Next weekend, our local LANFest chapter: BelowZero, will be hosting a LAN Party / gaming event to raise funds for charity. This event is supporting the Make a Wish foundation and will be promoting the local gaming community.

The event is titled WinterWonderLAN and will happen on December 9th at the Great Wolf Lodge, in Bloomington MN.

There will be game tournaments, tabletop games, and other tech or gaming related challenges to give the attendees a chance to win awesome prizes that have been provided by Intel and our other amazing sponsors. Additionally, there will be a raffle for participating attendees.

If you're interested in participating or donating, please check out more information on the National LANFest site here: LANFest BelowZero WinterWonderLAN[lanfest.com]

Additionally, feel free to share the event to your friends on Facebook: Event[www.facebook.com]

Donation page where you can donate now!: Donor Drive for Make a Wish Foundation[lanfest.donordrive.com]

To connect with the BelowZero community, come join us in Discord: http://discord.gg/belowzerolanfest

BelowZero LANFest Minnesota will have their next in-person, LAN gaming event on November 19-21 at the Great Wolf Lodge in Bloomington!

The event is themed around Minnesota culture, so we present to you “LAN, LAN, GREY LAN”. Come join us with your friends to experience the return of in-person LANFest gaming in Minnesota and win some amazing prizes!

The event is a hybrid Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) event, so we will also be welcoming online participants throughout the event. If you want to be eligible for raffles, prizes, tournaments and contests, a pass will need to be purchased.

This will be a hybrid event, meaning it will be held both in-person and online. If you don’t want to go in person, but you want to participate online and still be eligible for raffles and tournaments, you can buy an online-only pass.

More details including charity info, Covid safety measures and registration are available here: https://new.lanfest.com/tc-events/lan-lan-grey-lan/

Many different games are planned, so please feel free to ask game and other interesting questions in our Discord here: BelowZero LANFest Minnesota[discord.gg]

Here is our flyer, if you would like to share the word: Flyer[cdn.discordapp.com]

Thank you!

Heads up! Were having a BelowZero Online Tournaments on March 20th:

https://lanfest.com/events/springfever21/main

There will be Rocket League, CS:GO, and Hearthstone. There will also be non-tournament games during freeplay, like: Among Us, Valheim, Alien Swarm, Element TD2, Minecraft, Civ 6, and Jackbox games. The full schedule is here: https://lanfest.com/events/springfever21/schedule

This event is sponsored through LANFest, so you know there will be great prizes!

Registration is 20$ per seat and I have volunteered to host some games during the tournaments.

If you have any questions, feel free to join the BelowZero Discord here:

Currently Active Discord Invite[discord.com]

With significant interests at play, there are now plans in the works to start a new annual LAN event.

A kickoff-meeting LAN Party event is being scheduled for first part of the event planning -- so if you have interests in supporting or attending a LAN party in the near-to-soon-ish future, please join the folks in the #MNGamers Discord channel and share your input on dates and venues for the planning session: https://discord.gg/gfEVD33

Thanks go to tachyon and AbusedBarbie for starting the process and engaging the community.

For a better feel on some of the shared goals of this type of event you can check out one of the previous Intel sponsored LANFest events here: https://www.lanfest.com/

Thanks, I hope to see you soon

To keep with our strong Gamesurge heritage, I have setup an #MNGamers Discord server to chat and share opinions.

You're invited too come chat and reconnect with everyone on the #MNGamers Discord server

Just click here to get started: https://discord.gg/WH3pmEp

Come suggest server changes, have fun and help build the community!