Rang for our team tonight and his calls were calm, cool and collected. He is a down to earth, grounded caller who will lead your team to glorious victory. Pick him upppp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUo1PgKksgw

Added you, let's talk.

We have had a lot of fun scrimming and playing against these guys this season, they definitely deserve a good demo and should shape up to be a decent IM team in the coming season.

http://teamfortress.tv/thread/20615/tf2-at-gxl-demos/

Updated OP to include all of the demos from the Invitational tournament at GXL. Included are all the group stages, and the upper and lower brackets.

Unfortunately I also have some really bad news. I have been unable to find the two demos from the Grand Finals game. This is what caused the several day delay in getting this up, I had to contact the owner of the server hardware and get him to hook them up so I could ssh into them and look around. However, they don't appear to have even recorded. I will continue looking into this, but I apologize for not having those two games for you to enjoy.

Due to networking concerns, this was determined to not be an option. I can bring it back up with the network/hardware guy for '15 but he was VERY adamant about how the network would be setup and what would and wouldn't be accessible from the outside.

I'm glad your voice is back.

If we can get 6 (5? IU gaming are fucking stupid sometimes) including me, I will go and heal you fuckers to victory.

Also tickets go on sale in like 48 hours unless you are an IU student, then they are on sale now.

They were pretty big...

and on 6 foot tripods

Mass texts is probably not in the cards, but there is a web based solution in the works for '15

Yeah, the MGE and Pug servers weren't really broadcasted as well as they could have been, but I dont really know how to disseminate that information. I posted about them in the forums and got them up on the gxl.lan domain. Next time I will really push to tell people about an information portal or something similar. Like I said, communication seems to have been the single biggest problem overall, next time it will be better.

I had a blast at this event, even though I was on the inside looking out, and spent literally the whole time looking at my command line x.x My suggestions are as follows:

More setup time: this is largely my own fault as I couldn't get in before Thursday evening, but a lot of elements of the LAN seemed to be haphazardly put together at the very last second. The CEVO computers arrived around 9pm Thursday night, less than 12 hours before they were to be played on, and this caused a TON of problems where they weren't updated, tested, and two or three didn't have TF2. CEVO did the best they could with the time they had, but if those computers had been arranged to arrive the day before, and the whole event itself were to be set up and ready to go by noon on Thursday (to give everyone the 12 hour time window until early access gamers come in to work out the kinks, relax a bit and put together a more solid event).

A physically larger building: As others have said, there was a huge problem with people wanting to watch the CS players at work (even a lot of the pro tf2 players were standing there... while they were supposed to be playing a match). I think its great to watch those players and show your support, but we need to show respect to the other people who paid for a seat or who have to play matches and would rather not be elbowed in the face by the, quite frankly, rude and unwashed masses thronging around the CSGO teams. This could be much mitigated by a larger space with room set aside for the CEVO computers.

Better organization of volunteer/staff members: TheFragile deserves the world's largest bottle of whatever alcohol is his poison of choice, but it didn't have to be that way. There was pretty poor communication between the stream area, the player area and the admins. We had walkie-talkies that were basically incomprehensible. I think a large part of this would be to digitize the communication between the player and administration staff, a solution for next time I am already working on.

Perhaps a published list of the various resources in and around the venue. I know that finding alcohol and coffee was kind of an exercise in exploration, hard to do as it was pretty foggy a couple nights there.

Better public access servers: This is feedback for me personally, because I was the only one responsible for the servers, but it would have been awesome if I had set up MGE and DM servers ahead of time. It honestly hadn't occurred to me that people might want to play tf2 outside of their matches >.>. The problems with the MGE servers were caused by me literally just launching a tf2 instance and throwing MGE mod up on it with no other configuration because I was really pushed for time. No excuse, I was inadequately prepared and it will not happen next time.

Also. my username is not Shadow Puppet, ShadowPuppet, Dr.ShadowPuppet or Dr. Shadow Puppet. There are no vowels in the shadow. It's shdwpuppet, dr.shdwpuppet or, if you're name is nonis, shdwpuppy

Nope, there was never a point in time in which games were held up for stream reasons, there was simply never a need to. There were a lot of longer breaks, but almost all of them were caused by problems with people's computers, especially the ones that CEVO brought and the pro teams were using. For that reason, it was almost impossible to ever get an accurate estimate of how long it would be until the next games could play. In addition, one game being delayed necessarily delayed all games because we were running all rounds concurrently. The delays sucked and no one was happy about it, but it should be much better next time ^_^

This was a HUGE problem that we had to work out as we went at the lan. The original solution was going to be an IRC channel that people could go to for match assignments etc, but because of the super restrictive net policy, I was told there could be no irc connections. Both Nick and I learned a TON about how to keep communication flowing at a large LAN and I already have a solution in the works that will make this problem much diminished going forward at GXL and even other community LANs. Any suggestions are hugely welcome.

I have *some* of the pickup stvs.