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https://www.lanreg.org/rgblan/rgblan2

Updated the first post with tournament / event information.

Registration for the LAN opens at 5 PM EST tomorrow. The registration link will be here: https://www.lanreg.org/rgblan/rgblan2

This year will have assigned seating.

I will also post tournament rules and other information sometime tomorrow.

Miggy used to talk to me a lot about various ideas for LANs and such. Very passionate guy who really cared about growing TF2. So sad to hear this. :(

Not sure but I'd imagine so.

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Hi all,

It's that time again. :3

Greater Philadelphia Expo Center
100 Station Ave.
Oaks, PA 19456

START: 03-02-2017 10:00AM
END: 03-04-2017 02:00PM

There is assigned seating this year!

More info here: https://www.lanreg.org/rgblan/rgblan2

What is the closest airport to the venue?
Philadelphia International Airport - PHL

What are the details on the hotel?
Click on Hotel Info on the registration page for more information.

Can I play in other tournaments?
You may only play in other tournaments if and when you’ve been eliminated from the TF2 tournament. Keep in mind that the TF2 tournament is only on Saturday, so anything you wish to do on Friday is up to you. There are no tournaments on Sunday.

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FAQ – TF2 tournament (DETAILS TENTATIVE)

How can I play in the tournament?
You’ll need to find a team if you haven’t already found one. Keep in mind that the tournament will be 6 vs 6. This thread will have plenty of teams looking for players, so make sure to post here (and don’t forget to include what class you play). If you can’t find a team, there will certainly be pick-up teams made while at the event.

Will there be a buy-in for the tournament?
Yes, it is $10 per person (or $60 per team).

What will the prizes and payout be?
1st Place: 60% of total prize pool + additional prizes TBA
2nd Place: 30% of total prize pool
3rd Place: 10% of total prize pool

I’m interested in sponsoring the tournament with cash and/or prizes. How should I contact you about this?
If you’re interested in sponsoring the tournament, feel free to send me a private message on here or send an email to one of our sponsorship guys: sponsorship@rgblan.org

When is the tournament?
The entirety of the TF2 tournament will be on Saturday. It will start at 11 AM.

What is the format of the tournament?
6 players per team. There will be a group stage (for seeding) followed by double elimination.

What are the rules?
Class-limits (NA rules):

2 Scouts
2 Soldiers
2 Pyros
1 Demoman
1 Heavy
1 Engineer
1 Medic
2 Snipers
2 Spy

Time-limit / win-limit (EU/NA hybrid rules):

30 minute time-limit
If a team wins 5 rounds (or 4 on koth), that team wins.
If the game is tied after 30 minutes, the tiebreaker will be decided by golden cap. If this occurs in group stage, there will be a 10 minute time limit, and if there is no victor by that time, then whoever controls mid is the winner. If this occurs in the double elimination bracket, there will be no time limit for golden cap.

What maps will be in use?
Process
Metalworks
Badlands
Granary (Pro rc4)
Product (rc8)
Snakewater
Sunshine
Gullywash

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Post in the thread if you need a team.

More info soon. ;3

Nothing official signed yet, so I can't confirm anything. However, I will wink and nod in a subtle manner.

:3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AmXKrYKDmM

Welp, ty for reminding me of this.

hehe ur quadriceps make me blush :3

really thought this was a thread about that J Lo movie.

All of this really makes my head hurt. You're deliberately exaggerating so many situations.

- How is getting healed quicker make it so the game is slower? You can easily argue it makes it quicker.
- So many arrows to get people back to good health are people that stand still for an easy arrow, or perhaps run in a straight line. Standing still or running in a straight line in an FPS game is the worst thing you can do, but you only see players do this for crossbows in very safe situations. If the damaged player was in a safe position, then a smart team wouldn't try to push off the damage.

- You could apply similar logic in just about any FPS game (ie: some people say "who cares about damage, it's all about the kills"). Honestly, a lot of this is easily applied to the last point i made in the previous quote.

- I cannot help but think you're a roamer main yourself, because you're bringing up a ton of exaggerated situations that honestly don't happen nearly as often as you claim (this being one of them). Once again, this exact same point can be easily applied to the last point I made in the previous quote.

