Lanwar

Lanwar
Date(s)	Quarterly
Location(s)	Louisville, KY
Inaugurated	Lanwar 1 - April 24, 1998
Most recent	LW 46 - January 17th, 2010

Lanwar Inc. hosts professional gaming conventions across America. Its unofficial slogan "Keeping the Party in Lanparty" signifies what its events try to accomplish. The events started as LAN parties located in Louisville, Kentucky. From 2006 until 2007, it expanded and subcontracted as the BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer) coordinator for the World Series of Video Games. The World Series of Video Games utilized Lanwar to help coordinate, support and implement BYOC LANs across the United States for their events. (As a note for this article, "Lanwar Inc." refers to the company, and "Lanwar" refers to the Louisville event.)

Lanwar LAN Events

Lanwar Inc. has been running LAN parties since 1998. It started as a joint effort between multiple United Parcel Service (UPS) IT workers (John Maggio, Brian Minrath, Gary Collins and Troy Schwartz) who wanted to create a large LAN event to play games, amongst other social activities.

The location of the Lanwar events has consistently been the Student Activities Center at the University of Louisville. This site was selected mainly due to its large amount of floor space and available power.

While the events started off as pure LAN gaming events, several other genres of gaming have been tried over the years, including arcade, board and card games. In 2002, the director of Lanwar Inc. (Troy Schwartz) and his staff decided to create an even larger event which would rival LANs in other countries (such as DreamHack). Thus MillionManLan was born as an annual event (which took the place of the summer quarterly Lanwar event).

MillionManLan

The MillionManLan is an event held in Louisville, Kentucky, once every year. Because Lanwar Inc. is located in Louisville, the event coordinators needed a hall which would adequately allow for expansion and addition of more gamers and an overall larger event. Thus the space chosen was the Kentucky Exposition Center, with over 330,000 square feet (31,000 m²) of available space. Because of this, MillionManLan is able to provide one of the largest venues for BYOC LAN gaming in the United States.

Lanwar Extracurriculars

Lanwar has separated itself from the typical LAN party by placing an emphasis on other fun activities in addition to competitive gaming. Duct Tape Wars, Tank Wars, Egg Drops, Speed Tests, Case Mod Contests, Texas Hold 'em Poker, Underwater Rock Paper Scissors, Jousting tournaments, Tug of War contests, and a host of smaller "For Fun Only" computer tournaments have all been a large part of the event's atmosphere. At most Lanwar events, there are as many gamers who participate in these types of events as those who participate in serious competitive gaming tournaments. This focus provides an event that appeals to multiple types of gamers. Schwartz, Troy. "Lanwar Event Stats 2006-2007". http://www.lanwar.com/LWEventHome.asp?EventID=106. Retrieved 2007-07-17. 

Coverage

Being one of the largest LAN parties in the country, Lanwar and MML have both been covered by many sources in the gaming community. ¹ ² ³.

Since its inception in 1998, Lanwar has hosted over 46 large-scale events for the national gaming community. Lanwar holds multiple events each year, seating over 15,000 gamers since 1998. USA Today, CBS, NBC, Fox, Slashdot, Tom's Hardware Guide and others have all featured Lanwar events.

History

Lanwar/MillionManLan Schedule (Total attendance: 19,137)

