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2. In regards to the actual TFCL 2018 LAN? Yes, it is still happening. I have a specific venue in mind, and want to make this LAN an international event for pretty much everybody that loves TF2. The current "ETA" is August 2018, and the venue in mind is located in Mississauga Ontario, Canada. It's near the Pearson International Airport, making for easy travel. I'm sure a few of you know which venue I'm talking about, though I won't name it right now just in case I can't secure a reservation for August 2018.
The LAN will be called UberJam 2018, and I'm hoping to make it just as big if not bigger than any other LAN in recent history. I know I (prematurely) announced a $20k prize pool over on Twitter, which as of right now is both accurate and inaccurate. I'm aiming for a $20k budget, not pool. So there won't be a $20k prize to be won. This might also completely change, and depends on how many sponsors and advertisers I can get on board in time for the LAN. I will also be doing a fundraiser (t-shirts) this winter to help fund everything, which was suggested by a close friend of mine, who is also going to be coming up with the design. I believe the design theme was "I Supported TF2 LAN", or something like that.
Anyway, that's about it for now, as far as LAN news goes.
If you actually want to go anywhere you should drop everything and do whatever it takes to pull this event off smoothly. If it's in August you're competing with insomnia, with how mismanaged it was this year (as an NA player trying to attend) if you could have stuff set up months in advance it would be a really great event (and easier for international teams to get to) and it would show people you can actually run events and that it's worth supporting you in the long run
my 2cents