# What is the best gaming convention?

> Trade-show halls built for blockbuster reveals sit next to LAN parties that run all night. Pick the one that mattered most.

*By YPB Team · Published November 12, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-gaming-convention*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

1. **Gamescom** — score 1000/1000
   A video game trade fair held in Cologne since 2009 that draws more than 300,000 visitors a year.
2. **E3** — score 961/1000
   The Electronic Entertainment Expo ran in Los Angeles from 1995 and hosted major console reveals before it was permanently cancelled in 2023.
3. **PAX** — score 828/1000
   Started by the creators of the Penny Arcade webcomic near Seattle in 2004, it grew into a family of shows including PAX East, PAX West and PAX Australia.
4. **Brasil Game Show** — score 787/1000
   A video game expo founded in Rio de Janeiro in 2009 and held in São Paulo since 2012.
5. **DreamHack** — score 787/1000
   Began as a LAN party in Sweden in 1994 and grew into a series of festivals combining LAN events, esports and expos.
6. **GDC** — score 703/1000
   The Game Developers Conference, a professional gathering for game makers held in San Francisco, which began in 1988.
7. **Paris Games Week** — score 629/1000
   France's video game show, held at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles since 2010.
8. **Tokyo Game Show** — score 450/1000
   A game expo held in the Tokyo area since 1996, now at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, with a strong lineup of Japanese publishers.
9. **QuakeCon** — score 449/1000
   A bring-your-own-computer LAN party turned convention, held in the Dallas area since 1996, online only in 2020-2022.
10. **BlizzCon** — score 339/1000
   Blizzard Entertainment's fan convention, first held in Anaheim in 2005, where the company announces new games and expansions.
11. **Gen Con** — score 339/1000
   A tabletop gaming convention founded by Gary Gygax in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, in 1968 and now held in Indianapolis.
12. **TwitchCon** — score 339/1000
   Twitch's own convention for streamers and their communities, first held in San Francisco in 2015, with a European edition since 2019.
13. **EVO** — score 0/1000
   The Evolution Championship Series, a Las Vegas fighting-game tournament whose roots go back to a 1996 Street Fighter competition in California.

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