Million Man LAN

stovey-san writes: "LanWar(EAST: Louisville,KY) and LANtrocity(WEST: L.A., CA) are teaming up to form one of the largest lanparties ever, MillionManLan. Check it out, both sides are to have up to 2,500 participants with linked networks for the ultimate fragfest for a total of 5,000 gamers! Lanwar 12 is starting tomorrow (Sat-Sun) with a sold out 562 gamers, so expectations are high! MML takes off on May 25 for SIX straight days!"

Comments

Great fbi opportunity

[perdida]

this LAN party will be a great opportunity for FBI entrapment stings on warez distributors, hax0rs, movie pirates, and, of course, terrorists.

*SIX DAYS?!*

[mewsenews]

Hmm, let's see:

• bad take-out food
  
• no showers
  
• sleeping on the floor
  
• best company the guy on the machine next to you
  
• staring blankly at a screen for more time than could EVER be considered healthy
  

I propose they should rename these things from "LAN parties" to "Sysadmin Boot Camp".

Re:On a side note...

[Krimsen]

Make sure they understand what CounterStrike is. If they think it is like SuperMario Brothers and they catch you guys playing it, they might consider you guys to be "at risk" for Columbine-type behavior. I'm not trying to be funny, so make sure your school administration understands what kinds of games you guys are going to play.

FYI

[zaphod.nu]

Parties with over 5000 people (and that's 5000 in ONE place, no cheating like this) have been around for quiet a while in scandinavia.

Dreamhack and The Gathering (couldn't find a URL) comes to mind.

We're bigger than you! :)

Re:FYI

[BrookHarty]

hehe, easy to remember the gathering. http://www.gathering.org

But then, The Gathering is much much more than a lan party, most of these parties are Demo partys. And im amazed at how these young video game players dont even know what the demo scene is. People compete with the best demo, not the best frag maniac.

Check out google for more info.
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Multim ed ia/Demos/Parties/

Also, why arnt you listening to scene music, the music of the demo parties!?!?
http://www.scenemusic.net

Lets See...

[long_john_stewart_mi]

I helped organize a LAN for 40 people and even that was hard - I can only imagine how difficult organizing a tournament with 5000 potential entrants would be. Also, what about the smell!? At our two-day LAN party, 5 people stank noticeably by the end of it, one really bad. Some quick math:

5000 * (5/40) = 625 stinky people
5000 * (1/40) = 125 really stinky people

Well, that settles it... I'm not going. =)

Question for the fire marshall

[MulluskO]

I don't know what your preferences are, but when we LAN party, we do it in the dark, as much dark as we can accomplish, save the glow of fifteen monitors.

But with so many people, will it be legal or safe to darken the room?

Alternatively, is it really safe to have 2500 grumpy sleepless nerds in one place?