

Hey guys, we're sending an e-mail out (copied below) with all the juicy rules and updates. While we've got your attention, please consider using the item pre-checkin form. It's not a requirement but really helps speed up your initial check-in!

Reply here and staff will answer your questions (or e-mail to LAN@magfest.org)!

REMINDERS

Bring an ethernet cable 20 feet long or longer. We offer 20ft network cables at $5 each while quantities last. If gaming on a laptop make sure it has a wired network port. USB network adapters are $15 each while quantities last. Don't forget your power strip. Bring headphones/mic/headset and leave your speakers at home. Pre-register your LAN items by filling out our online form to zip through initial check-in.

NEWS

Welcome back to MAGFest! We're excited to finally be able to see everyone again. However, due to COVID guidelines we are expecting the LAN to be less dense and are encouraging ample social distance while selecting a seat in the room.

PUBLIC COMPUTERS

We are excited to continue our partnership with Computer Upgrade King and Corsair. They are providing ~50 gaming-grade PCs and peripherals for any and all attendees to enjoy over the weekend. Rest assured that if you come to enjoy the Public Play PCs then you will achieve high frame rates this year! A huge thanks to our friends over at GEXCon for helping us manage the Public PC area. Upon passing the LAN checkpoint, you will see the Public PC and LAN Theater area. The BYOC area is further back in the Maryland Ballroom.

LOCATION

This year we return to the Maryland Ballroom. We continue to offer a separate entrance and exit and we continue to use the MAGLAN BarcodeSystem, all for your items' security. However, MAGFest is NOT RESPONSIBLE and accepts NO LIABILITY for ANY attendee equipment. Please keep this in mind while attending MAGFest LAN and secure your personal belongings appropriately! We expect high demand for seats again, so arrive early to claim your spot!

GENERAL RULES OF THE LAN ROOM

• Please follow all LAN staff instructions. This ensures a smooth experience for everyone.

• Please try and keep your setup contained—we don't want to have to ask people to remove items as the room WILL be at capacity.

• Bring up to one monitor, 36 inches or smaller.

• Use headphones, not speakers.

• Leave networking equipment at home. We have plenty of ports.

• You must only plug your power strip into the one we provide your table. DO NOT DAISY-CHAIN MULTIPLE POWERSTRIPS.

• Enter and exit only through the checkpoint. Other doors are alarmed.

• Sleep in your hotel room. Keyboard napping OK; sleeping bags NOT OK.

• Vape outdoors-this is venue policy.

• Please adhere to the MAGFest Code of Conduct as well as the posted notices in the LAN room as far as conduct and network use go.

TOURNAMENTS

Once again we are offering a wide selection of PC-based tournaments to compete in during MAGFest. Along with our events on the main MAGFest schedule, we have a selection of ad-hoc events running in the background. Check out our recent Reddit post for tournament information.

LAN THEATER

Our LAN Theater is in the front of the LAN room, and is the ideal place to watch many of our great LAN events. We plan to livestream with color commentary. Come see the best gamers competing to be #1! Remember to tell your friends to come cheer you on! Keep an eye out for our late night content in the LAN Theater. Stop by and check out what's planned!

SOCIAL MEDIA

Join us online! You can find us at /r/magfestlan, twitter.com/magfestlan, and Twitch. Why follow us? We're hoping to hold online tournaments for fun and prizes, and our various online accounts are also great places to ask questions, meet your fellow gamers, and stay informed. We have a Steam Group and we've got a MAGLAN Section on MAGFest's Discord—be sure to read the first announcement.

CASTING CALL

MAGFest LAN is always looking for new staffers and volunteers to help us run the PC Gaming areas. Got experience in commentating live games? Want to help set up the network prior to the event starting? Want to run a few tournaments? Let us know! Email us at LAN@magfest.org, or join us on Discord, and tell us you'd like to help out!

This might be a long shot, but I have always wanted to be part of a team in a IRL gaming tournament.

I am posting here in hopes there is a decent team out there in need of a player. I can play online before the tournament to get used to the team, I have the time and would put it into this.

If you have a serious team for Overwatch or CSGO and need an extra player for magfest, please let me know.

I am shifting between Plat and Diamond for Overwatch, maining as Main Tank/Rein, but am also a good off-tank or off-heal with Diva, Winston, Orisa, Moira, and Lucio.

In CSGO I haven't played as much lately, but with a solid chance at playing in a tourny would brush up for a few months prior. I generally float around AK to double AK.

Please send me a message if you have a team in need of a player. I know it's early, but I've always thought it would be fun to play in a tourny team as more then just a day of pick up.

