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North America's Largest LAN Party
An anonymous reader sends this early announcement (registration will open later in the month) for Fragapalooza, writing "North America's largest LAN party is coming again this year. Scheduled for July 17th - 20th, 4 Days of non-stop gaming. If the numbers are the same as last year we should see roughly 1100 people packing the Mayfield Trade Center in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Sponsors for past events included some of the biggest names in technology including Intel, Microsoft, ATI, Sympatico and Cisco just to name a few."
If they haven't patched their machines it may also be the Largest DDoS Party in North America..
Trolling is a art,
Should it not be called a WAN party, when the number of players exceeds the limit imposed on one LAN by Ethernet technology?
E.
Does anyone have any idea how many women go to events like this? What's the ratio?
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could be a world record for the largest non-female grouping of people ever! And "Laura Croft" doesnt count.
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The internet isn't a LAN. It's a WAN (Wide Area Network).
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qcon had more people than this in the byoc section, let alone the invites =\
Note: this is not intended to be aimed at those geeks who do actually know what soap, water and deoderant are. The problem is, even 10% of unclean, sweaty bodies would be enough to make things unpleasant.
It also depends on if you are stupid enough to forget the definition of Local Area Network, moron!
yeah, I know.
It was a joke. Come on.
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"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
Biggest North American Lan Party? What about Million Man Lan and Lanwar?
It "depends on your point of view".
GET IT?
If I'm a moron you're a dumbass, in addition to being a coward.
Ah my family's homeland. What better place is there to frag but in a country where you don't worry about getting shot. We can only hope that it's going to have lots of caffeine and the bathrooms are plentiful.
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Here in Sweden we have DreamHack, which is about six times larger than what's mentioned in the article. It also happens to be the largest party of this kind in the world :-).
WAN = Wide Area Network
Any questions?
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But you're undeniably a coward.
The LAN Party is held in Alberta. If they would have gotten a trade center or an exhibition place in Toronto, they might have gotten some more visitors than their estimated amount of visitors previously held.
Well, just a thought.
I've only been to demoparties, but I'd say one or two females per hundred males is typical.
Been a while, might be better nowadays. Women usually get in for free too.
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The French's biggest lan party is called "lan-arena",
the last one (7th) had 1500 players and 8000 visitors..
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Alexis 'jeriqo' BRET
Here in Uppsala (pop 150'000), Sweden, we are getting ready for a LAN in May, with usualy around 1000 geeks (a "smaller/local"-LAN) ,). There is a lot of these (for example Remedy in stockholm, etc). Also twice each year we have swedens biggest LAN-event, Dreamhack (Dreamhack summer and Dreamhack winter), wich has around 5000 visitors! ,) (And, of course, a gigabit internet connection for warez ;) - sponsored by stateowned "Arrowhead") ;).
;)
Anyways.. A 1100 people LAN is not so big for a verry small country like sweden, still that size is the largest in USA - I wonder why it is like that? Probably there could be super-mega-LANs (WAN-partys, heh) with tens of thousands visitors ??
You can bet that most of these people will be there...
1100 people making it the biggest in North America? That's pretty lame. Although not strictly a pure LAN party, the biggest in Norway (with 4,5 million inhabitants) is The Gathering, and this year the first 4300 tickets that were laid out for sale was sold out after eight hours.
lol only 1100 people?
the normal parties on spain have like 4000 person
Uh, taken.
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Yeah, you hide in a dark room playing video games with other sweaty geeks because you don't have the guts to interact with girls, and you call me a coward?
Haha!
Buddy, I'm already married with kids. And I certainly knew the difference between a LAN and a WAN before you ever heard of a nic.
Take it easy, there. If you keep getting worked-up over little things like this, you're gonna pop a vein one of these days.
Go drink a beer or something. It's Saturday.
Oh, for the end of all things ending in palooza!
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this thread lacks Score: 3 goatse.
go to it.
And as for grrl gamers showing up, yes there will be plenty I assure you. Some hot ones too. Only maybe 1 out of 50 of participants will be female based on the big lans I've been to, but they do show up (usually as a gf, or MOM even, but there are some female clans out there.)
