Thanks to everyone I spoke to and hugged and drank with u were all so lovely again, thanks to production admins etc for organising another amazing event and thank you to Pepis Pizza Party for Ahving fun, beaming and always playing!!! hope to see you all at future events.

Thanks to Being Esports for reaching out to KritzKast and getting the ball rolling on this LAN event!
Thanks to PXB Media and Serendipity to allow me to use his car with the ESPORTS vanity plate to drive down from Sweden with production equipment to make this event the best produce one yet (imo)
No thanks to network based audio and video signal transmission :/
Thanks to BaseStack for having us and all the equipment being available to use and making sure the only thing we managed to clear out from the bar was the tequila (guess we have to try harder next event)
Thanks to the German police for not giving us a fine when rolling up to the venue with studded winter tires to unload gear.
Thank you Decaf/Simon for being excellent company in the car, hotel, venue and comms!
Thanks to all the VIPs, players, live spectators and online viewers.
Thanks to the amazing production staff behind the scenes and the talent on camera and the admins running the tournament.
Thank you supra for bringing poLANd server tech to ÜBERFEST
Thanks Aoishi for bringing a smartwatch charger I could borrow on the final day!
Thanks Fireside Casts for their B-stream coverage!
Thank you everyone still playing after all these years, showing up to LAN and being able to put faces to names of players I met when I started playing competitive TF2 almost 13 years ago!
Shoutout to everyone participating in the RED vs. BLU Bonk! competition, Jarate (beer) won by a lot!

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Hope to see everyone (and more) next year!

a massive thank you to organizers and literally everyone attending for giving me the time of my life, see u all next year <3

thanks Arie for helping me with LAN serveme when things went south
thanks F2 for helping me with logs.tf plugin not showing a score properly (i got a hotfixed plugin version in less than hour)
thanks JMax(no)chill and Wiethoofd for keeping production in check and all observers, also thank you Decaf for making all of these cool camera to game transitions possible, it was beautiful <3
thanks BaseStack Dortmund for being such wholesome people to work with with any matter possible and thanks for tons of coffee I got
thanks DCS and CanFo for a smooth tournament administration and great cooperation with me and players
thanks ike and jekeb for giving me a joy of playing fighting games on LAN
thanks zambz for a cool FK2, i'll definitely make use out of it
thanks Being Esports for entrusting me the server management and letting me see all of these people I love spending time with and people I haven't ever seen in person while knowing them for 8-10+ years in the game
thanks for all players/viewers who I had an opportunity to spend time with, you are so lovely
hope to see u in poLANd.tf in March and on ÜBERFEST in September!

Thanks all of you TF2 community, who were on the lan, thank you for everything you have done. I am glad to be part of it. Respect to u all Dortmund squad

thanks be quiet! and memory PC for sponsoring the event, giving us machines to play and coolers to give away
thanks Gideon, Neswhite and all BEING ESPORTS team for running a tight ship but giving us room to do as we pleased
thanks BasetackDE for coffee (discovered far too late), excellent facilities and keeping us in beer till the very end
thanks JMax, Wiet, Simon, Supra, Samus, DCS and CanFo for making sure everything ran smoothly and looked great
thanks Benpl, Surny, Beater, Jakeowaty, Luck, eepily, NotSteven and wandum for answering the call to greatness, adding your voices to the casts and couch, and giving true texture to the LAN
thanks FiresideCasts providing a place for B-casts, hope we can do the same for you one day.
thanks Antimation for the intro vid putting us all in the right state of mind every time it played
thanks axl and 3DylanStar and Chiers for giving us graphics, used on announcement posts, logos, shirts and Bonk propaganda
thanks TurboTabs for delivering 12 easy questions, all with a pounding head - I'm sure you knew all the answers all along
thanks Toom for telling me how much a "signed fight songs CD" would theoretically be worth, the day before we gave a very real one away

thanks viewers and players, old and new for keeping this game alive and making LANs possible 17 years after I started playing it. CU @ ÜBERFEST 25