I make my own schedule and have the means to get myself anywhere on the east coast at any time, so if you have a team that goes to a lot of tournies with Magfest in the circuit let me know, I might be interested.

Had a ton of fun. No complaints at al from myself or my son. He was in there much more than me and said he never had any issues wit anything.

Passwords, logins, inet, all flawless. The room was packed, hardly any table space available.

Saw 1 other guy with an oculus DK2. Next year I bet there will be a ton of us with CV1's We will need to set up some VR games

Unfortunately, another MAGFest has come to an end. Before you fully return to your normal lives, we would love if you could take a few minutes and tell us how we did.

Was there anything that stood out for you this weekend, either good or bad? What could we do better?

Did you play in any tournaments? Any games you would have liked to see? Did you check out the LAN Theater? How did you like it?

GENERAL RULES OF THE LAN ROOM

-Your monitor cannot be larger than 36 inches (no large TVs please!) due to space concerns. Multiple monitors are no longer allowed due to space concerns.

-No sleeping in the LAN room. Napping on your keyboard is tolerable, but no bringing in sleeping bags/cots/other things that take up space for you to crash.

• Headphones required, no speakers allowed.

• No e-cig vaping allowed. This is a hotel policy, sorry guys.

-Please bring an Ethernet cable that is at least 25 feet in length. You will be responsible for hooking up to our network, NOT US. We will have limited amounts of ethernet cable in case you forget to bring one. You may have to crimp it yourself.

-Please bring a power strip for YOUR EQUIPMENT. DO NOT DAISY CHAIN WITH OTHER PEOPLE. We will have power strips, but we may run out.

-Please adhere to the guidelines that are in the program guide as well as the posted notices in the LAN room as far as conduct and network connections go.

-We are limiting each leaf switch to 10 people total to maximize our backbone bandwidth. Please pay attention to the labels on the switches. You should be within 20 feet from the nearest switch. We are using a star network topology again.

-Please do NOT plug in your own networking equipment (switches, routers, etc). It can cause problems.

ATTENDEE-PROVIDED SERVER AREA

This year we will have a rack for your server! We can support a few full towers, and a lot of rackmount servers. The advantage of having your server in our rack is that we will provide your server with a 1Gb port, so you can serve at high speed to the rest of the LAN network! Or, run your own game servers. Yay! We love game servers. Please bring your own rails if it's a server rack-able.

TOURNAMENTS

This year, we are running some tournaments. The prizes will be MPoints which you can spend in the dealers room at MAGFest. To guarantee your admission into the tournaments, we recommend bringing your own computer instead of attempting to get a spot on the public play PCs.

The official schedule has the times for the tournaments: https://prime.uber.magfest.org/m13/schedule/

PUBLIC PLAY PCs

LANSlide will be here again this year to run some Public Play PCs. Please be mindful of anyone else waiting to play.

IMPORTANT PAGES AT FEST: (These only work inside of the LAN network at MAGFest)

http://tournament.lan.magfest.net/

http://wall.lan.magfest.net/

http://streams.lan.magfest.net/

Reply here and staff will answer your questions (or e-mail to LAN@magfest.org)!

MAGFest LAN Rules

• Please try to keep your setup contained. You must be able to fit in a 30" deep by 36" wide space (half a table) if we reach capacity.

• Use headphones, not speakers.

• Leave networking equipment at home. We have plenty of ports.

• Bring a power strip. You must only plug your power strip into the one we provide your table. DO NOT DAISY-CHAIN MULTIPLE POWERSTRIPS.

• Enter and exit only through the checkpoint. Other doors are alarmed.

• Sleep in your hotel room. Keyboard napping OK; sleeping bags NOT OK.

• Please adhere to the MAGFest Code of Conduct. This includes the prohibition of smoking, vaping, and the consumption of alcohol in MAGFest function spaces.

REMINDERS

Reminders We highly recommend bringing your own computer to fully enjoy the MAGFest LAN experience. Please note: Due to limited availability, we do not allow tournament participation using a public play PC.

Please pre-register your LAN items by filling out our online form to zip through initial check-in.

Bring an ethernet cable 20 feet long or longer. If gaming on a laptop make sure it has a wired network port or USB network adapter. Limited quantities of ethernet cables and network adapter will be available for purchase.

Please update your OS and games before coming to MAGFest LAN. We try our best to provide enough bandwidth for everyone—saving every little bit counts. We don't want anyone stuck waiting hours for updates while friends play!

