My Yurrpeon perspective:

The Good:

• The TEZC boys, most fun I've had at any LAN
  
• Flying Premium Economy with Virgin Atlantic, spoiled for life now
  
• Location, loved Phoenixville and the stores/restaurants close to the venue
  
• People, y'all so friendly!
  
• Everyone in the organisation, all so busy and nice. Helping us out however they could
  
• Playing with the DSLR video rig
  
• The nervous look on Tagg's face whenever he borrowed my camera
  
• Lange hugs
  
• Meeting eXtine. It's always the people getting the most shit online that are so nice and hard working at these events. (Hi Byte!)
  
• Everyone doing stream production and casting. The amount of work these guys put in is insane. And all that effort paid off, the stream looked amazing and very professional. Loved seeing all the backend stuff specifically written for GXL. Awesome what just a few coders and designers managed to make just for this LAN.

The bad:

• Internet connection. Really well managed/filtered, but just not fast enough. One external IP is pretty risky too. Probably the best you could get at the venue.
  Glad I work for an American wireless internet provider and brought a backup ;)
  
• CEVO computers. We were told we could use these on Saturday. We fixed 6 broken ones that could no longer be used, only for them to be taken from us a few hours later so the CS:GO 'BYOC' boys could play. The actual computers were really good once we fixed them though.

Forgot a lot of good stuff and people I met

I think you forgot to put the clarity to 100.

Yes. Alternatively you could go with sourcemod and F2's plugins that do the same thing and a bit more if you want.

There's also OBS' noise gate option, in case you can't fix the background noise with the other suggestions.

A link that's not dropbox: http://fakkelbrigade.eu/maps/cp_logjam_b10pre1.bsp

Every player can now rate the server in chat while playing with:
!rate good/bad your-optional-comment-here

For example:
!rate bad server keeps lagging on midfights

If you change your mind you can change by rating again, only the last one is saved.

For now these ratings are just getting logged, so I can investigate if a server gets a lot of bad ratings. Depending on how seriously people use the ratings they might end up used in a server rating or shown somewhere.

http://i.imgur.com/DX4yn5q.png

Logjam cup caused all 78 EU servers to be in use yesterday evening. If you had to play on a Russian server without being Russian, sorry. If you played on FakkelBrigade servers #1-8, sorry, a maintenance task on the box nearly took down the machine, so those servers were pretty laggy all evening. Fixed now.

What are you waiting for?

I remember that....barely

• All: TF2 update broke all plugins, disabled all plugins on all serveme servers in the world so we can at least play. Fixed!

Best cast of the LAN, Shintaz and Coleman doing the iM vs Mix^ game.
http://franz.fakkelbrigade.eu/best_cast_ever/

SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP!

I hadn't uploaded/cut the vods before you asked ;)

Here ya go: http://franz.fakkelbrigade.eu/group_stages/stream_2/

Pheeeeeeeew, that was a lot of work!

All VODs we have are now on Youtube, you can watch all of them from this playlist.

If you'd rather watch them in 60FPS or download them, you can do that from:
http://franz.fakkelbrigade.eu/
All the local recordings we could recover are on that site.

Matter of angles and people available to man the camera's. Knoxxx was obscured by a huge PC case for example for our camera angle.

We didn't have a dedicated audio person, nor the gear the support such a person, unfortunately. We're just some guys bringing a ton of consumer equipment to try and mimic a professional broadcast. We don't have a mile of SDI cables and gear.

No.

We considered doing a roaming camera with a laptop, USB3 capture 'card' and SLR with proper HDMI out. Had to scrap it due to lack of reliable WiFi, but it's definitely something that can be done.

Our i52 sound setup sucked, should have had a proper mixer and the skills to use it ;)

This caused all the differences between sound levels at the stage and on stream, sorry about everyones ears at home.