Shoutout to Gideon and Being esports for putting the whole thing on and being genuinely the best non-tf2 org I've ever worked with. It's been so good to work with a group of people as supportive and passionate as you are
Shoutout to kritzkast for inviting me and organising so much, to all the production champions for the tireless hard work that you put in every single time, DCS Canfo and Supra for doing all the complicated tech and admin stuff I'll never understand, and to the rest of the gang at Basestack including the bar staff and security for keeping us going the whole weekend.
Extra shoutout to Jmax who's an absolute king and puts so much work and dedication into every event he works even if, in the eyes of some old guy like me, it feels like he only joined the world of tf2 production recently.
Shoutout to all the other talent that worked so hard to put on a great show, BenPL, not Steven, Jake, Surny, Wan and Lucky. Bonus to Lucky and Wan for being genuinely just great friends and forming a trio of idiots with me to create the best sofa segments to never be able to be aired.
Shoutout to all the teams for some crazy close tf2 throughout the whole tournament as well as being great to talk to in the limited downtime.
Shoutout to the 14 hour road trip crew Turbotabs, Samus and Lux, and the 1000 mile pringles. Much love to twiikuu and Cupcake for being great friends that it's been a long time since I've been able to see.
As always sorry if I forget anyone but bonus shoutouts to KO, whip, Tob, Raf, Alba, Smirre, Marten, Warped, Piggles, midnight 6s + anyone who bought me a drink.
Final bit of love goes to the folks who came up to me and complimented the casting over the course of the event, I was probably half thinking about the next thing to do when I looked confused and said thanks but it genuinely means a lot to know that people enjoy it and makes every event feel so positive

shoutout to Being Esports: Gideon, Paul, Lukas, Kevin and Nathalie brought as much passion to the event as any TF2 player and spent months working on this to make sure we had the best event possible, we could not have done this without you as an org and as individuals
shoutout to Wiethoofd for running around making sure everything worked and letting me sit on my ass pressing buttons
shoutout to Simon for roaming camera, crowd reactions and replays were fire and I didn't know how much I wanted those transitions into game
shoutout to Antimation for production, handling the desk segments meant I could take a breath and think about other things and my sanity is so damn grateful for that
shoutout to Samus and Beater for observing despite all us yelling in the background, I'm sorry we locked you on the other side of the venue but hopefully the crowd sound made up for it
shoutout to Benpl, Surny, Not Steven, eepily, wandum and jakeowaty for casting and doing justice to every single match, you make it a pleasure to listen back to all the clips and VODs
shoutout to Lucky for hosting, breaking everything down and keeping it running smoothly no matter how long I told you to fill for
shoutout to supra for the servers, the hotfixes and the pugs, you are the reason this event ran so smoothly
shoutout to DCS and CanFo for adminning, this event had more moving parts than any I've previously done and you kept it running
MASSIVE shoutout to Denny from BaseStack for fixing our audio issues and making sure we actually had sound
shoutout to Whip for force-feeding me tequila
shoutout to piggles for the beer
shoutout to fishyard (1-1 drunk chess score)
shoutout to everyone I cooked with in the bar after finals
shoutout to the crowd, we need more stage matches next time because there is no feeling quite like hearing you roar
shoutout everyone I've missed, everyone I chatted to and everyone I didn't get a chance to talk to, LAN is what makes this a community I want to be in

this is the first time I've left LAN without LAN blues. every other time, there have been things to improve on, bits to add, mistakes to fix, but this time we nailed it. everything I wanted at previous events, we had. stuff I didn't know I wanted, we had. sure, we can improve it for next time, but thanks to all the hard work that so many people put into this, we did LAN right. I did 5x 20 hour days and I do not regret a thing.

Being Esports motto is "doing esports the way it's goddamn meant to be" and thanks to them and all of you we did TF2 the way it is god damn meant to be.

thank you. cu@

yippee!

shoutout to my lovely doggos lux, cupcake, eepily and tob <3
massive shoutout to EoN for coming all the way
shoutout to all the old heads showing up, especially vIKTOR "cAPS" dAGNER, kaja, smirre
shoutout to bestie obvi, wylenn and bv, we definitely had met in game
dédicace a mes compatriotes
shoutout to funny englishmen mak, piggles, "puck" (sorry but lmao), kn, tronald
shoutout to karaoke crew

shoutout to jmax and gideon for sacrificing 10 years of lifespan to put up an awesome show and event,
shoutout to everyone who also worked hard to make that happen,
i had a really good time