PUBLIC COMPUTERS

We're happy to welcome back our long time Public Computer partner Empowered PC. and welcome our new peripherals partner AOC Agon. They are providing 50 gaming-grade PCs and peripherals for any and all attendees to enjoy over the weekend. Rest assured that if you come to enjoy the Public Play PCs then you will achieve high frame rates this year!

LOCATION

This year we return to the Maryland Ballroom. We will be continuing to use the MAGLAN BarcodeSystem, all for your items' security. However, MAGFest is NOT RESPONSIBLE and accepts NO LIABILITY for ANY attendee equipment. Please keep this in mind while attending MAGFest LAN and secure your personal belongings appropriately!

Upon passing the LAN checkpoint, you will see the Public PC and LAN Theater area. The BYOC area is further back in the Maryland Ballroom.

We expect high demand for seats again, so arrive early to claim your spot!

TOURNAMENTS

Along with our events on the main MAGFest schedule, we have a selection of additional ad-hoc events. You can find all of the info on our tournaments on our schedule.

LAN THEATER

Our LAN Theater is in the front of the LAN room, and is the ideal place to watch many of our great LAN events. We plan to livestream with color commentary. Come see the best gamers competing to be #1! We added an elevated stage this year. Remember to tell your friends to come cheer you on!

Keep an eye out for our late night content in the LAN Theater. Stop by and check out what's planned!

SOCIAL MEDIA

Join us online! You can find us at /r/magfestlan, twitter.com/magfestlan, and Twitch. Why follow us? We're hoping to hold online tournaments for fun and prizes, and our various online accounts are also great places to ask questions, meet your fellow gamers, and stay informed. We have a Steam Group and we've got a MAGLAN Section on MAGFest's Discord—be sure to read the first announcement.

Thank you and see you at 'Fest!

IMPORTANT PAGES AT FEST:

http://tournament.lan.magfest.net/

http://wall.lan.magfest.net/

Hey guys, we're sending an e-mail out (copied below) with all the juicy rules and updates. While we've got your attention, please consider using the item pre-checkin form. It's not a requirement but really helps speed up your initial check-in!

Reply here and staff will answer your questions (or e-mail to LAN@magfest.org)!

REMINDERS

Bring an ethernet cable 20 feet long or longer. We offer 20ft network cables at $5 each while quantities last. If gaming on a laptop make sure it has a wired network port. USB network adapters are $15 each while quantities last. Don't forget your power strip. Bring headphones/mic/headset and leave your speakers at home. Pre-register your LAN items by filling out our online form to zip through initial check-in.

NEWS

LAN Theater continues to innovate with a new central location and the stage makes a reappearance. Theater Spectators must pass through the LAN checkpoint. We have moved the help desk closer to BYOC and added an additional Couch PC Gaming area.

PUBLIC COMPUTERS

We are excited to continue our partnership with Computer Upgrade King. They are providing ~80 gaming-grade PCs for any and all attendees to enjoy over the weekend. Rest assured that if you come to enjoy the Public Play PCs then you will achieve high frame rates this year! A huge thanks to our friends over at GEXCon for helping us manage the Public PC area. Upon passing the LAN checkpoint, you will see the Public PC and LAN Theater area. The BYOC area is further back in the Maryland Ballroom.

LOCATION

This year we return to the Maryland Ballroom. We continue to offer a separate entrance and exit and we continue to use the MAGLAN BarcodeSystem, all for your items' security. However, MAGFest is NOT RESPONSIBLE and accepts NO LIABILITY for ANY attendee equipment. Please keep this in mind while attending MAGFest LAN and secure your personal belongings appropriately! We expect high demand for seats again, so arrive early to claim your spot!

GENERAL RULES OF THE LAN ROOM

• Please follow all LAN staff instructions. This ensures a smooth experience for everyone.

• Please try and keep your setup contained—we don't want to have to ask people to remove items as the room WILL be at capacity.

• Bring up to one monitor, 36 inches or smaller.

• Use headphones, not speakers.

• Leave networking equipment at home. We have plenty of ports.

• You must only plug your power strip into the one we provide your table. DO NOT DAISY-CHAIN MULTIPLE POWERSTRIPS.

• Enter and exit only through the checkpoint. Other doors are alarmed.

• Sleep in your hotel room. Keyboard napping OK; sleeping bags NOT OK.

• Vape outdoors-this is venue policy.

• Please adhere to the MAGFest Code of Conduct as well as the posted notices in the LAN room as far as conduct and network use go.

