Happy Monday! I hope you've all had a great weekend! No long(ish) news this week, but we have an update regarding a 'soft deadline' for team registration over on Nerdstreet

June 1st Soft Signup Deadline

Due to the fantastic increase in teams forming and looking to play this LAN event, we'd like to let people know there is potential for a soft deadline for our event and it's recommended that groups purchase event Team Tickets sooner rather than later to reserve your spot in the event that we run out of space! RESUP.GG recommends that all teams planning to attend purchase their event tickets before June 1st to guarantee their spot!

Per usual, you can check the Team Spreadsheet to see how progress is coming along for teams forming!

To stay fully informed on any information updates regarding "The Block" LAN in Philly, or other projects by RESUP.GG, we encourage everyone to join our official Discord!

Thanks!

Hey everyone! I hope you're all excited for LAN in Philly in just about a month! I wanted to make a quick post with some smaller updates, just to keep everyone in the loop. I’m happy to announce that I’ve been brought onto the RESUP LAN staff as one of the Tournament Admins, so you can expect to be hearing a lot from me as the event approaches. I’m really excited to be a part of a project that puts the future of our game and community first :)

Event Tickets, Discord

If you haven’t already, you can purchase tickets now! And you can join the RESUP Discord where you can coordinate travel plans with others, communicate plans at the venue, discuss the event, recruit for your teams, and never miss an announcement for current and future RESUP projects!

Official RESUP.gg Event Team Spreadsheet

Speaking of building teams, I’m happy to share that we’re rolling out an official RESUP LAN Team Sheet for all teams and players LFT for the event. If you are looking for that one last piece of the puzzle for your roster, trying to string together a last-minute team from others looking to play, or just want to see who’s going, this is the sheet for you! Feel free to check it out here!

If you see any errors regarding your status or roster, please follow the directions on the sheet to have them edited!

We are always open to hearing from the community, and ensuring that everyone has a positive, fun LAN experience is something we really strive for! Please feel free to reach out to b4nny or me with any questions, concerns, or updates! We’ll answer all of your questions in the discord, additionally, you can add me on Steam here (please leave a comment before adding!) or send me a DM on Discord @ Witness#3415

Probably mechanically better than most of Main on scout, easily good enough to play on a top 4 team in the division. Teams with serious intentions to place or outright win and have the patience to properly teach the format to em have the potential to be greatly rewarded.

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I'm not local, but I've been putting together a small travel guide featuring ideas for how to save on flights, some information about the venue and surrounding area, and a great variety of food options around the venue recommended to me by friends and Localhost employees!

This is still a work in progress, but I hope it helps!

Localhost Philadelphia "The Block" Travel Guide/Tips

he has a 2nd full-time job farming on community harvest servers. Imagine the amount of winning you'll do if he applies his harvest grind to your team...

Incredibly happy to be sponsoring this event, always really exciting to see new ideas push the status quo! Special shoutout to Kaidus, the tournament staff, and everyone planning to do coverage for this event!

Nearly a year in for a bump, I think I'm going to have a good amount of free time for the summer for grinding more and playing!

I'd like to play either Scout role, pretty comfortable wherever your team might need me!

I can offclass pretty well too!

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https://twitter.com/WitnessGamingTF/status/1496101875413827595

Some Unfortunate News

Copenhagen Games 2022 has been cancelled for 2022, unfortunately snuffing out our plans to send both our NA and EU rosters to compete. You can read more about the details here

What Does This Mean for Me?

If you have contributed to our "NA wG to CPH22" fundraiser and have not received your perks, please DM us! Those who have graciously donated but have not received any perks yet (jerseys, demo reviews, item signings, etc) will be entitled to a full, 100% refund upon request! To receive a refund, please contact me personally through Twitter DMs (@witnes_, @WitnessGamingTF), Discord @ Witness#3415, or email @ faulkner.ian@gmail.com with your Indiegogo information and confirmation ID for verification and request of either a refund, or wish to receive your outstanding perk.

We STILL plan on running our raffle, so please standby and keep an eye open on our Twitter and this thread for whenever we call names!

Those who have donated and received desired perks will not be eligible for reimbursement, the funds raised will be saved and instead use to bolster efforts for both our NA and EU teams travel costs for future events.

We're deeply saddened to learn about the sudden cancellation of CPH22, especially after the promising news of rentals becoming available for a large number of teams.

https://twitter.com/WitnessGamingTF/status/1481596691564449792

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I'm bringing some wG masks and MAYBE stickers, come to say hi and I'll hand some stuff out!

