METRO NEWS - June 18 - 200 singles signed up for a massive speed-dating event in Vancouver this Thursday. Rendezvous Club owner Chris Hall has been running the annual “100 Dates in 100 Minutes” mega-mixer in Vancouver for the last five years, and thinks speed dating is a cut above online dating because it offers something a profile on a screen can’t. “It’s the first impression,” he says. Rendezvous’ regular events are usually more intimate, with 30 guys and gals chatting for five-minutes each, but this one is designed to be a matchmaking machine.