Also, please spread the word that registration is live. I mass-messaged everyone about it, but I still want to make sure no one is in the dark about this.

I will, but I'll do that at some point this weekend.

It was also a little hard to manage last time, so please make it clear when you've found a ride or if your car is now full.

http://www.thegxl.com/civicrm/event/info%3Fid%3D3%26amp%3Breset%3D1

REGISTRATION IS LIVE. 44 early bird tickets are left as of this very second.

Post that you paid and I'll put you down on the original post as paid.

I just want to echo this once more, just so people don't mindless buy tickets.

We have no plans of doing refunds or ticket transfers this year. Please make sure that you can actually go before you buy your ticket.

The first 50 people to sign up will pay a discounted price of $50. After that, it's a flat fee of $60.

Also, when you buy your ticket, make sure to say "yes" to the question "Are you participating in TF2?" This is important due to us needing a good estimate on how much space we need to lay out for the TF2 players.

You'll have plenty of time. I think it sold out about two weeks before the event last time, and that was when registration opened in April.

Already bought the 518 and g400 from him. :(

meb, I'll buy the 518 and the g400.

I'm avoiding matchmaking because of how bad it is right now. From what I can tell, it matches you against random opponents and not any of similar skill, plus there's a pretty bad problem with cheaters.

I was quite lucky, because what you described has already happened to me a ton of times already, haha.

Right now, we have no plans of doing refunds / ticket transfers. We spent countless hours doing refunds / ticket transfers last year. It was an awful headache, and it took up more than half of my time being the middleman in those situations. On the GXL website, we will have an actual hard number of how many seats we will have left. If you aren't sure about going, then don't buy your ticket until you're sure.

Benk's reply addresses my exact thoughts on this:

Everything you made last time was delicious af.

nope, you'll be fine.

eight hours.

Got a silver from the elite case.

Then I opened about five normal cases. Lead, Bronze, Bronze, Gold, Cobalt. lol?

Basically this. There's no need for us to have a more "fair" advantage by making anyone from EU play on a Chicago server. NY gives a reasonable ping to everyone, given the circumstances.

Correct. Bdonski and Decimate get roughly 90-100 ping to east coast servers.

I dunno, there probably isn't a better solution. It would be reasonable if all of our players lived in the northeast of NA (like most of nerdrage pinged the same to most/all locations). The ping discrepancies suck, but it's just a showmatch after all. As long as it brings attention to the i55 fundraisers and the i55 LAN itself, everyone is content.