Well, thank god for that. Glad they didn't waste their time with something like the invisible player bug.

Cheesesteaks. You're welcome.

You can buy them until they sell out. In previous years we would get maybe ~30 players from the comp tf2 scene and sometimes there would still be a few seats left and tickets would be sold at the door. I don't know how many people the GXL is going to hold this time (350, maybe more?) but considering we already have around 100 pre paid players just a couple weeks after registration opened, and there's still 6 months to go... I would play it safe and get a ticket ASAP.

I'm a hockey player, and I intend to play full contact laser tag. I will go all Liam Neeson on everyone.

There has been talk of laser tag. We should make teams and organize a Thursday night laser tag tournament.

My last 2 phones have been iPhones. The 3Gs, and now the iPhone 5. As an iPhone user I urge you to stay away. iPhones are great when you jailbreak them, but apple is making it harder and harder to jailbreak. When the iPhone 5 first came out it was running iOS 6 out of the box and it took FOREVER for a jailbreak to arrive. I'm still running iOS 6 because of the stable jailbreak. When I'm eligible for a new phone I'm going with an android, probably the galaxy s5

A few things to take into consideration if you want to do a draft:

- you will need rcon access to the servers, so get in touch with staff about that ASAP.

- in previous years we would only get like 4 teams for the draft, but considering how big this LAN will be you will likely get a lot more. I would consider a cap on how many teams you allow.

- If you remember what I did with the index cards, that is very important. On my notecards I had the rules printed, along with spaces for players names/handles and the classes they are willing to play. I would see how many players to determine how many teams we would have, them select the medic mains from the cards. I would call up the medics and assign them as captains. I would have all the player cards laid out on a table and shuffle the medic cards and draw them at random to determine the initial picking order. I used an NHL style draft system for picking (1,2,3,4,5,5,4,3,2,1 etc). The cards are also important because you will have a mix of high level players down to casual players who only play pyro or something. Every team would end up with a couple good players and 1-2 casuals which made it fun and unpredictable. Do the cards.

Edit:

Also:

- $5 max buyin per player (only allow them to hand in their draft card with their fee, otherwise you will lose track of who paid)

- buy a little safe and lock it down to the table and keep the prize money safe.

- single elim only (needs to be a fairly short tournament) winner take all.

I've always run a Friday night draft tournament at GXL and everyone seems to really enjoy them. I don't think nick is gonna have the time tho with how big this LAN is going to be.

$20 says they go after Webber in the off season. Ever since Nashville matched the offer sheet we gave him (which they really can't afford) they have been stacking up on young d-men with enormous potential. They need offense, and Philly is loaded with young offensive Tallent. We can afford to sacrifice anyone not named Claude Giroux to get webber. We can also pretty safely trade away 1st round picks for the next few years because of all the young players we have.

Our offense is fucking scary. Mason is the best goalie we have had in a long time (maybe since Hextall), and if we pick up webber on D it's GG.

probably???

Apple will slap a logo on a macbook powered by a core2duo and charge you more than an overpriced Razer/Alienware laptop with an i7.

You could EASILY find a beast laptop for college that would run tf2 just as good, if not better than your desktop. It shouldn't even be that hard to find it in your price range. 2 years ago I decided to look for a gaming laptop because I was tired of lugging my tower to lans all the time. I took my time and looked around and found this...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834214626

17.3" 120hz display
560m gtx
i7 CPU

Dropped an extra 80gig ssd in there for the OS and it is a beast. Paid like $1100 for it. It was supposed to be $2000 but it was technically "open box" because its original shipping box was damaged, and so were the 3D glasses it was supposed to come with, but that saved me around $900

Look for deals like that. Also, stay away from popular gaming laptop lines like Alienware or the Asus RoG, and especially the Razer ones. All decent, but over priced. Look into the Toshiba Qosmio line (Qosmio is their gaming line). I can tell you from first hand experience they are very good.

Holy shit. 15 teams worth of pre paid players 6 months in advance? Is this real life?

What's the current pre paid count at nick?

There used to be a bunch of awesome music stores in Philly, but they are all gone now. I used to make the rounds once a week and usually fill a backpack with awesome stuff. Spent a ton of money but built a pretty impressive collection. It's too bad all these shops are closing...

Old or young?

I'm 32 and I still play and LAN. Age is just a number, fuck it. Go have fun.