OOVOOVkonrI'm like halfway through this thread and I want to say two things before I forget. Firstly European TF2 is not dead to the few that said that. It isn't dead by any means. People quit and come back in every league and always have. Top players don't necessarily quit for any league reason either so that's almost irrelevant to say in response to someone saying "we're okay with a community league in europe". On the flipside I think saying "we only have i-series" is a bit silly because we're really lucky to have a big lan like i-series supporting our game so often. That being said I think getting a small place for LAN really should not be too hard for either top players or CEVO to arrange in the future.1. lans are much easier/cheaper to get to in Europe because US public transportation sucks.
Also one thing I think you should play for (however the funding to get here may be an issue) if you're an invite player that needs an endgame is to come to one of our LANs and compete vs the best teams from all over! I'm not sure how we could possibly fund that on a constant basis but if we could how sick would that be? Don't write off a game that you love playing just because a small LAN that you could easily replace is gone. I'd go more into detail to avoid people getting what I'm saying wrong as far as context is concerned but I'm tired man.
2. euro lans as an endgame is barely feasible for one team with community support, let alone four.
1. Didn't know that!
2. Yeah I'm just dreaming there to be honest. If only huh?
shrtkonrI think saying "we only have i-series" is a bit silly because we're really lucky to have a big lan like i-series supporting our game so often.Hm, lucky to have a huge big money organization that just puts out a lan several times a year that all yall need to do is just show up to n play. (n yall only compete in one of them, shame on yall). This sounds like something we had.
konrThat being said I think getting a small place for LAN really should not be too hard for either top players or CEVO to arrange in the future.Ah, sure. Oh course it is easy for a community ran org to pull of a lan. I see ETF2L has really put in the effort for this after 17 seasons.
konrcome to one of our LANs and compete vs the best teams from all over! I'm not sure how we could possibly fund that on a constant basis but if we could how sick would that be?Haha, yeah, sick dude! I wonder what that would be like? You got $80,000 sitting around to send our top 4 teams to crush your germans?
All we have to do is turn up and play? Uhh we all pay for our transport there from all over Europe and a ticket is £70+ depending on when you buy it iirc. Why would ETF2L make a LAN when we already have a LAN that everyone is happy with..? I'm not saying CEVO or whoever could easily literally make a LAN event but there are definitely a good amount of LANs (as e-thug said) around America that could have TF2 in added for just invite players with the correct work done behind the scenes.