Commissario
Summer LAN is where it's at.
It's not a proper I series lan unless you spend the night shivering in your tent, and have to scrape ice off the inside of it in the morning....
I used to go (about I8-15 I think), but haven't for a few years due to various things getting in the way.
IIRC the group I used to go with usually took up about 3 rows, and at least once we were hidden from the sight and hearing of the "normal" lan goers for fear that our hideous visages, and the odd noises we made would scare them off...(either that or there was some ungodly promotional device taking up the space we would have been in - they claim the latter, but I suspect the former).