Over 200 esports competitors and spectators filled the N3rd Street Gamersvenue in Northern Liberties last weekend to take part in Fragadelphia XII. Across three days and nights, they played, mingled and celebrated the gaming community in the largest LAN “open” event in North America.

Fragadelphia is a small outfit run by gaming enthusiasts spread across the country who all have ties to Philadelphia. Led by former esports pro Stephen “Sasquatch” Csikos, the cohort has expanded a one-day event — which drew as many as 16,000 viewers to a single match way back in 2015 — into a weekend-long spectacle where pros and amateurs can battle together in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, a popular title in one of the longest-running and most popular esports team games. Think of this as a video game equivalent of a golf pro-am or the World Series of Poker.

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