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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."
Does this event actually fit one million people, or is that just hyperbole?
Dreamhack Summer 2003 had about 4000 visitors.
Firstly, this must be one of the most poorly written /. "news" items in the history of the website. "Tom's Hardware has an overview about one of the biggest Lan Parties". That sorry excuse for a sentence alone makes me sick.
Second, with LANs like DreamHack attracting I believe around 5000 visitors each year (actually twice each year, since there's both DH Summer and DH Winter nowadays), a LAN of merely a thousand peeps hardly qualifies as "one of the biggest" IMO. Reading the official website they seem to really think they're the largest LAN party in the world, judging from the "about" page. A bit US-centric are we? Morons.
I won't even go into how the whole thing seems more like a giant marketing gig (the people attending are basically paying $30/day to be fed advertisments from AMD, ASUS et al) than a LAN party.
Quality, performance, value; you get only two, and you don't always get to pick.
I really doubt most of the attendees even have children. It's a LAN party, not a vacation trip! And if you need a theme park to "make the trip more worthwhile", then you are not geek enough for this kind of event anyways! It's about surviving through days and nights of antisocial filesharing, fragging and fun, even if you need a Jolt Cola IV. Who has times for themeparks? The UT2k3 tournament is about to start!
I'm at MML2 and it being on the 3rd of 4th days now, I can say it's been incredible. I'm Lockhart on Netizen CS Team 2, and we lost to our Team 1 13-11 in the quarters. Our match was played really late because we had a hardware problem on one of the tourney computers, but other than that 1 glitch, the computers are incredible. I didn't win anything other than all the amazing free things up on the FTP here... I'm not at liberty to say what I've gotten, however ;D
For the people who said that there isn't anything to do for the family... Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom is literally next door. And so far, I've left my stuff here 3 days straight and not a single thing has even been touched. My monitor, case, mouse, keyboard, even my backpacks and food have not been taken. This is one of the coolest things I've ever been to, and even if you don't come for the games, come for the free stuff and the people. I drove for 15 hours from CT to get here, and it has been worth every minute of the drive.