Dayton LANfest announces World Cyber Games partnership

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Dayton LANfest announces their partnership with World Cyber Games for August event

Upwards of $50,000 worth of trips and prizes to be given away

Dayton, OH, June 5th, 2004: Dayton LANfest has been chosen by World Cyber Games, the Olympics of electronic gaming, to host a U.S.A. Midwest tournament qualifier. During the weekend of August 28th, 2004, the WCG will conduct six PC based and 2 Xbox based tournaments within the DLf event. Seating opens at 240 available spots.

The following tournaments will be hosted.

· Counter-Strike: Condition Zero

· FIFA Soccer 2004

· Need For Speed: Underground

· Star Craft: Brood War

· Unreal Tournament 2004

· WarCraft III: Frozen Throne

· Xbox Halo

· Xbox Project Gotham Racing 2

The top Counter-Strike team of five and the top two players of all other tournaments will receive air travel and accommodation to Anaheim, California for the national finals. Other prizes may include a high-end gaming computer system and flat screen CRT monitors. Check out www.DaytonLANfest.com for more information about this event and its prizes. Official rules for these tournaments can be found at www.WorldCyberGames.com.

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Just to clarify the event will be August 28th and 29th. June 5th was accidentally left in the story.

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Dayton LANfest needs to make some additions due to new developments.

WCG has dropped it's $35 registration fee. In order to guarantee your spot you must pay $5 through their site but it will be refunded when you arrive at the event.

Dayton LANfest has increased from a 31 to a 48 hour event. We will be starting on Friday, August the 27th at 4:00 p.m.

We have now been informed by WCG that all tournaments will be conducted on their tournament computers on their separate network.

WCG has changed their prize pool that we will post on our site as soon as we receive an updated list.