I would expect such blatant racism on Fark, but on Slashdot? Mods please ban this asshole.
I love LAN parties. The smell... is the only drawback. :P
My wife and I actually Honeymooned at the third Monster Mash LAN party. Seriously... we got married and went there! She was prego at the time and we couldn't fly, so there was nothing else going on. But seriously... it was cool of her to go there.
No, my wife isn't a gamer. Just a really cool chick.
warning:
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"...one or two females per hundred males is typical."
ORGY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
is throwing a temper tantrum right about now.
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That's nothing compared to this LAN Party!
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Geekmli: It's true you don't see many geek women. And in fact, they are so alike in voice and appearance, they are often mistaken for dwarf men.
Damn, that should be 'geek men', but you get the joke anyways.
Damn fancy GUI tools and your lack of a decent string replacer.
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If that joke is funny, shoot me in the face. Because it's not. (so don't) It's pretending to be stupid, but it's not over the boundary of realism, and a quite believable actual statement.
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It's nice, in a time like this (ie War(s) pending) that there are still those good 'ole LAN partys being held. Since I can't go I hope everyone has a blast!
:)
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Can anyone tell me what is so positive in how big the party is? Last time I was on a LAN party we were about 20 persons, and most of us knew each other. And it was real fun. But I doubt that it would have been that much fun if we hadn't know each other. Big parties are often dull because you just sit there by your computer, something you could do at home too.
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Quakecon has surpassed that amount in the last 2 years. in August 2002, the LAN, not the actual amount of spectators/tourney particpants was totalled at 1300 ports. (people were getting turned away.) Actual amount of people attending the event was some where in the excesses of 3500 people.
largest LAN in North America... pish.. riiiight.
LOL great one
At TheParty we usually pack around 4000 people, that's in Denmark, come on, you can do better than this, shu.
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I know of several people that would have gone to almost ANYWHERE in the US to go to a lan party like this one... At least 3 of them have teh additional problem of not wanting to leave the US {They are here LEGALLY; but since 9/11/01, it is extremely difficult to get the "advanced parole" required to be able to leave and come back legally, and some are afraid of being denied re-entry. [several rumors of people with green-cards that have been denied re-entry]}
Edmonton cocks? cops? Whatever. Theo loves sucking their cocks. Theo is an OpenCocksucker.
And I God forbid: I forget to mention that I know the difference between a LAN and a WAN in order to appease the self-righteous indignation of all the know-it-alls.
But do you have to beat me into the ground?
Sheesh!
(...And then my post gets moderated as a troll!)
Wow. I just gotta laugh.
Good thing the hackers (in the original sense of the word) aren't doing anything frivolous or silly with their time. That would make the whole community look stupid.
If the numbers are the same as last year we should see roughly 1100 people packing the Mayfield Trade Center in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
:-P
IIRC the LAN party in Jönkoping, Sweden, a quite small country with <9 million residents, had ~3 500 people - sharing a 1 Gbps pipe.
Is 1100 people the best "North America" (even that it seems to be Canada) can do?
Well over here in Belgium we have LAN parties with around 1500 people.. It just reakky r0x. And that post by someone you said that large LANs are dull cause you don't know anyone.. Well that's just not true.. I'm pretty 'anti social' .. but I met heaps of people on that one large LAN.. these large LANs just bring the people together.. everyone is ALIKE.. it was one of the best times I've had.. :D
Haha!
Thanks. Believe me: I will make sure to do that!
1100 people, 1100 legal copies of fragging games? I hope the organisers at least include a "I certify that all my software is legal" clause to give them some indemnity. The BSA (or Canadian equivalent) would be itching to raid the place - imagine the propaganda value: "BSA breaks up giant software piracy ring". (If not the BSA, then the games manufacturers - send mole to fragfest, look for evidence of pirate copies of their software, get warrant to raid fragfest, profit!!)