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thank you to being esports for being so fucking cool and giving everything weve ever wanted for a tf2 broadcast
thank you to gideon for being the fucking goat and running the event like a madman
thank you to decaf for completely nuking his shoulder getting all of the roaming camera shots
thank you to the observers samus and beater for doing such a banger job with the observing that we never once had to look at the stv ourselves
thank you to the anonymous chef who cooked all of the staff 3 meals a day and let me actually have vegetables at a lan
thank you to antimation and jmax for absolutely locking down the broadcast and making it one of the smoothest yet
thank you to jmax for yelling at me to shut the fuck up in the prod room and letting me fulfill my scrawny cs caster dreams in the finals
thank you to surny and jakeowaty for stepping up big and getting some good ass casts in
thank you to benpl and not steven for improving so much over the last year. the difference between where you are now and a year ago is insane
thank you to eepily for casting with me and letting me be selfish and take all the big moments
thank you to the crowd for being fucking legends and letting eepily and i live it up. getting to cast in front of a live crowd is such a fucking privilege and you guys were so loud it made my cringe ass speech on map 4 bearable to listen to
thank you to everyone who reached out and said nice things about the casts, means so much you have no idea
thank you to all the teams who played out of their minds and gave all of us casters and the audience something to get excited about
thank you to turbotabs for being turbotabs my goat
thank you to lucky for sleeping on the cuck bed and enabling the three of us to talk about precum piña coladas 1 min before the desk went live
thank you to eepily and lucky for buying body spray and absolutely gassing me and everything else in the hotel room 30 mins before we left for some reason
thank you to the drugged up homeless guy who ran at us when we left the venue at 2 am for randomly dropping down on the pavement and licking it instead of actually chasing us
thank you to ignis for being my window into the mind of the german pugger
thank you to aoshi for not spending the whole lan sneaking stickers onto my back this time
thank you to qbrown for dropping 96 dpm
thank you to the other blue bonk truthers who checked the toilet bowl the next morning (iykyk)
thank you to mak for creating horrors beyond comprehension (green bonk)
thank you to all of those who bought me drinks
thank you to db and dsb for getting together for an all time collab of getting me home as late as humanly possible without me having to order a taxi
thank you to stu, klara and fnutech for having to embrace the 2,5 hour delay together
my voice is completely fucked i sound like ive been chain smoking 2 packs a day for the last 10 years of my life
all love
cu@

Shout out to my incredible team for picking me up last minute and being able to handle my boomer brain. Also shout out to us winning the pub quiz.
There were so many awesome people that i fear i might miss some if i listed everyone, so shoutout to all the amazing people and to the organisation!!!!

Definitely was a great lan

Super beautiful tradition and after meeting you all, I am not suprised that a community like this has a such a tradition :D

I will do my best to not forget anyone:

For starters, thank you to the TF2 community and especially those trusting us an entirely new organizer to actually come to our event. This would have not been possible without you and it warms my heart that it worked out so amazingly well in the end. I am not overexagarating when I say that I NEVER thought, people would be so open, kind, amazing and warm this weekend.

The biggest thank you MUST go to the huge row of people that worked their ass of before and during the event. DCS, JMax, Wiethoofd, Beater, CanFo, Samus, Antimation, Agro, Supra, Benpl, Decaf, Jakeowaty, Surny, Lucky, wandum, eepily, Notsteven and Chiers. Without them basically working for food and hotel this would not be possible and I hope everyone understands and appreciates that.

Also huge thank you to our team at BEING ESPORTS Kevin, Lukas, Paul, Nathalie, Axl, and Benni for almost making me obsolete by doing their job so freakin well both on site and before the event. Seeing us grow makes me su fuck*n proud of you all.

Thank you to BaseStack for giving us a home and trusting that we would make the event work without having any idea of the number of people that would attend. I am happy it all worked out in the end and can't wait for next year.

Thank you to KritzKast for letting us use their channel for the broadcast.

Thank you to Valve for the amazing shipment of prizes and valuable merchandise.

Thank you to Memory PC for the stage setup - we wouldn't have had without PCs to do it without you.

Thank you to be quiet! for reducing our cost for lanyards and snacks and for providing prizes for our side events.

Thank you to my amazing girlfriend for not only putting up with me constantly working at events but actually joining in on the fun.

Thank you for all the kind words after and during the event. I got teary eyed more than once on the way back thinking about these.

Also thank you to my immune system for not making me get sick this time around (YES! :D)

If I forgot anyone - please don't hate me. I love you. See you in 2025.