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Welcome to ExtremeLANKC.com!

ExtremeLANKC has been Kansas City's premier LAN party for over four years! We welcome you to our website as we continue to provide Kansas City with the finest in PC and console gaming. Our events have been thru some changes as we reintroduce you to the things that have been overlooked as we bring the fun back to our tournaments. Confused? Well its simple when you think about it. ExtremeLANKC has been the biggest LAN event in Kansas City and we decided smaller is way better. We are bringing the PARTY back into our LAN's.

In our conception lets just say we broke away from traditional LAN party format at a time when no one ever heard of Console Gaming being side by side with PC Gaming. We also began setting the standards as we were the first to bring in Gig LAN network for our backbone. There was an age factor which terrified all of the other LAN groups as we began allowing persons 16 years or older to attend our events with signed consent waivers. From that point we considered ourselves to be an Extreme LAN in Kansas City or aka ExtremeLANKC!

What we brought to our gaming community was some great gaming! We have always used dedicated servers to play on in a multiplayer LAN environment.  Having the right equipment has always been one thing we have provided for our gamers enjoyment. Our whole network runs on certified CAT6 cabling which is connected to either Net Gear or Linksys switches running at 10/100/1000 Mbps speed. Makes a great network for file sharing and brings gaming on it to a whole new level. For those of you who sit at home waiting for your friends to come online, here's the difference; at home your Internet connection runs at 10 - 20 Mbps while our LAN connections are at 1,000 Mbps!

We use the motto that "We play the games people want!" As our lineup of games changes as people tell us what they want to play.  We give our members the choice of games from either poll questions or suggestions on the forums. We list our cash tournaments as Featured Games and our Open Gaming tells you what games we expect to play. If you have a game that you would like to see in our lineup of tournaments lets us know about it.

We are a for profit organization as our Entry Fee's are meant to provide the location and pay for the things that it takes to put on each event. Tournament Fee's are used to provide our Featured Game cash tournaments with a Prize Pot.  The Prize Pot is dependent on the amount of Tournament Fee's collected from those participating in the tournaments. Our Open Gaming are games that are not big enough to provide a tournament for but others still enjoy playing. Sometimes we offer sponsor prizes for the winners of these event when we have a sponsor send us prizes that we can give away.

Thank you to the many members of our gaming community who have continued to support what we do. Over the years ExtremeLANKC has given a lot of nice prizes to some lucky winners of our events and to the winners of our raffle drawings. We have seen many try to do what we do and we have seen many fail over the years as its not an easy thing to do financially. Our staff being players and members of our gaming community have been the backbone of why we succeed. Over the years many have stepped up to help and a lot of gratitude goes out to them as well as our current staff!

 

ELKC Staff

 

We have had many staff members over the years. We appreciate the help from every one of them especially those who just help us out because they appreciate what we do for our gaming community. Here is the current list of active staff:
DeathsDoor John samthenuker bctrainers
Founder Co-Founder Admin Net Admin

The staff of ExtremeLANKC are not paid, what they do is complete volunteer work.

The History of ExtremeLANKC

ExtremeLANKC was first founded by myself, DeathsDoor back on June 24, 2004. This was back in the day when LAN parties was something you heard from word of mouth within the gaming community. After attending a few events I got hooked on going to them and became a fan of the social atmosphere it provided.

After a couple of years of having no events as several LAN groups were just failing, I decided to sponsor an event at a store front on 76th and Metcalf. My friends who owned the former Computer Depot (Now Direct PC) allowed me the use of some empty store front space in their building. There was around 26 participants that attended this event. This event is now known as ELKC 1.0.

There was a young man named John who attended the event. We went on talking about the night as his parents came to pick him up. John went on to be my first server admin, PC Admin and web admin. He spent 14 more events with us before work and school became too overwhelming forcing him to take a break. Recently, he has come back as an active staff member. He is also given the title of Co-founder for the work that he put into getting us going.

Another person that put a lot of time into helping me was Catalyst aka my son Chris. He attended all events helping with anything that he could and was the workforce behind getting most of our events up. Catalyst is inactive right now but he held the position of Console Admin. Our original staff was just the three of us DeathsDoor, John, and Catalyst as we were the three that got things going at this location. We had 5 events at this location before we moved things into my basement when attendance dropped and we decided it was time to do some regrouping.

Funny how things worked out for us as we had two events in my basement. While most LAN's are held in basements and garages we may not have started there but we had more fun at these two events than any place else. The fact that we knew each other and had more time to game was what got us back on our feet. We quickly realized what we needed to do to get going again and we decided it was time to venture out again.

