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#1 Windsor, ON (Canada) potential LAN location? in LAN Discussion

Been doing some preliminary LAN venue searching for TF2 within the North America region and I've narrowed down research to a few locations:

All venues have 100 PCs, allowing for 16 teams + enough PCs for production. Localhost Denver and the Nexus Arena also feature a stage. Localhost Denver is a huge asterisk until they fix their projector though

Let's hone in on the Ontario location a bit. St. Clair's College's Esports Program is home to a prominent Valorant (Fireside even casted them once) and decent Overwatch team, and the Nexus Arena as it's called is a fairly recent addition to the Esports Program.

Fragadelphia 19 (CS2) is being hosted over at this venue in particular. List of updated participants is as recent as of this article from Dust2.us features a few notable teams being NRG, M80, Fluxo, etc.. Note that this is also a VRS event hence the stacked competition (for the NA CS region at least)

Windsor's closest airports are -

  • DTW - Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport: 34 min (25.9 mi) via I-94 E (in kilometers, take 25.9 and divide by like 1.6 to get an estimate)
  • YQG - Windsor International Airport: 12 min (6.8 km) via Cabana Road E

The problem with DTW is that Uber drivers operating within the U.S./Detroit area can't operate in Canada and thus are very likely to decline requests. Renting a car from Detroit -> driving into Windsor may be the only options.

The problem with YQG is it's a small international airport that mainly operates via Air Canada/Porter Airlines. You could Google Flights plug your nearest airport and notice that the pricing between flying domestic within the U.S. is significantly cheaper than getting into YQG.

In addition to note, the Windsor municipality opted to close down the transit bus between Detroit & Windsor as of Sept. 1, 2025

So I guess that being said, unlike Localhost Philadelphia, there is no direct public transportation you can take to get to the venue. e.g. with Localhost Philadelphia you can take an Uber to the airport or go through the Philadelphia Airport -> SEPTA Rail and end up at William H Grey Station and do a 15 minute walk to the venue. Localhost Denver had the same problem, but it does not face the unique issue of the inability of most Ubers having to cross country border lines.

Question now is, is it even worth it to host a TF2 LAN at this location if the pricing scheme was similar to that of Localhost? Would you go IF you had the necessary paperwork to fly/drive into Canada and financial security to do so?

I've attached some images of the arena. Cheers

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58869a29e4fcb5de2d6238bb/c2c065ee-9204-4e61-8417-a94fa7695a1f/Nexus.jpg

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58869a29e4fcb5de2d6238bb/1705438517653-E8IKWE7M2BUB4R9DOK24/2.PNG?format=1500w

https://engineeringharmonics.com/images/2023/02/md/esports-commentators@2x.jpg

https://www.stclaircollege.ca/sites/default/files/articles/2022-08/nexus-01.jpg

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58869a29e4fcb5de2d6238bb/1705438642188-299HU7AFGN7S1EM7OAWO/4.PNG?format=1500w

posted 1 month ago
#45 TFCL 2.0 - Match Servers, Scrim Automation, & More in Projects

Furthermore I want to mention. There are other organizers that we should be supporting/participating in that have already done more than what Sidular has done in less than a year, quite frankly.

Some that I'd like to note are:

- Horse Run Monthly (GamerLatam): 7 cups hosted across 7 months with +$3,000 in prize money already paid out
- QEL (Quick Esports League): 2 cups (Cup #1 & #2) hosted with over $1,100 paid in prize money (mix of keys/USD) across divisions of varying skill levels
- MGE.TF: $5k 1v1 World Championship + an ongoing EU MGE League with over $2k in prize money across two divisions. Hell they even have a pretty decent looking website too with a rulebook at that. All for MGE.
- TF2 Coaching Central: Hosts of the TF2 Coaching Central Newbie Cup. They've been able to get a fiesty $100 prize pool for their most recent cup on top of in-game participant medals DESPITE no income/revenue streamlining into their efforts. On that very same vein, Asiafortress is also hosting a "Gibus Cup," which essentially is the same thing as the Newbie Cup, but for the APAC region.

Sure they will probably run into the same issues with longstanding participation that also plagued the Essentials Monthly Cups. But key differences that I see from TFCL are:

1) They don't make a grand show of an announcement. When they have an event finalized, there is no grand show of these events. They make an announcement, give you a date, and you play in it and get paid promptly
2) Receptive to criticism in the sense that they actually implement changes for the better
e.g.

  • QEL mirroring severe RGL bans
  • GamerLatam working with other organizers like TF2 Coaching Central, RGL, Fireside to better plan out their cups
  • TF2 Coaching Central working with RGL to host cups in the off-season to time their events with signups for RGL
  • MGE.TF's inaugural season being Europe only, which is great for Europe since I think the region lacks prize pool seasons other than ETF2L for the most part (Could be wrong). From talking with Neptune personally I can see why they wanted EU.

