ohh I meant you as in tf.tv in general, I didn't mean to write it that way

I'm just a statistical sub contractor. My loyalty goes as far as my pay... so not very far

Far better teams though. I'd take quality of quantity, this iseries is going to be a disappointment.

the apathy shown by na (other than gnomes who genuinely tried) is still a huge bummer. i mainly blame multiplay for their delayed announcement, but it's also a symptom of the state of na.

having the stage DOES matter, last year it was incredibly depressing having to sit on the floor to watch the tvs and not be able to hear the casting because directly behind us was a loud cosplay "show" being watched by no one. multiplay have effectively supported our scene by giving us the 2nd largest prizepool and a stage slot. it's comforting to me that even though na didnt show up, eu is, and I very much look forward to sitting down in front of a proper stage with a beer and my friends to watch the best game ever played live.

Not to shit on the essentialstf casting hud but the tftv one honestly looks wayy better (sorry weit)

There's 5 prem teams, 2 prem mixes and a top high team in the invite group.

When it comes to quality of EU teams it's probably the best EU LAN in a while.

Wait until LAN, you really think we wouldn't change stuff up?! You'll see Friday

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I remember we had i58.tf last year for brackets, scores, logs, etc in real time, is there going to be anything similar this year?

did you even try go to i61.tf dude

wiet made both tbf so i doubt he's that offended :^)

the website seems to be down at the moment just so u know

It's not down someone's fucked up the ssl certificate

i55 was good despite not having gf onstage because we had the tent and we were basically the biggest and loudest thing in there.

i52 was good because we had the basement room with its own stage which was great

i58 was lacklustre because we were in a room with everything else and there was a much bigger stage right next to it which was annoying.

I think the ricoh arena worked better as a venue specifically for tf2's needs because it could get its own small area to do its thing but obviously its not big enough to house the entire rest of Insomnia.

https://i.imgur.com/goW37sT.png

https://puu.sh/xg3BX/fad6c59f9f.gif

https://i.imgur.com/w6DI5Pi.png

well ur HECKING bad

but thank u for bringing this to our attention we'll get our best men on it

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Not disagreeing with you but the fact that Dreamboat is being -fragged. Generally quality over quantity means a quality top 3/4. every i series had a significantly better top 3 or 4. If 7 isn't going, this is by far the lowest skill level at the top, and even if they are going, i55 still had significantly better top 4 teams.

All dreamboat is saying is this isnt a LAN of the very best teams in tf2 currently like how it used to be, and an i-series will never live up to that particular expectation anymore. Not really sure what's to disagree with.

Maybe you should have flown an NA team in then

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why are people still trying to """call out""" north americans for not going to this lan, haven't we been over this before

many people would love to go. it's not apathy that's preventing people from going, it's financial issues, timing, etc.

isn't 7 disbanding after this lan

HEY NA TEAM HOP ON THE NATF2 JET AND FUCKING FLY TO EUROPE ALL EXPENSES PAID WE GOT YOU A WHOLE FLOOR AT THE HOTEL

Anyone know if the teams are going to have their little outfits in game with their logos and stuff? It's something I really liked about i55 and don't remember if it was there in i58. It was just nice to have froyo in black w/ the froyo logo vs nerdrage in blue and white with their logo instead of the generic red vs blu.. Really upped the production value imo. I appreciate it's probably a lot of work though.

also more relevant to the thread: I too agree that i61 has been very underadvertised.

Bollocks. Maybe you're less invested because there's no NA team(s) at i61, but there's next year and beyond. Hopefully stuff gets announced a lot earlier in advance then, which it should as we won't have the various delays that happened this time.

Regardless, Euro-only LAN is not a bad thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwXrrotAGDI

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any LAN is a good LAN

Missing froyo is a downer but lets be real the rest of the teams is at the same skilllevel as at previous lans

not sure if there's alt models this year tbh but I know the people who worked on it in the past (uberchain and others) swore not to do it again since it's a bunch of work and half the community doesn't like them

o shit im famous on the internet