Introduction to the Million Man Lan

WHEN: June 24th (12 Noon) - June 27th (4:00pm) 4 days! 96 Consecutive Hours
WHERE: Kentucky State Fairgrounds
East Hall A & B (Expansion available into either South Wing A or East Wing)
937 Phillips Ln
Louisville, KY
COST: $46 for all 4 days or $30 for a 1 day pass
Spectators free with $5 pass deposit.

 

The Event Hall

What will you need/want to bring for the event?

• Your Computer (System, Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse)
• 10/100baseT Ethernet Card
• 25 foot Unshielded Twisted Pair Cable (RJ45)
• Headphones, no speakers are allowed. PERIOD
• A Power Strip
• A thirst for kicking a$$
• A body bag.... for you, or your favorite enemy
• All your game CD's
• A camera (It would be a good idea to bring one)
• Your Windows and Drivers disks/CD's

Ask yourself this, have you ever to wanted to hook up, frag, and have fun with hundreds of people?! Then this is the event for you! This year had a record 1219 attendees not counting the spectators, staff, and sponsors. Below you will see "the big map", there are attendees from all over the country.

If the 0 ping rates, and 100mbps connections and getting the opportunity to meet a few of today's movers and shakers in the computer industry aren't enough to get you packing, how about the chances for prizes and free stuff and having a lot of fun? If you like to play games, Whether you're barely computer literate or an expert this is the event for you!

This event is well known for the large list sponsors very gracious giveaways. Although I have to admit this year's list of sponsors was a lot smaller when compared to last years. The word is some of last years major players got burnt by some of the politics involved. This also dried up the tap of ever flowing give-a-ways that we seen at last years event. In my honest opinion last years sponsorships had a lot to do with ATI's helping hand. A list of this year's sponsors can be found here (only Nvidia, Asus, Ubi Software, Hitachi, Corsair, and ICY Dock made an actual visible appearance.)

This years Official Tournaments included:

• Half Life Counter Strike
• Battlefield Vietnam
• Unreal Tourney 2004 Death Match
• DDR
• Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne.

This years UN-Official Tournaments included:

• Call of Duty
• Medal of Honor: Breakthrough
• Unreal Tourney 2004 Onslaught
• Soldier of Fortune
• Battlefield 1942: Pilots Tourney
• Call of Duty: TDM
• Unreal Tourney 2004 Team Death Match
• Rise of Nations
• C & C Generals Zero Hour
• Duct Tape Wars  
• Ping Pong  (that’s right off the ping pong table)
• You Don't Know Jack 6
• Battlefield 1942: Desert Combat
• Total Annihilation
• Burping Contest
• Basketball 3v3 (outside)
• Tank Wars
• Tug Of War
• Battlefield 1942: Heli
• Unreal Tourney 2004 Instagib CTF
• Far Cry Death Match
• Tron 2.0 Disk Arena

Over the 4 days of this event there will be two Q&A sessions, one by NVIDIA, and one by Asus. Free prizes and contests will be spread out among all 4 days of the event. This year I visited more as a representative member of Driverheaven then for myself all though I had loads of fun. I spent a lot of time taking hundreds of pictures and notes for your viewing enjoyment. I apologize in advance; some of my pictures aren't the greatest due the lighting in certain areas.

Be sure to read the last page commentary carefully as it is from a different point of view. Its written by my girlfriend Stepahnie "The_Penguin" who is pretty new to PCs. Until last year she was a Mac user and turning a computer on, installing software is about the limit of her technical expertise. Hopefully she will see events like this are for users of all levels. It's also a great place to learn, get advice, or to have alot of fun. Now onto the fruits of our labor...