Afternoon gamers!

We are deep in the BIG GAME fortress preparing for the LAN, we hope you guys are ready too! Don't forget your essentials and remember your mousemat.

Doors open at 6pm and due to a tight setup timetable we will be unable to let anyone in before this time. If you are planning on getting to the event early then it might be worth diverting to McDonald's for dinner first.

See you all in a few hours,

tBG Crew

the BIG GAME is celebrating its 30th event early in 2012 and we look forward to seeing you there!

tBG XXX takes place from 18:00, Friday January 27th - 18:00 on Sunday 29th and is located in the ancestial home of the BIG GAME - Wildern School, Hedge End, Southampton SO30 4EJ.

Cost: £25 per person.
Group discount: Book 5 for the price of 4 (making it only £20 per head!)

tBG XXX has the capacity for up to 80 gamers and will feature organised BIG GAMEs of popular titles, including the brand new release of Battlefield 3, the BIG GAMER tournament to win the golden joystick, the Saturday night pub quiz, and the BIG pizza run, as well as all the other gaming you can handle over 2 days and 2 nights.

Venue & Location Info

tBG XXX is located within the Wildern School grounds in Hedge End, just outside Southampton (Junction 7 off the M27). The venue is superb with excellent facilities on-site including super fast Internet and a large, well ventilated gaming area for up to 80 people with separate eating and sleeping areas. There is also a secure car park which will be locked overnight.

Within Hedge End there are tons of places to eat out or in including ALL of the main fast food eateries, (McD's, BK, KFC, Pizza Hut, as well as a superb fish and chip shop, and Chinese and Indian takeaways). There are also several large superstores within a few minutes walk of the site and an even larger shopping complex complete with a PC World (in case your PC takes a dump!) within 5 minutes drive.
We have maps of the local area at the event, to make sure you don't get lost if you do venture outside.

Event

tBG is a largely social LAN party with the emphasis on getting everyone together to play large communal games with as many players on each side as possible, whether it’s the latest and greatest FPS shooter, or games of a more classic nature, tBG is sure to be playing them. If you can't find the game you want to play, a quick post on our in-LAN Intranet will let you easily advertise the game so that you can organize it yourself and with Battlefield 3 being released, I'm sure we’ll be playing a game or 3 of that!!

The BIG GAMER tournament is a multi-discipline tournament in which attendees can participate in a event long league, scoring points in organized mini-tournaments. BIG GAMEs and other activities throughout the weekend will culminate in a showdown for the top scoring players in a mystery finale on the BIG screen at the front, with everyone else watching on. The diversity of the tournament means that all round gaming prowess and enthusiasm are rewarded, rather than concentrating on success in one game or genre, allowing for chilled out and fun gaming over the weekend.

tBG30 will also be bolstered by the attendance of the mighty Projector Games bringing along their newest titles including Tactics Forever providing entertainment throughout the LAN in epic spaceship combat! (afew of which may feature in the tournament!).

Games for tBG 30! To stand yourself in good stead we would recommend acquiring Quake3, Dawn Of War 2, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare, Unreal tournament 2004, Team Fortress 2, Trackmania 2, F1 2010 and of course Battlefield 3 will be the main stay of the tournament fare with a few special rounds thrown in for good measure! Of course no matter what you bring you’re likely to be able to find someone else playing it.

Saturday night at tBG features the infamous BIG pizza run, attendees can order their Domino's pizza via the Intranet and have it hand delivered to the event by the crew, followed by the BIG GAME pub quiz into which teams can pit their wits against the contrived questions penned by the crew and score BIG GAMER points in the process!

On the social side of things there is plenty of downtime between BIG GAME tournaments and BIG GAMEs giving time to chill out with your mates and fellow gamers. Why not rock out and make some noise on the projectors playing Guitar Hero or whatever takes your fancy on the free to play Xbox, or join in with an epic scale game with Projector Games.

BIG GAMEs through the event ensure for a memorable and fun experience for all.

Signing Up

The event itself costs £25 or you can take advantage of our excellent group/clan discount offer and get your mates down, book 5 for the price of 4 (making it only £20 per head!)

Additional Services

Consoles - Please bring them as it's always good to have a bit of a change for a while and relax (additional power ports and network cables aren't a problem Please check the forums for games you'll need to get the most out of your console - it's never fun missing out on the action.
We have a huge range of technical expertise at the event so any problem you encounter with your PC we should be able to help solve.

Other Features

The site features a secure car park which is locked at night.
Ultra High speed (100Mb) Internet connection.
Separate male and female showers & toilets.
Disabled access throughout the entire venue.
Large fridge, cold/hot water, and microwave facilities are available.

More information

For more information, check out the BIG GAME Website (the BIG GAME - It's BIG) as well as the forums (the BIG GAME Forums) or contact us on IRC: Quakenet - #thebiggame or email [email]crew@thebiggame.org[/email]

Location:

Wildern School
Wildern Lane
Hedge End,
Southampton,
SO30 4EJ.

Thanks for reading guys and if you want to get more of a feel for the events of the past checkout our superb event gallery .

Today is a very special day for a number of reasons, it's the opening of the Hindhead tunnel, a £371m project that has taken over 5 years to complete.

It's exactly a year until the opening ceremony for the London Olympic games, returning to England after over 60 years, but these all pale in comparison to this news. The epic news.... it's ON!

That's right sign-ups are now live for BIG GAME 29, which is quite literary the 29th BIG GAME - 29 times the fun, destruction and pizza!

Look forward to all your old favourites UT2k4, CoD:MF, TF2 with some new ones thrown in - I personally can't wait to play The Smurfs Dance Party!

Remember your wheels for some more F1 2010 action, the track this event will be Italy as it's the following GP.

BIG GAME 29 is from the 6pm Friday 2nd of September until 6pm Sunday the 4th
48 hours or gaming goodness at the low low price of £25 (or 2000 easy payments of £9.95)

So move your little mousy pointer over the exciting blue text here and sign up for the BIG GAME! The tBGCrew look forward to seeing you in September, now....

COME GET SOME!

the BIG GAME 28 is done, it's over, finished, kaput, complete, closed, terminated, wrapped up, shut down, packed up, and forced back into the gates of hell from whence it came.

Creepers and Zombies will no longer haunt us in our unslept minds, nor will lava flow from the mountains upon high, or water flood our mine networks...

That is of course, until the BIG GAME 29!