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

    Can not divide by 0

  3. 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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  4. 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 :-).

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

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