For reference, poLANd.tf 2025 and 2026 had Bo5 grand finals where the UBF winner's advantage was getting both map bans at the start, which seems to have been a good tradeoff

All the casters, observers and analysts for their knowledge of and passion for TF2.
The content team for taking it to a new level, both those at the event and those online.
Everyone who stood behind a camera to bring us live footage of players analysing pushes, fixing monitors and going wild when they became world champions. Sorry about yelling in your ears when I forgot to mute.
Everyone who gave live feedback on the broadcast and viewing experience.
Everyone who attended, as always the vibes were immaculate.
Everyone who watched, restreamed, and showed that peak viewer numbers don't depend on simplification or selling out but on good fucking gaming.
Fireside and LegãoTV for bilingual online coverage.
BaseStack Łódź staff for coming through as always and making this the best LAN venue I've ever been to.
Sodium for build, admin, shitposting and breakdown. Without you this would have been very different and almost impossible.
Supra for servers, setup, organising everything, and putting heart and soul into the event to make it happen in the first place.
Our sponsors Pancernik and Papito for believing in us and putting their money where their mouth is.
All the donors: we covered 100% of our costs. Our future events will be easier, cheaper and better thanks to you.

This was my 10th LAN production and one of the best. "Surreal" doesn't cover the fact that I get to work with the best people to put on shows like this for the best community, let alone the feeling of pulling it off. My job is to put other people's work together: I spent 69 hours doing that across 4 days and every one was worth it. Thank you to everyone who watched the broadcast and who said how much they loved it. Thank you to everyone who made it happen.

<3

cu@

My post-LAN hot take is that this infinite overtime config works best on LAN. During the online season, I'm not a fan for regular matches, I don't want to gamble on midnight finishes every week and if teams can't push then it just isn't good; I could be convinced either way for online playoffs; but for LAN playoffs where players, admins and production are all in the same venue, where nobody is doing anything else and where teams are even I don't want to go back.

<3

Restreaming guidelines

If you want to restream poLANd.tf 2026 on your own Twitch channel:

1. Open a ticket in discord.poland.tf to tell us you're doing it
   
2. Set a delay of 120 seconds in OBS
   
3. Have fun!

i69 was obviously huge for me as my first LAN, poLANd.tf 2024 was very special both for running production and for the general vibes (shoutout to BaseStack Łódź), but I gotta say poLANd.tf 2025 for getting to run the show of my dreams (maybe we add a stage this time? donate.poland.tf)

As well as being broadcast from the venue on twitch.tv/EssentialsTF we're excited to announce our English remote stream will be on twitch.tv/FiresideCasts and our Portuguese remote stream will be on twitch.tv/LegaoTV!

As mentioned before, we want to build a stage to elevate it to the level it deserves, and that will only be possible with your support: if that's something you want as well please consider donating at donate.poland.tf <3

"SourceTV: https://twitch.tv/EssentialsTF"; is them pointing to the Twitch stream instead of the STV connect string, it's not related to the STV demos (which I agree should be uploaded)

Hyped to announce the crew bringing poLANd.tf 2026 to life:

Casters

• Benpl
  
• Domaytoe
  
• jakeowaty
  
• eepily
  
• Surny
  
• TurboTabs
  
• wandum

Production

• Antimation
  
• DrHappiness
  
• JMaxchill
  
• ondkaja
  
• Samus
  
• siyo

Admins

• Sodium
  
• Temrane

Content

• ArchRhythm
  
• Audiofall
  
• Condawg
  
• deli
  
• Emily
  
• Zuri

Making an event like this happen isn't cheap. For 2026 we aim to purchase enough hardware to be self-sustaining in future, with a stretch goal of building a stage in the venue: you want it, we want it, and it may not be cheap but if possible we will make it happen through your support at donate.poland.tf!

Applications to cast/produce/etc close TOMORROW, if you want to be part of it then apply here and please remember too that an event like this can only happen with your support <3

cu@

If you want your forum name changed I suggest posting in the name change request forum at https://www.teamfortress.tv/forum/22/requests

If you want to cast, produce or otherwise contribute to ÜBERFEST 2025 then applications are now open until Saturday 23rd!

cu@

give snake last a death pit