[DeAnnaC]

We tried to do a LAN party a few years back - it wasn't successful..
We've been doing Xbox/Game console parties instead. Much easier, if you've got an Xbox, it easily networks to the next Xbox, etc.

We've had 7 or 8 of them at church as an outreach/evangelism event.
We've had 55 kids at the biggest one and from what I understood, the majority were all in the same game of Halo2, just in different campaigns.
At church, the kids bring what ever console they have and we hook them up through a switch/router. It's easy, cheap and the kids do most of the work (setting up/taking down the tables and connectivity).

We are planning another party as a fundraiser for the robot team - it's next Saturday night..we were going to borrow our church for that as well, but we talked to the owner of a local gaming place (pay by the hour) and he is thrilled to sponsor this event for us. We will be charging $10 per player, it runs from 5pm to midnight. Team members will be providing food and we'll have our previous year robots there. We hope to have 50-75 kids next Saturday night.. He has plasma tv's, 20 Xbox 360's to play with..

We are requiring registrations in advance so we know who's our guest and who is a customer for him.

If you want more info, let me know..if you'll be near STL next weekend, come on by!!

DeAnna