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Taking place on February 21st-23rd at the Anaheim Convention Center DreamHack Anaheim will be another massive festival in line with similar events held all over the world by DreamHack. More information can be found directly here: https://dreamhack.com/anaheim/

At DreamHack Anaheim I will once again be the volunteer team lead for Esports. While what my crew is eXactly doing is still to be determined, at DH:Dallas and DH:Atlanta we were involved in helping with a variety of tournaments and helping with the Chipotle Player Lounge. I will be recruiting volunteers to help with various tasks related to that team. Perks include a free ticket to the event that comes with a free byoc spot, some swag, and getting to work with some pretty cool people to pull off a pretty cool event. eXposure isn't worth much and there's not much to offer, but it does offer good networking possibilities if you are trying to get into esports as a career field.

Besides recruiting volunteers for DreamHack, I'm also looking to gather a squad of volunteers to help organize a Team Fortress 2 event at DH:Anaheim. Basically the BYOC area is very willing to work with us to put up whatever servers we need with more support based on how many players enter. I'd like to focus on the small number formats (1v1 Scout, 1v1 Solly, and Ultiduo) with arranged times for 6v6 pick up games.

While I'm taking a leadership role in regards to getting TF2 to happen at the various upcoming DreamHacks, I'll need people at the event who can focus on administrating it. I'm having discussions with various parties about the event already, but I thought I'd post here to publicize the process. The level of what we can achieve depends both on the numbers of attendees we can get, and the number of people willing to help organize the event in it's lead up. We could use a bit of help from online contributors and the goal is to build momentum towards other DreamHacks, so anyone interested in helping is welcome to apply even if you aren't planning on helping with the event.

Sound off in this thread if you're planning on attending. Please hit me up privately through discord if you want to help with efforts to organize a tournament - eXtine (HASH) 7214

Quick story time: I cast the CS:GO BYOC Grand Finals at DH:ATL. I was chatting with two guys that came in 4th place afterwards. They were asking how I got the chance to cast, I told em 10 years of TF2 casting and that I'd done the Top 10 plays of the month. They freaked out a lil, we grabbed a selfie and I recorded a voice message for one of the guy's younger brothers. They also enthusiastically told one of the BYOC leads: "oh my god, you guys should totally throw a TF2 tournament!" I wanna ramp things up towards Atlanta 2020 being a big deal, it starts with Anaheim. Let's do this.

TL:DR, DH:Anaheim would be even more awesome with some TF2, I'm looking for volunteers to help organize that.

(There will be a separate announcement once tournament details have been settled)