Countdown to Campus Party

Hundreds of young people and their computers have been installed in the Fair of Valencia, where it will produce the traditional midnight on the eleventh which starts the Campus Party , which until Sunday will bring together more than 6,000 people and provide a speed 5 gig to surf the internet.

Young people from all over Spain were queuing waiting to enter the fairgrounds, which for the third year hosting this meeting of new technologies, creativity and digital entertainment, which can navigate a connection speed higher than 1.3 gigabytes the last edition.

The City of Arts and Sciences, which hosted the first edition of Campus Party, will host the concert Video Games Live , which will sound the soundtracks of the most famous games in history as 'Mario Bros' , 'Final Fantasy' or 'World of Warcraft'.

This concert will give way to the power of computers, unlike other years, when they have been figures like astronaut Neil Armstrong or scientist Stephen Hawking who inaugurated the event, as responsible explicóel Playground, David Jané.

Conferences, interviews and interactive exhibits fill this week's activities, which many expect to finish "500 films" , as Sergio, an Asturian of 19 who looked "evil" that the girls were the minority among hundreds of young people who came to Fair Valencia pushing shopping carts, bags and even chairs with wheels.

Lighter luggage arrived David and two friends from Barcelona, ​​who left his home PC because "unless you are going to play much not worth it", and loaded with laptops and remote control helicopters with which play.

Not only 'geeks'
For the graphic designer of 21 years, the stereotype of 'geek' with which it is linked to the computer "is based, because some are the spitting image, but in general are very normal people", which mostly comes to Campus Party "to reconnect with friends and to put a face to the people you meet online. "

Also undertake the journey to "experience and learn things robotic" as Paul, a 28-year Santander encouraged the drumbeat wait while one of his friends waving a flag of Cantabria.

The 'buffs' also pertrechan of shields in which wear the name of their clan -groups of friends involved in the encounter-such as 'Scramble Pilots', which combines six Valencia who have gotten into the luggage a 32 inches and several consoles.

For one of them, David, 20, the change of venue of the Campus Party has been positive since Feria Valencia "is more spacious and more comfortable" , although the City of Arts and Sciences "is prettier" , and once there "was cool seeing Hemisfèric breakfast."

The head of Games, David Jané, also believes that this issue is "more complete", where competitions are scheduled 18 games on four platforms: PC, PlayStation, Nintendo and for the first time, mobile phones.

A games are added seven other content areas, among which are astronomy , with programs such as digital Planispheres; CampusBot , in which a Korean teacher will present one of the most advanced humanoid robot in the world, Albert Hubo, or CampusCrea , which to display the I / O Brush, a tool to exploit colors and textures through movement.