GT GameFest Fall 2009 Recap
GT GameFest, a semesterly LAN party and gaming tournament, was held this past weekend in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building. The event was sponsored and operated by the Georgia Tech Association for Computing Machinery (GTACM) and SIGgame in coordination with the Residence Hall Association (RHA) and Student Government Association (SGA). Attendance for this semester’s GameFest ballooned to over 500 attendees, including over 250 tournament participants.
The most popular tournament was Team Fortress 2, with 10 six-person teams participating. Other tournaments included Call of Duty 4 – Modern Warfare, Counter-Strike Source, DotA Allstars and Starcraft: Brood War on PC; Halo 3 on Xbox 360; and Super Smash Brothers Brawl on Wii. Over $1,500 in prizes, funded by tournament fees, were awarded to the tournament winners. Four hundred burritos, 80 pizzas and over 1,500 sodas, energy drinks and bottles of water fueled the event.
SIGgame is a special interest group organized under the GTACM umbrella that is focused on all things related to games and gaming. SIGgame founded GT GameFest and has a successful Starcraft team that competes in organized intercollegiate competitions. SIGgame is also working on a game to be submitted to the 2010 Independent Games Festival (IGF).
