The venue was great, I love the community feel when its only tf2 players, goes up easily with cph19 as one of the best lans for me as a social experience. The bar was great, and the karaoke a bonus, though as Tob said, might wanna warn them next time what we can be like as a community. As Gaz said the way it was all setup ready for us was amazing. Would 100% attend again.
We had a few (a lot) of PC and monitor issues, I think I changed monitors a total of 4 times on the first day, Josh also went through a couple PCS and a couple monitors himself so that were a little frustrating but honestly not the end of the world. A stage would have also been nice but its also not necessary.
As for ditching iseries, I live 40 minutes away from it and It still breaks the bank for me to attend as a player, which emphasises how bad it is for those travelling in for it. I think I said to a few people after the most recent one that was the last time I'd attend as a player given the cost/benefit of it all. If it keeps going I will happily always turn up as a spec because of how many people love to go as its always been the staple of tf2 lans in EU, but it would take some significant convincing to get me personally there as a player again.