I dont really know how many people you need to get sponsored, or how much it costs, Im just happy the way my setup is now,... but i'll check on it anyway
NVIDIA provides support primarily with NVIDIA promotional materials such as stickers, posters, case badges, t-shirts, AND IN SOME CASES HARDWARE... taken right from the nvidia website, maybe ill check in with them before the next large Lan I host.
I Use the shops beast of a server tower,
1 gig of ram,
dual amd 2800's
windows server edition 2003
fujitsu SCSI HD's (147g x 4)(10,000rpm yay)
I run the dedicated server off that, I also have 2 massive gig switches which the players plug there comps into via ethernet, and they all connect to the game on the dedicated server, no internet required, and no lagg
BTW gig switch= cat 6 ethernet switch.