i45 - PC Rentals now on Sale!
PC rentals are now on sale for insomnia 45.
We now have two different options available to choose from:
PC Spec: Intel® Core™ i7-2600 processor, AMD Radeon™ HD 6870 GFX and 6GB Ram
Monitor Spec: iiyama 22″ prolite
PC Spec: Intel® Core™2 Q6600, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT GFX or higher and 4GB Ram
Monitor Spec: 19″ Samsung/Packard Bell
To rent a PC for insomnia45 please head over to our support site and raise a ticket under event enquiries.
PC Rentals are sold on a first come first serve basis, make sure you get your order in quick before they all go!
To rent a PC you must have a paid ticket for insomnia45.
Seating for rental PCs are located in the TUP PC area, if you would like to take the rental PC out of the designation area, to sit with clan mates and friends, then a £200 deposit will be required.
i45 - TF2 is Back for More at Insomnia45 – Prizes Announced!
Team fortress 2 comes to our Spring LAN again, and we are continuing to support the community by putting up a prize fund of at least £600 if 8 or more teams attend. Like all of our other tournaments, this prize pot will scale up, so encourage more teams to show up, and you will see more money, and it will be paid out to more teams. Get to 64 teams and the top 8 win something!
But thats not the most exciting part, the winning team earns 6 tickets to insomnia46! Our summer LANs are the Mecca of TF2 globally – last summer our tournament was the biggest ever seen and we look to repeat this at insomnia46 in 2012.
Infused – Winners of insomnia44 TF2
Here are some prize pool examples:
12 teams = £900 and £642 worth of i46 tickets.
24 teams = £1,800 and £642 worth of i46 tickets.
32 teams = £2,400 and £642 worth of i46 tickets.
64 teams = £4,800 and £642 worth of i46 tickets!
Disguise yourself as an enemy pyro and make your way over to our tickets page to grab a BYOC ticket, and then get signed up on our Team Fortress 2 tournament Page.
Minecraft Speed Build Launched!
Our month long creative competition closed at 17:00 GMT today, and the judges will be released onto the creations to deliberate and compare this coming week! We also have a guest judge! Minecraft Chick from Mojang has agreed to decide the top 3 entries once our team of judges have finally narrowed them down.
We want to take this opportunity to also announce the launch of the Multiplay Mincraft Creative Speed Build, which will take place in 2 weeks and last only 1 weekend! It begins 3rd February at 3pm GMT and ends on Monday 6th at 9:30am GMT. Be warned however – signups will CLOSE on Wed Feb 1st at 4pm GMT so we have time to assign you plots to build in!
Just like our month long build, you will receive a 250×250 block plot, which you will need to build something creative with. There is no theme, just let your mind go crazy and impress our judges.
Prizes are as follows:
1st: $500 and Signed Minecraft T-Shirts for each player in the team
2nd: $250
3rd: $125
4th: $60
5th: $40
6th: $25
Just get on over to our tournament page and sign up now!
Also keep an eye out for our other contest which will be linked – make a video of your own plot explaining what it is and how it all works to win an iPad 2! Watch this space for further announcements!
i45 - Asus Overclocking Masters UK @ i45
Overclocking is all about getting something for nothing. It’s about making impossible speed, possible. To celebrate the dark art of the overclocking, the world’s leading component manufacturer has teamed up with Multiplay, Kingston Technology and KitGuru to invite the best of the best from the world of overclocking to step up and be measured.
Entry is quick and easy and won’t cost you a penny. In a nutshell, simply run CPU-Z on your PC at standard clocks, and again when overclocked.
Then, send your CPU-Z scores to asuscompetition
kitguru
net and the 12 biggest percentage increases will be invited to a shoot out!
It is all based on the PERCENTAGE increase you can achieve – not the overall top speed. So a guy with a 1GHz processor that he clocks to 2GHz, will beat someone who takes a 2GHz CPU up to 2.4GHz. The 100% O/C achieved by overclocker number 1 will beat the 20% achieved by the second overclocker.
At the regional finals, held in February, each winner will receive NVIDIA GTX 560 and will also be invited to ASUS Overclocking Masters UK Grand Finals.
The Grand Final itself will happen at our Insomnia45 event at the Telford International Centre on 4th – 7th May 2012.
The winner of the Grand Final will be crowned as the UK’s Top Overclocker for 2012 and will walk away with an ARMY of prizes from ASUS, Kingston Technology, Intel, NVIDIA and BeQuiet.
Good Luck!
Minecraft Competition Preview – Live Video Stream All Day Friday
Minecraft Competition Preview
The competitors in our Minecraft Creative Xmas Competition have almost run out of building time! Some of the things players have made are pretty epic, and others… not so much.
This Friday we will be live streaming a preview of some of the creations people have made – ALL DAY! Tune in any time between 10am and 5pm GMT to see what crazy things that people’s creative minds have come up with. Some of these builds literally have hundreds of hours work put into them so you do not want to miss this!
Find the stream embedded on this front page throughout Friday, or simply visit our twitch channel.
The live video stream is just a preview, the winning plots will be released in more yet to be announced videos! More will be revealed soon enough…
