The M.Z.U.K.C @ MEGAZONE-UK.COM -- ( News update ) -- 15-02-2006
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Its been an interesting couple of weeks since the last news update, Acocks Green announce a big event, A Zone Climber Moment at Derby Megazone, Leicester change there pack names, and Wellingborough Laser Maze players travelled up to Leicester, for Leicester Megazone's members night.

Acocks Green Megazone located within Birmingham, will be holding an special event on Saturday 11th March 2006, from 7:00pm in the evening till 1:00am on the following morning. The news of this even has only just landed here at M.Z.U.K.C, but from what has been patched together, there will be 6 hours of different kinds of zone laser tag games, with maybe a solo tournament with trophies, all for £15 pounds. Naturally a limit on the least amount of people will effect whether the event will go a head, but hopefully that won't be the case. More information will be updated on this page soon, if you would like to make contact with Acocks Green Megazone for more details, please phone 01217 644764

** UPDATE 16-02-06: No Trophies, No Tournament, Just a fun Night with a wide range of System 4/Z games. **

** UPDATE 01-03-06: Time will now be from 9:00PM till 1:00AM. **

Zone Member Climbs to a Whole New Level! On an early day of last week, M.Z.U.K.C received an email from a Derby Megazone marshal, an angry marshal at that. It seems going from his Email, that on the previous members evening on Sunday 5th 2006 at Derby Megazone in the final thirty minutes of the evening, one of the members climbed on top of the yellow base, and fell through to the pack room below. Naturally its not often someone falls through the roof of a structure while playing Megazone, so I could not help laughing about this one, and down to how it has been described in the email it quite funny, but you would need to read it so here it is. Artwork Team made a quick artistic impression, lol. >>>>>>>

EMAIL QUOTE= "Last Sunday I was running Derby's Zone Heads. The evening was going very well and all 10ish regular members had played a good selection of games… team, solo, base scenario etc… Come 9.30pm (Half an hour before we were to finish) we decided on a new game of some description and all members were sent into the arena. Myself (The only Megazone Marshal on Duty) went back into the office to sort out a problem. *CRASH BANG* I didn't make anything of the noise to start with, assuming some dipstick had banged into a wall. However Jebus ran into the office, as if he had seen a ghost, and said I better come and see what's happened. Some stupid f**king member had decided it would be a good idea to climb onto the top of Yellow base and in doing so had crashed through the roof into the pack room. We have challenged all of our regular members and none of them will own up to it. Who ever did it has very lucky that they didn't break their neck and get electrocuted! " END QUOTE

As you can see its not super funny, amusing until you think of the risk to the person involved, and naturally the property damage and long term consequences. Its true to say that usually nothing like this ever happens, specially at Derby Megazone, so in future can all zone laser tag players resist the spider man urge, since last thing we need is zone members being labelled as demolitionists.

Leicester Megazone goes Loony Tunes with a Toy Story:
Last year Leicester Megazone decided they would name there red packs after Star Wars characters. Not bad choice, if you forget about the fact that Jedi's & Sith Lord's only believe in there trusty light sabre. So this year someone had the smart idea of changing red pack names to Loony Tunes characters, with the spelling of Loony Toons for the team name, and the blue team from Batman characters to Toy Story characters. Great work, its interesting how childish characters can be used to change the perspective of a mature laser tag game, interesting zone image.

Wellingborough Travels in Force:
Last Sunday, a large Laser Maze force travelled from Wellingborough to attend Leicester's Megazone members evening. There were around sixteen players who travelled from Wellingborough, taking the full turn out up to twenty-eight players. It seems like the visitors coped well with the change of environment and the increased competitiveness at Leicester, along with the some of the custom games played. Thankfully no blood was spilt, no walls were damaged, and every one seemed to be in good spirits by the end, thanks to the Megazone supervisor Mark.

Thats the news i could tell you about, so until next month, keep zone tagging!

The M.Z.U.K.C Administrator