Comment Re:LAN Parties (Score 1) 563
I made a post about this on the battlenet forums. Please see: http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=24702391055&sid=5010
In a LAN party, the weakest link is almost always the broadband connection. My link describes a recent international tournament held in China which was ruined because of remote Battlenet hosting.
It had nothing to do with Battlenet itself being unstable at the time. It was the ISP and that is beyond the control of the organiser or Blizzard for that matter. Note that the Warcraft 3 tournament went off without a hitch. It's a much older Blizzard game which DOES have LAN support.
Removing LAN support is a HUGE problem for tournaments.