WHERE
BaseStack Łódź
Rewolucji 1905 Roku 45
90-215 Łódź
Polska (Poland)
WHEN
23-25.02.2024, Friday-Sunday (games are in all days)
EVENT LINK
https://poland.tf
https://discord.poland.tf or https://discord.gg/C3TWmwj
SIGN-UPS
Sign-ups are invite based with a qualification system.
QUALIFICATION STAGE
All interested parties except invite teams must sign-up to the qualifications in order to participate.
Signups are open until 6.12.2023 23:59 CET.
Qualifications will take place in 9-10.2023.
ETF2L current map pool and ruleset is applied.
INVITE TEAMS
MANDEM
TLR
wer das liest ist doof
Witness Gaming
tf2easy black
HAVOC
★★★½
Varmkorv Boogie
Evil Gameing
QUALIFIED TEAMS
TOILET CLEANER MASTERS
George
NANDEM
alien workshop
3 Steps Back
Bloking Hazard
Saints
PRIZEPOOL
as of now, 128 TF2 keys
if you are interested in sponsoring this event, contact us at staff@poland.tf or @suprovsky on Discord
SCHEDULE
Day 1, 23.02.2024 (Friday)
12:15 Venue opening
14:00 Official event start
14:30 Captain meeting
15:00-16:00 Group stage, round 1
16:00-17:00 Group stage, round 2
17:00-18:00 Group stage, round 3
18:00-19:00 Group stage, round 4 for group A, lunch break for group B
19:00-20:00 Group stage, round 4 for group B, lunch break for group A
20:00-21:00 Group stage, round 5
21:00-22:00 Group stage, round 6
22:00-23:00 Group stage, round 7
Venue is closed at 2 AM on Saturday
Day 2, 24.02.2024 (Saturday)
14:00 Venue opening
15:00-17:00 Upper Bracket Round 1
17:00-19:00 Upper Bracket Semi-Final/Lower Bracket Round 1
19:00-21:00 Lower Bracket Round 2
21:00-23:00 Upper Bracket Final
Venue is closed at 2 AM on Sunday
Day 3, 25.02.2024 (Sunday)
14:00 Venue opening
**below dates are estimations; we run each match right after another before lunch**
14:30-16:30 Lower Bracket Semi-Final
16:00-18:00 Lower Bracket Final
18:00-18:30 Group photo
18:30-19:00 Lunch break
19:00-22:00 Grand Final
22:00-22:30 Award ceremony
22:30-00:00 Karaoke
Event ends on midnight
TOURNAMENT FORMAT
2x8 round robin groups for the group stage
double elimination playoffs without skipping first round (all teams start in the upper bracket) and without grand final reset in case upper bracket team wins
Map pool:
- cp_granary_pro_rc16a
- cp_gullywash_f9
- cp_process_f12
- cp_snakewater_final1
- cp_sunshine
- koth_bagel_rc7
- koth_product_final
THE OFFER
Entrance fee:
- 300 PLN (65 EUR, 56 GBP, 69 USD) for adult players
- 220 PLN (48 EUR, 41 GBP, 51 USD) for minor players
- 10 PLN (2.30 EUR, 2 GBP, 2.52 USD) for spectators
Only 6v6 team-based sign-ups for players. Team registrations are made by covering entire team costs by the captain. There are 96 seats available: 87 in the rooms, 9 on open space organized separately in the venue.
Fee includes:
- one drink for spectators
- full PC rental (240 Hz/144 Hz FHD screen, PC capable of running TF2 on 240 fps, full perhiperals set) for players
LAN experience:
- 6v6 cup for all teams signing up
- tf2pickup.org system available locally for pugging
- entire event is being held in English by people with LAN organization experience since 2018
- venue sells food and beverages, most importantly beer and vodka
- February is a very good time for organizing an event because usually it's winter holidays time in many countries, people who study in college and do well are after exam session, flight tickets at that time are cheap as hell
+ low overall costs (flights to Warsaw or Łódź), sleeping costs are usually 100-150+ PLN/night, beers in shops are like 1 EUR each, in bars/event venue it's a double price :cry: but still cheap, average meal cost is 20-40 PLN (5-10 EUR)
+ previous event photos can be found on https://poland.tf
ABOUT US
We are a group of people who takes care of the Polish TF2 competitive community and our goal for this event is to meet up, play some games, have fun together with some beers and stuff and have a great time overall. The event is one of our initiative where you already know some fruits of our hard work if you have ever played on Pickups like tf2pickup.eu and like tf2pickup.pl which was the first website, where it was supposed to be an event for Poles only.
