Best weekend I've had in a long time and met some awesome new people, more specifcally:
shoutout to the people at my house Mastrej, Domthewhiteguy, Pravus and Morris for being chill dudes to hang out with
shoutout to Big Win for playing their hearts out in the open tourney
shoutout to FrickMyNick and Grape Juice for the funny ass commentary while watching matches
shoutout to Ma3la for giving me a hug despite me talking to him about the Bone Zone
shoutout to eXtine for the beer and being an nicest dude to talk to
shoutout to b4nny and Shade for winning Rewind (and then losing beer pong to me and Dom ;)
shoutout to Dashner/Uberchain/everyone involved with Ready Up that made me cry manly tears

Love this game, love this community, can't thank you all enough and hope to see you next year

shoutout 2 charis for getting lit
shoutout 2 ryan for bring the designated_driver
shoutout 2 ether for getting a new phone while simultaniously getting yelled at by his parents
shoutout 2 trip for being a normal human being
shoutout 2 jynx and froot for looking like cousins
shoutout 2 alexandros hi
shoutout 2 monkeyjedi for ubering me to the venue

c yall @ next year

shoutout to permzilla, he's probably been having a rough birthday weekend

shoutout to casters, analysts and everyone else involved in production for once again bringing an awesome LAN event that I wish I could have attended, every year they do this with unreal commitment

Shout out to eXtine and burnsiders, you guys are the best kind of people I know.
Shout out to sideshow and Bren for keeping that crowd energized.
Shout out to everyone that boo'd that chick that shouted faggot.
Shout out funke, pasta Peter, Tony, hedgehog hero, for being super cool people.
Shout out to uberchain for her passionate speech.

I feel like these events go by so fast, but I can't wait for next year.

Shout out to max for driving places/just being really chill.
Shout out to whoopi for being the master chef at kbbq.
Shout out to moof for being a creature.
Shout out to Mr. Magoo for making such an awesome son.
Shout out to cornpop for being really cool to talk to about tf2.
Shout out to Kryptonite for destroying me on sunshine last.
Shout out to Ombrack for being French!
Shout out to clockwork/muma for paying for the ubers.
Shout out to ZESTY FOR BEING MY FAVORITE GAMER AND WATCHING MY SHIT FOR LIKE 3 HOURS.
Shout out to dippidy, tatuwah, cat, and zoma for being awesome teammates and sweating with me.
Shout out to Pie_hero, Phazon, J4v, Starka, Shylo, and tetra for being awesome housemates.
Shout out to everyone who helped plan the event and who attended it.
Now I want a real pc :( I've seen the good side and want to leave the shit laptop side.

Shout-out to Dashner for ready up and wrangling a great group of people to make rewind happen.
Shout-out to jasbuts and uberchain for some awesome design work and help with the matcherino campaign.
Shout-out to Geel and Samiface's for sponsoring the event.
Shout-out to our amazing on air talent, both commentators, analysts, and hosts.
Shout-out to the production and observing teams.
Shout-out to Kenneth, TSC and DrShaddowPuppet for running a smooth as fuck tournament.
Shout-out to TF2 foe being an insanely welcoming group of people.

I always have a blast with you guys.
Seriously there are about a million people to thank. Every single person should be proud of this event, whether you worked it, played in it, or watched it. Everyone plays a part in making it something special.

Shoutout to my team for taking care of everything while I was gone.
Shoutout to Frenzy for subbing in for me.

Shoutout to Feces for organizing things for me so that I had somewhere to stay and be safe for sure. :)
Shoutout to Sideways Whoopi Goldberg, Tatuwah, and BIG CAT for allowing me to stay at their room last minute and being so kind.

Shoutout to all the teams that have participated and to all individual players (Moof gets a special shoutout ♡).
- Shoutout to SVIFT and Velocity for letting me join in for their dinner because I was left alone at the venue first day with a dead phone... :’(

Shoutout to the audience (on stream and at LAN) for making the matches exciting and great (special shout out to the Ascent girlfriends for being so loud and to RandomCookie because you’re always supporting TF2 ♡).

