CELEB FEB

February is usually known as the month of love, but we decided to celebrate South Africa's presence at this year's Oscars. So, get your 15 minutes of fame this LAN. Dress up as your favourite celebrity and you could be giving your acceptance speech with one of two 1TB hard drives.

SOCIAL GAME OF THE MONTH

Unreal Tournament 3

Unreal Tournament is back this month, and we want you...

Whether playing modes Team Deathmatch or Capture the Flag, we need you to 'cause some chaos on our servers. Get ready to rumble.

THIS OC

We hope that the festive season was eventful for all of you and that your new year started off in good spirits.

Yes, it’s here at last: 2010, a year that holds much anticipation, particularly for us South Africans. But let's not forget how good 2009 was, especially for the OC community. What happened? We expanded from 600 to 840 seats and saw 7000 attendees over the entire year! We also set a new record for OC and Cape Town – 877 Lanners flooded our doors last month in what definitely proved to be our best OC to date. We thank you once again for your continued support.

So what’s on the cards for OC this year? Expanding and improving our network, naturally. That magic 1000-man-LAN is not far off and we hope to see you often throughout the year.

NEWS

Back in December, Web Africa and OC celebrated the launch of WAGE with a day of paintball. Over 60 gamers joined us on a warm Saturday and were divided into 3 teams - Red, Blue (Obviously) and Yellow, which had a large chunk of our very own social clan, PcZ, dressed in pink capes.

The tournament was played in round-robin format with the game type being Elimination (if you’re shot, you’re out). The map, err, field was played in both directions, with each team getting a chance to defend and a chance to attack.

After knocking out Blue, the victor was eventually decided in the last game of the day with the Yellow team coming out tops against Red (Well done, PcZ!). We would like to thank everyone that attended. See you on the WAGE servers!

PRIZES, PRIZES AND MORE PRIZES

This month, Logitech have a G11 keyboard (worth R800) up for grabs, exclusively for their rows at 721 – 840.

SteelSeries are back with some great prizes for the entire LAN. The 4H headset, ZBoard keyboard and Xai mouse.

MSI have also given us some prizes for the New Year LAN. Two MSI R4670 graphics cards (worth R1 000 each) and the MSI P55 motherboard (worth
R2 000) for their rows, 321 – 560.

Be sure to choose your seat wisely!

ORGANISED GAMING ASSOCIATION

All competitive players are asked to give their input on our forum concerning the 2010 season

Frontosa provided an epic stage, projectors and sound for their Call of Duty 4 Final along with R10 000 in prizes for the champions. Teams Entity, miNt and Brazen qualified and a short round robin was played.

miNt played Entity first and tied 12 – 12 on Crash, leaving the Brazen matches to determine the finalists. Brazen proceeded to win 13 – 5 on crash against Entity, putting pressure on miNt to win at least 6 rounds against the Brazen powerhouse to make it to the final. And they did. miNt managed to get 9 rounds against Brazen with the score being 13 – 9 on Crash.

So it was that Brazen and miNt squared off in a final for the 4th time in the series. Brazen were the favourites, having won almost all LAN and online tournaments for 2009 in South Africa.

The final was decided over three maps: Crash, Crossfire and District. Brazen gained the upper hand, winning the first map with a convincing 13 - 5. It was looking like the same story in the second map, with Brazen leading 8 – 4 at half time. But miNt, under pressure, managed to pull off an outstanding comeback. It all came down to the final round. With miNt leading 12 - 11, Brazen had to take this last round for a draw and, ultimately, victory or be forced to play the third and final map. After some well placed ‘nades and brilliant sniping by Brazen’s Faith, they pulled it off and the round was theirs.

Brazen walked away with Intel i5 750 chips and H5O Water-cooling kits and are our deserved champions for Call of Duty 4 in 2009.

SOCIAL GAME OF THE MONTH

It’s time to get your helmet and prepare for this month's social game: Track Mania Nations. Race to see who can get the best time in official or custom maps in this free game.

You can download it here, or, if you have a Web Africa account, you can download it for free off the WAGE file server here. It's also a small download, so there's no excuse for not joining in the fun this month!

We Organise, You bring the Chaos!