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Hi all,

It's that time again. :3

Greater Philadelphia Expo Center
100 Station Ave.
Oaks, PA 19456

START: January 20, 2023
END: January 22, 2023

Tickets
Buy your tickets here!

What safety measures are you taking in regard to COVID-19?
When you first check-in to get your badge, you will need to present either proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test.

For admission via proof of vaccination, it must be a recent vaccination that is shown on your standard COVID-19 vaccination card. This booster is readily available nationwide.

For admission via negative test, you must arrive wearing a mask. You can present a lab test that was within the last 48 hours prior to showing up at the event
OR
You can take a 15-minute test that we will provide (but you will self-administer). Only once you test negative may you enter the event and remove your mask. If you test positive, you will be given a full refund.

Is this part of TooManyGames like last time?
Not this time around, unfortunately. Perhaps next LAN, though!

What is the closest airport to the venue?
Philadelphia International Airport - PHL

What are the details on the hotel?
Book your hotel room with our link.

Can I play in other tournaments?
You may only play in other tournaments if and when you’ve been eliminated from the TF2 tournament. Keep in mind that the TF2 tournament is only on Saturday, so anything you wish to do on Friday is up to you. There are no tournaments on Sunday.

How can I sit with my team or other friends?
There will be a section for each charity (so a red section, green section, and blue section). Make sure your team picks the same color/charity if you want to sit near each other. If you don't care about sitting next to each other, then it doesn't matter what color/charity everyone chooses. There will be no assigned seating within each section.

Will there be rental computers and monitors?
LAPTOPS ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO BE RESERVED AS OF 1/8/23.
45 of each available.
$20 for a 24" 144hz 1080p monitor
$50 for a gaming laptop. Specs:

GE76 Raider 11UE-046
OS - Windows 10 Home, CPU - Core i7-11800H 8 Core CPU Speed - 2.4 - 4.6GHz (boost)
Screen Size - 17.3" Thin Bezel FHD, IPS-Level 144Hz, 45% NTSC Resolution - 1920x1080 (16:9)
GPU - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU Up to 1802MHz Boost Clock, 130W Maximum Graphics Power with Dynamic Boost.
Memory - 16GB (8G2) DDR4 3200MHz HDD Capacity - 1TB NVMe SSD HDD Interface - NVMe
Webcam - 1080p FHD Webcam
USB - 1 x USB3.2 Gen 2; 2 x USB3.2 Gen 1 Type-C Port - 1 x Thunderbolt 4 USB4; 1 x USB 3.2Gen 2
Video Port - HDMI (supports 4K @ 120Hz, 8K @ 60Hz), mDP v1.41
Audio Port - 1 Audio Combo (1/8")
AC Power Adapter - 120-240W, Battery Pack - 4 cell (99.9Whr)

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FAQ – TF2 tournament (DETAILS TENTATIVE)

How can I play in the tournament?
You’ll need to find a team if you haven’t already found one. Keep in mind that the tournament will be 6 vs 6. This thread will have plenty of teams looking for players, so make sure to post here (and don’t forget to include what class you play). If you can’t find a team, there will certainly be pick-up teams made while at the event.

Will there be a buy-in for the tournament?
Yes, it is $5 per person (or $30 per team).

What will the prizes and payout be?
1st Place: 60% of total prize pool + additional prizes TBA
2nd Place: 30% of total prize pool
3rd Place: 10% of total prize pool

I’m interested in sponsoring the tournament with cash and/or prizes. How should I contact you about this?
Contact us here: https://rgblan.org/contact

When is the tournament?
The entirety of the TF2 tournament will be on Saturday. It will start at 11 AM.

What is the format of the tournament?
6 players per team. There will be a group stage (for seeding) followed by double elimination.

What are the rules?
Class-limits (NA rules):

2 Scouts
2 Soldiers
2 Pyros
1 Demoman
1 Heavy
1 Engineer
1 Medic
1 Sniper
2 Spy

Time-limit / win-limit (EU/NA hybrid rules):

30 minute time-limit
If a team wins 5 rounds (or 3 on koth), that team wins.
If the game is tied after 30 minutes, the tiebreaker will be decided by golden cap. If this occurs in group stage, there will be a 10 minute time limit, and if there is no victor by that time, then whoever controls mid is the winner. If this occurs in the double elimination bracket, there will be no time limit for golden cap.

What maps will be in use?
Whatever the current RGL map pool is at the time.

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Post in the thread if you need a team.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask in the thread or PM me.

come get this work. :3

Bring Me The Horizon - Count Your Blessings

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Plaid - Reachy Prints

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Uppermost - Revolution

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Panda Bear - Person Pitch

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Venetian Snares - Hospitality

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I personally disagree with color interrupting play-by-play with making orgasmic noises. I think it's distracting to what's going on, even if it's really exciting. In professional sports, very rarely do I see sportscasters have their color commentator interrupt play-by-play with random exclamatory noises, no matter how exciting the situation is. One thing that Valorant casters / commentators have been doing recently is gasping during tense moments, and I find it adds unnecessary noise to already great moments.

Maybe I'm being a little pedantic, but I find myself enjoying moments better without the unnecessary color interruption. Maybe I'm just really annoyed with Valorant commentary and I can't unhear the random gasping, lol.

At the very least, you shouldn't talk over the person that's already talking with your own commentary.

I don't think the original is disgusting or anything, it's just not as good as the rest. The taste is a little bitter, which is probably my biggest problem with it. For everything else, I'll give a brief opinion.