Our first events were held in Katowice as a very small BYOC event but after having successes in the process and growing up as a whole now, instead of doing it in a venue looking like a warehouse we make events in a cool looking gaming center in Łódź called BaseStack.gg. We did two successful events there, one last year in summer and another one this summer in cooperation with our lovely neighbors from Czech Republic and Slovakia, however having this experience made us aware that we already hold the event in an international manner and there is nothing stopping us from making it more public so more players could come to us and have fun together.
THE MISSION
We would like to fill the niche of having fun together and make an event which would be something comparable to RCADIA event as it's supposed to be held in a community event manner, yet to be competitive so it can provide more fun for players. We think that we can be very competitive in terms of costs which is often a decision making factor making people go/not go on events. After our previous event organisation experiences, we think we are experienced enough to be able to provide high quality experience for all people who would join us. Besides the events I mentioned, we are going to host LAN pugs (based on tf2pickup.org project, with tf2pickup.eu based skills which will be polished and well more balanced than they are now) which often was a problem on events like iseries in order get them going efficiently. We also plan to have physical medals for top places in our cups, however we will try our best to get our medal added into the game. We don't have prizepools yet, however we are always open for sponsorship :slight_smile:
cheers, supra
[size=16][b]WHERE[/b][/size]
BaseStack Łódź
Rewolucji 1905 Roku 45
90-215 Łódź
Polska (Poland)
[size=16][b]WHEN[/b][/size]
23-25.02.2024, Friday-Sunday (games are in all days)
[size=16][b]EVENT LINK[/b][/size]
https://poland.tf
https://discord.poland.tf or https://discord.gg/C3TWmwj
[size=16][b]SIGN-UPS[/b][/size]
Sign-ups are invite based with a qualification system.
[size=16][b]QUALIFICATION STAGE[/b][/size]
All interested parties except invite teams must sign-up to the qualifications in order to participate.
Signups are open until 6.12.2023 23:59 CET.
Qualifications will take place in 9-10.2023.
ETF2L current map pool and ruleset is applied.
[size=16][b]INVITE TEAMS[/b][/size]
MANDEM
TLR
wer das liest ist doof
Witness Gaming
tf2easy black
HAVOC
★★★½
Varmkorv Boogie
Evil Gameing
[size=16][b]QUALIFIED TEAMS[/b][/size]
TOILET CLEANER MASTERS
George
NANDEM
alien workshop
3 Steps Back
Bloking Hazard
Saints
[size=16][b]PRIZEPOOL[/b][/size]
as of now, 128 TF2 keys
if you are interested in sponsoring this event, contact us at staff@poland.tf or @suprovsky on Discord
[size=16][b]SCHEDULE[/b][/size]
[b]Day 1, 23.02.2024 (Friday)[/b]
12:15 Venue opening
14:00 Official event start
14:30 Captain meeting
15:00-16:00 Group stage, round 1
16:00-17:00 Group stage, round 2
17:00-18:00 Group stage, round 3
18:00-19:00 Group stage, round 4 for group A, lunch break for group B
19:00-20:00 Group stage, round 4 for group B, lunch break for group A
20:00-21:00 Group stage, round 5
21:00-22:00 Group stage, round 6
22:00-23:00 Group stage, round 7
Venue is closed at 2 AM on Saturday
[b]Day 2, 24.02.2024 (Saturday)[/b]
14:00 Venue opening
15:00-17:00 Upper Bracket Round 1