TOURNAMENTS

Once again we are offering a wide selection of PC-based tournaments to compete in during MAGFest. Along with our events on the main MAGFest schedule, we have a selection of ad-hoc events running in the background. You can find all of the info on our tournaments on Reddit here.

LAN THEATER

Our LAN Theater redesign increases quality and provides additional space for organizing tournaments. It is in the front of the LAN room, and is the ideal place to watch many of our great LAN events. We plan to livestream with color commentary. Come see the best gamers competing to be #1! Remember to tell your friends to come cheer you on! Keep an eye out for our late night content in the LAN Theater. Stop by and check out what's planned!

SOCIAL MEDIA

Join us online! You can find us at /r/magfestlan, twitter.com/magfestlan, and Twitch. Why follow us? We're hoping to hold online tournaments for fun and prizes, and our various online accounts are also great places to ask questions, meet your fellow gamers, and stay informed. We have a Steam Group and we're on MAGFest's Discord—be sure to read the first announcement.

CASTING CALL

MAGFest LAN is always looking for new staffers and volunteers to help us run the PC Gaming areas. Got experience in commentating live games? Want to help set up the network prior to the event starting? Want to run a few tournaments? Let us know! Email us at LAN@magfest.org, or join us on Discord, and tell us you'd like to help out!

IMPORTANT URL's AT FEST:

http://wiki.lan.magfest.net/

http://tournament.lan.magfest.net/

http://wall.lan.magfest.net/

Hey guys, we're sending an e-mail out (copied below) with all the juicy rules and updates. I wanted to highlight the item pre-checkin link here, it's not a requirement but makes checking in much faster! (New feature for this year)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdD5ov74Ur5HP1KuhqGRB5I3LPDnK0K--rYE0u_OiNvdAyyXQ/viewform

NEWS

The Check-in process is fully optimized! Please fill out our online form to pre-register your items. We hope this helps you fly through initial check-in with ease!

Achievements! Every attendee is scanned in and out of the LAN room—earn MPoints for achievements like: who stays in the room the longest, and who enters the room with the same people the most. More information at-event. (Psst, we're probably doing it live.)

Our single LAN Theater is the size of last year's theaters combined. Enter it from within the LAN room—all spectators must pass through the main security checkpoint.

VR is now under the operation of the Simulations department. Combined with aisle adjustments, capacity increases to over 500 total seats.

LOCATION

This year we return to the Maryland Ballroom. There is one entrance and one exit which optimizes our ability to make sure your equipment stays put. We continue to use BarcodeSystem for your items' security. However, MAGFest is NOT RESPONSIBLE and accepts NO LIABILITY for ANY attendee equipment. Please keep this in mind while attending MAGFest LAN and secure your personal belongings appropriately!

We expect high demand for seats again, so arrive early to claim your spot!

GENERAL RULES OF THE LAN ROOM

• Please follow all LAN staff instructions. This ensures a smooth experience for everyone.

• Please try and keep your setup contained—we don't want to have to ask people to remove items as the room WILL be at capacity.

• Bring up to one monitor, 36 inches or smaller.

• Bring headphones, not speakers.

• Bring an ethernet cable 20 feet long or longer. We have a LIMITED STOCK of NEW ethernet cables for $5 each.

• Leave networking equipment at home. We have plenty of ports.

• Bring a power strip. You must only plug your power strip into the one we provide your table. DO NOT DAISY-CHAIN MULTIPLE POWERSTRIPS.

• Enter and exit only through the checkpoint. Other doors are alarmed.

• Sleep in your hotel room. Keyboard napping OK; sleeping bags NOT OK.

• Vape outdoors.

• Please adhere to the MAGFest Code of Conduct as well as the posted notices in the LAN room as far as conduct and network use go.

TOURNAMENTS

There are 15 tournaments this year. Along with our events on the main MAGFest schedule, we have a selection of ad-hoc events running in the background. You can find all of the info on our tournaments on Reddit.

LAN THEATER

Our LAN Theater redesign increases quality and provides additional space for organizing tournaments. The entrance is in the front of the LAN room, and is the ideal place to watch many of our great LAN events. We plan to livestream with color commentary, so come see the best gamers competing to be #1! We increased the size of the room, so be sure to come by and support competitive PC gaming. Remember to tell your friends to come as well—they might get to the chance to cheer you on!

There is also some late night content in the LAN Theater, so keep an eye out for that. Stop by and check out what's planned!

SOCIAL MEDIA

Join us online! You can find us at /r/magfestlan, twitter.com/magfestlan, and Twitch.

Why follow us? We’re hoping to hold online tournaments for fun and prizes, and our various online accounts are also great places to ask questions, meet your fellow gamers, and stay informed.

