I think he said during the showmatch that they are confirmed to go, even if they have to pay their own way there. Also, he said he might be putting up a donation thing soon.

Is sending people from Australia much more expensive? I'm curious as to how much they'll need to raise.

~1k rangs seems like a sound estimate

Why would it cost 10 times less than sending an American team?

You are clearly inexperienced with the usd to rang conversion

Last i heard they were still waiting from word from their sponsors. Four of the team would be able to pay for the trip themselves if need be (not the preferred option obviously). The others would need some help.

All of them sound very keen on making the trip so i don't doubt they'll find a way, sponsors or not.

And Yuki has mentioned on several occasions that if anything changes or they know more etc, he'd post here about it.

tl;dr

STRAYA CUNTS

last I heard from james is that they're gonna have to pay for a lot of it themselves but they should still be going, and they should be making a thread soon to gauge interest in what people would like from them if they were to try and do a fundraiser

I'd certainly donate if they made a thread about it.

Just make a donation drive like the tf.tv did, even a showmatch could work (if they don't get over200 ping), I would definitly donate as I did to the american donation drive

Showmatch with 2 top Australian teams?
Or if that's too unequal - with some kind of doublemix from top 2 Australian teams?

At least this is better than 200 ping...

If you want a showmatch, tune in to watch the Australian prem grand final in about 11 hours from now!

Pretty much spot on.

Our manager unfortunately has been dodging the question/issue for months since we gave notice. We feel it has been left too long to a 'maybe' or a "I'll let you know tomorrow" (x100). Most of our team will be putting forward a decent amount of money each, so if we were to do something like a fundraiser, the goal of it would be modest as we don't want people emptying their wallets for our sake when there has already been another fundraiser for a different team (HRG).

As Conductor said, we will be making a thread just to gauge interest on what people want FROM US if we were to receive your monetary aid. We aren't just going to make a random list of things - we're prepared to actually give people what they paid for, which is not only for us to compete at i49, but also things like mentoring, 'class videos', etc.

If our fundraiser is successful, we're planning to put most of (if not, all) the winnings into a charity of our/the community's choice.

Official post with all the info coming soon. I think it will be on ozfortress first, as a lot of people on there don't actually view tftv (surprisingly). I hope you guys don't feel this is us excluding you, though.

On the plus side, we have already (over a month ago?) talked with Tapley to organise tickets/seating at the event. We're just in the process of organising other semantics. We're definitely hoping to start getting the ball rolling sometime later this week.

Yuki pretty much covered everything important - a sum of a number of factors has led to us moving away from our (hopeful) plan A and towards plan B. There will be a thread up on ozfortress as soon as possible with general information, our goals, and what we want to give back to the donators and the community as a whole.

I've already drafted the post and we're just waiting for clearance from the ozfortress admins before we go ahead with it - I'll either post a direct link on these forums or just cross-post. One of the main reasons for making an interest-poll is to get some feedback about what the community (not just ozfortress!) might like as perks/your expectations if something like this goes ahead and is successful.

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Awesome! I'll be donating :)