17:00-19:00 Upper Bracket Semi-Final/Lower Bracket Round 1
19:00-21:00 Lower Bracket Round 2
21:00-23:00 Upper Bracket Final
Venue is closed at 2 AM on Sunday
[b]Day 3, 25.02.2024 (Sunday)[/b]
14:00 Venue opening
[b]**below dates are estimations; we run each match right after another before lunch**[/b]
14:30-16:30 Lower Bracket Semi-Final
16:00-18:00 Lower Bracket Final
18:00-18:30 Group photo
18:30-19:00 Lunch break
19:00-22:00 Grand Final
22:00-22:30 Award ceremony
22:30-00:00 Karaoke
Event ends on midnight
[size=16][b]TOURNAMENT FORMAT[/b][/size]
2x8 round robin groups for the group stage
double elimination playoffs without skipping first round (all teams start in the upper bracket) and without grand final reset in case upper bracket team wins
Map pool:
- cp_granary_pro_rc16a
- cp_gullywash_f9
- cp_process_f12
- cp_snakewater_final1
- cp_sunshine
- koth_bagel_rc7
- koth_product_final
[size=16][b]THE OFFER[/b][/size]
Entrance fee:
- 300 PLN (65 EUR, 56 GBP, 69 USD) for adult players
- 220 PLN (48 EUR, 41 GBP, 51 USD) for minor players
- 10 PLN (2.30 EUR, 2 GBP, 2.52 USD) for spectators
[b]Only 6v6 team-based sign-ups for players. Team registrations are made by covering entire team costs by the captain. There are 96 seats available: 87 in the rooms, 9 on open space organized separately in the venue.[/b]
[b]Fee includes:[/b]
- one drink for spectators
- full PC rental (240 Hz/144 Hz FHD screen, PC capable of running TF2 on 240 fps, full perhiperals set) for players
[b]LAN experience:[/b]
- 6v6 cup for all teams signing up
- tf2pickup.org system available locally for pugging
- entire event is being held in English by people with LAN organization experience since 2018
- venue sells food and beverages, most importantly beer and vodka
- February is a very good time for organizing an event because usually it's winter holidays time in many countries, people who study in college and do well are after exam session, flight tickets at that time are cheap as hell
+ low overall costs (flights to Warsaw or Łódź), sleeping costs are usually 100-150+ PLN/night, beers in shops are like 1 EUR each, in bars/event venue it's a double price :cry: but still cheap, average meal cost is 20-40 PLN (5-10 EUR)
+ previous event photos can be found on https://poland.tf
[size=16][b]ABOUT US[/b][/size]
We are a group of people who takes care of the Polish TF2 competitive community and our goal for this event is to meet up, play some games, have fun together with some beers and stuff and have a great time overall. The event is one of our initiative where you already know some fruits of our hard work if you have ever played on Pickups like tf2pickup.eu and like tf2pickup.pl which was the first website, where it was supposed to be an event for Poles only.
Our first events were held in Katowice as a very small BYOC event but after having successes in the process and growing up as a whole now, instead of doing it in a venue looking like a warehouse we make events in a cool looking gaming center in Łódź called BaseStack.gg. We did two successful events there, one last year in summer and another one this summer in cooperation with our lovely neighbors from Czech Republic and Slovakia, however having this experience made us aware that we already hold the event in an international manner and there is nothing stopping us from making it more public so more players could come to us and have fun together.
