FLan 2016 IndieGoGo Fundraiser!

Hi folks,

After working on this idea over numerous sleepless nights I'm happy (and very proud!) to announce the next step for FLAN, Ferocitygaming.com


What is FerocityGaming and what happened to Florida LAN?

For the past three years I've been running the Florida Lan events a net loss even with using a percentage of entry fees. With this in mind I wanted to rebrand FLAN into something that could not just bring in income to fund the events but something that could benefit the community as well.


What are some of the things we offer?

Currently we only have mousepads to sell but in the coming weeks we will be adding in t-shirts with the Flanny logo, as well as Keyboards/Mice and Videocards. All these sales will go toward helping fund future events. We will also have content writers posting up weekly/bi-weekly articles regarding various games and competitive formats. At launch we have Whymeo and Voxdei, known for their writeups on Killer Exclusive, posting their weekly Highlander write-ups and youtuber Miss Moth will be posting up the occasional Overwatch article.

We are currently looking for Community Writers to add in more content for ESEA 6s and Overwatch, Eventually we will branch out to CS:GO. Community Writers will essentially be articles written by various members of the community regarding a wide-range of topics such as balance changes in patches, META, or even the current state of the game. If you would like to contribute an article please feel free to email me at miggy@ferocitygaming.com, once reviewed we can get it posted in the News page.

We will also soon be featuring a page of community streams we feel that bring quality content but don't necessarily get the amount of views they deserve. Think of it as giving the underdog the spotlight; More will be posted on this when the time comes. Lastly, we also set up a DM, MGE, and Map Rotation servers that are set up with a sourcebans page, IP logging, and anti-cheat plugins (as always, AC plugins aren't foolproof). This will allow us to help deter cheating and frequent alters from coming into the servers which is a common issue in other DM/MGE servers. Our ban page will be public as well so the community can see who got banned and why.


But what about FLAN?

Florida Lan is no more, going forward FLAN will be an abbreviation of Ferocity Lan. FLAN 2017 is still in the initial planning stages, updates will be posted on the site as they come. Once FLAN is formally announced we will be selling the tickets on site as well. Without making promises, currently we are looking at having the 2017 event be in either Chicago, Indianapolis, or even Philadelphia. Between FLANs we do wish to help out other community events, such as online tournaments, so you'll definitely be seeing more of us.

Being a member of this community for the past three years has been great and it really feels that a lot of my community contributions have led to this. Thank you all for the kindness, loyalty, and support. I'm really excited to see where we can take Ferocity Gaming from here.

Thanks again,

-Miggy
Ferocity Gaming CEO
miggy@ferocitygaming.com
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