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Hi guys!

Hope everyone enjoyed i43. It was amazing for us and I really hope everyone had a great time.

As some of you have noticed and have been asking, i44 wasn’t confirmed with a TF2 tournament at launch. i41 which was November last year had around 4 teams enter the tournament and very little TF2 community involvement.

I’m basically asking you guys this. Should we run a TF2 tournament and community events at insomnia44? Will you show up if I put up a prize fund and sort out a nice seating area?

Or would it be best if we just skipped i44 and got geared up for i45 in May 2012 (It’s a long time away!)

Let me know your thoughts!

Personally I feel eSports is a fickle business and am in the same boat as damage (me and him having talked about this very thing at LAN), I don’t think its worth putting mega bucks in, but imo you cant ignore it completely

Quoted from octochris

It’s worth doing, just not worth making a big thing of. A small tournament with anticipation of only a few teams should do it.

This, if I get this job I’m going for I can attend.

I actually really liked the whole LAN shizzle.

Definitely not worth making a deal out of it, i’d rather see the efforts pushed into Easter/Summer. I’m tempted to say just a “fun” tournament is the way to go.

It’s likely to be the best chance most new/casual players get to get some good tournament games, as the big events draw so many experienced teams they don’t even get the chance to play games that last longer than 10 minutes. It could be a decent event to try and push those who have never played it before into trying the tournament if they lose their intended tournament in the groups. Then hopefully, we can get a few more random teams coming forward in the Easter/Summer ones. It does require someone to take that promoting role though, which may prove difficult with such a small number of attendees from our community in the first place.

I don’t even know how successful the above would be, but it’s F2P this time round so it could be worth a shot. Even if noone can be bothered, there will still be a small handful of community teams that probably want to play.

cu@i45/i46

it’s all about the Summer LAN at iSeries.

errybody in for i46 o/

I think there’s still going to be some teams going, maybe not the biggest names but still. I’d say a small price tourney is the way to go as long as it’s recognised to be a smaller lan and won’t result in any ‘omg tf2 is dead’ -articles…

I’ll go if the usual crowd of people I hang about with at LAN were, but I don’t see it happening.

I don’t think TF2 really has the community size to support i44. We’ll be in just as big show (if not bigger) for i45/i46 as i42/i43, but winter lan just isn’t a “thing” for this community. Kind of a shame really, but its the reality of the situation.

I feel like a lot of the “I don’t have the holidays/money/etc” type excuses are incredibly empty. In reality, you can go to almost anything if you REALLY want to.