what on earth makes you think tf2 was a failed game

it's like it never happened

to be overly brief, the euro production silos were kinda formed due to personal friction between organisers (x won't work with y etc), and partly due to different aims (essentials wanted to do more out-of-the-box stuff and actively try to attract sponsors, Kritzkast wanted CPG to fill in a void left by Deutschlan and be a HL hub). Phoenix red (cpg production)/essentials seem largely compatible at the moment but neither understandably wants to relinquish control over each of their respective events.

it's easy to say that everyone should work together and combine the reach of TFTV with the tech of phoenix red with the prestige of insomnia but I don't see that working out any time soon.

RGL is kinda different because they're a league - owning both a league and coverage of the league gives them much more weight with sponsors and is more typical in esports.

there's still some 'competition', because multiple orgs have different tech despite the same people helping develop each one, and a bunch of work is duplicated several times each year which stifles each event. it's not real competition because each event struggles to focus on its own shit without trying to overtake other events.

you should go looking for i65 vods :)

dude we're trying to warn them, stop trying to entice kids into a dead 12 year old time-sink

wasn't really my main point but ok

tino's message said "has now been cancelled for a third time," that's where i got that word from. i know nothing was really promised so it's not really cancelling, hence why i put it in quotes

that was my main worry when people started posting about attempting to salvage the lan (of their own accord and without any actual deliverables at that point other than a vague idea of "lets do lan").

again this isn't really my main point and i dont wanna put people down who are making the effort, but im in this discord too and got the exact opposite view.

sexual assault allegations from one production member against the lead production member was enough to kill the event. everything an established company of that size does with our ragtag band of volunteers is going to be to minimise risk, and as you can from Richard Lewis' articles the BTS brand has already been mentioned in connection a few times. couple that with the fact they were expecting to make a small loss and we're dropped just like that.

and at that point, there's next to 0 chance of reviving the event. only 2-3 months left to rearrange a venue for one specific weekend, which was already incredibly difficult to secure with double the time and way more flexibility. even if one was found and the stars aligned to let us use it, it would lead to way more work on our part and a worse end product anyway

personally, and probably controversially, im annoyed at the people who stepped in with good intentions but 0 organisation and still blinded by hopes of an LA lan, completely unaware of how impossible the lan is to salvage, and continued to get people's hopes up, only to 'cancel' again a few weeks later.

lokomotivaerastesrafdafasdrfatrd is likely but lasse/mia have said the venue still isn't confirmed just yet and the website is preemptive/wrong

you say that, until you actually try it and immediately throw up after zooming 6 feet on an invisible hoverboard

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wow even pubbers are getting a promod

someone stream i wanna watch burgers get angry at each other over $5

give him a break cat, he just learnt people paedophiles and abusers actually exist

none, didn't book yet cause im a failure of a human being

ah fucking hell was literally already having a sob before this

who's alfa does anyone here know