It's been 5 years since I lived in Tulsa, but it's where I first discovered the awesome fun of LAN parties. I now live in Springfield, Missouri and am still having a hard time finding LAN parties here.
I created the Springfield Gamers Forum in part to help bring enough Springfield area gamers together to start local LAN events. Interest in the SGF has not been as extensive as I'd hoped, but I'm a stubborn man and there's still one site hosting free forums without advertisements, even in 2009.
After learning that guests and users of forums hosted by freeforums.org were being subjected to annoying and even sleazy ads (forum administrators don't see ads and freeforums.org didn't always tack ads onto hosted forums), I promptly moved the forum to
http://spfd.phpbb3now.comThe new forum does not have any ads.
I know it seems odd to promote a forum for Missouri games on a forum for Oklahoma gamers, but I figured maybe some people (like me) move from Oklahoma to Missouri and keep contact with old friends.