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I am the person who submitted this news, and im sorry, I guess we can all agree its Canada's largest LAN party. About the people who are mentioning QuakeCon, from what I read the BYOC area was very small last event, only about 30 people.
that distinction will still remain with Slashdot for the foreseeable future.
Tierce
I've been to all but one of the FP events since it's inception in 1997, I even won the tournament that year back when everyone played nothing but quake. I've got to warn people though that with size comes a distinct lack of quality... last years FP was a complete disaster, the words anarchy and chaos come to mind.
I definately won't be going back and if you're more interterested in a good time than simply being around lots of computers, I suggest you go to a LAN that hasn't completely outgrown itself.
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Fragapalooza.com says that on the front page. Not "North America".
1,1000 attendees? That's nothing compared to 13,500 in the USA last year. And it lasted 3 weeks!
For years my wife was the only girl playing, her sticking mostly with the RTS genre; LAN parties of anywhere from 5 to 15 friends in a basement. Occasionally we've had an additional girl join us, but pretty much it's just been my wench. We've added one more steady female player in the last year or so since my bro-in-laws girl is an UT and other FPS player. Jonah Hex
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Nice thing about the lan parties lately, lots of prizes, both cash and computer hardware/software.
Here in Washington, we had GDFest and the IVGF in Seattle. GDFest claimed to be the biggest lan party on the west coast. Was cool, sponsered by ATI. ATI picked one guy, who snap a Leadtek 4600 in half, to win a ATI 9700. Snapped the thing in 2 pieces. NCGamers really ran a top class lanparty.
IVGF Just started this weekend, didnt hear about it till Thursday and all the slots where filled. Strange it wasnt on LanParty.com In fact, i dont think GDFest2003 was on it either. Really would of liked to have a chance to enter. $50,000 in prizes. Didnt realize it was the same people as GDFest.
That aint many for a country of canadas size, one of new zealands biggest LANs (http://www.equinox.net.nz) attracts over 600 people (60 of them female), and NZ has a population of 3.9million.... :)
n ox.avi 8mb avi of equinox...
Canada has how many million? huh
long live NZ
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1100 ppl? I'm goin to TG (The Gathering) in Norway, which take 5100 people :D ;)
Check out www.gathering.org and www.project516.net
im gonna be passing through miami airport on route to peru soon. does this mean i shouldnt show US customs my green card and just try to pass for a regular tourist?
If your looking for some good ol Counter Strike online you should checkout http://www.ugleague.net for an online league :)
There is a huge dedicated community to these lan parties on gamesnet and I'm glad to be apart of it ;)
The second I read this I knew this was a Canadian event... Why? Cause nobody in the U.S. would call it this, we don't need to associate ourselves with someone else constantly.
Canada, worlds number one at being just north of the United States. =P
This is probably the largest congregation of male virgins in history.
Quakecon had over 1,200 filled spots for the byoc, and 5,000-6,000 total people came to the show. By my calculations you are tied for last place with 0 attendants since it hasn't happened yet. I would recommend doing a quick google search before you spout of marketing bs.
1100 guests??? bah!
Around here that's considered a failiure or good for your first try.
This easter the worlds largest lan party will be The Gathering with 5100 guests. Free tickets are still available if you are coming from outside Europe and normally priced tickets are available for people from Europe, but outside Norway.
I know because we sold the first 4300 tickets in 6 hours via PTN and there are over 1000 people on the waiting list for the rest of the tickets.
The worlds second largest party is DreamHack in sweden with around 5000 guests.
Assembly in Finland is also quite large with over 3000 guests.
Due to general anti-piracy hysteria in Denmark The Party (the worlds first large party) had less than 1000 guests this year, down from over 3000 a few years ago.
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Hey mods, +1 Funny parent.
Its been modded down by some houmorless mods to -1, Troll
I was going to make a French-surrender-type post, but at least 3 people beat me to it.
Perhaps some kind of "selling nukes to Saddam" joke?
Nah, I'm just troll bait now.
Any bets on whether this get Troll, Flamebait, or Off Topic?
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informative! damn I wish I had mod points now, so the supposed "North americas largest" is just a little fart of a tiny party :)