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Less than a month to go, woohoo

Historically, during the event IRC has been used to communicate to teams and provide a platform for asking questions. It’s a little bit archaic now though, and I felt frustrated last year as I did not have any easy way to speak to people (made worse by being sat in a different hall).

So, i’m sure many of you also held similar frustrations. I’m considering making use of a site called Slack, which effectively operates a bit like IRC. The only problem is getting people signed up into the channels. After that, the weekend would be pretty smooth so long as people check it, but it has desktop notifications which are great.

Other than that i’m really looking for suggestions about what you guys want. I don’t want to have several systems but perhaps two is fine (i.e. using twitter in combination with Steam groups). Ideally, it’s some place where I can speak generally and answer questions in public as it limits the same question being asked constantly to me in a direct message.

yeh it seems like every year whenever we do the community photo everyone has three different ideas of when its supposed to be taken

The problem is that while at LAN no one is checking steam or twitter or anything like that, it’d make more sense if you just said there will be a community photo straight after grand final or something. Prepare it before anyone goes to LAN and youll get a better turnout

I’ve created an Event Page for the TF2 tournament for anyone that wants to join: https://www.facebook.com/events/437806063070436/

Steam sounds like your best bet though!

We should all bring pagers and whenever we had a match all our pagers would start buzzing, showing the opponent, map(s) and the connect.