We Did It!

Hello everyone! I hope you've all been having a wonderful holiday season so far! A few things to note in this update but most importantly we have reached out goal of raising $4000! I'm over the moon about this and the support coming in from everyone has been very strong and motivating for myself and the team!

Outstanding/Missing Perks

I'd like to start off by saying that with the closure of our campaign on Indiegogo, our perk list also closes. Thanks to everyone who supported us with these donations and we hope you enjoyed our available list of perks!

That being said, if you have purchased a perk and have NOT received it or an email confirming your status please send me an email @ faulkner.ian@gmail.com OR a DM on Discord #Witness3415 so we can sort out any outstanding perks. Please make sure to include your Contribution ID# in your message so I can help as smoothly as possible.

Please also feel free to provide us any feedback you might have for our perks, how communication was handled, and if you were satisfied with your order as well!

Omicron Status

As reports of Omicron cases and waves report in, we're doing our best to keep a close eye on the situation and hopefully we can make the safe, smart choices as needed when the time comes to travel overseas. There's nothing we can really report on our status travelling at the moment, but we expect more news to become clearer in late February/early March.

Should the LAN be cancelled due to COVID in April of next year, any outstanding and unclaimed perks will be refunded upon request, no questions asked. As previously mentioned, we're keeping our eyes open and fingers crossed!

Conclusion

I'd again like to deeply thank everyone who has made this project possible for the team and myself. This was my first time ever really undertaking a project like this and I felt like I was learning tons along the way! We love you all for helping out and the support just means more than the world to us!

Donations will still be open through Paypal and Venmo!

If you would still like to contribute towards our goal with a goodwill donation, you can! You can send payments to faulkner.ian@gmail.com on PayPal or Ian-Faulkner-9 in Venmo!

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Hi! AFAIK FROYO, and other NA teams have not made their plans public on whether or not they plan to attend. I'm sure if any other NA group was planning to join us, but I'm certain if something were planned we'd be seeing a thread here on TFTV/Twitter, so keep your eyes peeled!

Similarly, I would anticipate rosters being announced or planned on both regions will start popping up in some official capacity as we near closer to the event in April! You can check out the Copenhagen Games 22 TF2 Discord here to always be up to date!

Update #7
Hello everyone! I hope you've all had a great holiday so far! The contents of this update contain nothing too crazy in terms of any changes to the campaign, but the information is pretty important towards our fundraiser!

Perks and Playoffs
For our NA team, RGL Invite Playoffs is getting underway with us in the #1 seed. In order to play our best and focus and avoid overbearing with the holiday season, the time it takes to resolve some perks might take longer. We apologize for the inconvenience!

COVID-19 Update

For those unaware, the omicron variant of COVID has been making its rounds all over the world. Some countries have already turned to travel bans while organizations like the WHO and the National Institutes of Health work to learn more about the variant.

While the Games are scheduled for April 2022, we will keep our eyes on news developments and make sure to keep the community in the loop!

Thank you all again for your wonderful support!

As always, if you have any questions regarding our fundraiser please don't hesitate to get in contact with me through my personal email (faulkner.ian@gmail.com), or Discord (Witness#3415)

Happy Holidays!

$3000 Update!

Hi everyone! I hope you've all been having a wonderful November so far!

We recently passed $3000! It's still a huge shock to me that we managed to make it this far for our fundraiser and we couldn't have done it without your help. There's not a whole bunch to report back on in regards to our fundraiser, COVID status in Denmark, or other things of note regarding our team with LAN so this update will be short and sweet!

Milestone Updates

We recently have met all of our Milestones! While there currently isn't anything listed for 3000/3500/4000, we're brainstorming ideas everyday! If you had an idea and wanted to share it, feel free to email me at faulkner.ian@gmail.com, or DM on Discord @Witness#3415!

Previous Milestones, like the in-house MGE tournament and Game Night are currently being planned and we expect to have those rolling out soon!

Perk Redemption

I would like to close this update by reminding anyone who has not received their non merch perk (jerseys) to please reach out to me. I have a few outstanding names in our database of people who have purchased a perk, but have not gotten into contact with me in order to work out some of the logistical steps needed to fulfill!

This is a really exciting moment for all of us on wG, our fundraiser ends in 28 days so lets really try our best to get in their and make it happen!