LANcouver
Encyclopedia
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 six successful events, with the last event in May 2006. The event 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
.
qualifying event, and hosted qualifying tournaments for the national championships. The qualifying matches hosted at LANcouver events were:
tournaments, Warhammer 40,000
events, and Magic: The Gathering
and other TCG (trading card game) events.
The venue chosen for LANcouver 2011 is the Great Northern Way Campus
; another first for the event is that it will be hosted in the city of Vancouver
proper and not a suburb.
The main PC gaming events for LANcouver 2011 are scheduled to be:
Other tournaments for PC will be played, but not with a competitive focus. These 'fun' tournaments are:
Console events will be held as well, with the following main tournaments:
LAN party
A LAN party is a temporary, sometimes spontaneous, gathering of people with computers, between which they establish a local area network , primarily for the purpose of playing multiplayer computer games. The size of these networks may vary from the very small to very large installations...
first hosted on the North Shore of Metro Vancouver, British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
, Canada. It was started in January 2004 and has hosted six successful events, with the last event in May 2006. The event 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
Network switch
A network switch or switching hub is a computer networking device that connects network segments.The term commonly refers to a multi-port network bridge that processes and routes data at the data link layer of the OSI model...
and network cable
Category 5 cable
Category 5 cable is a twisted pair cable for carrying signals. This type of cable is used in structured cabling for computer networks such as Ethernet. It is also used to carry other signals such as telephony and video. The cable is commonly connected using punch down blocks and modular connectors...
) 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
Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 is a free-to-play team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game developed by Valve Corporation. A sequel to the original mod Team Fortress based on the Quake engine, it was first released as part of the video game compilation The Orange Box on October 10, 2007 for Windows...
, Counter-Strike: Source
Counter-Strike: Source
Counter-Strike: Source is an FPS video game developed by Valve Corporation. It is a complete remake of Counter-Strike using the Source game engine. As in the original, Counter-Strike: Source pits a team of counter-terrorists against a team of terrorists in a series of rounds...
, and Unreal Tournament
Unreal Tournament
Unreal Tournament is a futuristic first-person shooter video game co-developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes. It was published in 1999 by GT Interactive. Retrospectively, the game has also been referred to as UT99 or UT Classic to differentiate it from its numbered sequels...
.
2006 World Cyber Games event
LANcouver 6 was a registered World Cyber GamesWorld Cyber Games
The World Cyber Games is an international competitive video-gaming event operated by South Korean company World Cyber Games Inc., and sponsored by Samsung and Microsoft...
qualifying event, and hosted qualifying tournaments for the national championships. The qualifying matches hosted at LANcouver events were:
- Warcraft III: Frozen Throne
- Starcraft: Brood WarStarCraft: Brood WarStarCraft: Brood War is the expansion pack for the award winning military science fiction, real-time strategy video game StarCraft. Released in 1998 for Windows and Mac OS, it was co-developed by Saffire and Blizzard Entertainment. The expansion pack introduced new campaigns, map tilesets, music,...
- Counter Strike 1.6
- Fifa 2006 (PC)
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 will be the 7th event and is planned to be much larger than all previous events, while also incorporating other game types not played on computers such as Xbox 360Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
tournaments, Warhammer 40,000
Games Workshop
Games Workshop Group plc is a British game production and retailing company. Games Workshop has published the tabletop wargames Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer 40,000...
events, and Magic: The Gathering
Magic: The Gathering
Magic: The Gathering , also known as Magic, is the first collectible trading card game created by mathematics professor Richard Garfield and introduced in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast. Magic continues to thrive, with approximately twelve million players as of 2011...
and other TCG (trading card game) events.
The venue chosen for LANcouver 2011 is the Great Northern Way Campus
Great Northern Way Campus
Great Northern Way Campus Ltd is a private limited company and educational enterprise located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is the offspring of a consortium of four local academic institutions that has attracted...
; another first for the event is that it will be hosted in the city of Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
proper and not a suburb.
The main PC gaming events for LANcouver 2011 are scheduled to be:
- Starcraft IIStarCraft IIStarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed and released by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. A sequel to the award-winning 1998 video game StarCraft and its expansions, the game was released worldwide on July 27, 2010...
- Counter-Strike: SourceCounter-Strike: SourceCounter-Strike: Source is an FPS video game developed by Valve Corporation. It is a complete remake of Counter-Strike using the Source game engine. As in the original, Counter-Strike: Source pits a team of counter-terrorists against a team of terrorists in a series of rounds...
- League of LegendsLeague of LegendsThe BetFred League of Legends was a darts tournament featuring some of the legends of the game of darts which commenced in May 2008. The tournament is broadcast on Setanta Sports in the United Kingdom....
Other tournaments for PC will be played, but not with a competitive focus. These 'fun' tournaments are:
- Team Fortress 2
- Unreal Tournament: GOTYE
- Midtown Madness 2
Console events will be held as well, with the following main tournaments:
- Marvel vs Capcom 3
- Call of Duty: Black OpsCall of Duty: Black OpsCall of Duty: Black Ops is a first-person shooter video game developed by Treyarch, published by Activision and released worldwide on November 9, for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii consoles, with a separate version for Nintendo DS developed by n-Space. Announced on April 30, 2010,...
- Super Smash Bros. BrawlSuper Smash Bros. BrawlSuper Smash Bros. Brawl, known in Japan as , often abbreviated as SSBB or simply as Brawl, is the third installment in the Super Smash Bros. series of crossover fighting games, developed by an ad hoc development team consisting of Sora, Game Arts and staff from other developers, and published by...
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 | 175 (capacity) |
External links
- North Shore (North and West Vancouver)
- LANcouver Tournament
- LANcouver Forums
- LANcouver Photo Gallery