The VESL News Feed

The VeSL presents the Hak5 LAN Party!

Admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:59:13 +0000

A big shout out to our friends over at Hak5! We will be working together to run community events through Season 7. Check out their plug for the events in their latest episode on Revision3, the plug starts at 3:44 in episode 701.

Be sure to join our Steam Community to keep updated on upcoming events. Thanks again to Velocity-Servers for hooking us up with the game servers for these events.

A Change of Course

Admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:24:44 +0000

Hello Everyone,

It’s been a long time since our last update, and we have to start out with some unfortunate news. The new website that has been in development for many months is no longer in progress. The firm hired kept running into issue after issue, as the system we were trying to build was just too complicated for the back-end system it was being based off of. The system is still in an un-useable state ...

Left 4 Dead 2 Demo Server

Admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:35:56 +0000

Our good friends over at Velocity-Servers have come though again, this time with a Left 4 Dead 2 Demo server!

The demo is about to hit Steam, and we will be ready to rock the moment it's available. The IP of the server is:

208.122.48.16:27015

Charity Auctions & More Cool Game Gear

[VESL] Überman — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:56:46 +0000

Frag For Cancer is a Canadian-based charity that hosts a series of events to raise money for a real-world 'bad-guy', that being cancer. The organization came to be after a gamer lost his father to cancer and vowed to raise awareness, funds and philanthropy in his community.

This year to raise money to combat this deadly disease, the charitable organization has an auction going on right now for The Beatles: Rock Band Limited Edition (for the console of your choice) and an Autographed T-Shirt signed by designers, artists, testers and other members of Harmonix, the makers of The Beatles: Rock Band, as well as a swag pack of stickers and pins to go with it.

Toshiba Tournament & Status Update

Admin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:21:22 +0000

Hi Everyone,

We know the new site is taking a long time to get finished. In fact, our developers called us saying they were having too many issues with the match system, so they decided to scrap it and start from scratch. Hopefully we will have something soon, but don’t hold your breath.

Since things are taking so long, we have something that should help tide you over. We have been working with Toshiba for their online tournament, which is now open for registration. Head on over to their tournament page and check it out. We encourage any school teams to participate and win some cool prizes!

Status Update & Screenshot!

Admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:58:00 +0000

Hi Everyone,

As promised months ago, a new site IS on the way! Unfortunately, our developers have run into a number of snags along the way, and the time frame for the development has been pushed back again and again.

After weeks of issues, I decided to tell them to focus on getting the social network aspect working first, so we can get it working great, and then complete the challenge system once it's running (as that was the source of most of the problems). So, they have been burning the midnight oil for days on end recently pushing to have this ready. I have finally got a screenshot to show you. ...

College gaming gets its own Starcraft League

Admin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:46:12 +0000

Our friends over at the Collegiate Starleague have really hit the ground running, and we thought we should let you know what's going on. They had their inaugural match of Princeton vs MIT, which was covered in The Daily Princeton, and they have been growing since.

New Site On The Way!

Admin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:42:33 +0000

Hi Everyone,

It's been quite a while since our last update, so we figured it was time to fill you in on what is going on. As some of you may have already heard, development on an all new VESL site has officially begun. This site will finally have the full league support we have been looking for since the beginning. ...

Don't Panic! (Fixed)

Admin — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:08:55 +0000

Hi Everyone,

As some of you may have noticed, parts of our site are "missing" or giving an error message.

It appears that GameTracker (which we use to share our game server information) is down. back up!

All of our servers are still online, and you can grab the IPs and jump in a game from our Steam group profile.

New Layout, Status Update

[VESL] Überman — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:00:50 +0000

As some of you may have noticed, the site's layout got a re-haul recently. It is now wider, and easier to navigate. We're also going to be continually improving the look and feel of the site over time, as everyhing is a work-in-progress.