Iron Storm XIII is this weekend! More than 60 gamers have signed up for the CS:GO tournament and our TF2 tournament will be the largest its ever been!

We're giving away a computer in our ROFL raffle and more than $11,700 worth of other prizes from our generous sponsors, including big names like Antec, Cooler Master, Killer NIC, ThermalTake, Kingston, Major League Gaming, Club Conflict, TRENDnet, and Zotac, plus many, many more!

You've gotta be there to win, so register now for only $35, or pay at the door with cash or credit $45.

http://pittco.org/shop

Iron Storm XIII is two weeks away! More than 100 folks have signed up and we're expecting to get even more this week!

http://pittco.org

We've having a CS:GO tournament sponsored by Club Conflict in cooperation with Valve Software. Anyone who participates will get a free CS:GO Beta key usable for the weekend. We'll send out those keys this coming Friday -- you must precache!

We've topped 37 sponsors and may hit $10k in prizes before IS13 gets here.

REGISTER NOW!

http://pittco.org/shop

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We've this past week surpassed $4,000 in prizes and have 22 sponsors. Our "baller" tickets are now half sold-out with eight weeks remaining before the actual event.

Register now! http://pittco.org/shop

Here are our current sponsors and what they're providing:

## Antec - StarCraft 2

Eleven Hundred Chassis ($130 value) 1st place
KUHLER H2O 620 liquid cooler ($70 value) 2nd place
Lanboard ($35 value) 3rd place
Spot Cool case fan ($20 value) 3rd place

## Kingston - League of Legends

5x HyperX T1 Memory kit (KHX1600C9D3T1K2/8GX) ($50 value) 1st place
5x DataTraveler R500 32 GB flash drive (DTR500/32GB) ($35 value) 2nd place
5x HyperX Fan (KHX-FAN) ($25 value) 3rd place

## Dark Threads - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (xbox 360)

4x Milspec Monkey ‘Zombie Hunter’ T-Shirt ($20 value) 1st place
4x Milspec Monkey ‘Zombie Hunter’ Patches ($7 value) 2nd place
MVP: Pantac USA Large Messenger Bag ($110 value) 1st place
MVP: Pantac USA Small Laptop Bag ($90 value) 2nd place

These great sponsors are sponsoring other tournament prizes, door prizes, and more:

## FrozenQ

Discount coupons
Reservoir?

## In Win

F430 BL chassis ($90 value)
MANA136 WHITE chassis ($110 value)
MANA134 BLACK chassis ($70 value)

## Qualcomm Atheros Killer NIC

Killer 2100 NIC ($130 value)
Swag

## Rosewill

Case (model TBD)
Keyboard (model TBD)
Power Supply Unit (model TBD)

## TRENDnet

TEW-687GA Wireless N Gaming Adapter ($150 value)
TEW-691GR 450Mbps Wireless N Gigabit Router ($200 value)

## Zotac

ZBOXHD-NS21-U Zbox barebones nettop ($225 value)
880GITX-A-E mini-ITX AMD 880G motherboard ($110 value)
A75ITX-A-E mini-ITX AMD A75 motherboard ($150 value)
ZT-50301-10M GeForce GTX 560 Ti graphics card ($300 value)
ZT-40602-10L GeForce GT 430 graphics card ($100 value)

## GameSkulls

“Box o’ stuff”, potentially including a GameSkull headset

## BAWLS

Mints and swag

## Classic Game Room

Swag

## CPU Magazine

200x Copies of the latest edition

## Hive Gaming

Continued sponsorship of our official Pittco Team Fortress 2 server
200x 10% off coupon
5x 25% off coupon
50% off coupon
Free month of hosting

## ThinkComputers.org

A few cases (makes/models TBD), some other random items.
Synology DS-211+ Network Attached Storage ($400 value)

## Gamers Mobile Party

Three-hour party session ($300 value)

## Memetic Tees

10x T-Shirts ($20 value)

## Red Bull

Free Red Bull from the Wiiings Team, which will be visiting and/or exhibiting!

## RAIDMAX

SEIRAN case ($100 value)
VIPER case ($90 value)
2x RX-600AF PSU ($60 value)

## Cooler Master

Watch this space for updates!

## Amped Airsoft

Multicam 14″ Laptop Case ($100 value)
Black Fat Boy Versatile Pack ($60 value)

## Club Conflict

T-shirts
Stickers
Music
Other swag!

http://www.pittco.org/blog/2012/01/27/iron-storm-xiii-registration-is-now-open/

April 20-22, Pittsburgh PA
200 gamers

PC

Counter-Strike: Source, 5v5
Heroes of Newerth, 5v5
League of Legends, 5v5
StarCraft 2, 1v1 – sponsored by Antec, with an Eleven Hundred chassis for 1st place and prizes for other places, too
Team Fortress 2, 6v6

Console

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, 4v4 on Xbox 360
Goldeneye 64, 4 person FFA on N64
Halo: Reach, 4v4 on Xbox 360
Mortal Kombat (2011), 1v1 on Xbox 360
Super Smash Brothers Brawl, 2v2 on Wii
Street Fighter AND/OR Marvel vs Capcom 3, 1v1 on Xbox 360 – will be decided at the event, we’ll probably play both!

14 announced sponsors, ~5 unannounced yet. Lots of prizes!

Our next LAN is IS13, April 20-22. See the newly redesigned http://www.pittco.org for more information!

Also, we sponsored the fifth annual Open Source Game Coding Competition at the University of Pittsburgh this weekend. Congratulations to the winners, VimCity. They implemented a light version of SimCity inside of the text editor Vim.