GTFF.us Grand Traverse FragFest

Welcome to GTFF, Grand Traverse FragFest! We've decided to make a lot of changes around here. Notably, we are now GTFF. In an effort to disambiguate ourselves from the Traverse City Film Festival, as well as broaden our title, we've tossed out the "Traverse City" and have become Grand Traverse FragFest, or to be more simply referred to as GTFF.

Among many other surprises, we've got a lot of great things coming this 2010 FragFest season. First off, the talented "Nerdcore" rapper, Dual Core has agreed to come all the way up from Ohio and perform live at FragFest 17 (May 21st-23rd).

We're also in the talks with TADL BATL to have them at FragFest and help us host even more tournaments.

Many more details to come. Check back here, or become a fan of us on Facebook, to get the latest details.

I know some of you are stoked about the new Call of Duty coming out soon. Before you spend the green, there's a few things you should know about MW2. First off, there is no support for dedicated servers, which means no clan servers, no control over who's plays in a game, and more importantly next to impossible for us at FragFest to administer a tournament, let alone host quality LAN games. It gets worse, all mod-ability and server customization is removed, and game sizes are limited to 9v9. This all adds up to a bad LAN play. *edit by Treize* Here is a table comparing what was in cod4 and what is missing from mw2 */edit*

It's too bad Infinity Ward had to ruin what would otherwise likely be a great game. We at FragFest highly disapprove, and will not be endorsing this game in any way at future events (which btw, we are planning and will announce dates soon).

What a weekend!!! FragFest 16 may not have had a huge turnout, but we certainly got the most hardcore gamers we've seen in a long time. There were no lulls. For 42 hours straight, gamers played night and day. With the new and improved console area, there was almost always something going on. We also saw a lot of both new and old school gaming (we had almost 20 people playing Unreal Tournament at one point, and even someone playing an Atari), which is always nice to see.

We can't forget all those "G33K B33R FL0475" we had. Those were amazing. FYI, the ice cream was donated to us from Mackinaw Brewing Company. Thanks MBC!!!

It's been quite a season. I hope to see you all next year where we're sure to have even more fun stuff to do at the party.

P.S. Keep your eyes open for a new official FragFest Call of Duty 4 server for all of you to play on while away from the LAN. Coming soon!

FragFest 16 is right around the corner (August 14-16th), and we've got an awesome weekend planned. On top of a great line-up of tournaments, we've got a bunch of other fun activities. Analog games (previously known as FragFest Summer Olympics) will be back again, with new games and some old favorites.

Take a look at our schedule for exact times TBA.

More to come!

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Here is our very retro ASCII-art-styled flyer (here's a text-only version). If you've got an old school dot-matrix printer with ribbon paper, do please use that. If not, that's cool too, but the point is, get them posted everywhere. Print a few out to carry around with you to give to friends. There's lots of kids out there who've never been to FragFest, and it's your job to tell them about us.

Gamers! FragFest 2009 is coming! Time to mark your calendars:

• FragFest 15 (Part 1) - May 22nd-24th, 2009 (Memorial Day Weekend)
• FragFest 16 (Part 2) - August 14th-16th, 2009

Exact tournaments and events are still to be decided. You're welcome to suggest some on the messageboard to help us decide. In the meantime, be sure to tell your friends about us.