For the busy LAN year of 2013, LanTrek has been launched in Finland.When the temperature outside drops to minus 30 Celsius, even to us, the Finns do think it is too cold to go outside for a swim. This was the situation when this year’s first LAN party, LanTrek was launched in Tampere.
Just as the City of Tampere which is third biggest city in Finland, the LanTrek itself is also noted as third biggest computer event in Finland.LanTrek started over 10 years ago as small local LAN party, but has now been able to grow to the point where there is almost 1,000 people coming over with their computers to have a good time with friends, or to compete in various tournaments.
This year there were four major eSports tournaments with combined prize pool of over EUR 10,000 (approx. USD 13,000). The titles were Counter-Strike:Global Offensive, StarCraft 2, Dota II and League of Legends. All the major matches were broadcasted by Finnish casters from SETT TV and two Finnish eSport news sites: www.SETT.fi and www.gaming.fi sent their reporters to interview players, organizers and to write good news from games. Also the local Finnish newspaper Aamulehti sent their reporter to interview some of the players as well.
Finnish LAN season for 2013 has now been officially opened. On February, the Finnish players will gather at Helsinki to compete in second biggest LAN in Finland – ASSEMBLY Winter. This year’s ASSEMBLY Winter will be slightly smaller than in 2012 when we had a luxury to arrange one of the biggest tournaments in StarCraft II – ASUS ROG StarCraft II challenge.
