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CHOOK GAMERZ
[] Counterstrike LAN

--GoT 09:07, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

South East Queensland Area.

Chook Gamerz is a profit free fun LAN based primarily on Counterstrike albeit also including several other games in a smaller degree.

History.

The LAN is privately run and funded and was first ran on Borneo Barracks Army base in Toowoomba QLD at the End of February 2001. Matt Armstrong aka GodOfThunder started the event after becoming infatuated with the game Counterstrike and invited friends to form teams as well as posting information about the upcoming event in the local town of Toowoomba QLD. GodOfThunder was a soldier at the time and held the event on the barracks to save money on venue rental. Only 5 clans of 3 people a piece attended the first ever chook gamerz and medals were given out as prizes due to limited funding (ie: GodOfThunder provided the only funding). Clan JG (Jenn Gaiden) from Toowoomba won the first ever chook gamerz and have won 8 of the events to date. The next biggest winning clan was clan WoR (warriors of Ra) who have also matched JG by winning 8 events. Other winners have varied but another multiple winner (and most recently) has been clan; “powered by”.

GodOfThunder ran an event a month while he was still working for the Australian Army and upon his discharge from the army after chook gamerz 7 GodOfThunder handed the event over to local Counterstrike player PePe (Jason Barret) who still runs the event to this day. Chook gamerz went from being a small LAN on the army base to quite a popular LAN attracting over 50 people per event. It is still run as a profit free and FUN Counterstrike round robin event with some other games included with trophies and other tid bits as prizes.

The Title explained.

The reason for Chook Gamerz title is not known by many and very rarely talked about. Most people probably assume that the lan was started near a chook (chicken) farm or by someone called Chook. However it was named by the creator (GodOfThunder) who was then a Communications Specialist in the Army. That particular trade is traditionally nick named “Chook” in the Australian army, a metaphor for the amount of clucking (or talking) that Communication Specialists do on their military radios. GodOfThunder named the tournament so due to the fact that he assumed the majority of the original players would be “chooks” by trade. Little did he know that the event would end up being made up of local Uni Students and high school students.

Region

Chook Gamerz did not take very long to become popular, attracting players from as far as Victoria and quite regularly from Brisbane, Ipswich, Redcliffe and other parts of South East Queensland.

Recent News.

The last lan to date ran in late 2005 however the website and forums are still very active with over 500 members and there is hope that chook gamerz may run again in the near future. The sudden stalling of the event may be due to the amount of people taking up World of Warcraft which killed a lot of other games entirely. However this has not been officially stated or proven by chook gamerz staff.

Names of Note.

Chook Gamerz would never have been possible except for the initial assistance that GodOfThunder received from players such as Vapour Trail, Slutski, SlurryDog, Gonzo, VVolf, Ulrik, Asasin, Jarnitupya, Pikachu and last but definetly not least Pepe.

Panadol (sometimes affiliated with Overclockers Australia) was the man behind designing recent chook gamerz websites however VVolf was the first to design the first real website to replace the amateur attempt at creating one by GodOfThunder.

Rivalry. At some stage during the early months of Chook Gamerz there was a falling out between once friends GodOfThunder and Ulrik which led to some spamming wars on certain websites including the WoR website and the Chook Gamerz site. At one stage someone (it was spectulated to be GodOfThunder but never proven) managed to hack into the private forums of WoR and take some screen shots of WoR members abusing GG (Goblin Gamerz) and EM (Electric Mayhem) members. This rivalry went on for some time and was never properly resolved however ended abruptly when GodOfThunder moved to Victoria to start up a business called GamingKnights (a LAN café and Magic: The Gathering premier Store) after the end of Chook Gamerz 7.

There was also a once off event when a WoR member seeking the much coveted “Most Kills” trophy ordered his entire clan to wait at the spawn of Italy Round after Round while he went off and single headedly destroyed a less skilled clan to gain just enough points to steal the prize off Azador who was then playing for his own clan called BoS. Azador later joined JG. Azador won the coveted “most dangerous player” award twice, once under his own clan and once under the JG tag. The most feared and skilled players throughout the competition who proved this on a most regular basis were Vapour Trail, Azador, Morax, Ulrik and Slutski.

Prizes.

Prizes for Chook gamerz ranged from Trophies and Medallions to funny prizes such as the “Biggest pansy Award” which was usually voted by each player at the event in a secret ballot and awarded to someone that the majority of the players wanted to poke fun at. The first ever winner was JG’s topdeck who was an unsuspecting victim and other winners included Sardaukar (an inter-state traveller and Victorian leader of GG), Vapour Trail, Morax and VVolf.

Other award were 2nd Most dangerous player, the biggest Corpse award (obviously for whomever the stats recorded as dying the most), the best modified computer award and the most durries (cigarettes) smoked award. There was also the best All Round CS player award (once again determined by the psycho stats) and the best sportsmanship award. Most of these awards had various funny prizes and trophies. Not all awards were continued throughout all chook gamerz events however. There were also usually lots of SPOT prizes being given out and Pepe continued the majority of these awards all the way through until current date.

Other games.

Other games that have been included in the competitions of Chook Gamerz have been Starcraft Broodwars, Worms and BattleField 1942. Leeching and sharing of Files as per usual at other LANs was BANNED at chook gamerz and the admins enforced this throughout the tournament stating that this was only allowed afterwards at which time most people were tired after 12 hours of counterstrike action and would retire to their homes.

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