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Huge LAN-Parties are a new form of event - which evolved from small gaming sessions at a friends house. Usually a couple a friends gather, bring their computers, loads of cables and food and game for several hours or even days straight. A lot of soda and pizza is consumed - and electricity.

But these big ass public LAN-Parties are amazing and eerie. There you have HUGE halls or convention centers filled with thousands of young nerds and gamer - and you hardly hear a thing - apart from computers humming.

Why? Because almost everybody is wearing a headset / headphones and they are all fully concentrated on killing each other. You hear the occasional cry of victory or defeat - but that’s it - the rest is silence.

Normally when huge crowds of young males gather they are loud, obnoxious, often on the verge of misbehaving or serious violence (football games etc.). LAN-Parties are very silent, orderly and very odd.

The real action happens in many virtual battlefield and servers.