It's possible, but we really wouldn't be able to fit much in on Friday. There's quite a few players that don't get in until late on Friday / early Saturday morning, so this will hurt the number of teams. I don't know exactly how badly it will impact the numbers, but I'd also feel bad if people decide to just not go to the LAN at all because they can't arrive early enough on Friday.

I completely understand that a top 3 team will spend a good portion of their day playing in the tournament, but I really do my best to make sure the tournament runs as quickly as possible. Whenever I'm rushing people to get their team in the server / ready up, it's not because I'm being irrational or impatient, but that I'm trying to make it so you're not holding up the tournament for literally everyone else. Every single LAN I get close to DQ'ing a team because people go randomly MIA without asking me, so this can cause heavy delays.

Also as a means to speed things up, I tried to poll people on if we should just remove group stage. I think I did this poll at RGB LAN 3, and out of roughly 16 teams, I think 15 of the teams said that they wanted group stage.

If everyone wants a not-so-long tournament, then we either need to make it without the group stage as double elimination, or group stage into single elimination. If we do group stage into single elimination, then we'd also need to make the groups a bit larger so the seeding is more accurate for the single elimination stage.

Again, we can try to keep it the way as it is and move group stage to Friday night, but I'm extremely apprehensive that 1) team numbers will suffer, 2) because it's purely for seeding, some teams will ask if they can use a ringer if not all of their team has showed up, and 3) matches will already get delayed enough because not everyone has arrived / is still setting up.

When I have an update on rentals, you will hear from me on here immediately.

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Use the promo code "RGBEarlybird" to save $10 on your ticket. This promo code is good for the first 50 people that use it.

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https://play.esea.net/match/2067232

A lot of people forget about this one, but this was AI's only win of the season. EG ended up tying with my team for the 4th LAN spot, but we won due to head-to-head record I think.

If EG won this match, they would have qualified for LAN.

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TooManyGames and RGB LAN have been canceled.

Full statement and details on refunds are here: https://toomanygames.com/news/toomanygames-2020-cancelled/

Sorry, everyone. 2020 continues to suck. Stay safe.

You do not need to drink this much water, lol. Nothing anecdotal will ever show this. Most doctors will tell you to drink when you're thirsty, and you can also gauge this by the color of your urine. The whole "8 glasses of water per day" or anything like that is total bullshit.

A bottle of multivitamins can be a good investment if your diet is pretty bad and/or really lacking in certain areas. This answer entirely depends on your diet in general, as you'll just pee out everything you don't need.

Dashner's actions are completely reprehensible, and I'm extremely saddened for Console and Uberchain that they had to go through what they did. Even though Dashner has helped with production for GXL, he didn't give off any impressions that he was abusive in this way at that time. I think I remember he had some trouble with drinking, but certainly not this.

If anything like this happens (or has happened) at RGB, please do not hesitate to let me know, as uncomfortable as that may be. LANs are meant to be a fun and safe space for everyone to meet, play, and have a wonderful time. These kinds of disgusting acts deserve no excuses.

I still stand by the statement that this is the best community, period. This isn't indicative of what this community represents, and we deserve better.

Yeah, this is bullshit. Not contacting Alfa (or anyone) that's banned from the event to let them know they are no longer allowed to come is not cool, but to not even tell Alfa what this behavior concern is? Total bullshit. The idiot vomited in my hotel room after a big italian dinner and a few drinks, sure, but he's never been anywhere close to a problem at any LAN I've attended or help run (GXL / RGB). Additionally, not a single person has ever approached me at GXL / RGB or messaged me through Steam to report concerning behavior about Alfa.

Of course, if the evidence is extremely egregious, then obviously he should be banned, but he should still have the right to know what it is. While I think Alfa is sometimes a bit of a dumbass, I don't think he'd go through all of this trouble if he knew that his possibly awful act of whatever could get leaked out. If it's about the oofpez thing that happened months ago, yeah Alfa was dramatic and dumb. Go let the boy "take a run in the woods" or whatever. However, if the ban is over that, I'm honestly gonna be disappointed.

People have been banned from GXL / RGB, and it wasn't a mystery to any of them on the details or why it happened. But are you really sure that Alfa has concerning behavior? It's Alfa. Just make fun of him and he'll go away. All he does at LAN is drink shitty beer and reminisce about moments in pugs that no one gives a shit about.

edit: Alfa has been reinstated while I typed this up, but I'll keep this up because I made fun of him.

This is easily the most important post in this thread.

I'll actually go to this eventually. :(

Regardless, looking forward to another great event. :3

LFT

Tony is one of the chillest dudes I've met, and he was an absolute monster of a soldier back when he took TF2 very seriously.

Still hope to possibly see you at future RGB LANs. :3

I'd love to, and already gave Wade my full permission to release my interview entirely. Can't remember exactly what he said (check his TFTV post history if you really care), but apparently it wasn't in the cards.

Right before the interview, Wade told us to just completely say whatever we want without any regard for anything. My interview was about an hour, and most of the compliments / good things I said ended up in the video. Everything else about his BM / man-child personality / how he changed from a quiet, quirky guy into a cringey narcissist mysteriously didn't make it into the final video. When I talked to some of the other people who also had interviews, it was exactly the same outcome as mine. This isn't a conspiracy theory, as one of the people that were responsible for working on the video said he demanded edits. He got numerous drafts to review before the final video. Never heard of a documentary on someone where they got to throw out all the parts they didn't like. LUL

Watch the trailer, then the documentary. The trailer's tone was entirely different than the documentary because a certain boi said "nooo I don't like how this depicts me :(((!!!!!!"

It's kind of weird that he hasn't realized that if he had any amount of humility, it'd be better for himself as well as the game. Instead, he has these kinds of outbursts that weren't a tiny bit provoked by anyone.

I'll actually never understand his hatred for other teams. Even when my teams were bitter rivals with b4nny / froyo, I still wanted NA to win Insomnia / Rewind LANs. At i55, we even gave froyo some warmup scrims before their grand finals match.

Did he become way more bitter after he had ESA edit his documentary countless times because all of the bad shit everyone said about him???

This is correct. A few soldiers started to use scripts where if they'd left click, it'd change their view model to the left and then shoot, and if they right click, it'd change their viewmodel to the right and then shoot.

Very soon after, Valve patched it out. This happened sometime in 2008 or 2009 I believe.