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."

Comments

WAN Party?

[Anonymous Coward]

Should it not be called a WAN party, when the number of players exceeds the limit imposed on one LAN by Ethernet technology?

E.

Toronto

[Anonymous 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.

Re:How many people?

[ackthpt]

Given the low standard of personaly hygiene some geeks have, you may want to stock up on air freshener and/or nose plugs...

Man, you ain't kidding on the noseplugs. Air freshener runs screaming from pungent B.O. There won't be many who stink, but all it takes is a few and your eyes water and all you can think of is getting fresh, sweet air into your sinuses.

This, naturally leads to non-obvious sponsors. I.e. hand out free sample size deodorants and breath cleaners. It probably wouldn't be a terrible idea to have people patrol these things and properly chastise (e.g. humiliate) offenders. Nothing like being shown up as a pig among your peers to get the point across.