Horizontal Dog is back! HD#4 18th-20th Jan 2008

[HozDog]

Hey everyone

Horizontal Dog is back!

After a year break we are back with our 4th LAN Party which we aim to make your gaming experience even better than before.

Well what have we got to offer this time?

Horizontal Dog #4 is a 48 hour computer gaming event running from 7pm on Friday 18th - 7pm Sunday 20th January 2008 at our new venue in the Elgin Hotel in Fife.

For our first event back we are even lowering the price to only 15 pounds for the whole weekend!!

As always we provide a secure venue linked up with a 60 man gigabit network using the latest network technology and with 2 dual core xeon and a brand new quad core dedicated games server for the fastest, lag free experience hosting the most popular games and a spare server standing by incase a server goes down.

The new venue provides a few features not normally found at LAN's which include a fully stocked private bar especially for the event, reduced price hotel rooms for the event for people who like to LAN in comfort and also a specially arranged menu featuring the usual LAN food such as bacon rolls, chips, burgers and coffee.

There will be the usual good selection of prizes and tournaments for all you dedicated gamers out there as well as the famous Horizontal Dog raffle where so far everyone has won a prize during the last few LANs.

The official tournaments for Horizontal Dog #4 are:

Counter-Strike Source
Unreal Tournament 2004
Battlefield 2
Day of Defeat Source
Call of Duty 2

As at the last LAN's you can organise unofficial tournaments and host them either on your own machine or use our dedicated tournament server when it's not being used.

There will also be hot showers at nights for all you people wanting a wash.

For all you people who come more for the fun there will be the Sky TV and console corner making its usual appearance.

If you have any questions regarding this event please leave a post on the forums or use the contact us page of the website.

If you wish to sign up to this event please visit http://www.HorizontalDog.com and visit the sign up link.

Hope to see you all there!

HozDog

[Sakey]

I might just have to pop along to this :)

[ZeroG]

Hmm sounds interesting.

*Goes to look up train timetables*

[Olap]

fife eh? not too far from me...

[Deep Blue]

Looks good, however DJ_Evil is going :P

[HozDog]

Hey, it would be good to have a team of BreachLAN guys at HD#4, always good to meet people who run and go to other LANs in Scotland :)

HozDog

[Deep Blue]

I'll see if I'm available :)

[Sakey]

And in reply to that, you guys should pop up to Aberdeen for our LAN.

Plenty of spaces left.

[gemini]

This one is on my birthday. I could well head up to this :)

[Castiana]

If i can get down, i'll be there :)

[Deep Blue]

And in reply to that, you guys should pop up to Aberdeen for our LAN.

Plenty of spaces left.

Now there's an idea, come support us and we'll fill out your lan next year! :)

[Scottish-Husky]

might go if i can get the time off

[HozDog]

Aye of course we will come and support your LAN, I looked on the site but couldn't see much info on the next event? Could you give me details please?:)

HozDog + Admin team

[HozDog]

It's kl I found it

HozDog

[ZeroG]

I signed up to the forum and tried to post but it wouldn't let me, says I must be logged in.

When I login it tells me I logged in sucessfully but it still doesn't seem to let me post.

[HozDog]

Hmm I don't think anyone else is getting this problem so it must be something at ur end, have you checked your cookies etc?

HozDog

[ZeroG]

Musta been the works computer and evil IE - working on my own comp with FF

[HozDog]

Aye I noticed it did what you said up t TMOG in Edinburgh today, might be something to do with corporate computers not saving cookies properly.

Glad it works now

HozDog

[HozDog]

Thats me signed up now n hopefully one of the other admins will be coming with me.

So who all thinks they can make it along to Horizontal Dog #4?

Hope to see as many of you there as possible :)

HozDog

[MadmaN]

15 quid for a whole weekend and all that awsome facilities .. I WILL BE GOING :)

[HozDog]

Klkl get yourself signed up :)

HozDog

[ZeroG]

I will probably be going just need to first work out a rough cost for the weekend.

So far it's looking like this:-

£15 Lan fee
£90 Room
£7ish for taxi from station
£? food/drink
£? Train ticket

Not a cheap weekend by any means but worth it for the lannage.

[PseudoPhreak]

you wouldnt need to get a room though, its optional, they will have a different area for sleeping if you dont want a room

[PseudoPhreak]

i am also considering it

[HozDog]

klkl :)

Yeah theres is a completely separate room for sleeping in if you want to just sleep on the floor (camp bed costs less than 90 pounds)

HozDog

[ZeroG]

Yeah but it's always nice to have a bit of privacy and away from all the snorers :P Also propers beds are more comfy than a campbed or the floor :)

[HozDog]

Good point, can you not find another 1 or 2 or even 3 people to share with which will reduce the hotel cost to 45, 35 or 32 pounds respectively :)

HozDog

[MadmaN]

if you share with somone then you can possibly still hear snoring lol , the sleeping room will do me :) im usaly that knackerd that i just fall asleep right away.

[Deep Blue]

I'd just sleep on the floor if you ask me :)

[Sakey]

Actually knowing you, you would drive back to Aberdeen every night for your own bed :p

[ZeroG]

Ah wouldn't it be wonderful to drive.

[MadmaN]

Yup i agree lol , i can drive a moped lol. :D

[MadmaN]

i hope your coming along to our lan party Mr Hozdog? :) .

[Sakey]

Well Hozdog, seeing as you have half of our clientel signing up wheres your guys signing up for us :p

LOL It's gonna be a BreachLAN in Fife at this rate

[HozDog]

Of course I'm coming along and bringing one of our other admins with me, our other admin can't make it unfortunately.

Good to see so many of you signing up, thanks :)

Also would it be ok to pay on the day as it is so close to the event, this will also save on paypal fees?

thanks,
HozDog

[MadmaN]

ye you can pay on the door :)

[Sakey]

I would prefer if people paid in advance as if we don't get enough people we are considering dropping a row to save on costs.

If you want I can come collect the money from you this week. I only live up the road (20 miles or so)

[mulllet88]

signed up :P

[HozDog]

That would be great when would be a good time for you?

[Lizii]

mmm my own room.

Not high-spec required tourneys.

Showers.

I have signed up - and will pay at some point in the near future.

[HozDog]

Hey everyone,

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and a fantastic New Year :)

With Horizontal Dog coming so soon the time to pay to confirm your space has come, HD#4 is only 2 weeks on Friday which gives you till a week on Friday to come to this event for £15, after that the price will go up to £20 so don't delay.

The prizes have already been ordered and this event is definatly going ahead so no need to worry about it being cancelled.

Also remember hotel rooms are still available at a reduced rate for the weekend.

To pay please send a paypal payment of £15 to paypal@horizontaldog.com with a note of your gaming name.

Hope to see you all there :)

HozDog

[HozDog]

Only 2 days till Horizontal Dog #4, hope everyone is looking forward to it :)

Already started setting up and all the tables are in place.

Looking forward to seeing you all again.

See you all friday

HozDog

[ZeroG]

*Counts down the hours*

[Deep Blue]

See you all tomorrow night :)

[Deep Blue]

It's today!

I've only got to get home from Norway, get a car, pack it, collect some BreachLAN staffers and thunder down the road :D

You'll excuse me if I'm out cold by midnight :)

[MadmaN]

thanks for the lan Hoz its was blumen awsome hehe :) , and i met another diggnation fan hehe :)