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It gives me great pride to announce the largest LAN party LanSmash has seen yet, LS Arena! It’s a 300 player LAN party held in Brisbane on the 14th of July 2007.

I’ve had to keep this a secret now for months as myself whilst the LS admin team have been toiling away and plotting to make this a reality.

With the new massive LAN we’ve also had a new website update! Thanks to Misscara for the much needed redesign and Steve for implementing it. It’s quite cool actually, using Dokuwiki for most of the content, Vanilla for the forums and commenting, Gallery2 for the photos, JQuery for some fancy ajax, Sphider for the search engine, and a single theme engine that ties it all together.
Oh and of course Apache2, thank you modrewrite for allowing us to keep all those old links working from years of previous content!

We’re still keeping the monthly LAN going as it has been for the past 7 years, but I personally see events like LS Arena as the future for LanSmash. It’s going to be difficult, challenging but damn exciting. Can’t wait till the 14th of July!