Shoutout to all the people who took a selfie with me because I didn’t have any mousepads for people to sign on. :p And to all those who let me record videos of them saying “I love [friend’s username]” (all my friends loved it, thank you for even adding a kiss at the end, Samiface).

And lastly, shoutout to EVERYONE who made Rewind 2 possible and happen!
Although I kinda got out of control sometimes, I had an amazing weekend and hope everyone else did as well!
I hope everyone is having a safe and nice flight back home!

Shout out to moof for driving me from the airport on Thursday, letting me borrow blankets, and just being the best ever.
Shout out to all of SVIFT and Velocity for making those 2 teams feel like 1 giant one outside of tf2.
Shout out to the 20 something people that chilled at our airbnb Saturday night 'cause it didn't get trashed or anything.
Shout out to charis for being a donut (you had to be there, because he sure wasnt).
Shout out to glider for the emergency food run on Friday night after delays made me have to skip 2 meals.
Shout out to Big Chips for letting me hang with them on Sunday watching the early games.
Shout out to crate for paying our tables bill at Norms when she didn't need to.
Shout out to Kings Crew for being hype as fuck all LAN, talking to all y'all was a pleasure.
Shout out to all the people that asked me to sign random stuff.
Shout out to all the people I met that I didn't say get to say a proper goodbye to, everyone was chill as fuck.

Shoutout to sideshow and Bren for the free pitcher, you lads are good fun

shoutout 2 dane for not coming so i could be the cool youtuber this year

hey i finally got time to sit down and type this out

shout out to everyone on black swan, ive known all of u guys for so long and played w/ u all and it feels nice to meet u all in person (esp jynx)
shout out to jeremy specifically, he joined our team less than 12 hours before the event and had to play for 15 hours on friday. you're also hilarious as fuck and one of my favorite people that i met
shout out to everyone on night dogs, you guys are all my friends and it was nice seeing u all again (i think ive met most of u b4)
shout out to velocity, you guys are all rly cool and u also allowed me to see a completely gone charis which was hilarious as fuck (also i finally got to meet krypt, he was on my first open team :) )
shout out to kings crew for a great game and for making the event hype, only got to talk to okie and change but both of u r rly great
shout out to big chips for going to 7/11 w/ us and just being rly chill in general (also i finally got to meet whoopi by the bathrooms)
shout out to glider for giving me anime
shout out to cray for being dumb
shout out to dandi for being the short 40 year old asian mother i knew she was (also for injuring my left arm the day before the event it still hurts heck you)
shout out to fusionn not being allowed on 4 planes and not being able to come on rewind ( :( )
and shout out to everyone i met, you guys are all really nice and my only regret is not talking to more people and not talking more w/ the people that i met, friday just killed me inside and i just wanted to sleep the rest of the weekend
(also shout out to the organizers behind the event, you guys are amazing for making this happen and making this the best 3 days ever)

sorry if i forgot anyone im sleep deprived and had to go through school

edit: additional shoutout to big chips for giving us some really intense matches, the match we had in the invite bracket was rly close

Shout out to Black Swan and Velocity for the great matches and being mad chill
Shout out to Jeremy for being as chill and funny in person as he is online
Shout out to everyone who played 12+ hours of TF2 on Friday
Shout out to Moof for being a potate and helping everyone with rides and knowing the food hook ups
Shout out to the production team for making such a great event
Shout out to eSports Arena for allowing every team in the Invite Bracket to get a chance to play on the big stage
Shout out to Pie Hero for being the homie from the original SoCal lan 4 years ago
Shout out to Skeeeez for getting everyone high as shit yesterday
Shout out to Whoopi for getting tatuwah and bear high as shit
Shout out to Getawhale and Extine for being mad chill
Shout out to Jasbutts for all the awesome pictures she took
Shout out to Brulee, Saam, Kawa, Ghostac, and Sideways Whoopi Lanberg for being great teammates and just as enjoyable to hang out in real life as well as online

cu@ Rewind 3

Shoutout to my boy nuze

shoutout to bren and sideshow for amazing chants and keeping the crowd revved up
shoutout to warfy for finding my phone when i lost it
shoutout to nursey for being a down to earth humble guy
shoutout to ma3la for signing my "sub in ma3la" sign
shoutout for everyone involved in making the documentary, it made me shed a few tears
shoutout to the esports area for letting us run havoc in the venue

shoutout to everyone in the tf2 community for making events like this as fun and warming as possible. I don't know where I would be if it werent for this community.

