MillionManLAN Party: The Doors Are Open

socram writes "Tom's Hardware has an overview about one of the biggest Lan Parties. This event is sponsored by AMD, ATI, ASUS, ABIT, Cisco, NVIDIA, and the Hitachi storage division. Check this article out, more than 1000 people killing their brain cells! Presentation by ASUS, ATI's Q&A Session and more."

Comments

Re:yeah but in Louisville, KY ???

[Anonymous Coward]

Louisville and the surrounding area is where most of the people that put on the event live. Would it get a bigger crowd in a bigger city? Yeah, but it doesn't do too bad being in KY. That, and it's held at the Kentucky State Fair and Exposition Center, and Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom just happens to be right in the middle of the complex.

Re:What's with the million?

[deadsaijinx*]

No. They can't. In fact the article clearly states that they were pleased to reach over 1,000 attendees.

But who really cares if they can or can't hold X amount of people. I just want their Network Equipment when they are done

Re:I'll probably be downmodded into oblivion, but

[Norwolf]

Indeed, but also - remember The Gathering, Norway (this year, The Gathering again reclaimed the throne as the world's largest computer gathering with 5100 attendants).

But again, it's a computer party, not a strictly LAN-party. For those of you not into this, check tg.nlc.no/notalan.html for more information regarding competitions not game-oriented.

a misnomer, originally

[The Tyro]

promulgated by the "million man march" in Washington DC circa 1996, set up and sponsored by the Nation of Islam.

The goals of the march were noble (no government assistance, personal responsibility, family responsibility), but more than a few people had serious reservations about the march, particularly the Nation of Islam's Leader, Louis Farrakhan, who in the past has made some mighty anti-semitic statements.

According to any number of sources, the final tally was nowhere near a million attendees.

So, maybe the MML people are secretly NOI members... or maybe they just like Alliteration.

Or maybe, in typical /. fashion, we're just being a bit too pedantic.

Re:yeah but in Louisville, KY ???

[ciroknight]

Hey I live here and I'll be first to say that this event is friggin huge. Sure they could have picked a bigger city, but what city has loose enough power restrictions, fire regulation standards, and a big enough convention hall to allow all these people???

Lousville, Ky. Add in on top of that Kentucky has one of the largest nerd populations short of Cali and Florida (per capita that is). Just about 70% of the people I know here are nerds. Not to mention the city I live in (Berea Ky) has about 7 computer stores (all within like 4 miles of each other, and this is a pretty small town). Plus the temperature is just perfect, and all the bawls you can drink. Just because we are in Kentucky means nothing. Oh yeah and did we forget to mention, Kentucky's schools have one of the largest networks in the world, almost every computer in every school in Kentucky is hooked into it. Maybe this is why we have so many computer nerds here.....

Re:yeah but in Louisville, KY ???

[malakai]

ciroknight says:

Hey I live here and I'll be first to say that this event is friggin huge. Sure they could have picked a bigger city, but what city has loose enough power restrictions, fire regulation standards, and a big enough convention hall to allow all these people???

umm, NYC, Orlando, New Orleans, LA all have convention centers that dwarf your expo center. Power and Fire are not an issue as long as it's done correctly.

ciroknight says:

Lousville, Ky. Add in on top of that Kentucky has one of the largest nerd populations short of Cali and Florida (per capita that is).

so have it in Cali or Florida. And where does this number come from?

ciroknight says:

Just about 70% of the people I know here are nerds. Not to mention the city I live in (Berea Ky) has about 7 computer stores (all within like 4 miles of each other, and this is a pretty small town).

Oh well, why didn't you say 70% of your friends are nerds and you have 7 computer stores. This proves KY is the perfect spot.

ciroknight says:

Plus the temperature is just perfect, and all the bawls you can drink.

umm, not sure what even your attending, but according to the FAQ on MillonManLan:

Bawls - Burden, 4/14/2003 2:47:06 PM
Unfortunately do to regulations, we will not have Bawls at the event. You can not bring cases in to sell. You can not sell them out in the lot. Doing so will get you removed from the event. You can bring some for your personal consumption, meaning you can bring one in for yourself. Note we say one, not a case or two. they must remain in your car/hotel.

You're state prolly outlawed it or something.

ciroknight says:

Just because we are in Kentucky means nothing. Oh yeah and did we forget to mention, Kentucky's schools have one of the largest networks in the world, almost every computer in every school in Kentucky is hooked into it. Maybe this is why we have so many computer nerds here.....

Your schools are tied together with a network. Congradulations. Welcome to 2003. Look, this has nothing to do with whether a million person lan event should be in your state. I think it's rather obvious that an event like this, if it truly hopes to become large (1k is not large) needs to move to bigger name state/city/area.