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I'll bet the larger-scale LAN parties are fun, it sounds that way. 
But the one I went to was just held between me and a few friends around someone's house, with just 8 people. Really small scale LAN party, but still fun non-the-less.
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Small LAN parties are a bit more atmospheric, you usually remember them better than the big events.
The smallest once I've had was with 3 people. And that one really was super small, we really did just do our own thing on that one. But it was a planned event nonetheless.
Biggest one I've ever had was over 200 people, and exactly 200 gamers. Myself and nearly all of my friends had to rig up a radio system so we could talk to each other, and we needed large scale network equipment with a central control server to work all of the 25 "workgroups", 8 computers in each group.
That was a total logistical nightmare, because we had people bringing in their own computers, and we spent nearly a day of the whole 2 week event just fixing program conflicts and viruses. We had to buy a corporate edition of windows XP home just to get all the computers talking to each other. Plus one of the computers had a pretty rabid network attack virus, which we had to intercept by isolating individual workgroups from one another to isolate and eliminate the virus.
But it all went smoothly in the end, thank god. Now nearly 50 people have a free copy of windows XP.
And at least 100 of those that came have at least 2 games installed on their pc that they didn't have before. Heh, and we did ask people to already have the games on their pcs before they came too.
One of the things that I'd do it again for, is to see some of the really cool computers that people had, we had a real diversity there, from beige powerboxes, to alien-like ubermachines. But that's a story for another day...