Our first social will be a simple meet and greet this Thursday 8PM at Bundy’s, where we hope to start console socials the fortnight after. The bar can be quite difficult to find; it’s just opposite Rack’s Bar and Kitchen, through the door and down the stairs. We’ll all be wearing our orange t-shirts, though, so you won’t be able to miss us. Just in case you do, though, the front door looks like this:
Map to Bundy’s from Victoria Rooms
The COGS LAN 1 signups are also now open at http://www.cogsbristol.co.uk/signup/CL1-1112/. If you want to attend, please make sure you sign up here so we can make sure you’re accommodated, and of course, those who offer to lift people down will earn much gratitude from us all, as well as a bit of money.
Update: Thanks for dropping by our stall! If you missed us, don’t worry, you can still sign up at the Union Website.
If you’ve come to this website not knowing who on earth we are, then hello! We are COGS, the University of Bristol Computer Gaming Society, and we really really like games. If you want to know how much we like games, then look us up at Freshers’ Fair in the Victoria Rooms on Thursday the 6th of October (Facebook event).
If you want to get chatting to us all before Fresher’s Fair, join us in the IRC chat room and forums!
You can also like us on Facebook:
Our next gaming night will be Dystopia, a cyberpunk-themed Orange Box mod featuring hackers, the cyber-police and at least two guns which shoot lightning. We’ll be kicking off at around 8:00PM on Thursday the 31st and we will be on the replacement mumble server (shut.up.phippen.info) for voice chat.
If you don’t have the game, click here to get it installed, and if you’ve any issues with getting it up and running then find us in the IRC.
TF2 seems to have fallen out of popularity in COGS, but the updates keep rolling; so now is your chance to see what new gear, mounts, and raids hats, weapons, and maps have been added. Yes, this fortnight’s gaming night we will be playing Team Fortress 2!
For any additional information or discussion, see the forum post.
In just a couple of months, on the 24th of March, the seventh LeachLAN will be held! This popular SWLANS event, staffed partially by members of COGS, is the perfect compliment to the single-day COGS LANs, four days of gaming and social fun with your COGS buddies and other gamers from further afield! I personally recommend LeachLAN to anyone who can make it, as it is a great chance to spend some time with your COGS buddies before the Easter holidays, and is in general just a great weekend!
LeachLAN 7 will be held in Westwoods Centre in Northleach, from 6PM on Thursday the 24th of March until 6PM on Sunday the 27th of March (the weekend before term ends) and will feature a full timetable of gaming as well as a free barbecue, several tournaments (possibly minecraft, Supreme Commander, Armagetron and Unreal Tournament 2004) and a gaming-related pub quiz in the on-site bar. Also present will be Mongle Radio, returning again to its birthplace!
To help get yourself, your PC/Laptop and possibly a tent from Bristol to Northleach, the COGS lift sign-up system is open, so sign up if you want to be part of the COGS travel arrangements for LeachLAN7.
If you are attending and can help lift people or equipment to LeachLAN 7, please consider signing up as a lifter to help your fellow COGS and improve the LAN experience for everyone, it will be greatly appreciated!
If you wish to get to LeachLAN 7 by other means, the SWLANS website has more information about the transport links.
LeachLAN 7 has male and female toilets and showers as well as on-site camping and a couple of communal rooms that can be slept in at night, so a sleeping bag and perhaps tent (ask around at the next COGS LAN or social if you’re looking to find people to share with) will be all you need to house yourself for the duration of the LAN. Food is largely your own responsibility, though there is a free BBQ on one day and usually a large group curry order on another.
For anyone who has never attended a LeachLAN before, a booking costs only £5! All you need to do is get a friend who has been before to vouch for you (with the number of COGS who attend, this will be no problem, just ask the committee or contact someone directly to arrange this.)
And if you’re not eligible for that, a discount to £35 is extended to anyone who books before midnight on the 14th of February, so book now!
LeachLAN, though popular with COGS, is run by SWLANS and is not a COGS event, so to sign up you will need to book with SWLANS on their booking page. They accept payment with BACS, NoChex (Credit/Debit Card) and Paypal.
LeachLAN