Shoutout to b4nny

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Shoutout to phazon for talking me into going on this trip
Shoutout to my teammates looking for trouble for some fun games
Shoutout to wyatt for making such a fantastic org and something I’m proud to be a part of
Shoutout to the old friends I got to see like Tino Pete waffleb ghostac and max to name a few
Shoutout to the new friends I made starka shylo alexandros
Shoutout to the euros for dealing with my fanboyness especially kaidus who let me ramble about quake for an hour
Shoutout to ascent for an amazing performance
Shoutout to samiface for selling me on an amazing keyboard and being just the best person
Shoutout to the casters and crew always putting on an amazing show

Tino you still owe me a beer and then some you shitter

Shoutout to morris, zeta, weeble, BiG, and neeko for all playing on blackout boys with me it was a fuckin blast
Shoutout to extine for being the coolest dude and sharing his awesome beer with me and others!
Shoutout to both hedgehog hero and weeble for being incredibly nice hilarious and a pleasure to hang out with all weekend
Shoutout to everyone who hosted any of the parties, especially Wade, Sunday night was an insane amount of fun
Shout out to jynx, charis and the rest of black swan for being super friendly guys and charis for hittin up the dispensary for me ;)
Shoutout to Jarrett and the rest of velocity for having a fuckload of people over
Shoutout to EVERYONE who played in the open qualifier on friday, i learned so much and had such a great time playing with everyone
Shoutout to all the staff and production crew who put so much work into making this event happen
Shoutout to EVERYONE who I talked to the entire weekend, were all so lucky to be part of such an awesome community and it was honestly probably one of my best weekends ever getting to meet so many of the people that play this crazy wonderful game with me :')
rewind 3 here we come

Shoutout to Mallory, Grumpy, and Jojo for letting me room with them and being some of the best and most caring company i could've ever had (they took me to cvs to get some stuff when i wasnt feeling well)
Shoutout to my team (Christie, Polar, Uber, Monkeyjedi, and Hedgehog Hero) for being one of the most impressive pug teams I have ever been a part of and everyone being a pleasure.
Shoutout to Kenneth for being such a stand up guy and doing a great job with the event + everyone else who was working the event in the background.
Shoutout to all the teams we played, regardless of how it went down.
Shoutout to BIG CAT, Tatutwah, Zheep, and Dippidy for being the greatest dragonwarriors
Shoutout to Jewlander for being an incredible friend a second year in a row.
Shoutout to Zoma the Demon King for the amazing time we spent at LAN and at disneyland.
Shoutout to uberchain, dashnerr, and everyone else who was a part of Ready Up TF2, it now toppled the i49 Fragumentary as my favorite tf2 documentary.
Shoutout to all the players i've known online and finally had a chance to meet.
Shoutout to all the Invite players who were overall some of the nicest people and the greatest players.
And finally shoutout to everyone at home who tuned in, donated, or otherwise shared the news on Rewind 2 and made the event as great as it was.