[size=16][b]THE MISSION[/b][/size]
We would like to fill the niche of having fun together and make an event which would be something comparable to RCADIA event as it's supposed to be held in a community event manner, yet to be competitive so it can provide more fun for players. We think that we can be very competitive in terms of costs which is often a decision making factor making people go/not go on events. After our previous event organisation experiences, we think we are experienced enough to be able to provide high quality experience for all people who would join us. Besides the events I mentioned, we are going to host LAN pugs (based on tf2pickup.org project, with tf2pickup.eu based skills which will be polished and well more balanced than they are now) which often was a problem on events like iseries in order get them going efficiently. We also plan to have physical medals for top places in our cups, however we will try our best to get our medal added into the game. We don't have prizepools yet, however we are always open for sponsorship :slight_smile:
cheers, supra
Very late feb plz exam season lasts until about the 20th here
Very late feb plz exam season lasts until about the 20th here
this would be pretty cool i think :)
this would be pretty cool i think :)
less than a day have passed and i already have 73 submissions in the forms, i gotta say i am really excited how good the reception is so far, because honestly my expectation would be to get idk 40 and now i am a bit of afraid that we'll run out of seats very quickly
i mean that's good because it shows a very high demand on stuff we do but the problem is that potentially not everybody will be able to participate
if we run out of seats, we'll see if we can extend it by some extra unused space in the venue with byoc zone
16-18.02 is 99% not the event date because the venue organises their own cs:go event at that time, most likely the date will be 23-25.02 (which the venue owner reserved for us)
i would like to follow up on questions which i got on DMs already:
- submitting your interest does not mean you are registered to the event, in fact we will open signups when we'll finalise stuff with venue owner, i expect it to be done in early-mid October, signups are per player only
- this is an event directed to 6v6 community, so everything will be done around 6v6 gamemode meaning the bball/ultiduo cup is something we do extra, it is a subject of a change for a b-tournament
- 300/220 PLN is a price for event entrance with full gaming set rental included, it's all included into one payment
- if you already look at the transport plans, your best bet is to look at flight connections to Warsaw (WAW), and then train connections to Łódź (train stations Łódź Fabryczna (closest to the venue), Łódź Widzew, Łódź Kaliska)
unfortunately Łódź airport is small and there is a handful of airports from which you can get there directly which are:
+ London - Luton (LTN)
+ London - Stansted (STN)
+ Brussels - Charleroi (CRL)
+ Nottingham - East Midlands (EMA)
+ Milano - Bergamo (BGY)
+ Dublin (DUB)
+ Malaga (AGP)
+ Alicante (ALC)
+ Crete (HER)
+ Antalya (AYT)
+ Burgas (BOJ)
+ Zakynthos (ZTH)
on a sidenote from me:
- regards the prizepool i don't really know how it will go, so far we had only physical medals as a small souvenir from the event, also all our operational costs were covered by a community fundraiser which we'll run if the event comes true
we have never had any sort of prizepool so far, but hopefully it could be changed this time
- so far most of the signups are eu players from various countries
less than a day have passed and i already have 73 submissions in the forms, i gotta say i am really excited how good the reception is so far, because honestly my expectation would be to get idk 40 and now i am a bit of afraid that we'll run out of seats very quickly
i mean that's good because it shows a very high demand on stuff we do but the problem is that potentially not everybody will be able to participate
if we run out of seats, we'll see if we can extend it by some extra unused space in the venue with byoc zone
16-18.02 is 99% not the event date because the venue organises their own cs:go event at that time, most likely the date will be 23-25.02 (which the venue owner reserved for us)
i would like to follow up on questions which i got on DMs already:
- submitting your interest does not mean you are registered to the event, in fact we will open signups when we'll finalise stuff with venue owner, i expect it to be done in early-mid October, signups are per player only
- this is an event directed to 6v6 community, so everything will be done around 6v6 gamemode meaning the bball/ultiduo cup is something we do extra, it is a subject of a change for a b-tournament
- 300/220 PLN is a price for event entrance with full gaming set rental included, it's all included into one payment
- if you already look at the transport plans, your best bet is to look at flight connections to Warsaw (WAW), and then train connections to Łódź (train stations Łódź Fabryczna (closest to the venue), Łódź Widzew, Łódź Kaliska)
unfortunately Łódź airport is small and there is a handful of airports from which you can get there directly which are:
+ London - Luton (LTN)
+ London - Stansted (STN)
+ Brussels - Charleroi (CRL)
+ Nottingham - East Midlands (EMA)
+ Milano - Bergamo (BGY)
+ Dublin (DUB)
+ Malaga (AGP)
+ Alicante (ALC)
+ Crete (HER)
+ Antalya (AYT)
+ Burgas (BOJ)
+ Zakynthos (ZTH)
on a sidenote from me:
- regards the prizepool i don't really know how it will go, so far we had only physical medals as a small souvenir from the event, also all our operational costs were covered by a community fundraiser which we'll run if the event comes true
we have never had any sort of prizepool so far, but hopefully it could be changed this time
- so far most of the signups are eu players from various countries
I don't wanna sound stereotypical about Poland but how are things here if you look a little bit gay on the street ? Will it be an issue of any kind ?
