Well today is Thursday and MassiveLAN is just 1 week away for us staff, and 1 week + 1 day for the rest of  you. I can't believe how pumped I am for this year, as is all of us at MLP. We definitely are going to be breaking some records this year. We've got some awesome minigames planned for this year... some old and some new, some we did a few years ago and a couple just thought of.

Of course there's the chair race. For those of you newbies who have never done it before, here are some guidelines/rules:

• Each team has 2 members, one pusher and one sitter.
• Chairs must have 5 wheels.
• Chairs must have only 1 point of contact from the seat of the chair to the wheel base.
• There cannot be any artificial strengthening of a chair's wheelbase with the exception of tape. Allowed tapes are: duct, packaging, electrical, scotch, masking, and painters tape.
• There must be arms on the chair and they may not be removed.
• After-market screws are perfectly legit.
• No modifications may be made to change the swivel-ability of the chair, however the swivel lock is allowed to be engaged during the race but it must be the lock that came with the chair.
• Enhancing your top speed or acceleration with streamers, paint, crayons, markers, highlighters, colored-tape and glitter are not only allowed, they're encouraged.
• Wheels on the chair may not be replaced with after-market wheels... they must be the original packaged wheels.
• Wheels may be lubricated or greased at your own risk.
• You may not remove any piece of the chair to reduce its weight, parts that happen to have gone missing from years of sitting or abuse is legal. However if you are found "applying age" in the parking lot or something your chair will be disqualified. (this does not override rule #5)
• Practice runs are encouraged, however don't pretend to know what the course is, we usually don't know until about 10 minutes before hand.
• The only means that may be used to move the chair are by the person pushing the chair. Pushing is defined as a person, wearing no artificial electronics or bionic modifications, using their feet to walk and or run while having their hands attached to the chair.

July 3rd is the last day to prepay for MLP'010. We will be taking down pre-payment options sometime after 5pm. So if you want to save $10 best do it now, or you're boned!

The MLP'010 MTG tournament is now 100% finalized. Please go over to the MTG Page to see our finished rules for this year.

Our tournament is unlike any other you've probably ever been to. We have old, out of print sets going back as far as ice age. Here are some highlights: Urza's Saga, Mirage, Tempest BLOCK (Tempest, Stronghold, and Exodus).

It's not too late to signup for MLP'010, so do it now!

MassiveLAN is less than 2 days away. For you that means you're probably pretty pumped, and we hope you are. For us that means that tomorrow is a LOT of work for us.

As many of you may or may not know a large portion of MassiveLAN comes out of Olean, NY. That being said, we're looking at a fairly decent drive in the early AM. Most of us not being morning people, we load up our rigs and gear the night before so we can just drive out the next morning, and tonight is no exception.

It's been a busy day for me personally, as now it's 9:41 pm and I've just started packing. Weeks of putting together servers, testing games, patches, mods, scenarios. Work hasn't been easy, taking 3 days off for me is as tough as it is for some people to take 2 weeks, but I'm rambling.

Point of the story: We leave for the fairgrounds tomorrow with our crew of Staff and helpers, 8am for us O-towners. We have no computers or internet from the time I finish this post until who knows when tomorrow. Easiest way to reach us in case of an emergency is e-mailing me, aj@massivelan.com with your PHONE NUMBER. If you're nearby and want to help out, check it out, or whatever. However you can't get in to game before 9am Friday morning.

I look forward to seeing you all over the weekend

AJ

MassiveLAN President

We at MassiveLAN.com want to correct a mistake on our (mostly my) end. We have been displaying a Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5870 Graphics Card as their donation and this is NOT what we will be giving away this year.

We will be giving away an XFX Radeon HD 5870 Graphics Card with Eyefinity Technology. This awesome video card was donated to us by Technophobia of West Seneca NY, our ONLY local sponsor. Definately stop over there for any of your last minute needs before MLP'010!

Our apologies for this mixup!

Also, Starcraft 2 beta is re-opened! We WILL be running SC2 at MLP'010!

Team Fortress 2 has had a HUGE update. If you get a chance, update this before fighting here for bandwidth!!!