The M.Z.U.K.C @ MEGAZONE-UK.COM-- ( News update ) -- 17-05-2006
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Another month and another update… The last news update was added so close to the beginning of the following month, it was decided to miss one of the following updates until this month.

So what do we have to report on. Well the UK Regional is heating up very nicely with eight teams down on the list. The new M.Z.U.K.C Zone Players Database is filling up daily with players from around the world. Another all-nighter was held at Megazone Leicester last month, & the Australian 2006 nationals at Campbell Town is also building up, so its an interesting time in the zone community worldwide.

UK Regional 2006:
This time last year when Paul Ch@os mentioned his idea to hold a UK tournament of some kind in the future, a lot of people thought that it sounded like a good idea, but some were not confident of its being held. It's now been a whole year, and its really looking good for the UK zone laser tag scene. Teams are signed up to attend the 2006 UK Regional from all over the midlands, though sadly it's looking increasingly likely that the Derby Megazone team will be missing the 2006 UK Regional, down to a dispute with the site management over the falling member incident a few months earlier. Some good news, its been said by the organiser that Acocks Green has also signed up, and will also be sending a team to compete in both the Wellingborough & Leicester legs of the competition. Looking at the team manifest, the Acocks Green team seem to have some interesting players signed up, so it's going to be even more interesting when they compete against the Leicester Infernos.

These teams are signed up for the UK Regional 2006 quoted from the organiser:

The M.Z.U.K.C - Zone Players Database:
It's been around two months since the M.Z.U.K.C - Zone Players Database was officially launched on WWW.MEGAZONE-UK.COM and thankfully its going very well. There have been 45 members who have registered there own zone player profile so far, with most being over the last month. A collection of both seasoned and new zone players have joined the zone player database so far from all over the world, and hopefully the number will continue to grow far in to the future. Shade, the American Zone player icon, currently has the most interesting zone profile so far, though ZoneShark has written an interesting profile also.

Another Leicester Megazone All-nighter 28th April 2006:
That's right another 9 hour event was held at Leicester Megazone, with some interesting tournament games, and a good turn out of people attending. The evening kicked off at 10:00pm on Friday 28th April, with a turn out of about thirty people, with both seasoned and new zone players ready to enter the zone. Ch@os, the organiser of the evening, started the night by welcoming every one who had attended, before running through the typical zone rules he hoped people would try to follow. After running through the rules, all the experienced zone players were split from the public players into two groups, to keep the playing level fair for the newer players. The Dead Man was the Megazone Leicester supervisor working the night, along with being the team tournament organiser, and Firestarter was the solo tournament organiser for the night. Every one seemed to play a good number of games each, and no one thankfully seemed to get injured as the night went on.

The team tournament was four team setup, which went well through out the night, and was won by Diablos & The Dead man's Team.

The solo tournament was part standard solo part elimination, to some player's annoyance. There were two standard solo games making up Round 1 at the beginning, with the top 6 players progressing through out of 9 or 10 players in both rounds. Followed by Round 2, a solo elimination with the players who progressed from the first rounds, in which 6 players progressed out of 9. Round 3 was another solo elimination, in which another 6 players out of 10 progressed to the next round. Round 4 was a number of rounds held in the reception area, in a kind of back to back cowboy shoot out, which when thankfully finished, 5 players were ready for the final. The final was a 5 man, 7 minute solo standard, with 6 second deactivation & 2 shots per second, held at the bottom of the Leicester second arena next to the reception window. The five competitors were Anima, Diablos, Nightfire, R@IDER & The Dead Man

The Final Round - Top Gun Solo Tournament results were:

The Top Three Trophy Winners.

Overall the night was not too bad, and just like any all-nighter there were highs & lows, but thanks to all the organisers & staff working the evening, it was very much a successful event.

Australian Zone Nationals 2006:
Hopefully we will have some news on the Australian Zone Nationals 2006 at Campbell Town later this week, or on the next month's news update.

Until next month, keep zone tagging.

The M.Z.U.K.C Administrator