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North America's Largest LAN Party

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-wan-parties dept.

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."

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  1. Too small for me.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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 :-).

  2. French's biggest lan party by jeriqo · · Score: 3, Informative

    The French's biggest lan party is called "lan-arena",
    the last one (7th) had 1500 players and 8000 visitors..

    More info here

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  3. Only 1100? by Talla · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

    1. Re:Only 1100? by RzUpAnmsCwrds · · Score: 1, Informative

      Once you get to about 500 people, it's all about the same. Tournaments, prizes, exhibitors. The difference between 1,100 people and 4,500 is mostly numerical.

  4. That's not the largest. by revmoo · · Score: 3, Informative
    What about million man lan? 2500 people in Louisville, KY, and another 2500 in Los Angeles, CA.

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  5. Also the worst run LAN ever by strAtEdgE · · Score: 3, Informative

    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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