Lan-party

A LAN party is an event where one plays Video games with Ordinateur S connected by a Lan.

Etymology

The word LAN party comes from the English, where LAN is the abbreviation of local area network , that is to say Lan, and party means Fête.

The kind of this Anglicisme is not yet defined in the French language. The general tendency would consist in saying “a LAN” for “a network” and a “LAN party” or a “LAN” to speak about a festival around the network.

Description

A LAN party is a transitory gathering during which a group of participants, having each one an allotted computer, plays in Lan with video games Multijoueur S. This gathering can last between one afternoon and a week, but is held generally of Friday evening (installation), at the Sunday afternoon (given of the rewards if it there a).

The reasons of such events are not only to be able to profit from very an high banc for the play. The participants benefit from these gatherings to break the impersonal barrier specific to the meetings on Internet, and also to exchange directly knowledge in Informatique.

Except in certain particular cases, the players bring themselves their computer material and their plays. The organizers ensure on their side the room, the management of the network and different the waiters from plays.

LAN of various sizes

The very small lan-parties generally take place at a private individual, one often speaks in this case about LAN about garage gathering ten players to the maximum.

As soon as the number of participants becomes too high, the event takes place in moreover big rooms (such as sports halls, or communal village halls). Indeed, such a network rather quickly takes much place and request an electric great power.

The large LAN took such a scale that it is often necessary to distinguish the lan-parties known as local, gathering amateurs of the video game, and those professional, which are true events of the electronic Sport.

Practiced plays

In the case of small lan-parties, of many plays will be tested, commented on, of simplest the Blobby Volley at the last video-ludic exit which requires a very recent computer. But the plays most often practiced in the lans are generally the same ones as on Internet, namely Counter-Strike , Day_of_Defeat: _Source, Warcraft 3, Pro Evolution Soccer, Quake III Arena, Unreal Tournament 2004, Battelfield 2142, Ennemy Teritory: Quake Wars and much of other plays.

One in general distinguishes the simple games, standard Jeux of arcade, played in LAN “for the more important fun”, and plays, with a technical side much more pushed, but which comprises in spite of only one small number of factors, that it is consequently essential to control well in order to have a good level of play (for example, the " strafes" on the play Counter-Strike , which consists in moving quickly on the right and in order to avoid a grouping of shootings on the left; or technique of the " dodge" in Unreal Tournament, a jump on side allowing to avoid the unfavourable shootings).

History

At the end of the Années 1980, before the appearance of the LAN party, impassioned of data processing took part already in international gatherings where was held of the contests of programming, in what is called a Demo party.

Since end of the Years 1990, the development of a lan-party is very often the same one: a group of impassioned Data-processing and/or Video game regularly meets at a private individual in order to clash on video games Multijoueur S. Then, gradually, the team takes experiment, becomes a Organizing association of electronic events or a company and opens the doors of its events to other players whom she does not know. The lan-party was born.

Today in the world

In France

Lan-party for the amateurs of video games

There is on average one to two lan-parties of at least 100 people each weekend in France, to find all these lan, it is enough to consult the calendar of lan of Actu-Lan. These lans can be directed recreation or competition. The first have little equipped tournaments, and their force are their environment, cordial and convivial, where the competitive spirit is present but remains weak, whereas the second have tournaments with " Cash-Prize" to attract the large teams and to spice the competition.

professional Lan-party

Organized by rare companies and some associations, these events have reflected with the national scales and sometimes world. One does not play there any more, one practices there the E-sport, or electronic sport. The participants are not there any more of the players, but Pro-gamer S. the rewards are not there any more of the batches, but accounts - checks (up to 120.000 €).

One can to quote for example Lan Arena, which brings together 1500 players with Paris into 2002 which allowed the Ligarena company, today Range-Service, to mount a world cup " française" , the ESWC and which in 4 years knew to be brought to the level of South Korean and American international competitions. It should not nevertheless not be forgotten that labor used to manage these competitions is selected.

External bonds

Organization of a LAN party, jeuxvideo.com
To assemble its event, Actu-Lan.com

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