Hey, that was fun! Glad I made it out. I wasn't planning on going, but I was in Connecticut for something and figured it would be interesting.

Dr.shdwpuppet let me sleep in his room and drove me everywhere (including the train station at 4:30 am for pickup and 8 am the next day for drop-off.)

Stochastic, Dr.shdwpuppet, and I got Philly cheesesteaks at 5 am, which was ridiculous (especially considering that we had all slept before and were very sober)

I unexpectedly got on a team and did pretty decently given that I was on my laptop with a different mouse than the one I normally use. Also I'd played once in the past 4 months or so. I missed this game!

Someone came up and shook my hand in the middle of a match (I didn't see who it was, but I appreciate the enthusiasm!)

I had the most weird dinner of my life (in a good way!) with the sparklegang and friends.

The one dude thought my (apparently very flimsy) TN driver's license was sketchy, and gandalf paid for her (delicious) sugarwater with a lot of singles.

I also had a fun time in the bopper/goldfish room after the tournament. Met some people I was only casually acquainted with beforehand, which was great. I regret setting a hard cutoff time for myself before getting there. I have learned from my mistakes, and it won't happen again.

Sunday morning, I rode the train up to NYC, and hung out with family for a few days which was great, too.

Thanks everyone for being so accommodating! The RGB admins made sure I had Internet connection despite not being registered beforehand and space being very low. The TF2 community dealt with my newfound out-of-touch-ness. My friends were (and are) awesome.

https://twitter.com/KevinIsPwn/status/837834422409904129

o boy

the new maps cup was hosted because i missed gravelpit.

all other old maps are p bad tbh

i couldn't not cover this parody. this was my sunday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UodI8Qk7qSc

http://imgur.com/JbogZPK.png

ahahhahhahhahahahhahahscrewthatguy

newbie mixes (from 2014-2016ish when i was involved) brought LITERALLY THOUSANDS of new players into the comp community with our steam group. well over 1k people played their first games because of us, when they probably wouldn't have otherwise. we fed hundreds of players into UGC in the few short years i was involved in the mixes, and put a couple dozen fully formed, financially backed teams through esea's wild ride with the help of our mentorship program.

in my time in a leadership position, i pledged to guide the mixes in whatever direction the premier na league at the time was taking the game, so any of his personal problems with what we taught are completely baseless. but i mean it's aarontimes so it's not like he's developed a rational opinion on this matter using demonstrable evidence or reasoning

i really want to know the context in which he said that because if he means that generally, i may have to come back and start mixes back up, renaming them "aarontimes is a doofus mixes" for good measure

also i'm just gonna plop this here to try and steer this ship back a bit towards course https://twitter.com/KevinIsPwn/status/835523721599266816

lf(good)t, if anyone needs a +1

soldier > medic > anything else

announce a lobby website

it worked

yeeee

i was rich in habbo until i traded for pure and then for mats and made a mat maze

that game ruled in middle school. heard the economy is stupid now, though. that's the only reason i played

<obligatory mention of my club penguin movie with over a million views>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neNYmwgfgaI

I feel great, tbh. Sorry you guys are all on ur deathbeds :/

that's not an age question but ~2000 miles (Memphis, TN to Manzanita, OR)

how old were you when you most recently threw up at school?

In addition to all the standard thanks everyone is dishing out, I'd like to thank the ESA production guys that casually mentioned they could play two feeds at once when I was talking to tino about minimaps and then were totally OK with mindlessly having to switch the secondary demo rollout cam on and off for the remainder of the event.

ESA is good people, guys. When are we going back?

This is why I'm not in charge.

Carry on gamers

One complaint that I heard a few times (and one I share myself) is the timing of the event itself. Scheduling it a week or two earlier would have put it on the majority of college students' winter breaks, making a lot of people able to use time to actually vacation/see LA/Santa Ana.

Also, pumping non-mainstage casts onto the projectors would have been nice. Several people were there enjoying watching TF2, and we didn't care if it was on the stage or not. We just wanted to see some vidya game.

Great event overall though!

HEY so I leave in a few hours and my glasses are definitely not where I left them... if you happened to find a pair of glasses in the ShdSteel room (Embassy Suites 619), please reply or dm me or something. God bless

ps I have contacts so it's not a super-emergency. just hoping not to have to buy a new pair when home.