Shoutout to Jojo, Tony and Grumpy for being awesome and caring people to room with
Shoutout to Zoma for being kind enough to drive people places and putting up with my horrible directions
Shoutout to Quartz for getting everyone gifts (and also driving people places!)
Shoutout to my team and every team we played against in the open tournament
Shoutout to Kaidus, Jarrett and Muma for putting up with my awkward approaches
Shoutout to everyone I got to talk to and meet this weekend for being the most awesome group of people (there’s so many of you, and I love you all!)
Shoutout to everyone on Friday for putting up and waiting while we finished our 20-minute sunshine golden cap, that was probably the best game of TF2 I’ve played in a long time
Shoutout to the organizers, casters and production for putting on an awesome show
Shoutout again to the organizers for taking the criticisms from last year to heart, I think the set-up on Friday in the open bracket was perfect and got a lot of people the opportunity to play a ton of awesome TF2 matches

shoutouts to:

familiar LAN faces Christie, Uber, polar, ether, and many, many new LAN faces
Alexandros, BIG CAT, dippidy, moof, and tatuwah for giving me a chance on a team well above my league
Lysol for showing up
zheep for tilting my team with headshots
Librarian Mallory for giving me directions to places
tony and grumpy for making me feel like a kid again
hedgehog hero for buying me sake
weeble for buying me chicken tendies
eXtine for selling me beer out of his car trunk
glider for whom i owe a drink
BiG for nerding out with me about IPAs
neeko for nerding out with me about mice
and all the other LAN dodgers left out there (you know who you are)

shoutout to b4nny for signing my chest

Shoutout to Kenneth for letting me sign his chest.

(I’ll do a real one of these posts tonight, when I can drink and cry over how much I love this community)

shoutout to earthworker mix that Mac n cheese boy

Shoutout to Velocity and Kenzie for being always positive and having our backs
Shoutout to everyone that donated to make this financially possible
Shoutout to cookiejake for motivating me to game when i'm feeling down
Shoutout to seven for being really fun to talk to, and giving us 4 hours of scrims while we dealt with setting up at LAN and they needed to clean their airbnb
Shoutout to all the open teams for giving us good games. it's easy to have a defeatist attitude against a team you think is better than you, but you all played your heart out against us and it was a challenge.
Shoutout to SVIFT for not playing with their food after we played for 14 hours, us losing fast got me in bed sooner haha
Shoutout to Kenneth, my team had 1000 questions and he had 1000 answers, or a way to find it
Shoutout to everyone that was working on stage the last few days
Shoutout to Dr. Shdwpuppet for doing all the server shit, every year ESA seems to make his life a little harder than it has to be, but he's a trooper.
Shoutout to KevinisPwn for always having a huge smile on his face, and helping me and shdwpuppet fix Krypt's computer on stage
Shoutout to Ascent for the best match we played all weekend
Shoutout to Bren and Sideshow for seeing a beer in my hand at 4 PM and deciding I needed a refill from their pitcher
Shoutout to samiface for letting us hang out at her place
Shoutout to dashnerr, uberchain, loris, and anyone who contributed for the awesome documentary
Shoutout to everyone I've beefed with online, I'm always smiles in person and you guys were too
Shoutout to piehero for being a TF2 inspiration and saying some of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me, not sure how good I was at hiding that I was near tears

And lastly shoutout to everyone that went to LAN or watched from home. For better or for worse, the people are why I still come back to this game. You all make it so hard to quit and constantly remind me that sometimes it's worth it to do a little bit worse in school to be happy

Oh man where even to start.

First of all, shoutout to ESA and especially Wade. We as a community have had other homes over the years ESEA GXL, FITES Insomnia, but nothing comes close to the level of dedication and interest expressed by ESA. They really make us feel special and, in a way, Rewind is the primarily TF2 event we've always deserved. Special shoutout to ESA's server guy for coming in on his day off to help answer a few of my questions, their technical guys for always having a solution to whatever batshit request or need we had next, and their production team for fitting in seamlessly with the workflow.

Extra special shoutout to Wade for hosting the after party. I'm 90% sure he'll never make that mistake again, but it was a great time.