3) Transparency. I mean hell I see a channel in the QEL Discord server that has screenshots of them paying out their participants.
4) Integration into the current competitive ecosystem. TF2 Coaching Central's Newbie Cup streamlines a player's path to Invite (so per say) by giving them a chance to test the waters of competitive TF2. They like competitive 6s? With the experience they've had from the cup, they can further test their skills out in RGL. I mean, that's the whole goal of the cup anyways: to get people playing 6s and eventually play in RGL.

Do I see any of this from TFCL? Aside from a wall of text, no. I ask that we support those that are actually taking initiative and putting the money and time where their mouths are without all this showboating. Sure, the marketing for these events could be better... but they're trying and that's what matters. There's even people on the r/truetf2 subreddit trying to help market and publicize these events. Those are the people we should be returning the efforts towards.

posted 1 month ago
#32 TFCL 2.0 - Match Servers, Scrim Automation, & More in Projects

3 Years Ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20230205234221/https://tfcleague.com/2022/02/11/lets-try-this-thing-again-a-message-from-sidular-wall-of-text/

1.5 Years Ago

https://i.imgur.com/3O41cvD.png

It's been 3 years (but for those in the know, much longer) yet you've only and still continued to talk up ambitious goals without anything to show for it. I'd love to be proven wrong though. But please stop misleading a community by making these posts without actually having started anything up, because you look like Nikola Motors right now.

You started TFCL back in 2016 and what do you have to show for it? A Liquipedia page with only one tournament of note with only a $120 prize pool and whose last edit from 2023 was:

TFCLMore recently there has been talks about brining the league back but it has yet to be seen.

I'm tired of watching you talk up a league and seeing a community react to it with a glimmer of hope that you are this dashing knight in armor that will rejuvenate a scene. In fact I'm surprised people are reacting to this thread with optimism having been around during the time of your involvement in the scene. Other tournament organizers and people who work tirelessly behind the scenes to run cups, leagues, and LANs know very well about you and won't speak up, but I'll speak for the majority of them.

posted 1 month ago
#8 ROME LFP in Recruitment (looking for players)

Vio, you face war Emotionally Physically and Spiritually.

froyotech will test your limits.

Now.

Show us, will you lead ROME to the same fate as S14?

Or are you a lion?

We'll await your answer.

Show us who you truly are.

https://cdn.fourthwall.com/offer/sh_3c2e1d9c-5998-453e-bdb3-33a4778b5cd8/d30bdeaf-3583-4791-bef5-c7f8c79fea21.jpeg

posted 1 month ago
#13 Denver LAN Photos in LAN Discussion

Chills.

posted 1 month ago
#12 RGL.gg Philly LAN 2025 (18-20 July 2025) in LAN Discussion

would anyone like to join me on a 1 hour trip from the venue to the shady maple buffet (have plans on going but not concrete) probably on friday lol

posted 1 month ago
#3 60hz to 144hz worth it or nah? in TF2 General Discussion

since u live in the usa, pay attention to /r/buildapcsales on reddit for prebuilts. if you're under the $1k budget theres sometimes a 4060 (should be now with the recent new gen of gpus from nvidia) with a i5-1x400 (x for generation of the i5-1x400 cpus) processor that may run around $600-$650

posted 1 month ago
#3 Hallu wins Qualifier 1 in TF2 General Discussion

hallu will humble Yumyum

posted 1 month ago
#92 Fireside announces Physgun Fireside Denver 2025 in News

Total Prize Pool

https://i.imgur.com/1WNRT1d.png

posted 1 month ago
#2 Pacific Showdown: The Ultimate East vs. South Clash in News

Yoooo this is sick

posted 2 months ago
#7 TF2. No Facecam + zen mode :) in TF2 General Discussion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuFqGh2DA-w

a broadway production by officerreekz

posted 2 months ago
#2 i need help in Q/A Help

it looks like your picture is not embedded correctly, try uploading to imgur, right clicking on the image, then clicking "copy image link" brackets. my best guess is you linked the imgur album link (imgur.com/a/) instead of the imgur link that ends with the image file name

posted 2 months ago
#2 $5000 1v1 World Championship in TF2 General Discussion

The whales are coming out to fund North America... the pockets are deep.

posted 2 months ago
#91 Fireside announces Physgun Fireside Denver 2025 in News

Working on titling + uploading VODs, VODs can be found here

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSw7XtwkU5aQE7ZEUNC_xEsM0JkAalP9q

As for Prize Pool: we are still discussing with Localhost how we will be distributing the prize pool, thank you for your patience until we have further updates!

posted 2 months ago
#15 Physgun Fireside Denver 2025 viewers' guide in News

Working on titling + uploading VODs, VODs can be found here

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSw7XtwkU5aQE7ZEUNC_xEsM0JkAalP9q

As for Prize Pool: we are still discussing with Localhost how we will be distributing the prize pool, thank you for your patience until we have further updates!

posted 2 months ago
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