Starting at 11:59pm, we start the super secret tournament. If we catch you looking up tutorials, videos or cheating of any kind, you are DONE! High score recorded at 12:30am, March 18, 2017 is the winner. Here’s the link. Have fun.
Tournament Sponsored in part by Roku.
As we are celebrating 15 years of VulcLAN this year, I thought it would be appropriate to take a look back and see where we’ve come from. VulcLAN had it’s “official” beginning back in 2003, but it started a few years before that in the side room of a local computer shop – Dallmann Computers. That was a humble and glorious beginning for all of us back then.
The year was 2000, and Unreal Tournament had been on the store shelves for about a year when Jason Schneider, Dwayne Dallmann, Tia Heide (my wife) and I decided to get our computers together, find a spare 10-base 4-port (not switch – hub), and try out this network thing. We used the lunch room at Dallmann Computers, which was space rented from an embroidery shop, Threads ‘n Motion, from Jason’s dad, Pat Schneider. It was with amazement that we were able to connect computers together to play games. I remember the thrill of watching Dwayne, Jason and Tia move their characters on their own computers and I could see them move when looking at my computer screen.
Fragging ensued, and the addiction to multiplayer gaming and competition was born. Flames were poured on this fire and the next few years found us taking over the entire embroidery shop and cramming as many people as we could onto sewing tables several times a year. We managed a grand total of 18 people spread out on the sewing tables.
Eventually, we decided to push things a bit farther, and as Dwayne handed us the torch, we grabbed a new name and set out to host annual events with sponsors gleaned from contacts garnered from our case modding website – BensCustomCases (the BCC in BCCHardware). As time passed, BCCHardware became a computer hardware and consumer electronics review site, and we gained more sponsors and supporters as well as gamers.
We are honored to have people attend our event from British Columbia, Wyoming and as far away as Texas, making this event grow, succeed and be one of the most anticipated events of the year (as voted by patrons of VulcLAN).
There are many more stories to tell, many more people to thank and so much to be grateful for. Without you registering, supporting, playing games and drinking horrible things, VulcLAN wouldn’t be what it is today. Hats go off to all who’ve helped make it happen – and it all started with the founding four: Dallmann Computers, Jason Schneider, Tia Heide and Benjamin Heide.
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We look forward to many more years of gaming fun and will see you on the virtual battlefield!
Good Day All! While we have been working hard behind the scenes planning to make our 15th annual VulcLAN a fantastic event, there has been little mentioned on the VulcLAN site. My apologies. Here’s some good news.
We will be back at the CRC and are making room for more people this year as the last couple of years at the lodge has been getting a little cramped. Please, PLEASE invite your friends as we will be having an Xbox One tournament again, some amazing prizes and of course, fantastic PC gaming at its finest.
We’ll sort out a seating map soon and have registration up as fast as we can. You’ve got two months to plan, save over-time and get shifts re-arranged so you can come for all four days of gaming fun. This year looks to be absolutely fantastic and we’ll be trying some extra things to make our 15th Anniversary better than ever!
For the last few years, VulcLAN’s RoNiN has made us a new wallpaper themed with the games are being played that year. He’s been busy once again, and with a little more than 4 weeks until game time, he submitted this years wallpaper. Grab the download here, and feast your eyes below.
If you want to get all your games up to date, here are the links you will be a-needing!
If you have any questions, please drop us a line right here. In the meantime, get the games installed and polish up! Patches and legit games copies will likely be available at VulcLAN 2016, but it’s always best to be prepared.
We have a ton of game possibilities for VulcLAN 2016 – including Teeworld, (New) Unreal Tournament, Call of Duty 4, League of Legends, Heroes of the Storm, Halo 4 and many more. The problem is that we don’t have that much time to play them. We will have two “official” tournaments for big prizes and these tournaments will be Call of Duty 4 as well as League of Legends. Other tournaments that will go pretty quick are Teeworld and the new Unreal Tournament (Last Man Standing or similar). We will be running a separate Halo 4 tournament on Xbox One’s that will be available for play upstairs.
It will be a very busy year, and we hope to have a lot of prizes, fun and good times. Make sure to sign up, pick your seat and get ready to game in February this year.
I’d like to give a shout-out to DigitalWilson – our first sponsor of VulcLAN 2016!!!
If you want to check out the gallery from VulcLAN 2015, you can head on over here and check it out!
I’d like to offer another special thanks to all of our sponsors and for each and every gamer that came and played. Also to those that stopped in to take a look and see what all the fuss was about.
Thank-you all!
I’d like to send a huge thanks (and some major credit) to RoNiN! He has once again come through with a great VulcLAN Wallpaper to grace your desktop during the LAN (or before). Thanks much! You can take a look below and go get it by clicking on it!
It’s little things like this that mean a lot and is why we keep on doing what we’re doing – making VulcLAN the best gaming event in Southern Alberta!!