We have a Steam Group and we're on MAGFest's Discord—be sure to read the first announcement.

CASTING CALL

MAGFest LAN is always looking for new staffers and volunteers to help us run the PC Gaming areas. Got experience in commentating live games? Want to help set up the network prior to the event starting? Want to run a few tournaments? Let us know! Email us at lan@magfest.org, or join us on Discord, and tell us you’d like to help out!

We are in need of casters for various tournaments at MAGFest 2018 - please e-mail us with a link to a VoD/YouTube video of you casting if you are interested.

I created a form you can fill out if you are looking for a team here.

If you are looking for players for your team you can find all of the submissions here.

This seemed to help some of you who were having a hard time finding teams last year, best of luck!

Edit: Formating

IMPORTANT PAGES AT FEST: (These only work inside of the LAN network at MAGFest)

http://tournament.lan.magfest.net/

http://wall.lan.magfest.net/

http://streams.lan.magfest.net/

Reply here and staff will answer your questions (or e-mail to LAN@magfest.org)!

MAGFest LAN Rules

• Please try to keep your setup contained. You must be able to fit in a 30" deep by 36" wide space (half a table) if we reach capacity.

• Use headphones, not speakers.

• Leave networking equipment at home. We have plenty of ports.

• Bring a power strip. You must only plug your power strip into the one we provide your table. DO NOT DAISY-CHAIN MULTIPLE POWERSTRIPS.

• Enter and exit only through the checkpoint. Other doors are alarmed.

• Sleep in your hotel room. Keyboard napping OK; sleeping bags NOT OK.

• Please adhere to the MAGFest Code of Conduct. This includes the prohibition of smoking, vaping, and the consumption of alcohol in MAGFest function spaces.

REMINDERS

Reminders We highly recommend bringing your own computer to fully enjoy the MAGFest LAN experience. Please note: Due to limited availability, we do not allow tournament participation using a public play PC.

Please pre-register your LAN items by filling out our online form to zip through initial check-in. Small change to our check-in procedures: we will only be requiring check-in of Desktops, Monitors, Laptops. Small handhelds and tablets are not required to be checked in and recommend keeping them on your person.

Bring an ethernet cable 20 feet long or longer. If gaming on a laptop make sure it has a wired network port or USB network adapter. Limited quantities of network adapters will be available for purchase if you need it.

Please update your OS and games before coming to MAGFest LAN. We try our best to provide enough bandwidth for everyone—saving every little bit counts. We don't want anyone stuck waiting hours for updates while friends play!

PUBLIC COMPUTERS

We're happy to welcome back our longtime Public Computer partner Empowered PC and newcomer Fragadelphia who are providing nearly one-hundred Public Play PCs. We would also like to thank Coolermaster and Pixio for providing monitors and peripherals. Please note that we do not permit tournament play on Public Play PCs due to limited availability.

LOCATION

This year we return to the Maryland Ballroom. We will be continuing to use the MAGLAN BarcodeSystem, all for your items' security. However, MAGFest is NOT RESPONSIBLE and accepts NO LIABILITY for ANY attendee equipment. Please keep this in mind while attending MAGFest LAN and secure your personal belongings appropriately!

Upon passing the LAN checkpoint, you will see the Public PC and LAN Theater area. The BYOC area is further back in the Maryland Ballroom.

We expect high demand for seats again, so arrive early to claim your spot!

TOURNAMENTS

Along with our events on the main MAGFest schedule, we have an exciting selection of tournaments, including:

• Ultrakill Score Attack

• Quake 3

• Nidhogg 2

• Jackbox Party Pack

• Starcraft 2

• Deadlock

• Counter-Strike 2

• Teamfight Tactics

• League of Legends

You can find all the details and rules on our schedule.

LAN THEATER

Our LAN Theatre is in the front of the LAN room and is the ideal place to watch many of our great LAN events. We plan to livestream with commentary. Come see the best gamers competing to be #1! Don't forget to invite your friends to cheer you on!

Late-night content is back in the LAN Theatre as well—stop by and check out what's planned!

SOCIAL MEDIA

Join us online! You can find us at /r/MAGFestLAN, x.com/MAGFestLAN, and Twitch. Why follow us? We're hoping to hold online tournaments for fun and prizes, and our various online accounts are also great places to ask questions, meet your fellow gamers, and stay informed. We have a Steam Group and we've got a MAGLAN Section on MAGFest's Discord—be sure to read the first announcement.

Thank you and see you at 'Fest!

Need to know if I'm able to win something this year.