Lan parties?

[Gorgan]

I have set up a few small lan parties. The only problem is the "small" factor. It seems as if everybody else around here aren't interested in it. I can gather around 12 or so, but beyond that ono one else exists. Actually around 6 of them didnt even know what a lan party is. My question is... Are lan parties at all popular in other parts of the world polular or is the whole lan trend dwindling?

[Xandax]

Been to a couple at my school but it died out as a lot of my friends from them graduated and didn't attend the following.

Size of thoese were around 15-20 ish, but there aren't many students on my line.

[Stilgar]

Yes, Lan-party's are pretty popular here (in the Netherlands)
Some are very big (hunderds of people) some are smaller.

In a couple of weeks where gonna have a small LAN with a couple of friends (whe call it LAM (dutch for drunk).
Just 6friends with their PC's and a whole week of drinking, gaming, and eating junkfood.
Cant wait for it to begin, finally 2 of them have met the wonderfull world of the RPG, and i'm realy looking forward to play BG or some other RPG over LAN.
Also some of the turn-based games i like (Age of wonders, deciples, civilization) arent that good for online gaming, but are great for LAN

[Robnark]

there are some pretty big ones around the country that some of my mates go to - a few hundred people or so - and smaller ones are fairly common on birthdays and what have you. since my connection sucks so much posterior, I do most of my multiplayer gaming at those, so I love 'em.