All Khaos / Punch cans - perfect and can do no wrong.
Rehab red - idk just the best tea flavor easily. Apparently it has apple juice.

Rehab lemonade - Not too sour or sweet. Just right.
Ultra zero red - I can't tell if this is the old ultra zero red or the newer ultra zero watermelon, but have a taste that I don't really get tired of, idk.
Ultra sunrise - Kinda like orange juice? I love having this in the morning.
Rehab peach - I like most peach drinks, and this doesn't miss the mark.
Ultra zero white - I've had this flavor the most, and I've never grown tired of it. The taste is almost like Sprite, which I never really thought of until now.
Dragontea green tea - The Dragontea flavors were a pretty interesting twist. I'm a fan of any kind of tea-like flavor for any kind of drink.

Ultra zero black - This actually isn't that bad, I'm just not the biggest fan of anything that has a black cherry taste.
Ultra zero paradise - This is a little too sour for me. At first I really liked it, but how sour it is kinda put me off of it. It's fine if I have it every once in a while.
Ultra zero citron / gold - I can't tell if this is supposed to be citron or gold flavor, but both are probably in B tier anyway. Gold is supposed to be pineapple, and while I love pineapple, this isn't quite what I had expected.

Ultra zero blue - Has this chalky taste that I really can't get over.
Ultra zero violet - The grape taste isn't bad, but I'm just not the biggest fan of anything grape flavored.
Monster original and lo-carb - As I said in the beginning, it's just a little too bitter to me. I'll drink one if I'm at a hotel and it's the only option available, but that's basically the only time I'll resort to one of these.

tbh I'm way too lazy to make a YT video on this lol. It's just a preference of taste, so I'm not gonna think anyone is weird if you disagree with the list. However, you can absolutely be wrong about a cereal tier list.

Bonus: the best monster flavor ever, but it's been discontinued many years ago. :(

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I've been drinking Monster Ultra Zero daily since like 2011. I've tried just about every flavor, but I can't remember what I thought about all of them. The only ones missing from this list that I've recently tried are Ultra Rosa and Ultra Fiesta, which I'd put both in A tier. The java cans are also good. I haven't had a Khaos can that wasn't delicious af.

Lately I've been more partial to Mountain Dew Rise, though.

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There are three different Corsair keyboards that are used in my house. Absolutely no complaints with them whatsoever. When I had my first Corsair keyboard back in like 2014, the only minor complaint I had is that there were some issues with the lights acting a little weird. That has since been fixed via firmware updates a long time ago.

Great switches, software that doesn't act like total shit, and great quality keyboard all around.

Keep in mind that Steam did not keep track of hours prior to March 2009. My profile says 2,200 hours, but I'm closer to 4,000 if I had to guess.

To go off the previous replies, I remember that many years ago someone had to send subtitled and/or decap an older version of TF2 on a disc because an update came out in the middle of them making a video. It should still be possible, but may take a lot of effort.

There are about 50 players that have won more Stanley Cups than Wayne Gretzky. I'm also curious if you think that Robert Horry is better than Michael Jordan, considering they played in the same era but Horry won one more championship with Horry playing just one more season. In regard to TF2, do you think arekk deserves a better ranking than clockwork?

If this list (or any kind of sports ranking list) was all about championships, then no one would care to have a list sorted by descending to have tery inform everyone that current/alumni froyo fill the top 20, lol.

My input was not used on the list. I gave a few suggestions with eras, "the medic problem" (read the original hub post about it), and occasionally gave tery some lore on OG players for some of his writeups, but I didn't rank a single person on this list.

I was going to help rank players on this list, but I backed out before any of that started because I'm in the middle of moving.

Also, I have absolutely no idea what the final list looks like. I'm learning about the list just as everyone else is, lol.

I should have clarified what I meant by "more on the line", so my bad about being vague about that.

What I meant by that is being able to qualify for LAN, as well as trying to attract big gaming orgs like Pandemic, EG, and Complexity. Unless there is a Smash Melee-esque kind of revival of interest in competitive TF2, then no big gaming orgs are looking at TF2 right now. While TF2 should have been in the same kind of light that CS:GO has been, all we'd be doing is discussing for the millionth time about how Valve doesn't give a shit and dropped an impossible-to-fuck-up formula that they had going for CS:GO.

This is not necessarily true. Just because there are infinite universes does not mean every fathomable outcome will happen. You can have infinite apples but no oranges.

Golden era has more weight to it than other eras, which is outlined in the hub post he made to preface all of this. This is not only an issue of comparing players from different eras (which is always impossible), but in TF2's case, comparing eras when competition levels were different in the volume of players as well as what's on the line.

A similar case I can think of is that Khaos is considered the best Marvel vs Capcom 2 player in the world right now, but he only started to make a name for himself about 7 years ago. The number of people playing MvC2 by that time was far less with not nearly as many tournaments, so it's hard to put him in the top 10 all-time list. Once again, such as the problem with eras.

edit: I'm literally outlining Tery's structure (that I guess many of you didn't read) and I'm getting downfragged for it, lol. You don't have to agree with Tery's structure, and I don't even 100% agree with Tery's structure, but just be happy that it's content for a game that we care(d) about. This is all subjective as fuck at the end of the day, and it's fun to have banter about it.

They were both extremely good at bball, but wonderland was known for playing bball almost exclusively, whereas ww- played it on the side.