GreenTubeLAN (2006 - 2011)

GreenTubeLAN was formed by a group of university friends who ran their first event in April 2006 as part of the Monash Pensinsula IT Club in Frankston. With popular gaming titles like Counter Strike: Source, Team Fortress 2, Quake 3 Arena and Age of Empires 2 with a sprinkling of fun games like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Multiplayer (SAMP), Theme Hospital and V8 Challenge, GreenTubeLAN events were great fun.

By 2007, the club folded due to a campus move which left them to find a new venue. This time, scout halls became their future home. With a few events at Frankston North Scout Hall including one where a map made by one of the Admins modelled the hall and surrounding oval made for an extremely fun Admins vs. LAN attendees match. From teleporting from the toilet into the middle of an oval - many upon many shouting matches were had.

During 2008, they hosted events at Narre Warren and Hampton Park scout halls where Santa visited to give out prizes, FlatOut 2 was beginning to become a popular game and where on one occasion power faults at Narre Warren resulted in a convoy of vehicles to migrate to another available venue mid-event by 4:00 PM. Not too many LAN parties have probably ever done an entire venue move mid-event!

Through 2009, numbers started to dwindle as the core group moved away. Games like Battlefield 2 were replaced by Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto: SAMP was replaced by FlatOut 2. Steam really started to push forward from being the evil platform that we all understood it to be to our best ally. The problem was that Steam required internet access - and none of our venues had any. We tried on one occassion to use our 500 MB data allowances on our phones to authenticate, but the reality was - you weren't going to have a good time with any Steam games.

With venues becoming increasingly difficult to source and numbers dropping, a new arrangement had to be found. Luckily, another event - DLC LAN in Frankston were having similar issues with numbers so it became apparent to join forces to boost both events by bringing the total attendance up to 60 players. In a true LAN versus LAN capacity, the most exciting Battlefield 2 game errupted... 60 players - 30 versus 30. This wasn't your ordinary event though - tables were Doors mounted on Trestle-Table Legs. The network was fully gigabit and internet was available meaning Steam updates would work! From Friday night to Sunday afternoon, it would be non-stop gaming with the occassional BBQ outside. It was incredible.

But eventually, even those numbers started to move away too. The final resting place for GreenTubeLAN was within it's Patterson Lakes venue where a few events resulted in Room vs. Room FlatOut 2, UT2004, GTA 4 and Armagetron. By then, the team were running free single-day events until the team broke off into different ventures.

One of those core team members - Terajiogga / Orbiiter - now known as Withdr4wn - now forms a core part of the Event Coordinator team.