Washington D.C. Area Meetup Thread - Page 2

On June 19 2009 10:46 eshlow wrote:
I could probably make it to the Rockville one.

I'm not big on playing anymore though.... but would be nice to meet you guys.

On June 18 2009 13:37 hazelynut wrote:
I'm around until late July-mid August, so early July anytime would be great for me. I'd actually volunteer my house if my dad didn't think I was crazy.

On June 19 2009 15:03 EvilTeletubby wrote:
Early July please, the sooner the better. Getting married late July.

First off, thank you for thinking about coming out to our center. I read the teamliquid.net post and am seeing that there is a ton of positive feedback and support from the local SC community. Let me go ahead and answer some of your questions as well as provide you a bit more information about how this event could work.

Generally speaking we do not offer reservations for groups of friends that want to come in together. Our policy in the past has simply been first come first serve. With that in mind, Saturday & Sundays do get booked for birthday parties, which leave us with limited or no availability for several hours at a time.

What I would be willing to do for you is set-up a StarCraft Day that would allow players that PRE-PAID for their spots, the ability to reserve stations for the day. X3O would also not book parties on that day, ensuring that you would have full access to the facility. We would need at least 10 players to pre-pay for the event two weeks in advance or earlier to guarantee the date. The best possible rates I can give gamers that want to reserve a computer for this event on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday would be our normal rates. I can however extend to you the $5.00 day pass offer Monday-Thursday, through August of this year.

Alternatively you can take advantage of all promotional rates and not be- required to pre-pay, however it would be first come first serve and subject to limited availability during birthday parties.

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There are a ton of restaurants in this area that range in a variety of prices. Immediately next to us you will find a Papa John’s Pizza, Arby’s, Popeyes, McDonalds, Chipotle and Silver Diner. Within a 5 minute car drive there is also a Ruby Tuesdays, Chiles, TGIFridays and even a Korean BBQ place .

StarCraft Broodwar is currently installed on all of our machines. While we have limited keys for playing online, we can support all of our machines playing on LAN. If you would require any special configs/scripts/maps, just let me know and we would be happy to install them for you.
Hopefully this helps you in making your decision. If you have any other questions at all please feel free to post them here or call us at (301)-816-9055. - NickFitz

On June 20 2009 06:52 Superiorwolf wrote:
Congratulations ETT I'll update OP later tonight. Just as an update - I posted on the X3O forums and got a response so here's some additional information about the X3O Gaming Center in Rockville...



Another member also expressed interest in joining us if we hold the event. I was hoping we would get a discounted rate for being a group, but maybe that can still apply. As of yet, they say their rates still apply... I don't know how they differentiate from who's a "student member" and who's a "regular member", but I'm thinking the regular member 5 hour rate is a bit over-the-top for our purposes... The Markham LAN also being organized in Canada has $10 for 7-8 hours or something like that. Regular member rate here is $24 for 5 hours, $16 if student member, $8 if premiere member.

Also, anyone been looking around that website and know what the promotional rates are?