{"id":1963,"date":"2019-11-03T19:56:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T19:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/luges\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2019-11-03T22:55:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T22:55:47","slug":"newsletter-week-5-19-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/luges\/newsletter-week-5-19-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Week 5, 19-20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Howdy everyone, welcome to the newsletter for Week 5. We\u2019re half-way through the first term so keep up the good work, I guess. Also, major shout-out to everyone that came to the LAN yesterday where we had our first general meeting of the year. It was a pretty big success and wouldn\u2019t have been the same without you guys so cheers. And it wasn\u2019t even as cursed as I originally thought it was going to be so there\u2019s that too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now for the weekly line-up. We\u2019ve got:<br><strong>County Social <\/strong>\u2013Tuesday, 8 pm \u2013 11 pm, County Bar. We\u2019ve not got a theme for this week cause we\u2019re trying something new. Still, come along anyway cause we\u2019re still going to have games.<br><strong>Smash Weeklies <\/strong>\u2013 Wednesday, 6 pm \u2013 10 pm, BNSR 12. My favourite Smash Bros. character is Grimace from the McDonalds ads. Who\u2019s yours?<br><strong>Wetherspoons Social<\/strong> \u2013 Thursday, 7 pm \u2013 10 pm, Wetherspoons. So, it\u2019s finally here, the Wetherspoons Social. I\u2019m not going to lie, this is extremely experimental, so we\u2019ll see how this goes but it\u2019ll be fun so come along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bailrigg is happening this weekend too so here\u2019s that super-secret code you can enter in to get \u00a38 off the entry fee, [REDACTED]. You can register here but be quick cause registration ends closes on the 6<sup>th<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/smash.gg\/tournament\/bailrigg-9\">https:\/\/smash.gg\/tournament\/bailrigg-9<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will be hosting\na League Worlds viewing on next Sunday (the 10<sup>th<\/sup>) details to be\nconfirmed check our discord for more information <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/luges\">https:\/\/discord.gg\/luges<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now for some Esports results:<br><strong>Rocket League<\/strong><br>Tuesday NSE Week 1 League Play<br><strong>A Team<\/strong> 3 &#8211; 2 Reading A<br><strong>A Team<\/strong> 3 &#8211; 2 Salford A<br><strong>A Team<\/strong> 3 &#8211; 2 Loughborough A<br><strong>C Team<\/strong> W &#8211; L Forfeit<br>C Team 0 &#8211; 3 <strong>Sheffield Hallam A<\/strong><br>C Team 0 &#8211; 3 <strong>Lincoln B<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rainbow Six Siege<br>Lancaster Bombers 7 <\/strong>&#8211; 0 Maximum Goose<strong><br>Lancaster Bombers 7 <\/strong>&#8211; 3 Maximum Goose<br> <br><strong>Overwatch<\/strong><br><strong>Lancaster Bombers<\/strong> 2:0 NaCl<br><strong>Lancaster Bombers<\/strong> 0:2 Edinburgh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fact of the Week: During the early stages of development, Batman: Arkham Asylum was prototyped as a rhythmic action game. The second prototype focused on 2D fighting, which would pop up whenever enemies were engaged and involved coloured circles bashing into each other. Both failed attempts fuelled the basis of the final combat system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aight, bye kids,<br>Mo \u2013 LUGES General Secretary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy everyone, welcome to the newsletter for Week 5. We\u2019re half-way through the first term so keep up the good work, I guess. Also, major shout-out to everyone that came to the LAN yesterday where we had our first general meeting of the year. It was a pretty big success and wouldn\u2019t have been the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/luges\/newsletter-week-5-19-20\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Newsletter Week 5, 19-20<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"default","neve_meta_container":"default","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"off","neve_meta_disable_footer":"off","neve_meta_disable_title":"off","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/luges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/luges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/luges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/luges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/luges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/luges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/luges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/luges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/luges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}