- It takes no skill to aim? lol??? It's a projectile with a relatively small hitbox, no splash damage, not hitscan, extremely poor damage up close (while 75 at max range is fairly respectable), and shoots once per second. Yeah, you're right. It's totally like the direct hit. Fuck those no-skill-to-aim brainless direct hit soldiers that are killing this game.

There are countless weapons in this game that are strictly better than their counterparts. Valve, for the most part, doesn't give a fuck about the balance of these weapons inside of competitive play. The community has done their best for a long time to deal with that.

I can't fathom why you'd want to take away a versatile weapon that, in my opinion, makes the game a lot more interesting (and certainly raises the medic skill ceiling). You can easily make an argument that running needles is better protect yourself, because that's a hell of a lot more reliable than trying to hit 4 close range arrows on a 125 hp scout. It's just the versatility of the crossbow that outweighs it. Needles are better on some parts of some maps (A decent chunk of Granary comes to mind), but people never feel like getting stuck with needles, I suppose.

While discussion is always good for things like this, I feel like the crossbow shouldn't even be anywhere close to the top for banning.

TFTV is messed up for flyingbuddy at the moment, so flyingbuddy wanted me to post. I asked for Heavy Bullets and I got it :)

Thanks!

Special shoutout to Alfa. I'm 99% sure he still doesn't know that I posted that, but a handful of people already knew anyway. :3

GXL 2015

I get a king suite that is separated into two rooms. Some of the TFTV production crew stays with me, as well as my roommate, and Alfa. The production crew wasn't going to arrive until late Friday / early Saturday or something like that, so the first night was my roommate, Alfa, and me. Alright, cool.

After I leave the LAN for the night, I hit up Marmaduke's room. There's Marmaduke, Rick, Rando, 4-5 other people that I can't remember off the top of my head (I know some of them were Rick's crew that he brings to some LANs), and a very wasted Alfa. I guess some of them went to some restaurant before this and got some Italian food or something, too. Anyway, we chill in the room for a while. Sometime later, Alfa said he was gonna go back to the room to get some sleep. When I leave, I notice Alfa is in the lounge area, nearly passed out at a table. I wake him up and we go to the room.

So, king suite = king bed. Alfa and I share the king bed. We chat for a little bit, but I said that I really wanted to try to get some sleep. Now, keep in mind that over the past few months, I've had various health problems with restlessness, increased heart rate for no reason, dizziness, panic attacks, waking up in the middle of the night in a panic, etc. Just a whole bunch of annoying shit (which I think ended up being bad anxiety). So, I really wanted to try to fall asleep quickly before some of those things possibly happened. I could hear him texting a bit, which didn't really bother me or anything.

Ten minutes pass by, and I hear him go "blurrruhghgh."

I immediately think to myself "you know, that kinda sounded like he almost threw up or something, but I'm gonna just go back to sleep with full confidence that he's not throwing up and I won't have to deal with this shit right now :DDDdd"

Ten seconds later, I hear him go "BLURRRUGHGHGUGHH." He UNQUESTIONABLY threw up. The room was pitch black, but it didn't matter. Remember the part of the third Matrix movie where Neo is blind but he can still use his hearing to perfectly visualize everything? Yeah, I could just visualize the chunks flying out of his mouth. I could feel the vibrations of the vomit splashing against the bed. It was fucked. It was all fucked.

I reluctantly got out of bed and turned on the lights. I see Alfa, throwing up all over the fucking bed. That Italian restaurant he hit up earlier? All over the bed. Just this incredible cocktail of tomato sauce and alcohol, giving wonderful color to the entire bed where all the sheets, comforters, and pillows that were formerly white. He looks up at me and says "ugh, help." I laugh and go "WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?" I look around, and the only thing I see are these trash cans that are like 3 inches by 10 inches (seriously). I give him this entirely unhelpful trash can, to which I don't even think he bothered to throw up in.