Year 13 - 2010

Lanwar 46

• January 17, 2010
• 111 Gamers in Attendance

Total attendance: 111

Year 12 - 2009

Lanwar 45

• September 19, 2009
• 76 Gamers in Attendance

MillionManLan 8

• July 9, 2009
• 341 Gamers in Attendance

Lanwar 43

• January 17, 2009
• 137 Gamers in Attendance

Total attendance: 554

Year 11 - 2008

Lanwar 42

• October 11, 2009
• 134 Gamers in Attendance

MillionManLan 7

• July 3, 2008
• 295 Gamers in Attendance

Lanwar 40

• January 19, 2008
• 259 Gamers in Attendance

Total attendance: 688

Year 10 - 2007

Lanwar 36

• October 06, 2007
• 170 Gamers in Attendance

WSVG Summer Championship

• July 5, 2007
• 521 Gamers in Attendance

WSVG Louisville / MillionManLan 6

• July 21, 2007
• 1018 Gamers in Attendance

Lanwar 33

• January 13, 2007
• 215 Gamers in Attendance

Total attendance: 1924

Year 9 - 2006

WSVG / CPL Dallas

• July 05, 2006
• 1,408 Gamers in Attendance

WSVG / MillionManLan 5

• June 18, 2006
• 1,135 Gamers in Attendance

Lanwar 30

• April 29, 2006
• 158 Gamers in Attendance

Lanwar 29

• January 14, 2006
• 335 Gamers in Attendance

Total attendance: 3036

Year 8 - 2005

Lanwar 28

• October 22, 2005
• 327 Gamers in Attendance

MillionManLan 4

• June 23, 2005
• 1,067 Gamers in Attendance

Lanwar 26

• April 02, 2005
• 413 Gamers in Attendance

Lanwar 25

• January 15, 2005
• 502 Gamers in Attendance

Total attendance: 2309

Year 7 - 2004

Lanwar 24

• October 09, 2004
• 514 Gamers in Attendance

MillionManLan 3

• June 24, 2004
• 1,253 Gamers in Attendance

Lanwar 22

• April 03, 2004
• 200 Gamers in Attendance

Lanwar 21

• January 17, 2004
• 548 Gamers in Attendance

Total attendance: 2515

Year 6 - 2003

Lanwar 20

• October 04, 2003
• 530 Gamers in Attendance

MillionManLan 2

• June 26, 2003
• 1,008 Gamers in Attendance

Lanwar 18

• March 22, 2003
• 561 Gamers in Attendance

Lanwar 17

• January 18, 2003
• 574 Gamers in Attendance

Total attendance: 2673

Year 5 - 2002

Lanwar 16

• October 12, 2002
• 528 Gamers in Attendance

Lanwar 15

• July 06, 2002
• 200 Gamers in Attendance

MillionManLan 1

• May 24, 2002
• 742 Gamers in Attendance

Lanwar 13

• March 23, 2002
• 200 Gamers in Attendance

Lanwar 12

• January 19, 2002
• 540 Gamers in Attendance

Total attendance: 2210

Year 4 - 2001

Lanwar 11

• October 13, 2001
• 540 Gamers in Attendance

Lanwar 10.5

• June 30, 2001
• 200 Gamers in Attendance

Lanwar X

• April 28, 2001
• 435 Gamers in Attendance

Lanwar 9

• January 13, 2001
• 382 Gamers in Attendance

Total attendance: 1557

Year 3 - 2000

Lanwar 8

• October 05, 2000
• 299 Gamers in Attendance

Lanwar 7

• April 29, 2000
• 204 Gamers in Attendance

Lanwar 6

• January 15, 2000
• 254 Gamers in Attendance

Total attendance: 757

Year 2 - 1999

Lanwar 5

• September 25, 1999
• 192 Gamers in Attendance

Lanwar 4.5

• July 10, 1999
• 95 Gamers in Attendance

Lanwar 4

• April 25, 1999
• 123 Gamers in Attendance

Lanwar 3

• January 16, 1999
• 187 Gamers in Attendance

Total attendance: 597

Year 1 - 1998

Lanwar 2

• August 08, 1998
• 116 Gamers in Attendance

Lanwar 1

• April 24, 1998
• 90 Gamers in Attendance

Total attendance: 206

Current Lanwar Inc. Staff

Operations

Troy Schwartz - Burden

Dawn Schwartz - Bbabe

Entertainment

Brian Gill - Darkamus

Members at large

Frank Nelson - Francopoli

Trevor Garner - Lancer

Larry Burke - Anla-shok

John Miller - §hadow

Jay Eckert - Sargonas

Networking

John-Michael Bassett - Zeke / Ezekiel / Mutt

Steven Tardy - FooDog

Travis Hauser - Enforcer

Peter Urda - Zealot

Power

George Conover - Infinityplus

Greg Goodman - Lordviper

Tom Roy - Tommykillall

Tournament

Mathis Sneed - JurassicFido

Paul Frederick - Outrayjus

John Reeder - Zero

Past staff

Gary Collins - Crunch

Gary Newton - GMoney

Jeremy Crump - Kazmont|OSLT

Brian Minrath - Cleatus

Erich Meck - FuManChu

Chris Dickens - AlexKidd

Melissa Smallwood - [CDVR]LissBaby

Dan Kinder - Stale[GummiBear]

Dave Wilson - Demosthenes

Rich Williams - Watcher

Nathan Nelson - ForrestGump

Sponsors

Lanwar has partnered with a number of companies over the past decade to provide sponsorship for the event and its attendees.

Past sponsors include Abit, Activision, Aerocool, ASUS, nVidia, AMD, ATI Technologies, Alienware, Bawls, BFG Technologies, Cisco, Cooler Master, Corsair, Directron, DFI, Enermax, Everglide, Gamefixx, Geargrip, Hitachi, Hooters, Icy Dock, Ideazon, Intel, Kingston, Logitech, PC Gamer, Powmax, Seagate, Tom's Hardware Guide, Westwood Studios, World Series of Video Games.

External links

External links

• Lanwar's Official Website

External references

MillionManLan

• MillionManLan 5 Partnership with Blizzard / World of Warcraft
• Think Computers article on MillionManLan 5
• Xbox.com Coverage of MillionManLan 5
• Velocity's (Louisville Kentucky Free Newspaper) coverage of MillionManLan 5
• Gotfrag article about MillionManLan 6

Lanwar Events

• HardwareHeaven's Coverage of Lanwar 20