**i know this is being posted way late but i've had it done since the 19th and haven't put it up

1st place - Call of Duty 4 (team Taywin)
1st place - Unreal Trournament III (r0bVious beatdown)
2nd place - Starcraft (DcS got rolled by a kid with no life)
2nd place - Super Smash Brother's: Brawl (upset of the century followed by upset of the millenium)
Ultimate Last Place - Quake III (Clamato Bowl) (hahahahaha)

i just wanted to thank all the cst guys who came out the event. you all know how important to the enviroment and the atmosphere of pittco you are and it just wouldn't be pittco without you guys.

cst attendence:
cant stop saberwolf
cant stop erad1cate
cant stop cHip
cant stop r0bVious
cant stop l4nboy
cant stop DcS
cant stop taywin
cant stop enigma5
cant stop BigJ64

Honorary Member for Pittco:
NightFox

As most of you know already, Pittco's Iron Storn 9 LAN Party is upon us. Registration is offically open so i expect all of you who arent Pittco staff to be signed up ASAP. remember under team name when registering to put: cantstopthis

www.pittco.org

I’d like to get as many of our guys there this year, if we can match the last events numbers I’ll be blown away. We got a couple of new guys that should be heading down with us, so our cst control should spread farther than ever before.

I’m going to need some people to come up with additives for the clamato bowl this year... Clamato is becoming exceedingly hard to come by these days but I think our chocolate pickle Gatorade made up for it at the last CST LAN. Pittco HAS TO be better!!

Okay, You know, I really wasn't going to put one of these up, but I guess it's somewhat expected and necessary given that this was our biggest lan yet. Around midnight, we were at our record count of 14 people! And best of all, they all fit inside 3 rooms downstairs in an Oakland house... Pretty comfortably thanks to the arrangements we had setup.

First off, thanks to AbraXas and my other roommate (Jaymes) for allowing a lan to be held in the house. I know AbraXas was down with it mostly, but still, who really wants their place to be overrun by a bunch of dudes screaming "I don't even care", "Fuck this house", and "Where da hood at"? The location was really nice to have given previous concerns for parking that turned out to be not a problem.

The setup we had was tits. Given the furniture we had, along with tables and chairs brought from mostly cHip and some from lanman, we were able to make sure everyone could sit with a lot of room. Keeping you mostly cool (except you guys in the middle room for half the lan, go bitch at the laws of thermodynamics), the huge badass air conditioner SaBeRwOlF brought was nice. Also, AbraXas's AC kept the kitchen cool which eventually met the middle room. Big thanks to lanman/guy/dude/sir for good switches and figuring out networking issues we had with blocking ports so we can play games that require some "tweaking".

A big effort was made to keep everyone filled with junk food and drinks throughout the whole lan. Given more time, we could of survived in there for another two days without having to set foot out into the sun. Thanks to AbraXas and I for providing food and drinks, especially for AbraXas grilling twenty hamburgers for everyone. And of course, cHip for raiding the Herr's truck that sits outside his house.

We played a lot of games, some oldies and some new ones that haven’t really been played lan. CS:S will never die along with UT2K4 which is always nice to pick up. Finally (thanks to Steam for making it fah-ree), DOD:S was really good and the tron light cycle game was fun for those who kept playing after ten rounds (you guys never played snake?!). And of course, the infamous and hated by those who lose... ... Quake 3 Tournament. Clamato was MIA but Chocolate Gatorade mixed with ingredients from the kitchen made it a good (sic) fill-in. Thanks for the folder "LAN Share" that sits in everyone’s network neighborhood maintained by some sexy guy.

Thanks to all you guys who came, even some first timers who made up a good half of our head count. This was the biggest, cleanest, and one of the best LANs we've had so far. Some constructive things to say... I know, some of you guys hate some games, but don't just leave. The more people in game for these lans, the better. To the RTS crowd, it's always rough for you guys, but SC2 will have everyone drooling. If you guys want to play any game, just suggest it. There are only so many of us, so any contributions make a big difference. And that's really it. Pittco is coming up and a good bit of us are involved in planning, but I expect EVERYONE to be there to get energy levels high.

And now for my random outbursts of thanks:

Thanks to DcS for bringing the zombie infection; lanman, who was demoted to lanboy, for representing today's youth; AbraXas for lending his triangular shape to the whole event and his recent completion of his essay: Poop Dipper; cHip for being... himself; robvious for his never ending quest to find where exactly the hood is at; BigJ for NOT FALLING ASLEEP and playing everything like a cpl-I pro; JungleRalph for also, not caring; Taywin and ArchPope for coming and surviving the combined household IQ that’s equivalent to a rotted carrot at times; Enigma5's tan for not coming and bringing the most expensive computer that everyone schemed to steal secretly in their heads; Skorze for being godlike at everything he plays along with his odd tastebuds; telstar and citizenerased for making it after 11 and witnessing grown ass men cry at drinking concoctions; and thanks to SaBeRwOlF for keeping everything else running, none of these events would happen without his presence.

No thanks to: timmer's hair, saber's harddrive, skorze’s car, timmer for not coming, time going fast, pickle juice, heat, timmer's hair, and a body's inability to feel good after consuming over a kilo of sugar.

See you at Pittco!

Okay, boys and girls, the date is official and the formalities are being finalized. Time to LAN! This is going to be your traditional CST LAN, with a Pittsburgh stylie attached. We hope to make this one the biggest yet. Anyone coming to this shindig needs to go to the forums and post that he or she is planning on attending so Erad1cate and abraXas can make sure they have enough tables, router, and cables.

We’re popping Erad1cate’s LAN throwing cherry with this one so let’s make it a good showing. This should be one for the ages.

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DATE: July 5th and 6th
PLACE: 275 Robinson St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2300, USA (Oakland, BABY!)