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MillionManLAN Party: The Doors Are Open

Posted by michael on from the remember-to-eat dept.

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."

19 of 168 comments (clear)

  1. What's with the million? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Does this event actually fit one million people, or is that just hyperbole?

    Dreamhack Summer 2003 had about 4000 visitors.

    1. Re:What's with the million? by deadsaijinx* · · Score: 3, Informative

      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

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  2. yeah but in Louisville, KY ??? by malakai · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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

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    1. Re:yeah but in Louisville, KY ??? by invultor · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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!

    2. Re:yeah but in Louisville, KY ??? by ciroknight · · Score: 3, Informative

      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.....

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  3. Smell by jrap · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

  4. Sponsor Talks by Eberlin · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:Sponsor Talks by deadsaijinx* · · Score: 3, Interesting

      agreed, LAN parties should be about you, your 30 closest friends, and that dumpster you plan on diving into. On the other hand, at these huge ones you could score some free MoBos, and all you have to do is shave and paint your head ;]

      Unfortunately, LAN parties will soon be illegal under the DMCA, as they provide some of the fastest pirating networks available.

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  5. Waste of space by fobbman · · Score: 4, Funny

    They should have put the servers in the women's restroom. Might as well, as they wouldn't get used otherwise.

    1. Re:Waste of space by Cruciform · · Score: 4, Funny

      Then where would they put all the X10 cameras people brought?

  6. I'll probably be downmodded into oblivion, but ... by W2k · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  7. LAN party? by pasi · · Score: 3, Funny


    From Slashdot File: [slashdot]

    LAN party n 1: An event where all the {STFU N00b X11ter person}s collect together with massive amounts of energy drinks. The difference between playing at home and playing at LAN party is the smell and ability to actual throw things at your enemies. {IRC} access is restricted to Quakenet and overclockers are demigods.
  8. Re:I'll probably be downmodded into oblivion, but by Norwolf · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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  9. Million? by p3d0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  10. a misnomer, originally by The+Tyro · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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  11. Bathrooms for 1k geeks by dark-br · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Bathrooms for 1k geeks by British · · Score: 3, Funny

      Too bad Mennen isn't a sponsor at one of those parties. They could hand out free samples.

  12. I'm At MML2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  13. Re:What about the ladies? by reiggin · · Score: 4, Funny

    But the mothers don't count.