Fresh off the press: the latest news for next weekend (time flies, doesn't it?)

Unfortunate news first... a sponsorship deal fell through at the last minute due to a restructure of the marketing department of our partner. There are currently still talks about a sponsorship with another entity, but we may have to get used to the idea of doing this without additional support.

HOWEVER the RCADIA stepped up and kindly increased the prize pool since we reached our ticket goal! Thanks to every participant and spectator they will add 1.000 €, bringing the total up to 2.500 €!

In other news - as promised - we have awesome side events / evening entertainment lined up. You haven't seen the tweet already?
After the games ended each day you can hang out in the Hotel Bar - where the tournament matches will also be streamed during the day - and participate in a TF2 Pub Quiz (Friday), the Silly Hat Contest + Beerpong (Saturday) and a round of End-of-the-LAN Karaoke(Sunday). They even serve TF2 themed snacks and drinks just for this occasion!

Please note that ticket sales will close this friday, 18th november, at midnight!
So you better get on with booking your ticket!

We are also currently finalising the tournament schedule. After our hosts have approved it, it should be ready to be announced as early as tomorrow night!

Everyone who bought a ticket will receive a couple of E-Mails from RCADIA in the coming days leading up to the event with important information about a variety of topics. So make sure to have an eye on your inboxes.

Yet to be decided. Might stream it on the RCADIA channel.

Yes. German power sockets might be different to yours though so you may need an adapter if you are bringing your own setup.

Quick update:

- 80/80 rental PCs have been sold. If you want to participate but need a PC to play on, feel free to reach out. Maybe another participant could bring their PC afterall or might have a second machine.

- 83/100 monitors sold. If you consider bringing your own setup but you are short on hands, you can consider renting only a monitor and bringing your PC. We still have a couple of those left!

- 12 teams have signed up. So far 7 would like to play invite, 5 open. Should there not be another invite signup, we will have to play an online qualifier round in order to cut invite down to 6. In this case the top 2 open teams would qualify for the knockout stage.

- All in all 96 player and 9 visitor tickets have been sold.

- The RCADIA is barrier-free and as such accessible for wheelchair users and people with disabilities.

You can access all areas with the spectator ticket. The difference is just having a seat and desk as well the right to participate in the competitions.

So as you probably have seen in the regularly updated FAQ post on page 1, we have currently sold 76 / 80 rental PCs.
I am just alerting you to the fact that there are only 4 more machines available. Just today I received the information that there probably won't be additional ones for us because another event is happening at the same time. If you considered booking a rental, you should do so ASAP!

Speaking of ASAP: if you want to join the invite bracket for the event, please sign up by the end of next week (until 13th Nov.) We might need to do online qualifiers between the 14th and 20th.

All in all, 10 teams have signed up until now. The ideal number (and a TO's wet dream) is exactly 16 teams. Seeing as we sold 90 player tickets so far, this should be within reach.
We will draw up a more detailed schedule in the coming days for a 16 team tournament.
Stay tuned!

Games start friday at around 1 pm and if you are not playing invite in 6v6, you do not need to stay until sunday evening! There are no games on sunday unless you absolutely want to possibly play some ultiduo.

Singups for Highlander are open!
https://play.toornament.com/en_GB/tournaments/6136996214205054976/

Note: you can only participate in this if you either got knocked out of the 6v6 tournament or did not participate in the 6v6 tournament. This means 6v6 invite participants will definitely NOT be able to play.

LOL HL!

Alllll rightyyy!
I don't know about you people, but I am getting increasingly hyped for this thing!

We have been hard at work during the past two weeks behind the scenes... Without being allowed to spill too many beans: the whole thing is shaping up quite nicely. (:
Big thanks to all the people reaching out to me and coming forward with their worries and questions... Feel free to contact me - or better yet join the RCADIA Discord and grab the TF2 role in #rollen - if you have any queries!

Now, to answer the latest questions (also will be added to the FAQ on post #3):

Are signups open yet? And if yes, where do I sign up?
Yes, they are! You can sign up for the 6v6 tournament on toornament right >>>here <<<.

What equipment am I expected to bring?
You will have to bring your peripherals, such as mouse, keyboard, headset, mouse pad in any case. An ethernet cable will be provided to you.
If you are not from Germany you may need a power plug adapter since our sockets may be different to those you have at home. You better doublecheck as we will not have any available at the event!

Will I be able to cancel my ticket / rental?
Yes. Best way to do so is to open a ticket in the #support channel in the RCADIA Discord. (You should REALLY join that one)

Will there be ingame medals for participants?
Valve has stopped adding medals to the game. So no. No virtual medals for anyone. Nothing we can do about that...

Will there be a community photo?
Yes. And unlike at past events we will make a serious effort to get every TF2 person captured in the photo. (no h8, hydr8!)
The community photo is likely to be taken in the yard on saturday before the games start (around noon), but be sure to check the announcement on the RCADIA Discord as this plan may change (did I mention you should join that Discord yet?).

Please let us know any way you can if there is still something that troubles your mind!
(but also please make sure to first read through the OP and the FAQ!)

Most of my friends are 25-40 years old and most of them play a sport.
Must be a euro thing.

- updated the OP (almost entirely overhauled)
- updated the FAQ (post#3)

@Lux: You can only book them separately. That was poor wording. I just meant that all in all it would be cheaper than those events.

Personally hate it because there is just too much going on on my screen. My eyes hurt everytime I played it.

Update #2:

Hey gamers,

so as danny already mentioned the tickets are now on sale!
You do not have to, but of course we recommend you stay at the RCADIA hotel as well. Click here to book your room!

Furthermore, registrations for the 6v6 event are also open. Check out our toornament page for more details and to register your team today!
As you may have noticed we will also host a small Highlander tournament for anyone who's interested! The plan is to run it simultaneously to the 6v6 B-Tournament on saturday. So anyone who got knocked out of the 6v6 group stages will be able to participate if they so choose to!
Registrations for the Highlander tournament will open at a later time closer to the event on a separate toornament page. Bear in mind HL will have no prizes.

Speaking of prizes. RCADIA is providing a base prizepool of 1.500 € for the 6v6 tournament.
While this is not the biggest prizepool as of now, it is subject to increase. We are currently working on finding sponsorship for the event.
Strength in numbers: We can expect the prizepool to expand if we sell a lot of tickets for the event. RCADIA does not know us or the TF2 community yet, but we are confident they will be open to adding to the prizepool if we meet certain goals. So if you are set on attending, it would help us out immensely if you booked and registered sooner rather than later in order for our hosts to get a better idea of what to expect from the event - while also securing the early bird rates for yourselves! Also make sure to follow RCADIA's twitter and like or retweet anything TF2!

You should join the RCADIA Discord and grab the TF2 role. Communication during the event as well as announcements will happen via this server.

We do not know the specs of the rentals yet, but will let you know ASAP!

Any prem-level teams that have their eyes set on joining our invite bracket for this event please reach out to me on discord or steam, preferably until thursday afternoon.

Not a halal connoisseur, but Hamburg is a fricking big city with 1,8 mio inhabitants. I would be very surprised if there wasn't halal food fairly closeby.