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UMSL's IT Enterprises Hosts Warfactory 2008 LAN Party
On just about any weekend, you can find groups of gamers getting together across the country to compete mostly on multi-player computer games at LAN (local area network) parties. Generally, such gatherings are BYOC, or "bring your own computer."
Over the last weekend in October 2008, IT Enterprises hosted the Warfactory 2008 LAN Party. Warfactory, a St. Louis-based LAN and online gaming event company, brought 50+ PC gamers (including many semi-pro and pro Counter-Strke teams along with several professional Quake gamers) to ITe for this tournament sponsored by Ranken Technical College, Dust-Off, Thermaltake, ET Game Hosting and others.
“We are pleased with the overall quality of the participants, some coming from as far as Texas to compete," said Dave Derington, president, Warfactory LLC. "Many asked the encouraging question, 'When’s the next one?'”
Hosting such events, whether for a gaming company, regional life sciences network or startup company board of directors, introduces a wide range of people to IT Enterprises. As noted in an article by St. Louis' Legit Reviews, an online provider of technology news and reviews, "Once inside the lobby, we were greeted by the Warfactory staff and given a spot to set up at the BYOC area, but we had to roam around the building some as we never knew this was in our backyard." (Nathan Kirsch, Legit Reviews, 10/27/2008)
About IT Enterprises
IT Enterprises (ITe) at the University of Missouri-St. Louis supports innovation in the high-growth fields of information technology and life sciences, providing the physical, computational, intellectual and human capital resources required for startup companies to grow.
Anchored by a high-performance computing (HPC) center staffed by Ph.D. computer scientists and postdocs, ITe provides not only computing capacity to startups, academia and industry but also the expertise to help solve fundamental R&D issues.
IT Enterprises, located just 2 miles from the UMSL campus and near Lambert international Airport, is a 56,300 square-foot facility with 42,200 square feet of rentable space (offices and wet labs).
For more information, to take a tour, or to reserve space for a meeting or event, please call 314-516-5899 or email manager@itenterprises-stl.org.