PolyLAN: the art of online esports

© Alain Herzog/EPFL
© Alain Herzog/EPFL
27. PolyLAN has set a new attendance record. From Friday to Monday, 1,150 gamers are competing in a series of tournaments at EPFL's Swiss Tech Convention Center. For four days, the Swiss Tech Convention Center has morphed into a hotbed of video gaming as it hosts the biggest electronic sports event in French-speaking Switzerland. 1,150 gamers have signed up for the online tournaments running from Friday to Monday. The event, like the association that organized it, is called PolyLAN 27. Despite the crowd, the room is quiet.
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