World Biggest Skate Event (?),

The “Munich Blade-Night” most probably is the biggest inline skating event of the world:
The average number of participants in the years 2003-2005 was somewhere around 15-20.000 (in words: twenty thousand) people, totalling to much more than one million skaters since 1999 and some tens of millions kilometers skated (that's like skating a few hundred times around the earth).
All time high was 37.000 skaters on one “Munich Blade-Night” in July 2001.
In 2006 the average participation was at ca. 11.000 skaters (the soccer worldcup had its effects).

I would not dare to make a final call on this world championship, because the contesting events are difficult to compare:
Berlin had a bigger skate gathering in 2002, but it was no weekly event
Paris did not reach these average and maximum numbers per event, but takes place
every Friday throughout the year irrespectively of the wheather.
The numbers in Munich have been counted by the police. The source of the other numbers is unclear.

Regardless whether there is a world record or not, here are the most urgent things you need to know about the “Munich Blade-Night”.

Dates:
“Munich Blade-Nights” traditionally takes place on every Monday from end of April/begin of May to 2 weeks before the beginning of the world famous Munich beer festival, the Oktoberfest (or "Wies'n" as the locals call it).
In 2006 there have been some interruptions because of the soccer world cup, but in 2007 the will be a regular schedule again.
First “Munich Blade-Night” in 2007 will on the 30th of April, last on 27th of August.

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