fanzone

Noun

fanzone (plural fanzones)

1. A website that allows fans to chat, post commentary, link to feeds of games, etc, as well as the option to view fan commentary from such a site.
   • The site is now highly interactive and features a “fanzone” page with arcade-like games, fan bulletin board and chat rooms, social media links to content on Facebook and Twitter, RSS feeds, video and audio archives, […]2011, Linda E. Swayne, Mark Dodds, Encyclopedia of Sports Management and Marketing, page 976
   • Each football game was covered by ten cameras and was supplemented by such innovations as instant highlights of a game in progress, the player-cam, the fanzone commentary, the clean feed without commentary and, for the Ryder Cup, the option of the American commentary.2016, Geoff Ward, Peter J. Anderson, The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, page 161
2. A venue created for fans of a team, including large screens for watching the game, team-oriented merchandise, and, optionally, other attractions and activities.
   • Zenit St Petersburg won the match but the major news story came from Rangers supporters' behaviour in a 'fanzone' erected at Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens.2009, International Review for the Sociology of Sport - Volume 44, page 381
   • Then we resumed watching it on big screens again, even bigger screens, in parks and fanzones, even in our team's home stadium when they were playing somewhere far away.2014, Rob Steen, Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport
3. (broadly) A similar venue or website for fans of a performer or band.
   • […] this rage against the machine comes from bands belonging to the first computer-literate generation, the first generation of bands to develop websites and to benefit from internet marketing and online communities and fanzones.2008, Scott Wilson, Great Satan's Rage, page 144
   • The crowds packed into the “fanzones” were taking the full force of the storm. Even the trusty shopping trolley had to be abandoned as we sloshed our way to a gap in the fence where McCartney's chief gatekeeper, Stuart Bell, was fighting a losing battle with gangs of sodden pressmen.2013, Leslie Woodhead, How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin, page 204