Proactively secure your business with ThreatLocker today! Check them out using our link: https://www.threatlocker.com/ltt Thanks to Starforge Systems for providing PCs for our WHALE’s. Check out what they have to offer at https://starforgepc.com/WhaleLAN With only seven hours on the clock, Linus and the team transform a badminton club into a 250-seat LAN event, complete with a stage, LED wall, custom PCs, VR arena, vending machines, and retro gaming area. Power issues, time pressure, and chaos... this is how Whale LAN 2025 came together. Discuss on the forum: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1625307-finally-i-hosted-a-public-lan-party/ Buy an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D 16-Core CPU: https://geni.us/9h8e Buy Kingston FURY Beast DDR5 6000 64GB (32GBx2) RAM: https://geni.us/IonCF7F Buy a GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 5090 Master ICE: https://geni.us/FjWX0SZ Check out Ubiquiti's Networking Solutions: https://lmg.gg/ubiquitilan Buy a Herman Miller x Logitech G Embody: https://prsm2.com/sqVgseOZn ► GET OUR MERCH: https://lttstore.com ► GET EXCLUSIVE CONTENT ON FLOATPLANE: https://lmg.gg/lttfloatplane ► GET A VPN: http://www.piavpn.com/linus ► SPONSORS, AFFILIATES, AND PARTNERS: https://lmg.gg/partners Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group. Affiliate links powered in part by https://affilimate.com/ Linus Sebastian is an investor in Framework Computer, Inc CHAPTERS --------------------------------------------------- 0:00 Intro 1:03 Power and networking 3:00 Steam cache 3:35 Retro area couches 4:25 Pre-loading the cache 5:14 Tables 5:50 Whale VIP setup 6:30 LED wall and stage 7:22 Custom Whale PCs 9:00 Potty tour 9:17 8v8 gaming setup (more power issues) 10:20 Updated retro area 13:58 Whale Cup 14:19 Whale PC completed setup 14:53 Vending machines 15:20 VR area 16:36 Office chair shuffleboard 17:00 Tape to tape 19:14 Finished stage setup 21:15 Outro