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[SantaC]

The worlds largest lanparty

DreamHack is the worlds largest lan-party and computer festival. The winter event has 6270 computer seats and the summer event has around 4500 participants. DreamHack Winter 2004 is held at Elmia in Jönköping, Sweden November 25 - 28. Rix Telecom is sponsoring with multiple gigabit/s Internet access via fiber from Jönköping Energi.

There will be game tournaments such as :

Counter-Strike
Starcraft
Quake 3
Warcraft 3
Battlefield 1942


Dreamhack have big sponsors such Microsoft, EA, AMD, Ubisoft, abit and Asus

http://www.dreamhack.se/dhw04/dhw04.1_100.en.html

There are also unofficial game tournaments on console games.


Some pics:

Microsoft xbox booth:

 

[mumu]

I see the same thread every year, in almost every forum.

 

[MrAngryFace]

Europe is the most bored/

 

[SantaC]

Europe is the most bored/

Attended this party once. It was really cool. Some americans even fly in to participate in this.

 

[Burger]

You could download terrabytes of shit at a place like this. It would be warez heaven.

 

[VNZ]

Got a free ticket + ride to Dreamhack two years ago. Not even my SNES, Super UFO, 28" TV and some 4 litres of red wine (carefully tapped in Cola bottles) saved me from having a profoundly bad time.

 

[Warm Machine]

"The winter event has 6270 computer seats"

Come on, there arn't even that many computers in the world.

 

[Pochacco]

It must reek of BO in there.

 

[Kon Tiki]

Sweden needs to fight in a war. The nation's 'men' need something to do.

 

[Warm Machine]

Doesn't Sweden have compulsory military service?