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The Gathering 2005

Posted by Zonk on from the geeks-in-the-thick-of-it dept.

Advill wrote to mention a story on Tom's Hardware discussing The Gathering 2005, an enormous LAN party that takes place in Norway. From the article: "For a while now, The Gathering (TG) has been competing with Dream Hack in Sweden for the title of World's Largest LAN Party. Last year The Gathering won the title, but then Dream Hack struck back again and regained it. This year, the organizers of The Gathering thought that 5,200 participants ought to be enough and decided to stop competing for the title."

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  1. Big selection of games... by rlbond86 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Counter-Strike, Quake 3, Battlefield (1942?) and Warcraft 3. For such a huge event, they should have had more than 4 games!

  2. Re:LANning Out? by the_unknown_soldier · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Filesharing Would be awesome at this lan. I would go just for that. Also, LANS offer shorter pings so that nobody has an advantage on different servers. It also helps teams look at eachothers strats right in front of them.

    Most of all it turns an online community into a real community. Where people talk and interact. For computer nerds this is an important thing to do every so often.

  3. Demo party by mwvdlee · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Didn't the Gathering used to be a Demo party? You know; with people who could actually do something remotely usefull with their sparetime.

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