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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.
why?
Hell, pick Orlando so people can do a theme park or something else that makes the trip more worthwhile. Or those with families can let the kids go do something while they hang out geeking.
LA, NYC, Orlando, New Orleans... the places are well known. All major events occur at them. They are picked for good reason....
Louisville, KY??? what are they smoking. No wonder they can barely break 1k people.
-malakai
-Malakai
A Dragon Lives in my Garage
Hope it will be well ventilated. Even at small LAN parties, no matter how much cologne is sprayed, the BO from geeks quickly takes over the whole room. Hate to see what happens with one million nerds...
I guess this is what happens when you have a giant corporate-sponsored lan party...you get lots of advertising and sponsor hype.
I mean think about it, the spirit of the lan party is in gathering your friends for hours of fragging and trash-talking. In a giant event like this, you're stuck between uber 1337 n1nj4 d00dz (strangers telling you to ph33r them, j00 n00b!) and companies advertising products in your face all day.
I'd take a teeny little router with a few friends any day instead.
I've been to Dreamhack twice now and they've estimated everything from 4000 to 6000 people.
How's that for a Lan, Tom'sHardware?
What's so bad about being lazy? What if there was a war and nobody showed up?
They should provide bodyguards for the girls. If I were one, I sure as hell wouldnt want a million men...oops...nerds after me...
I'm not sure how appropriate it is to call the LAN party the "Million Man LAN" when only 1000 people are expected to attend.
This year QuakeCon in Dallas will have 2,000 BYOC attendees, with 3,000 total people expected to show up.
In a related story, organizers of the event displayed disgust with the "conservative" news medias "clearly biased reporting." Bob Roughhead gave this statement:
In an interview on Larry King, the Reverend Al Sharpton took the side of the geeks, pointing out in a rambling incoherent 12 minute statement that the Man also tried to keep him down.
Police called to the scene for traffic control were adamant with their totals, saying that there were no more than 2000 geeks present at most. Tear gas and beanbags gun were put to use, however, when a college sorority on a scavenger hunt strayed too close to the pack. There were no survivors.
---- El diablo esta en mis pantalones! Mire, mire!
They should have put the servers in the women's restroom. Might as well, as they wouldn't get used otherwise.
Killing their brain cells? Alcohol is rarely seen on the LAN parties I've attended. Doesn't help the aim. Other drugs are similarly unattractive to gamers and smokers are usually separated from non-smokers. So how do you kill brain cells on a LAN party anymore than a computer worker does all day every workday?
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.
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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.
Linux IS user friendly, it's just choosy of who it's friends are.
In other news, the thousand-man LAN party was a great success last night, as the sole attendee played Quake all by himself. Organizers were delighted with the success of the event.
Patrick Doyle
I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....
promulgated by the "million man march" in Washington DC circa 1996, set up and sponsored by the Nation of Islam.
/. fashion, we're just being a bit too pedantic.
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
Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
If the BO from the geeks could be unberable imagine the bathrooms!
Those gamers that are able to place a round into the head of another player within 50 ms from 1000 feet are commonly unable to get their piss into a foot wide hole right in front of them.
it makes perfect sense, since they are both targeting the same demographic.
Note to self: No more arguing with the faithful.
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.
Ahem....
:D
The largest and longest running "monster Computer Party" is The Gathering in Norway.
Note The "computer Party" monniker as it's not just Gamers that attend.
These event are huge BECAUSE we don't focus on one specific group.
We try to give everyone something here. Frome the person that just started using a computer, to the Linux Fanatic, the Uber Gamer or the Demo Scener.
And all the people in between.
Is it doable..well..we've been told that what we do is not possible,can't be done,the hardware does not exist, and so on since we started doing these kind of things in late 80's.
My hat off to the guys doing this LAN thou..because it is not easy to get started. You need a certain kind of insanity to keep it rolling when you reach the 450+ limit.
Heh..some of the "core" people even have clauses in their employment contract that states that they can not be made to work when The Gathering is being held
But..I'm rambling..
Don't be negative, so they are a bit brash..so what..pulling of an event like this IS cause to be proud.
You US guys WANT these large events, they are something else entierly, If you THINK you know what this is but havent been to one..then please dont knock it until you've tried it.
Also..what is this BO fetish you guys have??
is it an american thing??...
I've been taught by my parents to keep myself clean, and most other Lan Party/Computer Party people I meet do the same.
It get's stuffy, true. But it's not like th hall smells like an outhouse!
Hell even with 5400 people attending this easter noone died from BO poisoning.
So please..stop stereotyping okay?
it's just plain sad.