Dashner's actions are completely reprehensible, and I'm extremely saddened for Console and Uberchain that they had to go through what they did. Even though Dashner has helped with production for GXL, he didn't give off any impressions that he was abusive in this way at that time. I think I remember he had some trouble with drinking, but certainly not this.

If anything like this happens (or has happened) at RGB, please do not hesitate to let me know, as uncomfortable as that may be. LANs are meant to be a fun and safe space for everyone to meet, play, and have a wonderful time. These kinds of disgusting acts deserve no excuses.

I still stand by the statement that this is the best community, period. This isn't indicative of what this community represents, and we deserve better.

Yeah, this is bullshit. Not contacting Alfa (or anyone) that's banned from the event to let them know they are no longer allowed to come is not cool, but to not even tell Alfa what this behavior concern is? Total bullshit. The idiot vomited in my hotel room after a big italian dinner and a few drinks, sure, but he's never been anywhere close to a problem at any LAN I've attended or help run (GXL / RGB). Additionally, not a single person has ever approached me at GXL / RGB or messaged me through Steam to report concerning behavior about Alfa.

Of course, if the evidence is extremely egregious, then obviously he should be banned, but he should still have the right to know what it is. While I think Alfa is sometimes a bit of a dumbass, I don't think he'd go through all of this trouble if he knew that his possibly awful act of whatever could get leaked out. If it's about the oofpez thing that happened months ago, yeah Alfa was dramatic and dumb. Go let the boy "take a run in the woods" or whatever. However, if the ban is over that, I'm honestly gonna be disappointed.

People have been banned from GXL / RGB, and it wasn't a mystery to any of them on the details or why it happened. But are you really sure that Alfa has concerning behavior? It's Alfa. Just make fun of him and he'll go away. All he does at LAN is drink shitty beer and reminisce about moments in pugs that no one gives a shit about.

edit: Alfa has been reinstated while I typed this up, but I'll keep this up because I made fun of him.

This is easily the most important post in this thread.

I'll actually go to this eventually. :(

Regardless, looking forward to another great event. :3

LFT

Tony is one of the chillest dudes I've met, and he was an absolute monster of a soldier back when he took TF2 very seriously.

Still hope to possibly see you at future RGB LANs. :3

I'd love to, and already gave Wade my full permission to release my interview entirely. Can't remember exactly what he said (check his TFTV post history if you really care), but apparently it wasn't in the cards.

Right before the interview, Wade told us to just completely say whatever we want without any regard for anything. My interview was about an hour, and most of the compliments / good things I said ended up in the video. Everything else about his BM / man-child personality / how he changed from a quiet, quirky guy into a cringey narcissist mysteriously didn't make it into the final video. When I talked to some of the other people who also had interviews, it was exactly the same outcome as mine. This isn't a conspiracy theory, as one of the people that were responsible for working on the video said he demanded edits. He got numerous drafts to review before the final video. Never heard of a documentary on someone where they got to throw out all the parts they didn't like. LUL

Watch the trailer, then the documentary. The trailer's tone was entirely different than the documentary because a certain boi said "nooo I don't like how this depicts me :(((!!!!!!"

It's kind of weird that he hasn't realized that if he had any amount of humility, it'd be better for himself as well as the game. Instead, he has these kinds of outbursts that weren't a tiny bit provoked by anyone.

I'll actually never understand his hatred for other teams. Even when my teams were bitter rivals with b4nny / froyo, I still wanted NA to win Insomnia / Rewind LANs. At i55, we even gave froyo some warmup scrims before their grand finals match.

Did he become way more bitter after he had ESA edit his documentary countless times because all of the bad shit everyone said about him???

This is correct. A few soldiers started to use scripts where if they'd left click, it'd change their view model to the left and then shoot, and if they right click, it'd change their viewmodel to the right and then shoot.

Very soon after, Valve patched it out. This happened sometime in 2008 or 2009 I believe.

This is correct. DubThink has been working on this, so it should be done hopefully soon.

You can try to check the Event Viewer to see if there's anything that stands out just before your computer randomly restarts.

Don't totally assume that it's the motherboard (or any one specific thing). It really could be a handful of possibilities. Easiest thing you can try is to remove a stick of RAM and see if it still happens. If it does, put the RAM back and take out a different stick, etc. Bad RAM can cause strange shit to happen.

Theoretically, you could test to see if it's your hard drive by creating a bootable standalone image of Windows on a flash drive. I use it a decent amount at my job and it's pretty awesome. I can help you with this if you wanna add me on Steam.

Unquestionably not me, I suck. :D I never really practiced my dm in TF2, even though I'd consider it pretty good in other games.

I'd vote Cozen, though.

Or maybe Ruwin if you considered him a medic main, but I think most people considered him a scout main after a while.

OP's format looks oddly familiar to mine for RGB LANs posts. :P

I'm glad that these tournaments are still happening at the Insomnia LANs, and looking forward to many more.

All of us on staff are probably super relaxed and/or asleep from exhaustion for the next 48 hours, but I'll try to see if the server guys can check to see if any STVs saved.

Remind me later this week if you don't hear anything from me.

Shoutout to all of you :3

TF2 will be the home of this LAN as long as you keep showing up and supporting it, regardless of the number of teams (which was 18 teams this LAN). You'll never have any concern about it going away.