It depends how the money is distributed, they would have to make it so getting even last place in Prem would make you more money than winning Div1 would, or be a lot stricter on what divs people can play in and not allow rule bending.

The biggest negative to adding league fees realistically is the potential player count loss, as ETF2Ls team count is already declining, i'm not sure if they can afford another hit like that, in any case the low divs should be kept free. But honestly, the concept of paying $15 every 2-3 Months for a hobby that most people spend thousands of hours on is not out of this world.

the problem is just how accepting will people in EU be to that idea. NA never had this problem since they have had to deal with league fees since the inception of their league and scene and it never really got questioned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmH-m5QGOFc

I agree that the grand final definitely wasn't boring and that both teams delivered a good show, but the highlights that the average viewer aren't the little nuances that froyotech showed when trying to break a nearly unbreakable hold. The back and forth team fights, display of amazing mechanical skill and round winning clutches are the highlights that remain in peoples minds and not "oh the timing on this double sacc was really outstanding", so I suppose grand final just lacked those historic moments that people remember for years to come, but it definitely was not a "harmful" game for TF2

ill use this accidental post to say come to hamburg lan

I'll forward it to RCADIA, would be epic!!

shoutout to all the casters, producers and teams we got the chance to play against
shoutout to sneaky, marten, samski, poison and shappie, i fucking love u guys and i couldnt have asked for a better group of people to call my teammates and friends
shoutout to gazy for giving me his mousepad after the lan and being my dad
shoutout to gragery and mak, my fellow turkish brothers, i wish u were there grag
random shoutouts to wandum, jun0, amik, beavern, josh, seeds, bear, oJ and honestly anybody who ive had a chat with for just being awesome people
Also big thanks to bumfreeze and lucky, amazing cast
Also shoutout grumpykoi for explaining to me very passionately why froyo was winning

i hope to see you all again in germany!!

Two impossible scenarios dont create a likely one

no

While gragerys financials are all taken care of, his visa hasn't been approved yet. With less than a week until we make our trips to LAN, we felt that we couldn't wait any longer.

Gragery will unfortunately not be able to attend the LAN with us, we'll be borrowing marten from the Bus Crew as our Medic for the event, we really appreciate him stepping in on such short notice, shoutout to marten. :)

The money raised will of course be refunded. Should you not recieve a refund within the coming days please contact me on discord (dannyy#8173) or steam. Please note that if you donated in GBP or other currencies that ammounts might be slightly lower due to currency fees.

Thanks for all your support, and while me and sneaky would have loved to beat the shit out of each other, it's gonna have to wait for another time.

EDIT: im pretty sure i've sent all the money back, if you haven't recieved yours feel free to contact me

Very epic, RCADIA has been very keen on making this event happen, hopefully this won't be a one time thing

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b2t2k33l5mxvpqb/danny_forgrape.zip?dl=0

https://youtu.be/Q3NIxm436es
https://youtu.be/nEkZQy5EeMs
smol

WTF

Quick Update for the end of the day

after 9 hours we have already passed the halfway point and are currently at 104€!

We are very thankful for every donation and hope that we can reach our goal at this pace. We will be announcing details on when the bomb game stream and the drunk stream milestones are happening soon, thank you again!!

can you ask people to switch seats? if theres like one complete random surrounded by tf2 people and vise versa you could probably ask them nicely to swap with your buddy, if theres no policy or something stopping that