I don't wanna sound stereotypical about Poland but how are things here if you look a little bit gay on the street ? Will it be an issue of any kind ?
AelkyrI don't wanna sound stereotypical about Poland but how are things here if you look a little bit gay on the street ? Will it be an issue of any kind ?
You will find trouble if you are really looking for it (as would be a case pretty much everywhere), but you will be fine. No one will attack you unprovoked, the worst you can expect is hearing a slur for being 'a bit gay'
[quote=Aelkyr]I don't wanna sound stereotypical about Poland but how are things here if you look a little bit gay on the street ? Will it be an issue of any kind ?[/quote]
You will find trouble if you are really looking for it (as would be a case pretty much everywhere), but you will be fine. No one will attack you unprovoked, the worst you can expect is hearing a slur for being 'a bit gay'
AelkyrI don't wanna sound stereotypical about Poland but how are things here if you look a little bit gay on the street ? Will it be an issue of any kind ?
considering i know how do you look like you have no reason to be afraid of anything, also such type of behaviour is something i could see way more on the far east of Poland, so basically lands close to Ukrainian/Belarusian border
it shouldn't be a problem at all
when ur on this topic, English fluency level throughout Poles varies a lot, so if you speak with an older person (45+), chances that they speak English are almost 0
a handful advice from me is to use Google Translator with a TTS option, it was super useful for me in France where almost nobody speaks English
you can expect younger people (15+) to speak English on a very basic level if not fluent
in most cases even if you start speaking English people will try their best to understand you and provide some help if needed because we have a very good understanding that our language is one of the hardest of all, a good opener overall is to say "przepraszam" (excuse me/i'm sorry) at the beginning of the sentence and continue in English as people will have a feeling that you at least try polish
also people from slavic-based countries can even try in their native language as we partially understand them where we have the biggest lingual commodity with Slovaks
overall people are more used to foreigners because we have a lot of migrants(even before 2014)/refugees from Ukraine, especially in bigger cities like Łódź
also polish ppl + alcohol isn't a stereotype, it's a sad reality
[quote=Aelkyr]I don't wanna sound stereotypical about Poland but how are things here if you look a little bit gay on the street ? Will it be an issue of any kind ?[/quote]
considering i know how do you look like you have no reason to be afraid of anything, also such type of behaviour is something i could see way more on the far east of Poland, so basically lands close to Ukrainian/Belarusian border
it shouldn't be a problem at all
when ur on this topic, English fluency level throughout Poles varies a lot, so if you speak with an older person (45+), chances that they speak English are almost 0
a handful advice from me is to use Google Translator with a TTS option, it was super useful for me in France where almost nobody speaks English
you can expect younger people (15+) to speak English on a very basic level if not fluent
in most cases even if you start speaking English people will try their best to understand you and provide some help if needed because we have a very good understanding that our language is one of the hardest of all, a good opener overall is to say "przepraszam" (excuse me/i'm sorry) at the beginning of the sentence and continue in English as people will have a feeling that you at least try polish
also people from slavic-based countries can even try in their native language as we partially understand them where we have the biggest lingual commodity with Slovaks
overall people are more used to foreigners because we have a lot of migrants(even before 2014)/refugees from Ukraine, especially in bigger cities like Łódź
also polish ppl + alcohol isn't a stereotype, it's a sad reality
interested!
how about a production?
interested!
how about a production?
TurboTabsinterested!
how about a production?
it's something i will have to think about
not an easy topic tbh
what we did last year was to handle casting to tftv over a VPN
i am pretty sure that if we are going to do something serious in that direction, you will know about it ;)
[quote=TurboTabs]interested!
how about a production?[/quote]
it's something i will have to think about
not an easy topic tbh
what we did last year was to handle casting to tftv over a VPN
i am pretty sure that if we are going to do something serious in that direction, you will know about it ;)