Our goal is to have fun, provide a safe environment, and include new people. To this end, please agree to and comply with the following rules of conduct.

General

Gridlocked Gaming is not responsible for anything that might happen to you or your equipment. While we will take reasonable precautions to make sure this is a safe event, you are ultimately responsible for everything that happens here. Everyone must sign a rules form to legally acknowledge this.

Gridlocked Gaming has the final say about everything that happens at this event. These rules are subject to change at any time.

Age

Participants over the age of 18 will be accepted on a case-by-case basis, space permitting. This event is intended for high school students and college students.

Participants under the age of 18 must have their parent or legal guardian's permission to attend the event. Your parent or guardian must sign the rules document as well.

Children under the age of 13 must have a parent or legal guardian present.

Facilities

Our ability to meet in this facility is a privilege. Please be respectful of the facilities, the furniture, and other people who meet on this campus.

Plug in only where you are told. Doing otherwise may lead to power outages. Do not plug into another participant's power strip. If you are not sure where to plug in, ask a staff member. You are allowed to plug your computer and monitor into our power grid, no other devices or peripherals are allowed.

Keep your station clean. You are responsible for keeping your area as clean as you found it.

Food and drink is allowed only in designated areas.

Equipment

Your computer and equipment must belong to you or your immediate family.

You are responsible for having all appropriate hardware and software. You are expected to bring a working computer with a network card and legal copies of all relevant game software already installed and updated. Please do not bring a broken computer and ask us to fix it; please do not forget to bring something and expect us to provide it; please do not ask us to wait 30 minutes while you install the game and all the patches; and do not use pirated software at this event. Be sure the games you intend to play actually run well on your computer before your arrival. You must take appropriate measures to ensure your computer is free of viruses, adware, spyware, and other malicious software before arriving at the event.

Headphones only, please. No speakers allowed. This many speakers in one place would create an incredible noise and drain excessive power. Please make sure the cord on your headphones is long enough to reach before coming to the event.

A surge suppressing power strip is required to protect your equipment from surges. Uninterruptible Power Supplies are not allowed because these drain excessive power from our power grid and will cause an outage (including UPSes built into power strips).

Keep your computer clean and legal. No inappropriate material, no exchanging of copyrighted material, and no file sharing during the event. No pornography or any other offensive images are allowed on anyone's screen, including screensavers and background images. Do not exchange MP3s or any other copyrighted files. Do not have file sharing enabled and do not run any peer-to-peer file sharing programs during the event.

Behavior

Smoking, alcohol, weapons, drugs, and other illegal substances are not allowed.

Ask for permission before touching other people's stuff. Do not steal.

Be careful of your surroundings. No horseplay, no roughhousing, no running around, no throwing things, and no malicious behavior. Remember, this room is filled with thousands of dollars of fragile equipment and you can damage something very easily. Therefore, no wrestling matches, no affectionate tussles, no tossing disks or other objects around. Practical jokes are not funny when expensive equipment is involved. This includes but is not limited to: deliberately turning off equipment, disconnecting cabling, deliberate virus infestation or otherwise interfering with equipment that does not belong to you, etc. Obviously, violence of any kind will lead to instant ejection.

Play fair. Cheating ruins the fun for everyone. This includes bots, hacks, mods, cracks, strategies that exploit defects in the game, or anything else this is not strictly aboveboard.

Watch your language and trash talk. Good-natured ribbing is fine, but the moment someone gets upset you stop immediately. Remember, it is just a game, keep it clean.

Disclaimer

While every effort is made to ensure a safe environment for you and your system, the hosts of this event (Morrison Institute of Technology, staff, and volunteers) accept no liability for damage or loss occurred while participating in the event, this includes but is not limited to damage to your property (computer, car etc), virus infection, theft and personal injury. The act of transporting sensitive electronic devices (such as computers and monitors) is hazardous to the proper operation of such devices and may cause physical damage to their sensitive electronic components. Connecting your electronic equipment to the network and power grid may subject the equipment to viruses, power surges, brownouts, blackouts, and other hazardous conditions. Attendance is at the participant's own risk, and it is the participant's responsibility to ensure that they have adequate anti-virus protection, firewall, surge protected power strips, etc. You may be ejected from the event for breaking any of these rules or at the discretion of the LAN Party hosts. You are not entitled to a refund if you are ejected for any reason.