Now, I cannot stress enough how much of an endless stream this boy had vomited. It lasted for what seemed like five or ten minutes. I made him get up and finish his Pollock splatter painting in the sink. When he seemed to reach the end of his vomit spree, he went into the bathroom. While he was cooling off in there, I called the front desk and explained that my retard friend threw up all over the sheets and needed some new ones. At this point, I notice it's like 3 AM and who the fuck knows when I'll be able to fall asleep. My roommate is still in the other part of the suite, completely passed out and oblivious to everything that just happened.

Some chick comes up to the room with trash bags, ready to bag up these vomit-infested sheets. I already feel awful for the girl already, so I tell her not to worry about it and I'll bag up the sheets and give them to her. I also give her like a $10 tip, which I think I had Alfa reimburse me for because fuck this shit. She came back up with new sheets and I put them on the bed, then asked Alfa if he wanted some water or something. He said sure, so I went down to the lobby to grab him some water. I could still hear Alfa periodically throw up while he was in the bathroom, but it seemed like it wasn't as frequent as when it had started. I knock on the bathroom to give him some water, and he tells me to come in. I open the door to hand him the water. Alfa is on the toilet, and he's shirtless with his pants down to his ankles, with fresh vomit ALL OVER HIS LEGS AND PANTS. Oh my fucking god.

After everything has calmed down, I try to go to sleep. Alfa is still recovering in the bathroom. I try to sleep for almost an hour, but I am extremely restless and my heart rate is racing. I feel extremely uneasy and my anxiety tells me I need to go to the emergency room. Again, this is part of the full year where I had various health problems and couldn't figure out what was wrong. I wake up my roommate and tell him to bring me to the ER. We go to the ER, doctor tells me I'm fine and gives me some stuff to calm down, and I'm out of there in about an hour.

We get back to the hotel, and I was so worried about my health that I didn't mention a single thing to my roommate. In fact, I don't even know if he was aware that Alfa was in the room. My roommate was headed towards the bathroom, and all I wanted to do was go back to bed, so I didn't think anything of it. My roommate opens the door, jumps back, and yells "WHAT THE FUCK???"

My poor roommate just wanted to take a shit after a rough morning of taking me to the ER, but he is unexpectedly greeted by a completely passed out Alfa on the toilet, completely naked from head to toe, head resting on his knees, legs still covered in dry vomit, basically surrounded in a vile pool of what used to be food and alcohol. Even trying to brush your teeth was a chore, because the sink was doused in various noodles birthed by Alfa hours earlier.

The hotel was not gonna clean up the mess and neither was I. Alfa had to stay back at the room for an hour and clean everything (which I will say he did a good job). Still, what a fucking night.

It's a little hard to tell for sure because the netcode is kinda meh. Some people are still complaining about Galena's hurtbox. To me, she seems extremely hard to rail right now.

Would it be better if id renamed the game to something else? I don't get it.

I don't think the classes are a bad thing. They are all a little different but still have a lot of the same core gameplay (ie: it's not like there's a healer role). I don't think it's all amazing by any means, but I think it's interesting.

I think he meant the whole system where it's like this:

Green 50% prot 100 max
Yellow 66% prot 150 max
Red 75% prot 200 max

So, for example, having 140 red armor is better than having 150 yellow armor.

Still, that's not the same thing, as I knew what you originally referenced is how there's only one kind of armor at all.

You do know that the game is going to be free to play from the start, right? And the primary currency you get for playing games and completing challenges only unlocks a champion for 24 hours. Unless you use real money (or get an extremely rare drop of the real money currency in the highest tier loot crate), you can't unlock them permanently. You can buy all of them bundled together for, paraphrased, "a normal price of a game." (so like $50? I have no idea)

lol

I mean, honestly, I think your attitude towards this entire topic is basically summed up from this:

http://www.poorlydrawnlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/mad.png

It's entirely fine to not like a game for what it is, but if you want a "real quake game," let me remind you that Quake 4 definitely didn't do well. Many people despised that game quickly, pros included.

If you're going to tell me Quake 4 (or any other Quake game) isn't a real Quake game, then fuck, I don't know dude. Go play Q3OSP online somewhere with <10 people. :|