Hello people, we do apologise for the radio silence from our end. With this post we will try to cover some questions that we’ve seen that people have and also give a general update about the event.

Covid-19:
At the moment Denmark has travel restrictions due to Covid-19. Domestically, the Danish ministry of health suggests that the amount of people newly infected with Covid-19 (which is updated daily) will peak sometime in January. However, the wider Covid-19 situation, such as vaccination rate and spread, in your own country might affect your possibility of attending the event.

We still believe that Copenhagen Games will be a thing, at least currently, a full cancellation of the event seems unlikely.

It is important to remember that being unvaccinated in Denmark is going to limit you a lot. Unvaccinated people will have to be quarantined on arrival to Denmark until they have at least 1 negative PCR test. This may vary depending on your country of origin. Even with a negative PCR test you may still face problems entering restaurants, public transportation and the venue. Thus, we recommend everyone who plans to attend the event to be fully vaccinated.

Safety at the event:
There will be restrictions within the actual venue. We don’t have any official guidelines as of yet as these will be decided on closer to the event. However these restrictions could include measures like requiring attendees to wear facemasks, proof of vaccination or social distancing at the event.

Rentals:
There is an update on the rental situation, but it’s not for the better compared to the information that we’ve previously provided. Currently there’s unfortunately no rentals confirmed, neither PCs or monitors. It is a very unfortunate situation that we’re trying our best to resolve.

We want to be transparent about why there’s uncertainty with the rental situation. The reason ties back to how rentals have worked at previous Copenhagen Games events. There are no companies operating in Denmark that have the capacity to rent out PCs+monitors suitable for gaming in the numbers that are required by an event like this. The solution has been that every rental at Copenhagen Games is originally bought by Copenhagen Games and then after being rented out during the event is resold at a discounted price. The current market for PC parts makes it almost impossible to close a deal that would allow us to provide rentals without making a large economic loss. While this is a tremendous task that we’re trying our very best to find a solution to, there is currently none. We will try to keep you all updated as soon as something changes.

Cancelation of the event & refunds:
If the event is cancelled due to a lockdown in Denmark or similar political interference, there will be a refund of the event tickets. Other events are right now in a grey-zone, which means we, at this time, don’t know what kind of refund we are looking at. If you have any worries in that regard, please write a short scenario and DM @Mia#8373 in the Copenhagen Games 22 TF2 Discord, and we will discuss your scenario with Copenhagen Games leadership.

In the event that you are unable to attend due to illness or travel restrictions between Denmark and your country of origin, your own insurance will have to cover any costs.

Lastly, it’s incredibly important that you read and understand all refund policies before booking anything for the upcoming event, this includes the event tickets themselves, your travel and your stay in Copenhagen. It’s also important that you have a good understanding of what your own insurance will cover in the case that the event is cancelled or if you have to extend your stay in Denmark due to new restrictions or quarantine requirements.

General event information:
Tickets for the event are now for sale and you can buy yours here: https://copenhagengames.com/ticket-types

We will try and provide more information about the tournament structure itself and the event schedule as soon as possible, but as you can imagine, our current top priority is to first find solutions to more pressing issues.

On the issue of medic speed.

Several people have raised this issue and after some discussions back and forth within the admin team as well as with external parties we’ve decided to not use the “medic speed”-plugin for this tournament. This means that the medics attach speed will be back to what it was before ETF2L season 37.

Play shit koth maps as much as you'd like. (Invite will also have slots for tiebreakers)

You shits better be on time.

it's a no from me.

Feel free to sign up on toornament now so I can start working.
Link for hl.
Link for 6s.

joe is the real hero here

So I’m usually too lazy to check these threads out when Wiet makes them but I’ll quickly respond to some of the concerns raised by samiface and starkie as well as comment on how I’ve been working with the schedule since last Copenhagen games.

First of all, the main premise while working with the schedule for last year and this year as well was to make it possible for players to participate in both Highlander and 6’s and also view the both tournaments as equals in shaping the schedule. Lastly, delays should if possible not affect the other gamemode.

First let’s talk a bit about last year:
I felt like the schedule last year was somewhat okay, it fulfilled the main premise that I was given. However as sami brought up this ended up compromising player experience at least on one certain point where we were experiencing issues out of our control and as this delay was made during the 6’s tournament the goal was to not have it affect Highlander in any way. (Thus the awkward late night and early morning last year for 2 teams)

In general however I do not think that delays were worse than at other events I’ve been involved with, as in, running both Highlander and 6’s on the same event didn’t seem to make delays harder to deal with. However, I do also understand that while I basically spend the whole event looking at the clock and pushing players pretty hard at times other things such as food and sleep seems be something that also matters to them, even if this concept is still a bit unclear to me.

Things that were noted from last year and that has been changed for this year are:

• Each gamemode will now play in bigger blocks, this will result in more matches without any longer break, however, when you’re done you might not need to get back to the venue the same day.
  
• If 6’s play late in the night, HL will start early in the morning the next day. Thus hopefully giving players a bit more sleep unless you’re unlucky enough to play in a 6’s team that play the last match of the day and a HL team that play the first of the next.
  
• We need to work harder with mitigating potential causes for delays and this has also been done for this years event, I’ll come back to that further down in the post.
  
• Last year it was hard to find time to eat, especially lunch. This year there will be a 1h break for lunch on the first day, this will both make sure players get time to eat but will also put a break into a big block of matches that might otherwise be exhausting.

This year in general:
I started working with this years schedule a week or two after last years event mainly because of the issues that we had at the event. Having them fresh in memory at the time hopefully helped, I also gathered feedback from some of the players to see what they liked and disliked about the event. The current *not final* schedule has also been sent around to selected players for feedback.

A big concern was that correlates to the schedule is also how we should minimise the risk for delays. We’ve looked at the main reasons for delays last year and I feel like we’ve dealt with most of them in an adequate way. There will always be the issue of people showing up late which might or might not be worse this year as we will be relying on people getting the bus to and from the venue, we’ll have to see how this works out but if anything this is where I expect we’ll see delays. Added to this we want to make the event bigger this year and thus accommodate more teams, this will result in more matchers and thus we’re running a bigger risk of delays. We’re also running a pretty tight schedule this year as well but I do feel that we still have enough room to deal with delays.

Finally, I do hope that I’ve taken the concerns that have been raised thus far in this thread into account while making the schedule, at least I think that might be the case.

Sry for wall of text.

Also, if you have any concerns that you feel you want to bring up feel free to msg me on discord Heny#7551 or just add me on steam.
Also, if you have any concerns please raise them and do so bluntly, it's much easier that way. Like: "Heny your moustache is actually ugly as fuck and it kept me from concentrating on the game last year."

cu@ afterparty.

Sry for late notice but there will be Copenhagen Games talk on KritzKast tonight.

Our aim is to have lan servers ready right away so we're working very hard to make that happen.

Hopefully, I've been working hard at a format and a schedule that will work even if signups fail or reach a higher number than expected. Last event we had to make some last minute changes due to highlander signups being different than expected. This affected the format for the HL tournament and also demanded a few tweaks to the schedule for both tournaments. 6's delivered more or less what was expected in terms of numbers last event so that format didn't change.

tfw the greatest thing about your county is a pudding.

lol

It's going to be good my dudes.

The, at time of posting, 57% that have voted no is the reason why tf2 can't grow as an esport.