Massive thank you to Squirrel who looked after me the entire event.

Big thank you to everyone who I talked to and made this LAN amazing which includes but is not limited to: my boys from KaoS, Jlebs, Loris, Fribs, eepily, Mop, Gubbins, Fate, Pandah, Greenrab, Elyassu, Bumfreeze, Samiface, Aoshi, Permzilla, CondoM, Jackwalms and Ceejaey.

Special thanks to:

Heny for production and all the slavsquats

All the teams that attended and especially 7 and Svift for making the finals really fun to watch

Shoosh for singlehandedly knocking out Ascent

VoidTrinity for mercing for KaoS

Wolfy for doing memey shit on stream

Jenny, Cider, Hiipfire and Thompson for making the plane home bearable and really fun

All the Chunderboys

That one girl that stepped on me when I was sleeping

That one girl with blue hair whose self confidence I ruined

That One Pint

Cloudy9 for trying to organise that one tournament

Via for being unfindable

And last but not least: "Admirable"

Ill be honest in the last few months I've had alot of negative expierences with the TF2 community but i61 made me see all the amazing and great people in this community again

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Shout out to the stylish and fantastic not dead doggo: squirrel, mop, jlebs, green, pandah. May the chunderboys meme fucking die as soon as possible.

Shoutout to house crew and everyone that stayed with us. Paddie for great chat last night.

Love to cuppers and Sami for hanging with me for about 2 weeks combined now.

FM, kaos, lego boys, worms ily, shoosh, AGRO, dan, Stinson <3, nuze, toot, ams you always have a lovely smile, alle, juno, sac, marten, ceejaey + strong opinions, koston, funs, digyb of rudeboys on the block (rudeboys on the block).

Fuck yeah to Se7en for showing up in the final. You're all fuckin great honestly.

Fuck you to the random hl players that wouldn't stop screaming for like 2 days.

Shout out to essentials/production boys wolf, ash, wiet, jon, and everybody else that makes the stream tick that I met this LAN. So impressed with all of your work this year and v much looking forward to working with you again.

Big shoutout to eep for nailing his first production. Also war, you were fire emoji all LAN.

Also a shoutout to all the players we met and played against. As new players almost nobody was arrogant or aloof and the vast majority were friendly and happy to help. From doggo and kaos (sorry we no-clipped when you banged cheats on!!) to se7en. Actually shout-out to se7en and Paddie for sitting opposite/next us and and not complaining about our hysterical team comms and being nice dudes in general

Watching thalash play was unreal and he didn't even complain how uncomfortably close we were stood/sat to him

Huge shoutout to moist penguin for letting me borrow his pc last minute in order to compete in the open tourney
Shoutout to Bad News Bears for picking up my clown ass on pocket and farming nerds with me, even though we didn't make it into the playoffs we had some close matches (vs yohn's team, getting 5-0'd by yak & nation in 11 minutes wasn't too fun) and I had a good time playing with you all (also big shoutout to x-tis for taking a bus all the way from lithuania and playing on a 60hz laptop, what a fucking trooper that takes some real dedication)
Shoutout to the the weebs for taking me along with them to nandos, was a great time getting to know y'all and chilling
Shoutout to krafty and papi and thaigrr for watching the gf with me
Shoutout to the svift guys for chilling at the bar with me and paddie waiting for a table at nandos (shoutout to svmzi for suggesting the south african white wine, it was surprisingly good given i normally hate the taste of wine)
Big shoutout to banny for being super nice and a joy to talk to (hadn't really gotten a chance to at i58 or esa since we were both busy winning our open and invite tourneys, respectively Kappa), also huge props to you as well for buying us shots and then randomly handing me a jack and coke later on in the night out of the blue haha
Big shoutout to kermit for being a surprisingly good caster and for being my boy and correcting whoever said banny was the only player from NA playing in the tourney, #openlivesmatter
Special shoutouts to funs, thaigrr, paddie, gubbins, cornpop, tino, gemm, turbotabs,and turbomonkey (i always confuse your guys' names haha), and anyone else I'm surely forgetting
Giant shoutout to Henry and the production crew, casters (esp. war and getawhale you guys did great) and everyone behind the scenes for spending countless hours to make this happen and putting on a spectacular show for everyone
Shoutout to everyone I met and talked with, I had a wonderful time and will miss you all <3

No worries my man, you can keep the modmic I haven't used it at all since I got my yeti, and you deserve it for slaying nerds and getting third :3
As for the webcam I think Frysk is going to try to mail it to you, he was going to give it to me but i figured that'd be easier.

