I feel like if the CEVO finals were in the morning following the rest of the games, the loser-bracket team would play a lot better. Also there is potential for using a stage of sorts.

So the finalist cevo teams would be guaranteed a spot in the byoc bracket, and the group stages could be during that or something. Mix^ played bad in the cevo finals because they had been TF2ing for 15 hours at that point. This is a problem that doesn't exist in esea because they have a night of rest/ demo reviews before grand finals.

my name isnt pewn

other than that, everything was great :)

Iirc, shdwpuppet has them

Whoever recorded the video of the production people after the outro, please post it. Ty

Okay, so I did odd jobs/ camerawork for the awesome production staff all weekend, and I think it's a good thing for you guys to know every single person who made this production possible.

TheFragile made this a thing. Seriously, think about that. Think about the effort to lead all of this. It's seriously incredible.

Dashner juggled so many things, I was straight up impressed. Coming from producing things for my town's live television station, I can say his job was 10x more taxing than any job I've seen or done in local tv, and he did it for 15+ hours straight three days in a row.

Drshdwpuppet dealt with so many stupid server issues, he deserves a trophy. He was in charge of running pug, pub, and match servers for the entirety of the event.

Lange did as lange does. Between working production, casting, doing interviews, and taking over camera for me when the cheat feed broke (thank you so much ty ty ty), he was doing things nonstop.

Airon was fantastic. He mixed everything beautifully, and that's a thing no one else knew how to do. Audio would not have been anywhere near as good as it was without him.

Arie did lots of things with computers that were beyond me entirely. All I know is that it was important, and that only he could do it.

Think of the name of a caster for the LAN. Odds are, that person wasn't planning on casting. The main casters for the event got sick and replacements had to be made. Mad props to getawhale, gecks, lange, fragile, tagg, commanderx, extine, and anyone I may have forgotten that casted any games, whether they planned to at the event or not.

Truktruk ran camera for pretty much the whole CEVO tournament (I think all of it). That's a long time.

Kappy (Kaptan_kul) was an odd-job extraordinaire. Between communicating things to teams, fixing curtains, moving shit around, etc, he saved all the production people from a lot of tasks that they would have otherwise had to do. He also read the cheat feed for a bit.

FrenchTheLlama read out the killfeed for me pretty much the entire day of the BYOC. This is a job that may not typically be needed if there is a very experienced cameraman, but I am not that. Reading the killfeed in a way that makes sense to someone 30 seconds in the past of you isn't an easy job, and there are no breaks from start to stop.

I'd like to send out specific thanks to dashner and lange for having faith in my camerawork, and letting me do that the entirety of the BYOC. It was cool to be able to work back there. Even if it wasn't necessarily the job I was expecting, it was a job I really enjoyed.

I'll probably edit this post, because there's no way this was everyone. Thanks for your work, guys! :)

Is there a group here planning on getting lunch or anything today?

I use this mic when I don't want to set up my yeti. For being literally 100 times cheaper, the quality is fantastic. Example of practical use: http://youtu.be/piK_DThpFzM

Any rooms where a bunch of people are hanging out?

Boarding first flight in 10 minutes. Get hype. :)

IT'S NOT HAPPENING. GET OVER IT.

If you want competitive tf2 to grow, make it grow. Invite your casual tf2-playing friends to play in a lobby. Coach newbie mixes. If you're pubbing with a fun/ good player, add them and talk about/ recommend competitive; they'll be flattered. Defend competitive from the mouth breathers that make up a large amount of r/tf2. Keep playing the game. Support high level steamers. Donate to lan drives if you have a few bucks. Answer questions on r/truetf2.

Quit saying this thread is depressing. It's not. It's a reminder that our game is OUR GAME. If valve implemented an in game lobby system tomorrow, I would be ecstatic. The fact of the matter is, they won't until it's profitable for them. If we as a community can show them how good this format is, they might consider it in the future. But discussing what weapons to ban on this alternate-universe in-game-lobby 600 posts deep in a hopeless thread isn't getting the game anywhere.

We may have floor space, message me if you have no other options

one thing i would do is add the same miscs to the sfms as the demos. they felt a bit disconnected because of this

really nice movie though :)

Anyone else staying until Tuesday want to hang out/ go kart on monday?

I've never had huge issues with him. Used to in house pug a lot.

Haven't played with him recently though.

Hey guys. I've been working on some videos for the 6v6 Newbie Mixes, and I want some IRL 'interviews' with people, asking why they play TF2 and a couple other simple questions. If anyone, known or not, would be willing to record that, message me on tftv, add me on steam, or find me at the venue.

thanks :)