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Quoted from jakeowaty

HL Players: Hey guys, let’s have a fun LAN with booze and games we love, no matter what kind of mode you play as long as you have fun. Oh, HL is the main event, so if you feel like it, please sign up.

6’s Players: OMG Highbanter is fucking gay, OMG I’m not coming, this is stupid, fuck you guys, Highlander is worst game mode -1.

Now you can tell me which community is healthier.

The one youre not part of idk which one it is. Nice generalisation.

Imo the tournament as such is way less important than the number of attendends and who organises it. TCL was great because the people who ran it knew what they wanted and how, and everyone came for the experience ( also HL didnt exist so… :P ). My team including the legendary Tapley lost all games but we had the best time because of the smoking and drinking with a lot of (top) tf2 players. If youre gonna do this try to focus on getting as many people as possible and base any tournament ideas on the people who will come and what they want. Some structure is probably needed but set it up first, try to get sponsors, let the USA fund us all or anything and then worry which gamemode to play. Id prefer a stopwatch mvm / pyro dodgeball tournament if any.

TL;DR : Get people first, both organising and attending and worry about the tf2s later

Those mentioning about all the logistics organisation: is there that much to do really? My initial reaction to this is that surely the whole place is relatively hassle free because they’ve sorted most of the shit other than like food and your PCs.

How I saw this:
a) speak to organisers (in progress, seems positive?)
b) decide when, build hype, and have enough people to pay to confirm the event
c) ???
d) profit

the biggest issues seem to be so far:
– possibly internet, and departure time – conversations in progress, ish.

– when

– production – but this is mostly going to be a small team, sorting gear etc. may be annoying, but as it’s not a big stage/huge tournament we’re not reliant on this. at worst we’ll just stream sideshow and coleman

– tournament organisation, but without dates it’s so far difficult for most people to say they will be able to go to run it (i.e. I would consider it personally, if I could go, but I don’t know if I can without dates and realistic travel plans)

– sponsors (?) may as well try

As for when:
April – InfoShow
May – OG Lan
August – i55

anything else missing? could try squeeze it in July, as I guess most schooling is done, and hopefully the weather should be reasonable if people still are thinking about trying to stage something outside/would be better socially. It’s that or potentially something like end of October?

You can always do STV demo casts if need be, but the main focus should be having a stable connection to steam community for the loadouts.

Cant we force the americans or top teams to fund the worst players to lan?

BIELEFELD!

sonny black had the same idea as well saemzi, seems like a good one to me.

Quoted from Blooddrunk

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Bielefeld doesn’t exist though

doch, bald auch in der regionalliga

Quoted from 1pt

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Almost choked from the laughter.

female house with all the medics.