Much love to my buds in the gamer house, you guys made this an unforgettable weekend and I cannot wait to see you all next year. Shoutouts to TurboTabs and Paddie for joining us for the "after parties" which was mostly watching streams, frag vids and blasting Pendulum. BIG THANKS to Troublemakers for getting us all into the byoc area, you guys are the best and I wish we could have hung out more. Shoutouts to all the new people I met this year, I'm afraid I'll leave someone out if I try to drop names so I won't.

Shoutouts to all the comp players who agreed to selfies, hugs and the occasional cheek smooches, and shoutouts to those I was too shy to approach. Of course much love to the production crew, casters and everyone involved making this a great lan.

I've met a lot of great friends thanks to TF2 and I hope to see you all again in the near future.

Shoutout to Fate who spent 4 hours repairing the sink at our airbnb
Shoutout to ceejaey for just general helpfulness in random lan based emergencies
Shoutout to the chunderboys
Shoutout to sil for throwing
Shoutout to eepily who did an amazing job, all his mums are very proud
Many lovely gamers who were generally kind and friendly
Wont list the gang, but i love you guys, youre what makes coming all this way worthwhile.

PS(A): if you were a drunk asshole at lan, maybe dont next year. We'd all appreciate it.

The lan was simply great, shoutout to all the merry people I met, and the convos about random shit i got to have with Snacks, Marten, Cupcake, Fribs, Smirre, Thalash,shadyr, Youmu the hardest, the poor sods who had me on their team when i was playing on my rental without any cfg, moists fun team, dvs, shaggy and the others who go hilariously drunk, the entire FM/doggos gang and seven being really nice to talk to, the canadian casters putting their work in, aoshi working his balls off to keep everything running with the bug taking down the lan server, nuze and kermit being around at REAL production hours, the weebs for being nice neighbours ( I laughed my ass off when i come back to my seat and i found the unbindall command in console and the tab with hentai gay porn open :D ) ducky, chandos for being my smoking buddies, rip vani and the 17 gang, died on the battlefield in the war against drugs, the guys i enjoyed watching the boxing match with, worms and plastic minnows for being so fucking cool, ghent, dendo, that drunk irish guy that shared some weed with me, the fucking hilarious frenchies, being extremely nice and cool to hang with, Olga, glastry, Clem, et le morpheus blanc, Karnax (i really want to meet you again buddy) , Raf the giant for letting me steal his seat multiple times, Kosuke,silentes, mason, twisted, Villdjack and the other weeb legends I met, The strong opinion gang, with super friendly Ceejaey inviting me in to sit along and watch good tf2 together, god i prolly am forgetting half the amazing experiences i had with each wonderfull individual, see you at the next lan in 5 years :DDDDDD

I assume that you haven't gotten to check your loadouts yet then?

probably overall the best LAN i've been to, thanks to everyone who made it special

also it was a pleasure to become world champion for the 2nd year running...if someone from se7en could show up late or be a cripple again next year that would be appreciated

First and the most important shoutouts go to GipsArm, for actually making the WebHUD work and being there to help fix issues/improve the hud from the front-end code I wrote for it and Teleportato who made the loadout weapon icons for it.

Shoutout to niceAsh for driving me around the UK, hotel room, donating his 970GTX & making my first 6s LAN amazing!

Cookies for Esport United Mia for enjoying the stroopwafels I brought and the tweets posted during the event.

Massive shoutout to Sim, Gemm & Tino_ for observing i61 with me!

Thanks for Essentials.TF & Jon for producing the entire weekend

Special mention: amazing couch host Getawhale for being the only person to use my first name and his shoutouts to make the group photo happen during the Grand Final.

Thanks to all the casters & analysts and weatherman Nuze, making observing for them a blast!

More hugs to everyone from hugs.tf I who finally got to meet IRL <3

Shoutout to KritzKast Agro for being good company during breakfast & walks to the venue

Thanks everybody who came up to me to thank me for literally anything I've done for TF2 and I've forgotten your names of.

Hearts for everyone who showed up behind the production desk, in the crowd and for the community group photo.

