Try out the latest offering from Nintendo on one of our Nintendo Switch 2s, and jump into the newest Mario Kart with lots of prizes to be won!

Entry with any ticket, all equipment provided, BYO controller welcome.

We'll start the day with knockout races, shift gears into some freeplay with your friends until 5PM, then drift back into knockout races for prizes and bragging rights!

Send the fleet to capture planets and expand your empire, until you vanquish them all! Ruthless Conquest is completely free, a tiny download, and a LAN favourite. Join us in 6 players FFA games, prizes per game.

We'll have dedicated Free for all Deathmatch servers on the LAN ready to go, and you can vote on the maps you'd like to play. You can download a copy of the game, including driver fixes for modern devices, here.

Jump into a mix of popular free for all modes across Halo Reach including Slayer, Fiesta, and Oddball. We'll have a winner per server for the warm up games, and take the top 3-4 of each server in the major tournament into a final for the grand prize.

Looking to play a different map? We'll take a quick vote per server on the day.

Collisions on chaos and jumping galore in everyone's favourite golf game!

The ultimate Halo Combat Evolved experience that anyone can join. Jump into free for all slayer on a classic map with assault rifle and pistol starts. First to 50 kills or the leading player after 30 minutes wins the prize. We'll kick things off with a few warm up rounds for the first half hour before breaking the field down into two servers (depending on total attendance) to battle it out. The top players from each server will then progress into the finals.

You can download Halo Custom Edition here. Please note Halo: Custom Edition will only run on Windows PCs.

When installing the game a mod is offered to give a Field of View (FoV) controller. Installing this file as per the instructions below may cause errors with certain graphics card drivers. If a “HAC error” occurs when booting the game delete the additional dll added to the controls folder.

If you are running the game but can’t see the servers, ensure the game is allowed through your local firewall. If that doesn’t work, ensure all Network Interfaces are disabled except the one you are using. Failing that select the “Join via IP” option and ask The Big LAN staff for the address.

Multiplayer Tetris! Play Tetris against the whole room, add blocks to other players by getting a tetris!
We recommend downloading the offline Desktop version via our local file server here, else you can play the game in browser at Tetr.io.

The king of arena shooters. We'll have dedicated Free for all Deathmatch servers on the LAN ready to go, and you can vote on the maps you'd like to play. We'll kick things off with a few warm up rounds for the first half hour before breaking the field down into two servers (depending on total attendance) to battle it out. The top players from each server will then progress into the finals.

If you're at the event you can download a complete, ready to run copy of Quake 3 Arena from our file server.

If you're using the steam version of Quake 3 Arena you'll need to install the v1.32e patch to join our server. You can download it from moddb here or ask the tech team to help you on the day. If you already have 1.32e installed you're good to go! Just boot the game, press the ~ key, and check your version in the bottom right of the resulting window.

Race against the room to get to the golden knife in this classic mode!

Grab your partner in arms and get ready for 2v2 Counter Strike. Double elimination brackets of default competitive Wingman settings, best of 16 rounds with overtime.
The Big LAN aims to maintain competitive rules while making this tournament accessable to new players. As such the map will default to Inferno for each game. Teams can discuss alternate maps they'd rather use per match and on agreement The Big LAN staff will configure the server accordingly.

Servers will be listed on the LAN with names matching the pairings (e.g. Team #1 vs Team #2).

Rocket League Doubles

Double Elimination Tournament
Entry welcome on all hardware types and all controller types, however please note console versions of the game do not support LAN play and The Big LAN cannot promise equivalent performance to LAN when playing via an online server

Join our LAN server and set a lap time, fastest time wins!

For this event we are trialing an hour long shootout instead of all day drop in/ drop out. We'll have live scores on the big screen!

Please note we have upgraded to TrackMania (2020) which can be downloaded from Steam and is still free to play, but requires a Ubisoft Account.

Jump into a mix of popular free for all modes including Slayer and Escalation. All in 28 player free for all!

Looking to play a different map? We'll take a quick vote per round on the day.

Note: Only one Halo Infinite server can be active on the one subnet. Please do not attempt to start your own when the tournament is being set up.

To join a LAN game select "CUSTOM GAME" on the main menu, then "CREATE MATCH" (not the server browser)

In the resulting custom game menu select "SERVER" and then pick the bottom option. If no servers are currently active on the LAN it will be "LOCAL AREA NETWORK" and your machine will start a dedicated server in the background. If joining a game it will instead be the name of the PC hosting. The Big LAN staff will confirm the correct PC name for you to join.

Age of Empires FFA Regicide

The story of every LAN, the timeless battle, it's Age of Empires!

Game Mode: Regicide
Map Style: Standard
Location: Random Map (Land Maps & Water Maps)
Map Size: Giant
AI Difficulty: Hardest
Resources: Standard
Population: 200
Game Speed: Standard
Reveal Map: Normal Starting Age: Standard
Ending Age: Standard

Treaty Length: <None>
Lock Teams: No
Team Together: Yes
Team Positions: No
Shared Exploration: No
Lock Speed: Yes
Allow Cheats: No
Turbo Mode: No
Full Tech Tree: No
Record Game: Yes