http://i.imgur.com/oL2TGs3.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/zh4MEvT.jpg

TF2 community cleaned up most every game, was noice. Flame threw the draft in the finals so we got 2nd place in the dota tournament. (Ignore my kotl feed) I didn't feel as bad though when I saw the 1st place team wearing matching dota team jackets later that night.

As per usual excellent group of gamers that I miss already. Thumbs up lan, let's do it again next weekend aye?

keith missed a safelane pull 2 times in a row before 2 minutes and was level 1 at 5 minutes.

send help, and tutorials to @smerbot

I never regret going to lan, everyone is so fucking nice and fun to talk to! Can't wait till next GXL so I can see everyone again!

am i on the right or the left?

http://i.imgur.com/OUi0s8U.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/y6hxALE.jpg

L->R: buick, boulder, smaka, truktruk, bearie, mala, thefragile, sezco

http://i.imgur.com/7w8Xq5N.jpg?1

I'm not even going to attempt to label this one because it'll be so incorrect, someone else feel free

freestate,
fragile,
photon, ben, radium,
boulder, butts,
showstopper, cj, grape,
gruesome twosome
cole, vacationer,
truktruk, ash
smaka
mala, ? bearie
sezco, ninjanick
buick

? = bearie

http://www.twitch.tv/showstopper__/c/6282546

The hidden gem is that alex tried to push river alone as demoman and then blamed our team.

me marm rick clock thorn and rando were at carabbas getting breadsticks for days, sorry we missed the group picture

Hey guys,

MahoneyBadger, of FITES, here.

Sounds like everyone had a great time at the LAN. It's always awesome to hear the feedback, and on the whole it sounds like this was one of the best LANs yet. It certainly seemed that way on the Staff side as everything was running very smoothly (even with the L4D2 update hiccup). Feel free to contact me over Steam if you want to give any feedback directly too.

We're in the post LAN process of determining what needs to be done for the next one, and we'll be sure to keep the community here posted.

Mostly, thanks to all of you for a great LAN experience. I don't think there was a moment of people being bored or not in a game together. It was a great time, and I'm always thankful to you guys, the players, that make it happen.

Until next LAN, keep that KD ratio hot.
--MahoneyBadger

are you locked into that venue? The hotel was pretty underwhelming and the room being underground turned it into a sweat pit.

if the room had any ventilation/windows/the room wasnt pitch black and we didnt need to wander outside to get from room to room everything wouldve been perfect

yo mahoneybadger, would it be possible to host a LAN in the summer? you will get a crazy fuckin turnout.

I know SO many people that can't go to LANs because they are during the school year. There would be a huge presence from the TF2 community if there was a LAN hosted in the summer.

We're not locked into that hotel and I've been actively looking elsewhere myself. There's a lot of options, but we're heavily dependent on available space and power. That and we are rather adamant about using a hotel as opposed to a larger warehouse venue like the Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg. Having your own room right at the venue has become something that is integral to the FITES brand, and we want to keep it that way.

We actually did do a summer LAN once, but it was a failure in terms of turn out. More than likely because it was done in early August. The problem we have is that Summer is a little tricky. Summer dates at hotels will drive the costs way up because "wedding season". And then there's timing. June is still game for elementary to high school kids (and our community does have kids that age ;) ), and then there's fourth of July travel that happens. And then back to school for people.

We're totally open to hearing suggestions and what people think, but for now we plan on keeping the big LAN set to the last weekend of Feb. Believe me I would love to not worry about last minute blizzards messing things up for one year, but costs and timing are everything.

For east coast tf2 we have gxl in october and fites in March. A summer lan to break the 7-8 months in between them would be so killer.

I'm not sure when your last summer LAN was, but recently LANs have picked up a lot of interest, at least in terms of tf2. I am almost positive a summer LAN, ideally in mid-late July, would have a great turnout for tf2. As far as hotel costs go, and I can only speak for my group, the price didn't factor in to our decision to go at all. We would all just love a summer LAN to hold us over.

Another +1 to summer LAN

summer lan would be sweet

tf2 beach house weekend

I think this summer might be a little too short notice to plan, but like Mahoney said, our last summer event didn't go so well in terms of turnout. And that event we got very lucky with pricing. Normally for summer events the hotel wants weddings so they want to charge us 3 times the Feb/March amount.

But right now I came here to drop off those STVs on my dropbox. Sorry, I didn't do any viewing or sorting aside from pulling the finals out. I just wanted to get them posted quickly. If drop box starts being difficult I will put them on the FITES site.

the tf2 nerds have a huge boner for eachother after gxl now, so comparing this summer to last summer isn't legitimate.

mala just needs to post "bringing cookies" and swarms of sweating gamers will flock to the wherever you tell them

Anyone know if the unofficial bo3 team LOL stomped hoops in is on there?

K, bringing cookies to the tf2 beach house this summer!

The wonderful beaches of New Jersey?

def not boston

The Virginia beach looks nice, I've never been though.

And if Clock doesn't show up in a speedo the entire thing is a waste.

I live around like 20 minutes away from the ocean in Va and it's great. There's tons of locations if you want the ocean, bay, or just want to do fun stuff in the rivers and stuff. Pretty crowded I think at some places I haven't been to many beaches though. A Virginia beach summer lan would be sweet

I'm quite alright with this.