DONATE TO POLAND PLEASE GUYS supra is paying out of his own pocket and it would be great if we can lessen the burden on his pocket (he is DEEP in the red)

let's be clear on the charging + prices to host a lan event

while pc cafe culture is prominent across the world, in the USA it is not because, well, why go to a pc cafe when you can just play from your gaming pc at home

it is a losing venture on top of being a financial and logistical nightmare to try to host an event. from an organizer's perspective, you will be guaranteeing yourself in the red by paying extra to rent PCs on top of already paying the rental venue fee. so you want to have a venue that already has the amount of pcs you need to host an event. well... not many venues will have the amount of pcs to host a 16 team 6s event or a 8 team highlander event. That's 72 pcs minimum for players. But what about production? they need PCs too!

okay, that's out of the way... now you want your players to be able to go to an event. Well being in the USA doesn't help in that regard either. So why Philly? It's very easy to get from the airport to the venue. Literally just take the bus or train (SEPTA). so RGL is actually doing a favor to players attending the event by not needing to worry about getting a rental car. yes, the airbnbs are expensive. but the venue is within walking distance and you also have many catering/food options within walking distance too

i actually made a thread a while back looking for lan venues with the following criteria:

- has enough pcs for 16 teams of 6 + organizer/production pcs. meaning, no need to spend extra to rent pcs
- near an international/major airport hub
- within north america

of that i only found 3. now as of that post there is a 4th one in texas but i haven't really explored further to see whether it's rentable to the public. but it's a cool venue to host a potential texas lan at. and there's now a 5th which is the hyperx arena in las vegas, but talks with the people there have kinda stallwarted so it's not really worth a mention

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8YoC473z9E

re: why an open event and not the main event

players don't want to get smashed by the invite teams + lower online viewing quality. better to pay $80 to play against a concentrated group similar to ur skill level than be rolled in 10 mins

imo rgl's pricing structure for lan fees seems generous but idk how much they gain from their league fees due to lack of transparency (which was promised a few months back...)

re: why charge so many fees?

rgl actually does a good job at sustaining themselves to be able to host lan with fees. slight insider info but fragadelphia 19, which despite sponsorships and a hefty $35k prize pool, still ended in the red. that's even despite charging team fees, having staff work on a volunteer basis, and allat. so if a valve/vrs event featuring tier 2-3 talent from across the world in cs2 couldn't turn a profit despite its prestige, think about how hard it is to host a lan in a game with no sponsors at all. pretty rough aye
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sorry for derailing the thread just being clear on how costly lan is as an endeavor and why philly makes it easy to host rgl lan

Late ask but if you are NOT attending poLANd.tf 2026 but would like to join our remote stream broadcast of poLANd.tf 2026, join our Discord please and REACH OUT within

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Oh I do agree on this though, rgl definitely suffers from a too many chefs in the kitchen sort of problem. Or it's people having too much power in places they shouldn't have given their league title/position

not going to say that rgl should be trying to recruit new players given that they are operating under a volunteer basis. i'm not saying either that they are doing a good or a bad job with current decisions as i'm not well informed enough to make a judgement on that.

though it is very polarizing to see, what i could say, lack of initiative from the highlander community to create their own endeavors or initiatives for trying to lower the barrier of entry into highlander--it seems you guys instead expect rgl to try to do everything on a volunteer basis which is logistically infeasible as it seems they already have enough on their hands trying to run a league with a dying playerbase

not tooting my horn as most of my knowledge is within 6s but considering there is a place called "tf2 coaching central" that has managed to churn out a steady flow of new competitive players into rgl 6s over the course of a few years, it begs the question of how much are people willing to help rgl out given there is a literal ongoing example of a community initiative outside of rgl that has proven successful. of course highlander is a logistical nightmare given it's a 9v9 format, but you can't give and take if all you're really doing is taking.

that being said i tried doing hl production on fireside but there's a lack of volunteers versus 6s when it comes to casting and all that so i've seen only part of the struggle with trying to gather community volunteers from hl lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRX8Kz-QFbc

special episode in anticipation for poland!

MGE on LAN seems interesting. Considering matches go fast it would be nice if the matches were long

Doesn't mge.tf have their own servers (@tommy)? We should all be playing on those.

it's very fun to work with people to host events in multiple game modes especially when you can see the passion behind the scenes. the broader community doesn't realize just how much thought and time goes into even the smallest of cups. so much is being done despite less and less fundraising from the general competitive community over the years (as you can see with few people willing to donate the poLANd.tf 2026 fundraiser). kinda sucks cause before we used to raise thousands for resup lans and iseries team fundraisers and now it's just a small percent of that. so in turn organizers put more of their own money at a loss and will probably still get shit for the smallest of event hiccups. real ones tho appreciate the behind the scenes people :D

can you post specs of your pc specifically ram/gpu/cpu

make sure if it's an amd gpu it's not due to their poopy adrenalin whatever the hell its called software

also if yours is a prebuilt pls check to make sure ram (as suggested above) and gpu are seated correctly

indiana good trade for zubac as long as they tank

i have a feeling garland's injuries are more serious than the cavs have let on. this trade i think is putting cleveland is a scenario where they view mitchell as a franchise player and are going to do this to keep him happy. it's an insane move like i said, highly risky but it can pay huge dividends imo. this is gonna be a time will tell kind of trade where the secrets will be revealed in the long run rather than the short term

nico harrison needs to be indicted for basketball terrorism

bulls front office is the worst front office in the nba now that nico is gone

bucks shouldve never fired budenholzer

cavs best team at the trade deadline insane moves tbh

wizards cooking up a goated roster for next season

Thanks!!! Feel free to message me on Discord (siyo_.) if you need further elaboration or questions.

Is there a way to transmit MGE scores to SourceTV based on who is being spectated? This would help a lot for future MGE tournament broadcasts.

Thank you!

Is there a way to transmit MGE scores to SourceTV based on who is being spectated? This would help a lot for future MGE tournament broadcasts.

Thank you!