March 21 Minutes

March CommonsLAN successful

• 40 head count
• 20 participants

Next CommonsLAN

• April 21 – Commons Carnival? Talk to Kenny Moore
• Freeplay only
• Cod:BlOps, Portal 2, Halo: Reach

Video Game Lecture

• April 5th, 7p-9
• Tom Carbone, Technical Director, Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy

New Officers

• President: Brandon Conway (incumbent)
• Vice President: Russ Amos
• Secretary: Kyle Liming
• Treasurer: Ming Cheng

Server Donation

• Proceeds from 7 (possibly 12) Xserve G4s donated by McCabe and Cummings Research Groups
• Funds put toward replacement web server

Opening up Officer Meetings to general attendance
Talks
Reviving PollVU

March 14 Minutes

Officer transitions postponed
- next week

CommonsLAN
- Friday
- MvC3
- Jonathan Barrett bossing
- posters going out
- Gamestop sponsoring

Gaming Nights
-

ACE Cooperation
- possible service trade; website for VandyLAN (shirts/posters/banners) designs

Coding Nights
- Alternating Tuesdays 5p-7p
- Start Mar 22

VandyLAN Feedback
- Officers discussed many changes

Constitution Improvements
- Officers (+Kyle) clarified constitution

VandyLAN Spring 2011

February 25th, 2011, VandyCS hosts the biannual VandyLAN gaming tournament, featuring over $1,000 in raffle prizes and giveaways, free pizza, as well as 6 concurrent tournaments in some of this year’s top competitive games. Anyone and everyone can come to watch or participate and eat free food! Registration and sign-in will open at 6p, the first tournament will start at 7:30p. Check the full schedule for more details.

Register to participate

This years tournaments are Starcraft II 2v2, Rock Band 3, FIFA 2011, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Kart, and League of Legends. Sign up to play in one of this semester’s tournaments!

February 14 Minutes

• Gaming Nights – Timothy will be handling Gaming Nights scheduling.
• CommonsLAN – March 18, Brandon will be handling it.
• Coding Nights
  • One person talks at a time
  • Overall, not too bad, but we need to work on it for next time.
  • (Misc. note: Professor Dowdy is hard.)
• Kyle is working on the t-shirts with Matt Blumenschein
• Mario suit from Gamestop to dance around advertising VandyLAN
  • (not Brandon specifically, but if someone wants to Brandon would appreciate it)
• Sponsorship
  • Maggiano’s and Chik-fil-a likely out
  • Brandon to confirm pizza places Tuesday
  • We have a Sony rep coming with Gamestop to advertise Killzone 3
• Bosses are mostly good, just need tournament rules
• T-Shirts
  • Black shirts for volunteers
  • bright red for bosses/officers
  • forest green for tournament winners
  • distributed at registration
• Arcade Cabinet for VandyLAN…? (maybe)
• Officer Elections
  • If you want to run for office, email Brandon (brandon.j.conway@vanderbilt.edu)
  • Offices
    • President
    • Vice-President
    • Secretary
    • Treasurer
    • Webmaster