Vriendelijke groeten voor alle Nederlanders en Belgen die ik heb ontmoet en hoop weer te zien!

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I will see you guys at the LAN in Sweden in 2 months and hope to blow you guys away after gathering, listening to and improving the HUD based on your feedback!

Thanks to essentials for putting on an insane show, everything looked fucking awesome and way beyond what such a small community should be able to achieve. From the observers to the analyst's, you could tell everyone put their all in to it.

Shoutout to Kermit for being my last minute co-caster, I'm sorry if I cut you off many times but I could literally only tell that you were talking by seeing your mouth move from the corner of my eye sometimes.

Davidthewin, thanks for helping me and my fiance set up her stuff and for being a nice guy, please come back to us, we love you.

Anyone that was on the TF2Bench.

My discord guys, I will be honest, words cannot describe how fucking strange it is to meet some of you guys in person I wish I was a bit more outgoing and had more time to spend with you.

And yeah, I don't really like doing this because I normally feel like I'm just forgetting people all the time. Anyway, I had a lot of fun, it was nice to really feel like I was a part of something amazing. I already can't wait for next year.

big shoutout to team
shoutout to devon and funs for room
shoutout to ringo
shoutout to the jungle speed squad
shoutout to driver matt truff for saving me when shuttles were closed
shoutout to smirre for chat in the hotel lift (i never introduced myself lol hi its me)
shoutout to everyone i met especially ppl at afterparty thing :D
love u all <3<3<3

Huge thanks to all the teams that showed up and played and especially to Se7en and SVIFT for giving us a grand final that TF2 deserved.

Thanks to all the players who gave me feedback on schedule and format prior to the event.

Thanks to all of you who turned up at the event and spectated and also thanks to all who were watching from home on twitch. It's for you guys that we do this and if Multiplay thinks i61 was a sucess it is because you guys turned up or tuned in!

Thanks to everyone who I had the chance to work with at the event.

Special thanks to everyone who believed in us and gave us your support coming up to the event. It was rough at points and if it wasn't for you Hiipfire, PJC, Wheatley, Treetoon, Caoul, alba, Smirre, Bobinsky and Remco we might not have ended up where we did.

Event was a lot of fun to watch and reading these messages makes me wish I hadn't been such a pussy when it comes to lans. I'll try for i64.

P.S. Raymon is a god

Shoutout to big snusers

Shoutout to Turbotabs for helping me cast at my first LAN.
Shoutout to Multiplay for providing me a hotel for 4 nights, and for providing so much support in general.
Shoutout to Bear for letting me sleep in his hotel on the last night because I booked my flight out on the wrong day.
Shoutout to Paddie for sleeping at the air bnb so that I could sleep in your bed on the last night. (you didn't do this on purpose but I'm thankful none the less, also sorry if you missed you're flight)
Shoutout to everyone working with eseentials.tf, but especially Wolf, Weithoofed, Jon, and Heny for all the under appreciated work you guys did.
Shoutout to Subway for providing coffee that got me through this event.
Shoutout to all the people I hung out with and talked with on Sunday night, you were all great to talk to.
Shoutout to anyone who I had added on snapchat, the stories from that event were great.

shoutout to everyone that i talked to while drunk

Thank you guys to accept frenchies with shitty english <3
After nine french lan, I can tell this lan is the biggest one and you all were very cool.

Might go to other EU lan with Raf cuz of you :D

Shoutouts to Sim (Scotland first), Wolf, Jon, Ash, Lasse, Mia, Wiet, Heny, Gemm and Aoshi for putting in so much time doing the production/observing/last minute on-site coding, and to everyone else that made the LAN happen.

Shoutout to everyone from mumble that made this the best LAN I've been to so far.

Shoutout to all the teams for giving us a reason to all meet up and drink.

Shoutout to that one guy that dabbed on stream when I asked for it.

Shoutout to everyone that endured my casting.

Shoutout to war for talking over me.

Shoutout to you reading this.

Shoutout to Papa John's.

I love you all.

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Even though I have started working away from my computer and most of the internet for the summer, I want to thank you guys for keeping this going. Up until I got this job, I was really hoping I'd be able to help carry this torch, but a job is a job. But, thanks to you, there are still people willing to carry on the spirit of TF2. It warms my heart to know I can come home after three months on a rock and this community is still here.