LANcouver
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LANcouver is a LAN party first hosted on the North Shore of Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was started in January 2004 and has hosted seven successful events, with the last event in July 2011. The event has attracted an average of approximately 50–120 attendees per event. LANcouver is a BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer) event, which means that everyone attending brings their own PC desktop or laptop. Network resources (such as switches and network cable) and power connections are supplied and connected by the administrators on-site during the event, who also host the various servers required for playing LAN based games such as Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, and Unreal Tournament. LANcouver organizers have also been responsible for running tournaments at other events such as GottaCon 2012.
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[edit] 2006 World Cyber Games event
LANcouver 6 was a registered World Cyber Games qualifying event, and hosted qualifying tournaments for the national championships. The qualifying matches hosted at LANcouver events were:
[edit] LANcouver 2011
In late 2010, LANcouver's founder announced that an event was in the works for some time in 2011. In early 2011, that year's LANcouver event was announced, making it the first time that a year was given to the title rather than a number. LANcouver 2011 was the 7th event and was planned to be much larger than all previous events, while also incorporating other game types not played on computers such as Xbox 360 tournaments, Warhammer 40,000 events, and Magic: The Gathering and other TCG (trading card game) events. LANcouver 2011 was held at the Great Northern Way Campus; another first for the event is that it was hosted in the City of Vancouver proper and not a suburb.
The main PC gaming events for LANcouver 2011 were:
Console events were held as well, with the following main tournaments:
[edit] LANcouver Event Listing
| Event Name | Date | Location | Attendance |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANcouver | January 17-18, 2004 | Gleneagles Community Centre, West Vancouver | <30 |
| LANcouver 2 | August 28-29, 2004 | Gleneagles Community Centre, West Vancouver | <40 |
| LANcouv3r | January 28-29, 2005 | Gleneagles Community Centre, West Vancouver | <60 |
| LANcouver 4 (aka "L4") | May 2005 | Gleneagles Community Centre, West Vancouver | 75 |
| LANcouver 5 | December 17-18, 2005 | Parkgate Community Centre, North Vancouver | 80 |
| LANcouver 6 | May 20-21, 2006 | Parkgate Community Centre, North Vancouver | 105 |
| LANcouver 2011 | July 22-24, 2011 | Great Northern Way Campus, Vancouver | 140 |
| LANcouver 2012 | Summer 2012 | Richmond Olympic Oval, Richmond | TBD |
[edit] External links
- North Shore (North and West Vancouver)
- LANcouver Tournament
- Facebook Page for LANcouver
