cre-8i get pissed and distraught over lans for two reasons, one there are no lans of any game close to me where i live
gonna say the same thing to anyone I try to convince to come to LANs; if you don't live close, save up for travel if you can. In both the US and in Europe it can be shockingly cheap to actually get to an event if you look into it. For RGB4, I was planning on paying for THE BILLDOZER's flight coming into Philly from Houston because it was under 100 bucks. When I asked my ETF2L team about coming and meeting up at i65, they all said it was too expensive without looking at flights, which were all around 150 dollars or under.
Not everyone has stable income or the ability to get the time off of work/school to be able to attend events, and that's totally understandable; and sometimes LAN travel can become pretty expensive (all of the NA people who regularly attend iseries and copenhagen can definitely attest to this, as well as people who travel east>west coast or vice versa for NA LANs) and this still doesn't include LAN ticket and hotel/airbnb prices, but those often times can be helped as well via methods such as room sharing with teammates (this also is just a really good chance to bond with close online friends, recommended even past cost savings). I know I had been wanting to go to LAN for years before 2017 but didn't get the chance until RGB2 as a combo Christmas/birthday gift from my dad, and since then I've had a bit of my personal savings set up for LANs.
TL;DR - LAN can be less expensive than you'd expect if you haven't even actually looked at what prices for flights/busses/trains/etc. are, and just because LANs aren't local to you (in TF2 we don't really get that privilege due to the game's size) doesn't mean they aren't monetarily feasable.
Appologies for nerd essay, just this kind of attitude about LANs bugs me. If you want to go to LANs in your continent, it is not super difficult to make happen provided a bit of dedication.