After cancelling their summer tournament due to reasons including ATI having an issue with a product which caused them to cease sponsoring LANs altogether, EverLAN has re-emerged again onto the scene, but this time embracing different games. After officially announcing that ATi had once again signed on as a sponsor earlier this month, EverLAN has announced today the games and dates of the Winter event.

Taking place from January 20th to the 22nd of 2006, EverLAN's Winter event will consist of a Counter-Strike: Source tournament, a Quake4 tournament, as well as various BYOC events. The venue is the Denver Merchandise Mart located in Denver, Colorado, conveniently located approximately 5 miles from Denver International Airport.

GotFrag spoke with Baker of EverLAN and he revealed that the prize pool will exceed their previously planned prize pool for the canceled Summer event, which was set to be $18,000. Not giving specific numbers, Baker promised the prize pool for the Source tournament would exceed $20,000 by a few thousand. No word on the Quake4 tournament has been heard. He and the rest of the EverLAN staff look determined to put on an excellent event for the entire community.

Here is the press release from Everlan.net

The EverLAN Winter Championships will be taking place at the Denver Merchandise Mart on January 20-22, 2006. ATi, among other sponsors will be there in a big way, and a big list of those who sign on will be released in the coming days/weeks before the event.

For those wondering, the National Invitiational Tournament (NIT) will be Counter Strike: Source. More information on the NIT tournament will be released as soon as we can release it, but the information that has already been released to various members of the community, shows that this tournament will be great.

Anyway, on behalf of EverLAN, we wish to thank the members of the community for their patience with us, and we hope to repay it with an amazing event.

See ya in January!