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[H]|M Dazz

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Greetings everyone,

I'm public relations for DFW's longest and largest running LAN, DFWFrag. DFW Frag is a 50+ player LAN that started at CCI in Arlington. I am also working with other LAN's in the area to combine resources and produce a 200+ person LAN sometime in Feb/March. I'm just starting to contact possible sponsors for both LANs and I was just wondering if you guys happend to know of any other places that like to sponsor LANs. I've already picked up CaseAce, Bawls, Thermaltake and one other that I can't mention at this time.

What sponsors do you have for your LANs?
 
nVIDIA or ATI (they refuse to co sponser the same lan with eachother... i've tried)
Alienware
Falcon Northwest
Thermalright
Geil
Highspeedpc.com
Chenbro
Newegg
 
Ballistix
Antec
Thermaltake
BFG Tech

Beverages:
Bawls (they want exclusive and are a pain to deal with)
Jolt
Fuze
Trek

Try local, regional and national (web) retailers as well.
 
Bawls is a pain to work with? Are you nuts? They send us stuff every month even if we don't have a LAN that month! Not only that, but we are right up the street from one of their disctibutors, and he leets us get a 24 pack on top of the 12 pack that Bawls sends us directly!

A pain to work with? Hardly! Maybe you got on their bad side?

But yeah, I agree about them wanting to be the exclusive drink sponsor.
 
[H]|M Dazz said:
Woo hoo! I just sent you guys an email hoping for a sponsor for DFW Frag.

We greatly appreciate what you guys do for the LANning communities!
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Sounds good, I told the web guys to be on the lookout for you!
 
SarverSystems said:
Bawls is a pain to work with? Are you nuts? They send us stuff every month even if we don't have a LAN that month! Not only that, but we are right up the street from one of their disctibutors, and he leets us get a 24 pack on top of the 12 pack that Bawls sends us directly!

A pain to work with? Hardly! Maybe you got on their bad side?

But yeah, I agree about them wanting to be the exclusive drink sponsor.
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No, I didnt' get on thier bad side - I think I was caught in the middle of growning pains.
Here's the history - stuff they sent, they didnt' after the second month, kept having one excuse after another, lost shipments, shortage of bottles, bad address, etc. The "buy at the distributor for uber low price" deal... well, sweet deal that it was, what really irked me was there was a distributor in my town, less than two miles from my house, but they said that I couldn't get it from them, i had to get it from the distributor across the state... even after I got with the local guy and he said it was fine AND got the okay from Bawls - i love my gamers, but an 800 mile round trip just wasnt' worth it.
It was odd with other things too - like I said, I think I got caught in some growth issues. Plus now my gamers are spoiled wit the variety I have for them so they are happy as clams.

Granted this was over a year ago, but when they say they are going to support LANs and don't, it's tough when 70 gamers are pissed at you when you can't supply them with the promised beverage.

I also don't care for exclusives - the bev sponsors I have think it's great to have other bevs at the event. I'm the same with hardware too - retailers and manufacturers alike, i had one small company demand exclusive even with NewEgg, Antec, CoolerGuys, nVidia, and Crystalfontz already on board - they wanted exclusive hardware sponsorship... think they are out of business. I understand why, but if you want exclusive, you'd better make up for what I loose by telling my other sponsors "sorry" - and Bawls never did that. </rant>
Things could be different now, which it sounds like they are which is a good thing.

Pecace
Tim
 
SarverSystems said:
How did you get CrystalFontz? You got some connections or soemthing?
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In a way, yah, plus they are local. Not much more I can say other than that.
 
somecallmeTim said "In a way, yah, plus they are local. Not much more I can say other than that."

I make him wash my car, and sweep the floors at the shop :)
 
crystalfontz said:
somecallmeTim said "In a way, yah, plus they are local. Not much more I can say other than that."

I make him wash my car, and sweep the floors at the shop :)
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and build shelves, move stuff, run errands...
 
SarverSystems said:
If you were near me, I'd do that for you.
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Spoklan is a very special situation for us . . . outside of them, we do not sponsor any other LANs. No offense intended, it is just not the way the company is set up.
 
Lets see, for my upcoming lan event this saturday at FAU, i got:

Bawls,
nVidia,
GamerzStuff,
Made2Own,
Luis Hernez Salons (giving out a free makeover :p ),
This new company called getecon is going to have a vendor booth,

and best of all, Creative Labs will be there. They have been our greatest sponsor over the past year weve had them.
 
MonarchJoe said:
Yes we do!

http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=M&Category_Code=lanevent
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This is a plus for the LELP. I just told Wood, the manager for the Lake Effect Lan, about this so hopefully he will be in contact soon for the next event in Erie, PA. The last event was Nov. 5-8 with 62-64 gamers and it was the best lan I've been to. The next lan is scheduled for Feb 4-7 and is expected to have an even bigger turn out. Yet he has stated that he would like to keep the lan capped at 128 gamers. Since the last event he's picked up a very popular server company that will be running the server at the next event also. Should be fun...
 
SarverSystems said:
Bawls is a pain to work with? Are you nuts? They send us stuff every month even if we don't have a LAN that month! Not only that, but we are right up the street from one of their disctibutors, and he leets us get a 24 pack on top of the 12 pack that Bawls sends us directly!

A pain to work with? Hardly! Maybe you got on their bad side?

But yeah, I agree about them wanting to be the exclusive drink sponsor.
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Heh, Bawls has been great to work with us up here in East Tennessee. They're one of the most consistant sponsors I've seen when it comes to supporting the gamers and LAN's.

Ax
 
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