I think this is where gecks and I do just fine, because he leaves a lot of the analyzing to me. He might not have much experience with the game, but I fill in most of what needs to be explained.

http://i.imgur.com/iOFLp.png

but really, thank you for coming out and helping! It was so awesome to cast with you in person.

I'll certainly go to FITES, as it's always a good time for TF2 and I need to defend my Street Fighter 4 title. :D

I'm also really looking forward to FITES so that I can relax with some friends and play.

have been playing (or at least involved) with the competitive scene since beta.

yo her cookies were fucking 10 / 10.

Also, from watching these vlogs, I'm REALLY glad TEZC had a great time in America. I was a little apprehensive that they were gonna be like "wow shit place shit country," haha. :D

That's a fantastic idea. Good thinking.

I really appreciate everyone's input here. This past GXL was fantastic, but we will make GXL '15 that much better with everyone's input. I can't wait.

In case no one saw it in the thread here.

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Prizes

Note: This applies to Saturday.

If you finished top four and haven't received your money / Corsair prizes, message me on Steam. All of you have me added, so this shouldn't take long. Anything CEVO-related for prizes on Friday is totally through CEVO, but if you guys need help with that, you can still message me and I'll try to help.

If you finished in fifth and sixth place (Keywork eSports and Terminal Chillness), you guys received your Zowie gear and are taken care of. You guys are set and don't need to contact me unless you have questions about something.

If you finished anywhere between seventh place and last place (this also includes if you didn't make it out of group stage), I need your captain to add me on Steam, which then I'll give you my email so you can send an email with everyone's Steam email address. I will send you your digital gift to your Steam accounts that way.

I need all participants to please get this done ASAP.

GROUP STAGE:
http://cevo.com/event/tf2-gxl-2014/competitors/112/204/

DOUBLE ELIMINATION STAGE:
http://challonge.com/gxluniverse_teamfortress2

On Friday, some of the players (namely cozen, ninjanick, and I think deadbolt) were crashing a lot on the iBuyPower PCs. It go to the point where instead of figuring out the issues after the second/third time, players swapped out the iBP PCs for their own.

edit: oh, nick said this like 40 minutes ago. my b, bae.

I agree with lots of feedback here, and I'm glad everyone is giving much input. However, I think I had only one legitimate issue, so I'm gonna keep it very real right now.

If you get incredibly drunk / high as fuck at your hotel, I don't give a shit. That has nothing to do with GXL or me at that point, and we don't care. However, a few of you got absurdly drunk/high while at the venue (regardless if you're inside the venue or outside in the parking lot). You were a disturbance to a handful of people and, to be blunt, outright creeped out some of the people.

I'm not saying that anyone who consumed any kind of alcohol or smoked were totally unacceptable. I had a few beers myself, and I know that most people who did any kind of drinking were responsible and handled themselves well. However, we don't want to start kicking people out from the event because you are a total wreck.

Yeah, the tables and chairs were pretty bad, but we'll look into ways to improve that aspect.

Actually, some of the feedback I've heard is that some of the guys played too much TF2, lol (which I guess would be a more relevant issue from a team who finished top 8 or so).

It wouldn't have been possible to finish that tournament in one day with bo3, though. Maybe unless it was top 16 bo3 single elimination.

That definitely won't happen next time. We will have that stuff roped off and in a way where it won't totally obstruct everyone from walking by / sitting in the area.

I deleted the rest of your post in the quote because dr.shdwpuppet and Lange already dismissed that part of it, but I felt like I was pretty right for the most part on when people expected to play their matches. Yeah, there were some delays on Saturday due to making groups / brackets and getting servers ready. However, I think I made it pretty clear to everyone when they would play, and I told anyone what we were waiting on if there was any kind of delay (usually waiting for a few other matches to finish up).

Hey everyone,

We'd like to get some feedback from you guys about GXL. It can be any kind of things dealing with the venue, tournament, stream, casters, production, and so on. Any kind of feedback is fine, as long as it's relevant and constructive. Tell us the things that you loved and hated the most, or however you want to tell us.

We just wanna know what we should keep doing and what else we should improve on.

All of us will be taking a much needed break from GXL things in just a few days. However, we still want to gather up a bunch of feedback for this before we really start preparing for GXL '15 (announcement usually happens around April, typically).

I will be watching many of these. :]

Again, thank you guys so much for coming out.

I seriously cannot thank you enough for coming out and making this event even more exciting with your talent. I hope to see you again next year.

I'll always go to FITES as long as a decent amount of TF2 players show. I might go to ETS if people nag at me enough. :p

I actually live in New Jersey and I work in Delaware, but yeah, I wouldn't mind. :3