Updated the rules and added lists. If anyone has any issue with the rules or updated information, please feel free to voice your concern.

Added:
Carpool list (needs a ride)
Carpool list (has space in their car)
Looking for team list
Team list

I'll also try to get some vlogs and random videos that I'll upload to my Youtube channel (which I rarely use for anything anymore).

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheFragileITG

https://twitter.com/thefragiletf2

Again, not sure how frequent I'll update them at the event, depending on if I can get access to wifi.

http://i.imgur.com/1EM6QMi.png

Hopefully there will be wifi at the event or some kind of way for me to get internet on my phone.

Rules, LFT list, carpool list, and other related things will be posted at some point this week, hopefully. I'm gonna try to do all of this before I leave for i55.

If I need any volunteers for any positions for helping out with the tournament or anything behind the scenes, I'll make it known.

I'm assuming you don't have a motherboard with LED codes, because that would be helpful to see its thought process upon turning it on.

It sounds like it could be a motherboard issue, especially if you can't tell if it does anything at all upon turning it on. My roommate had a drink spilled on his computer, and his motherboard got ruined. Like your scenario, there would be no display and we couldn't tell if it got anywhere at all upon turning on. I would entertain the idea of taking out your video card and trying to use onboard video, just to make sure it's not some weird video card issue (honestly unlikely but you might as well try). Other than that, it sounds like it's the motherboard, which sucks. :(

ESEA disregards these kinds of tickets all of the time. Good luck getting a response out of them, because they won't ever believe that it's their fault that it recurred.

LAN is about two months away. Anyone who hasn't already started to plan for this should start planning now.

This is exactly why it's a problem. Winning mids will always hold a ton of weight in this game. If you lost mid and your medic died, but managed to kill their medic, the round isn't totally lost because you can stalemate with even ubers. If a team wins mid with weapon pickup where both medics died on mid, it's almost like the winning team's medic never died at all. You'll have more time to set up a sentry or maybe even hold second point, but you're still at a bigger disadvantage than you should be.

In a game where losing mids can be unforgiving, allowing a mechanic where you're being punished even more for losing mids seems a bit senseless to me.

However, it's hard to respawn and get to your medigun on mid before it disappears on certain maps. Granary might be the hardest, even if you get forward spawn.

I'd have to ask but I would guess around 150.

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Jon is legendary, and I hope he still stays around in some capacity, regardless if it's the Daily Show or other places.

I remember dying to that, and questioned if sticky damage falloff became magically broken all over again. I only saw the sticky to the left of the stairs. :(

Steve, you're an okay guy.

this is perfect. thank you, kurt.

What Dustin said was right enough, but I'll respond by going off of these two quotes:

-oplaid was not the one who mostly talked to Torbull / lpkane, it was me. To my knowledge, no one (which would obviously include oplaid) from the other blight team talked to the admins at all. The other blight team took my word for the situation at hand.

-oplaid (nor anyone) forced the admins to do anything. It was purely blight's decision (primarily coming from blackymonster).

-A single bo5 was the format that the admins told us moments before finals, not 2 bo3s.

-The admins said we must play a single bo5 unless the other blight team agreed to do a bo3.

-Eventually we had to settle for a bo3 on blackymonster's terms (we can't choose Viaduct).

-"I never denied that esea weren't super nice about it themselves." Did I say you did? They were reasonable throughout the process, but we were just a little annoyed that we were given no time to warm up at all.

One could misconstrue that you made it seem like it was oplaid's team that had the bad flight schedules, but regardless, you were correct about the flights being the reason for the structure change.

No need to get super defensive about seeing how right or wrong you were, considering I was actually involved in the situation. I wanted to clear up some stuff that wasn't accurate.

I thought Lemley said he wanted to cut Sam because he felt betrayed that Sam asked coL if they were interested in us. Maybe it was both.

Pretty much all of this is wrong.

This was the only ESEA LAN (to my knowledge) that had lower bracket finals and grand finals on Sunday.

We (blight-fanom) had flights that left around 5 or 6 PM. When we realized there were lower bracket finals to wait for, we were hesitant that we might miss our filghts. We asked blight-own and coL to start a little early, and they said that was fine. However, they ended up getting there late and warmed up for a while, so they basically started at the time they were supposed to (maybe a little later, I forget).

The match went to all three maps. The first two maps took an hour each, and the second map took about 30 minutes. With breaks between each set, it all lasted about three hours or so.

We were then informed that finals were a single bo5, and the only advantage we had is that we got to pick the first two (or maybe three?) maps, and then the rest were random. We figured that because the first match took so long (and because there was a whole different match before grand finals on Sunday), we were running out of time. We asked the other blight team if a single bo3 was acceptable. Some of them were fine with it, some of them were indifferent, but blackymonster (and maybe oplaid) were adamant that they would only do that if we couldn't choose to play Viaduct (easily our best map).

We were at their mercy at this point, so we quickly agreed. While we sat down to warm up, Torbull forced all of us to instantly ready up. We had absolutely no time to warm up, even though the other teams did (on top of a three hour set), and we got fucking destroyed on the first map.

As I've said, I'm pretty sure this is the only ESEA LAN that had lower bracket finals on Sunday, as well as a single bo5 for finals.