The Top 10 Gaming Colleges · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday August 31, 2006 @03:27AM from the better-than-the-commercial-makes-it-out-to-be dept.

Pluvius writes "The top-ten list of party schools published by the Princeton Review every year has always been a popular metric among prospective American college students for determining the 'most compatible' university to attend. Because of this, the Global Gaming League has come up with a more geek-oriented list: The First Annual Top Gaming Colleges Survey. The entries were selected based on such factors as proximity to gamer meccas such as Southern California, the frequency of LAN parties, and the existence and strength of a game design curriculum. Here's an excerpt from the number one entry, UT/Austin: 'Last, if you don't feel like leaving your dorm, there's nothing to worry about. A blistering Internet connection will give you LAN pings inside Texas, 30 milliseconds of latency to the East coast and 40 to the West coast. "The Internet connection at the dorms is ****ing amazing. I was [on it] freshman year; I miss that part about moving out of the dorms."'"

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Re:What a worthless article by hal2814 · 2006-08-31 06:36 · Score: 0, Troll

And your school mascot is the Commodores for crying out loud. Oh, the humanity.

Ok, now that I'm done with that, leave it to Vandy to cry about being left out. Sorry if nobody is staring in awe at a 120+ LAN for gaming. 120? That's not even very impressive. An upcoming Counter-strike server sponsored by campus? What is this, the year 2000?

Hey everybody, the university bought us two cans and a string but nobody has contacted me about our campus' telecommunications abilities. I'll cry about it to Slashdot.