A selection of the pictures we took at the event are now online, to take a look head over to the LeachLAN 4 Gallery!

This weekend couldn’t have happened without you, the participants, who made this event your own. Nor could it it have happened without our sponsors, Crucial, INX-Gaming, and Steelseries. Thank You!

We hope that you enjoyed LeachLAN4 as much as we did running the event on and hope to see you again at a LeachLAN 5, which kicks off at Thursday 8th July at 6PM and ends at Monday 12th July. Yes that’s right, 5 days of awesome chilled out social LAN gaming. Bookings are now open at a discounted price of £40 until 1st June! So head over to booking area of our website to get your space now!

Further information regarding LeachLAN 5 will be online within the next few days, but rest assured it will once again be filled with a range of social activities such as the Pub Quiz, a BBQ, more retro big games, fun tournaments, a weekend on game of assassination… We’ll also be celebrating the second Birthday of SouthWest LANs / LeachLAN’s. More on this soon, but one thing is already certain… there will be cake!

Once again, thanks for coming, and we look forward to seeing you at LeachLAN 5!

//The SouthWest LANs Event Team

For the first event ever, we’d like to give you all the opportunity to bring a newb for a fiver! So, what are we on about?

This promotion will give the opportunity to anyone who is a fully paid up LeachLAN 4 attendee to invite up to three friends who haven’t been to one of our LeachLAN events, to LeachLAN 4. For just £5 each!

Has this got the gaming juices flowing for you and your friends? Then, there are a four quick steps that you need to complete to get gaming!

Step 1) Get your friends to signup to our booking system at the booking area of our website
Step 2) Drop us an email on behalf of your friends to billing@swlans.co.uk to let us know they’re booking, and they’re coming with you!
Step 3) Get them to signup for LeachLAN 4 as a BACs booking and send us £5 via bank transfer. Alternatively, they can pay on the door.
Step 4) If they want to pay on the door, please drop us an email on billing@swlans.co.uk so we can get them sat in our seating plan!

We look forward to seeing you and your friends at LeachLAN 4

//The SouthWest LANs Event Team

Don’t forget to head over to the booking area of our website to book and confirm your place at LeachLAN 4!

//The SouthWest LANs Event Team

The first revision of the seating plan for LeachLAN 4 will be posted on Thursday 11th March, followed by a second revision on Thursday 18th of March. The final revision will be posted on the Evening of Wednesday 24th March!

If you have any immediate requests before the first revision is posted, you can e-mail us on; seating@swlans.co.uk and we will see what we can do!

Don’t forget to head over to the booking area of our website to book and confirm your place at LeachLAN 4!

//The SouthWest LANs Event Team

SteelSeries 6Gv2
Designed with 18-karat gold-plated mechanical switches, the keyboard offers quicker reaction times and advanced key combinations for more Actions Per Minute and a lifetime more than 10 times that of conventional keyboards.

Like the SteelSeries 7G, the new keyboard utilizes a powerful buffer-system created specifically for gaming, supporting as many simultaneous key presses as there are keys on the keyboard. The “anti-ghosting” feature allows users in first person shooter games to move, crouch, aim, fire and even check the scoreboard, simultaneously. The SteelSeries G product line is the only series of keyboards on the market that allows this type of functionality all at once.

The new keyboard will incorporate SteelSeries’ Media Controls allowing quick access to volume, mute and other audio controls. Features not present in the keyboard, compared to the SteelSeries 7G, are the audio ports for headphone-in and microphone-out, the two USB ports as well as the removable plastic handrest.

The mechanical tactile system is ergonomically designed to ensure ease-of-use, while the no-click switches and iron-infused plastic makes SteelSeries G Series of keyboards both comfortable and durable. The SteelSeries 6Gv2 also has a switch lifetime of 50 million operations, which is more than 10 times the lifespan of a typical “membrane” keyboard known for a maximum of only 1-5 million total keystrokes in a lifetime.

The SteelSeries 6Gv2 keyboard retails for EUR 79.99 and will be available in Q2 2010.

SteelSeries 7H
Designed and built for competitive gamers, the SteelSeries 7H presents a superior soundscape in an exclusive design that travels well and offers two ear-cup choices, hear-through cloth and noise dampening leather.

The SteelSeries 7H headset features 50mm drivers in the ear-cups which fully cover the ear and delivers a clean soundscape of high, low and mid tones from background, mood setting sounds in MMO games to 3D positional alerts in FPS games. The closed-type headset features superior passive noise reduction, specifically developed in cooperation with competitive gamers for use at loud tournaments and LAN-events. The SteelSeries 7H additionally comes with two interchangeable ear-cushions that offer the option of leather cushions with noise dampening foam or hear-through cloth covered foam.

The new SteelSeries 7H all black stealth design features subdued chrome elements around each ear-cup and at the base of either side of the headband. Easily dismantled into four pieces, at the headband, the right and left ear-cup, and at the cord, the SteelSeries 7H is ideal for tournament players who travel often. Its left ear-cup features a retractable, uni-directional microphone that can be hidden when not in use. The durable braided cord is detachable, offering both safety and travel convenience and features a built-in volume and microphone control. An additional 2m extension cord is included for extra convenience.

The SteelSeries 7H headset retails for EUR 99.99 and will be available in Q2 2010.

There are now just 17 mere days until LeachLAN 4. To book and confirm your place at LeachLAN 4 booking area of our website.

//The SouthWest LANs Event Team