We tried a place out in Liberty which was a complete flop as it rained so hard that day that the streets all around us flooded. The only person that came was Ray aka Yarcod as we even had to wrap his pc in trash bags just to get his stuff in. There was all 5 of us at this apartment meeting room playing all night as there is no such thing as a wasted night when it comes to gaming.

Our next LAN was held at the Super Inn in North Kansas City, MO just off I-35 and Parvin Road. We had a banquet room which was where we first started getting some growth. Our first event there we had 28 or more people there and our second was even bigger with 36 or more there. We had just added Halo 2 to our lineup as our friends from Insomniac Gaming teamed up with us. This lead to our final event at this location as our attendance for this event was 56 or more and we were blowing breakers all night long!

Over the years we have has some wonderful staff that lent their expertise in different areas. These guys were gamers like me who took on the additional tasks that I gave them and willingly did so for the sake of providing quality events for our gaming community.

We have had some colorful staff over the years and none stands out more than Chris aka aZombie! Everyone remembers Chris for his crazy skills in Net Admin. This guy was a whiz in hooking up our network at the times when we crashed seriously all the time. We had a location that had a Wireless connection and he was the man when it came to setting this up. The motel had so many issues but Chris seemed to work right through it. Tristan aka Nekomaho was another guy who brought a lot of humor to our events.

Our Staff during this time was Ray aka Yarcod, Adam aka Yaddam205, John, Chris aka Catalyst, Matt aka Maverick and of course myself DeathsDoor.

Next in our moves was to the American Inn again in North Kansas City, MO. We spent 6 events at The American Inn. We had some growth here as well as we started selling out our events and lots of people from all over were coming. We had just gotten our very first 100 person LAN sell out during this time and things were really starting to look even better for our gaming community. More sponsors were brought in as we had ULTRA, Cooler Master, Alienware, Thermal Take, ATI, nVIDIA and several others join in.

Combined with console our pc section was quickly being squeezed out as we really got a big following on the console side. We were having problems with the electrical requirements just on the increase in console players! We added a electrical panel into the banquet room with 200 amps just to keep our events going. There was many games that we were playing at this time as BF2 came out with Quake 4 on the introduction as well. Our lineup of CS 1.6 actually got pushed out by the introduction of CS: Source into the mix. Even Unreal Tournament 2k4 was brought out as a big following of Death Match players were still hanging on.

It was during this time when Red Bull asked if we would be interested in hosting one of the biggest events in Kansas City which became known as our COOP LAN 2006 aka ELKC 18.0 if you were keeping count. This event was attend by over 225 participants and we had the semi-finals for our Battlefield 2 tournament which drew in 11 teams from the 4 state area. We also had the biggest console event as we had over 60 players just from the console side of the house as well. This was event was a first as we had 5 LAN groups working together to host all of our tournaments. This concluded with Operation Topeka in which Red Bull provided us with the event of a lifetime which was held in a Titan II missile silo out in the middle of no where near Topeka, KS.

We were invited to move our events to Union Station of Kansas City! This was our home for over a year and a half as we held some of the biggest and baddest events there. Time Warner of Kansas City came in as an Event Sponsor as we held what became known as MidWest LAN War there. We split up this event to include Wichita LAN Party as a co host with the first of our semi-finals in Wichita. The event concluded with both semi-finals and the finals being at Union Station. With the combined participants this event had over 300 that attended all three events.

Our current staff which includes our very own Sam aka SamtheNuker who has been instrumental in keeping our events up and running. He had been a welcome addition to our staff as he was another gamer who just like when I first started out new to LAN party's. Another returning member is Brett aka BC Trainers who was our Network Admin back at Union Station. Then we have John who is returning to help us get back to our basics in gaming. Mitch aka HeadShot will be helping out with our pc section keeping things going. Also we will be having Garrett aka Status who will be helping us out on our console side. Thanks to all the guys who step up to help keep our events running!

After all the dust settled we came to the realization that we needed to bring our events down to a level where we could once again make our events all about what we had our original start, having fun.  LAN party's are all about having fun, meeting new friends and competing in tournaments to test your skills playing the games you love to play.

We moved our events back to The American Inn and have been there from ELKC 33.0. This was a move back into the space that we had built up our membership to a comfortable level. We wanted to downsize our events. We have had our ups and downs as the economy slumped making us take some drastic changes to our events. We have done this by holding more open gaming tournaments and having fewer cash tournaments. This has worked well in the last couple of events.

Our next step was our move to Olathe. Over the years we had several requests to hold our events closer to some of our participants and we have been looking at different options. This will be a move to bring gaming to members of our gaming community. Our MidWest LAN Wars events (now Midwest LAN War) are still going on and we have also added a King of the Hill Scoreboard to crown the top scores in Halo 3. We are always looking into different ideas to continue to bring the finest in PC and Console gaming to Kansas City!