Applications are now open to volunteer, if you're interested in casting, producing, editing videos or something else then let us know at https://volunteer.poland.tf before Jan 5th!

shoutout to Being Esports: Gideon, Paul, Lukas, Kevin and Nathalie brought as much passion to the event as any TF2 player and spent months working on this to make sure we had the best event possible, we could not have done this without you as an org and as individuals
shoutout to Wiethoofd for running around making sure everything worked and letting me sit on my ass pressing buttons
shoutout to Simon for roaming camera, crowd reactions and replays were fire and I didn't know how much I wanted those transitions into game
shoutout to Antimation for production, handling the desk segments meant I could take a breath and think about other things and my sanity is so damn grateful for that
shoutout to Samus and Beater for observing despite all us yelling in the background, I'm sorry we locked you on the other side of the venue but hopefully the crowd sound made up for it
shoutout to Benpl, Surny, Not Steven, eepily, wandum and jakeowaty for casting and doing justice to every single match, you make it a pleasure to listen back to all the clips and VODs
shoutout to Lucky for hosting, breaking everything down and keeping it running smoothly no matter how long I told you to fill for
shoutout to supra for the servers, the hotfixes and the pugs, you are the reason this event ran so smoothly
shoutout to DCS and CanFo for adminning, this event had more moving parts than any I've previously done and you kept it running
MASSIVE shoutout to Denny from BaseStack for fixing our audio issues and making sure we actually had sound
shoutout to Whip for force-feeding me tequila
shoutout to piggles for the beer
shoutout to fishyard (1-1 drunk chess score)
shoutout to everyone I cooked with in the bar after finals
shoutout to the crowd, we need more stage matches next time because there is no feeling quite like hearing you roar
shoutout everyone I've missed, everyone I chatted to and everyone I didn't get a chance to talk to, LAN is what makes this a community I want to be in

this is the first time I've left LAN without LAN blues. every other time, there have been things to improve on, bits to add, mistakes to fix, but this time we nailed it. everything I wanted at previous events, we had. stuff I didn't know I wanted, we had. sure, we can improve it for next time, but thanks to all the hard work that so many people put into this, we did LAN right. I did 5x 20 hour days and I do not regret a thing.

Being Esports motto is "doing esports the way it's goddamn meant to be" and thanks to them and all of you we did TF2 the way it is god damn meant to be.

thank you. cu@

https://www.twitch.tv/kritzkast/clip/AntediluvianRelatedOpossumPermaSmug-J9OVEV2Mj5UZb2tg

https://www.twitch.tv/kritzkast/clip/MistyCreativePlumberPoooound-OGLMxPloWr9xnJZs

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https://clips.twitch.tv/AuspiciousZealousTigerBleedPurple-jrgQQg2ZfMrh8ufN

https://clips.twitch.tv/TriumphantCarelessSashimiBloodTrail-8Z_2MEcPxvScv5yI

https://clips.twitch.tv/GloriousDelightfulDonutMcaT-WqCvB8Apeyvxo_qA

If this is something you'd like to do, we have openings in our content team ;)

tickets now available at https://basestack.gg/dortmund/uberfest-2024/

https://esports-news.co.uk/2024/05/25/insomnia-company-enters-liquidation/

bar will be open until late early

any chance of putting those up on the fireside youtube so we can watch?

At least in EU, the problem is that it was being kept alive by a small handful of people who slowly lost interest, and none of the adverts we put out resulted in new people coming on board. I like reading those articles, and if anybody wants to write them DM me here or on Discord (@jmaxchill) and we can support you writing, editing, formatting etc, but unless people want to write and come forward to do it then it sadly won't happen.

shami what kind of tea do you drink?

shoutout to all the players and spectators
shoutout to everyone who donated to the fundraiser
shoutout to EssentialsTF / Printstream for letting us borrow their hardware
shoutout to wonszu, supra and everyone who let us borrow equipment for production
shoutout to TurboTabs, Beater, Benpl, Not Steven, Meer and Wandum for some fantastic casting and for rolling with everything I threw at them
shoutout to Samus and Beater for goated observing
shoutout to Jon for fixing our FPS
shoutout to Antimation for sitting at home the whole time and churning out content for us
shoutout to Audiofall for capturing hype moments, interviews, and everything that makes LAN LAN
double shoutout to Samus for jumping on production so I could speed-eat pizzas
shoutout to supra and mały for LAN servers, anyone who complimented me on a smooth event direct that to them
shoutout to Sodium for solo adminning the event and making it work
shoutout to the BaseStack staff for putting up with us, feeding us endless pizzas and shots, and letting us stay well past closing time every night

shoutout to supra for making it happen, we're coming back next year right?

people at the bar afterwards asked me if it was worth it. if spending lan locked in the production box was really what I wanted. if I knew how un-appreciated producing is. if I knew nobody cares. I got to build and run the production of my dreams. everything I wanted has been enabled by staff, casters and players. in return I have received nothing but gratitude, praise and appreciation.

could I take what I've learned from TF2 elsewhere? easily. I can and have walked into productions for other, better paying games, but these three days have shown why I can't walk away from TF2. the days and weeks of work aren't going towards some corporate production for a crowd I've never met. they're going towards the best lan I've ever been to, for a community that (for better or worse) I care about, and that has shown it cares about what we do.

it was worth it. you made it worth it. thank you.

cu@