COGS Bristol

Here it is!

12:00 – UT2k4 – (expect TDM, iTDM, TAM and perhaps carball, depending on people’s preferences)

15:00 – SWAT4 – (ask on IRC/Yell at the LAN if you don’t have it, there will be spare copies around but it’s quicker to get it before hand)

19:00 – Defence Alliance 2 – (Free mod for Killing Floor, which you can buy from steam)

(I also want to play Hidden:Source in the evening – everybody download that!)

For those of you interested in Supreme Commander, I suggest you get on down to the forum thread to organise a mutually suitable time – hopefully this way it doesn’t take over the entire LAN. Also check the forum thread out to see what other games are likely to be played throughout the day.

Almost all of you will have received some information regarding the AGM at the Union next week. Since a couple of issues relate directly to COGS, I thought I’d link to those particular ones here. You can find the full list of motions on the AGM page.

Firstly, there is a motion to change the name of all societies (Word document). This would mean that all societies would have to prepend “The University of Bristol Student’s Union” to their name, and our official acronym would change from COGS to UBSUCOGS, which is rather less snappy.

Rather more important for us is the draft motion to lobby the university to provide extra bookable rooms. Not many of our members, I believe, have heard of the plans for the University to take over entire fifth floor (and more) of the Union. All of our recent LANs have been on the fifth floor and there are no rooms that come close to the Avon Gorge for satisfying our LAN needs.
Consequently, if our society is to continue to provide frequent, cheap, well attended LANs as it has done, it is imperative that we find an alternative space in which to hold them – somewhere with internet access, bookable for at least an entire day at the weekend, multiple (or high power) power rings, adequate space, tables, chairs and control of lighting and temperature. This is quite a list of requirements, but as an active society (and the largest of its kind in the country, as far as we can tell) we should have some clout.

As an additional incentive, the Union promise things like free pizza and pound-a-pint for attending. Finally, one more proposal COGS members in particular may be interested in, Change the name of the AGM to SHAGFEST (PDF)

For those of you involved in our recent spate of “SupCom every night and then some” you will no doubt have heard that is customary to nuke Taters. This honour may well be dubious, but at the LAN we thought it necessary to nonetheless jog people’s memories by adding some reminders to Taters’ computer:

Each of those sticky labels carries a message such as, “Nuke”, or for the more creative, “Nuke here” or for the more polite, “Nuke plox”.

We must applaud Taters – not only for leaving briefly to lend us his XBox (thank-worthy in itself) and thus give us the chance to plaster his rig with our little messages, but also for doggedly (and somewhat reluctantly) bearing the sum total of COGS’ nuclear arsenal, verbally and in-game!

Greetings Freshers and Old-timers! Fresher’s week is here and we’re already getting to know some of you on our IRC – pop your head in and say hello by clicking here!

We’re getting ready for Fresher’s fair this Thursday and Friday – make sure to get over to our stall (MR5D/The Odlum Room, on the 5th floor) – if all’s going well you’ll be able to battle us and any random hangers on at whatever games we have going.

Also if you’re new you might want to have a look at the various bits and bobs of information lying around – you can whet your appetite in expectation of all the fun you’ll be having with us soon!