Shoutout to Dreamboat, Smithsonian, Turbotabs, Cornpop, Ma3la, Tino, Row, Ombrack, Nuze, Dashner, silentes, getawhale and all of the production people my hung over and jet lagged brain is forgetting. Production was amazing this year and really set the bar for TF2 events imo.
Shoutout to Kenneth for being genuinely awesome and somehow being the only tournament organizer in TF2 history to not have the entire event run extremely late.
Shoutout to tsc for min/maxing pepperoni levels on pizza until it is too late to order. Secondary shoutout to Dreamboat for it being his fault.
Shoutout to Samiface for once again showing her insane dedication to our gigantic family and for being a real friend. <3
Jasbutts for the airbnb, never again will I want to fit 6 to a hotel room. Everyone having a bed is amazing. Also for being a friend even though she probably had no idea who I was before the event. Your kindness is appreciated.
Kevinispwn for seamlessly doing any job asked, for being my LAN partner, and for being my absolute favorite person in TF2 <3
Extine and his roommates for hosting a chill little get together on Saturday night. I couldn't make it out to the main gig at Sami's because I had to be up super early, but I had fun chatting with everyone.
Sideshow, Bren, Muma, and every other gamer that made it beyond our little community for coming back and being hype as fuck
Pete, showstopper, griff, slicerogue, and everyone else that came up and said hi, you guys are all awesome.

Shoutout to all the invite teams for being cognizant of our time constraints and really following admin requests with almost no push back. I know slamming through 3 games with 5 minutes between each and having to swap sides in between sets is hard, but your patience and professionalism shone this lan (yes even se7en)

I am 100% forgetting people but I'm fried from 24 hours of travelling and a weekend of working such an amazing event. Thank you to everyone who came, watched, donated, or even just plays this stupid little hat game. I cried on the way home because every year this gets harder and harder for me to pull off with my real life and I know that one of these will be my last. You guys have been better than my family for the last decade and I can never thank everyone in the community enough for that.

CU@Rewind 3?

All of Black Swan, Jeremy, Dippidy, Pete, Kryptonite, Max, Cray, Showstopper, Bear, Uber, Dandi, Polar, Okie, Change, and Tatuwah were all fucking sick (I might be forgetting some people but I just drove 20 hours today with Jeremy give me a break)
also shoutout to high charis because he is a whole different entity than normal charis. "hey google" "my nipples are SHIT" "my tongue is paper"

hi

Dont forget Asia

Big thanks to Yazeed for going above and beyond and being the best tf2 roommate and lan flank partner I could ask for.
If you're reading this man, finally getting to meet you was the ultimate present box of this already memorable experience.

Shoutout to the rest of the 2D crew and our opponents for getting through so much tf2 together and to the team for not only giving me a hella warm and fun experience on my nights here, but also for putting up with my loudness on roamer in game.

One to the Sharkitect/Supreme/Lysol crew for being just rad dudes to talk to, and for giving me the best TF2 match I've ever played in my life. No online TF2 that I will ever play will likely top the rush, energy, and the fun I had that much.

Another one to the Velocity/Black Swan crew for giving me a great time when I was getting tired of pizza, especially to ether, bear, and Kryptonite who I finally got to meet after all these years (rip ether's phone)

To eXtine and the burnsiders for giving out those positive vibes, especially eXtine for being one of the best human beings I've ever met, for being so dedicated to this game and the team around him, and always cheering me up in passing.

To knuck for basically giving me his config by virtue of me having the PC he was on for the weekend.

To Shylo who made the best out of the time he had to be there with us, whether it was to crack some drunkenly hilarious dad jokes, talk about ANYTHING, or just chill and a jolly huggable dude in general.

To cratea for giving -great- hugs and being a bundle of fun, also for raiding my steam profile :P\

To hedge, frickmynick, weeble, tatuwah (feel better man!), dippidy, spaceyy, Lorgon, and all of the other just EXTREMELY friendly people who never failed to smile or make conversation.

To Change and the King's Crew for putting on a hell of a show and just being rad dudes in person.

To pasta peter and makyy's bunch (ggs) for giving me good pug/game times during the downtime

To se7en who despite losing one of their players (hope you feel better kaptain :< ) even after putting forth so much effort to prepare for and come to this event, were all so friendly and surprising fun to talk to as well.

And finally to all of the people who were a part of the crew and worked so tirelessly to bring this event together. ♥
I may have regrets on not getting to do everything I wanted to do at rewind, but I'll never have regrets going.