Events

September Brainfest

You are cordially invited to the BwA L4D2 Fall Brainfest.  Visit the forums to sign up and be assigned to a team between now and August 27.  The tournament will consist of at least three matches and include versus, scavenge, and realism versus modes. Prizes include the all important bragging rights as well as several gift certificates to various restaurants and/or retailers.  

Match Play:  Due to varied schedules, we will simply ask that everyone play their matches within September.  We will post the entire lineup (all three teams that you’ll play) up front so to accommodate everyone’s schedules, you can play matches in any order (you can play your 3rd team first, your 2nd team last, etc) as long as they are all completed during the month of September.

Scoring:  We will go with discrete scoring (a win = 1 a loss = 0) and individual map scores will not come into play (meaning that if a team wins by 1000 pts and another team wins by 100 pts those two will be equivalent).  We are doing this so that if, by chance, a team has a runaway round (even after load balancing the teams), it wont put them out of reach to other teams.  This is kind of like soccer where a win is 1 whether you won by 1 goal or 10 goals.  Again, nothing is perfect in this area but this is the method that offers the most fun and closeness of competition so we chose this method.

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CS:S Night this Thursday!

Join us for the first BwA community clan game night of 2010!  We're turning the BwA Counter-Strike servers into a mosh pit!  All members and friends are invited to dust off their CS:S skills and have some fun playing the game that got most of us into FPS Gaming.  Peel yourself away from the new and shiny titles for one night and bring your "A" game old school style!  Join us at 8pm EST this Thursday on our CS:S Gun Game and Pub servers (69.31.134.132:27015 and 69.31.134.131:27015, respectively)  for some friendly fragging.  -- M@styrMynd

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SOLE SURVIVOR: Up All Night L4D2 Bash

• Form up in Ventrilo tonight and party up.  Try and be online by 9pm EST.
  
• Drop Dead time:  7:00 AM
  
• Bio breaks and beer runs are highly encouraged between maps and games.
  
• To be in contention for the title of SOLE SURVIVOR the following parameters will apply.
  
• You are online and playing L4D2 in a BwA group NLT 11 PM EST.
  
• You play L4D2 continuously until you cannot play anymore. (reasonable bio, smoke and beer breaks permitted)
  
• @ 7am, if there contest is still running, the remaining players will be offered the option to SHARE the title.
  
• If there is not a unanimous decision to end the contest, it goes until ONE player remains......

On a final note, Catalyst has donated an Electronic gift card for NewEgg.com in the amount of $50.00 for the -=BwA=- member that kills the most CHARGERS during tonights event.  The tracking for this will begin at midnight and will continue until the last person drops or 7am, which ever comes first!  This will be EST timezone.  Once the totals are in from HLStatsX tomorrow, he will send the gift card via e-mail and will be available for your immediate use!

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TF2 Weekend. Join us!

Friday night kicks off another Special Game Weekend at BwA once again featuring Team Fortress 2.  The Sniper vs. Spy and Classless updates have added a ton of new features and content since our last TF2 event in May.  Leave your kevlar vests, M4A1 Colt, and zombie repellant behind!

When:  Friday and Saturday, September 11-12, 2009, 8:00 PM EST - Cows come home
Where:  69.31.134.222:20715

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Nashville Gathering: The Meet and Greet

The night is young and FatalReality orders two more.  Moving clockwise, Evil_Ernie, Tank Lewis (back of head only), DailyLlama, DracheFeuer's wife, DracheFeuer, Twiek (beard, cap), Entropy.

Before I delve into how the gathering was, I would first like to explain what BwA is. At it's core, it is a group of mature individuals looking for not only a nice place to play online games without having to endure the antics of immature people and kids who have no restraint on using foul language, but to also form lasting friendships. A majority of our members are in their late 20's to 30's but there are also quite a few over 40 as well (me included!). We are located all over the United States, West Coast to East Coast, North and South. We even have a few members from Canada and one even in Aruba.


The quote above comes from Charlie Utter and is a fairly eloquent description of our community, Better with Age. A few months ago Charlie began probing the waters, so to speak, and looking for any interest in a social gathering in propria persona. He found it!  The result of a significant amount of time and talent dedicated to the challenge took shape this past Friday night in the sports lounge of the Maxwell Millenium Hotel in Nashville, TN.  Folks from across the Southeastern and Midwestern portions of the United States began trickling in at 1:30 PM building to a final count of 19 members (+ 3 wives) before the evening ended in the wee hours of Saturday morning.  Surreal is the only way to describe that first face-to-face meeting of folks that you have spent hours upon hours with gaming, strategizing, planning, laughing, yelling, and building friendships over the course of years.

Some particularly memorable moments include Twiek breaking out the -=BwA=- emblem to cheers and applauds, Jambi and T00l taking a dip in the hotel pool - fully clothed, and buttery-nipple shots for everyone after a bit too much had already been consumed all around.  A few antics aside there was mostly non-stop conversation and laughter.  Everyone experienced an awkward moment or two, but those were gone after the first round of introductions. Most of us went into that first night not knowing what to expect but finished it having had the time of our lives with 20 close  friends.

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Nashville Gathering: First Impressions

Wow . . . just wow.  The Better With Age gathering in Nashville, TN, was a unique and awesome experience.  Thanks to meticulous planning and support from several members the weekend went off without a hitch.  More to come soon: in the meantime, check out this group picture (minus a couple of guys) and the handy-dandy real life -=BwA=- tag whipped up by the ultra-talented Twiek.



Starting in the back row and traveling left to right, FatalReality, Tank Lewis, Mike3D, Entropy (back, glasses), Masaco (green shirt), Riggs, Jambi, Farva, Bernie, Tool, Tater Salad, Catalyst.  Kneeling, left to right, Acc, Drache, Twiek, Charlie Utter, Evil_Ernie, DailyLama.

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Counter-Strike Source Tourney

Sign up now for the CS:S Fun in the Sun July tournement.  Also dubbed "night of the improv" this for-fun only tournement is designed to throw members together from all corners of BwA.  Whether your CS:S experience is that of  a 5 year veteran or you have only had the game for a week you are welcome!

A match consists of:

• 1 map of Pub style (18 rounds = 9CT/9T, 800K cash, play out all rounds)
  
• 1 map of TWL GG Turbo style (team that has member who gets final knife kill wins)

The tournament starts July 21 and runs for two weeks.

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Special COD4 Fun Night

As we have with other games recently (Insurgency, HL2 Deathmatch, TF2), this Friday and Saturday night BwA will host COD4 Fun Nights®.  There may be a copy or two around to borrow if you don't have it - just ask in the members section.  We have two servers up, feel free to use them now to practice.

69.31.134.136:28960
69.31.134.137:28960

Friday, June 26th & Saturday, June 27th, starting at 8PM EST until the sun rises.  Dust off your old game and have it ready to go!

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The Winner is . . .

This weekend concluded the -=BwA=- Left 4 Dead Summer Smackdown Tournement.   Eight teams and over 40 players vied for the grand prize (a week of bragging rights) over the course of two weeks and over a dozen matches.  Congratulations DailyLama, Evil_Ernie, Acc, and Riggs on a compelling vicotry!  See the bracket below for final standings.



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Round One Was Rock'n!

The first night of Summer Slaughter saw an excellent turnout with 40+ members showing up to play or sub tonight.  2 hours, 5 close matches, 25 maps, and 10,142 zombies later the first round has been completed!

Round 2 is tomorrow Saturday 6-6-09 @ 10pm EST.  See you there!

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