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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. Lots of machines.. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    If they haven't patched their machines it may also be the Largest DDoS Party in North America..

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    1. Re:Lots of machines.. by Spazholio · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Don't be ridiculous. There's no WAY we're getting hit by 20,000 machines simultaneou..."

      [abruptly cut off as several servers explode]

    2. Re:Lots of machines.. by harmgsn · · Score: 4, Interesting

      What about QuakeCon? They've had well over 1100 people for the last couple of years. Here is their site. Last year, they filled up the Mesquite Convention Center (Mesquite, Texas) and were turning people away. Total count for last year was somewhere around 1,200 people in the BYOC alone. This does not include all the spectators or people that diddn't bring a comp but played on someone else's... Their sponsors include: ATI (last year), Nvidia (year before), Bawls, AMD, Linksys, Speakeasy, id Software (id software auctually pays for most of it). I would have to say that QuakeCon is FAR larger that the one you're referring to. For those interested in going: the BYOC is completely FREE. Yes, you pay nothing at all to get to participate in QuakeCon. They have $30,000+ tournaments (that's grand prize). Normally, they're held in August here in Texas (Mesquite, Texas... east of downtown Dallas) and registration normally fills up within a day of it being opened. =\

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  2. WAN Party? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

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

    E.

  3. How many women usually go to these things? by $$$$$exyGal · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does anyone have any idea how many women go to events like this? What's the ratio?

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    1. Re:How many women usually go to these things? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm sure it will be something like this

  4. Call Guiness by t0ny · · Score: 2, Funny

    could be a world record for the largest non-female grouping of people ever! And "Laura Croft" doesnt count.

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  5. Error by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can not divide by 0

  6. The origin of geeks by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 5, Funny

    [The villagers or Rohlan are heading towards H31m'z d33p.]

    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.

    Arageek: It's the beards.

    Geekmli: And this in turn has given rise to the belief that there are no geek women. And the geeks just, spring out of holes in the ground! Which is of course ridiculous.

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  7. Canada Eh? by jade42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    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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  8. 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 :-).

  9. 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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  10. Recognize anyone? by sql*kitten · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can bet that most of these people will be there...

  11. 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.

  12. Bigger by dethkultur · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Quakecon, gets more, has for a couple of years now.

    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.)

  13. 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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  14. LAN moments by dolo666 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

  15. I'm sure that Angel Munoz by ohzero · · Score: 2, Funny

    is throwing a temper tantrum right about now.

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  16. Re:How many people? by ackthpt · · Score: 2, Insightful
    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.

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  17. 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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  18. Call Guiness by dlb · · Score: 2, Funny


    This is probably the largest congregation of male virgins in history.