Erm, any of your Nerdy types spend much time playing games?

Heard of the ACON tournament before?
http://www.acon5.com/

I'm looking for some info on the thing like:
+ Is it well known?
+ Is it big?
+ Is there lots of coverage (news, TV, etc)?
+ Is it the place to be for gaming?

Cheers...

http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/archives/2005/09/top_ten_female.html

NSFW

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4288876.stm

It is interesting to see the difference of importance according to where catastrophies are occuring. America is still the center of the world according to themselves and to media. Pure Ethnocentrism! Hopefully this will change. Ironically Vietman was able to take care of the typhoon whereas the US couldn't handle nature!