Everything was eXcellent.

Burnsiders are planning the trek down. Hopefully TEZC returns so we can rematch them in the Open bracket.

gg wp freestate

Luc did great this time with the music for the video. I didn't even make the connection about the Heavy Metal music kicking in for the Heavy Weapons Guy clip until I watched the final version :( Dang, I coulda unleashed my demon voice.

you could get high.

Last time I was in Vegas b4nny might have seen me crying, dashner got too drunk to do math, and some guy offered me yayaoo on the street. Worst part was we didn't even play any Arena:Respawn.

Pretty fun tbh.

The brutal destructiveness of it and the single-handed domination of 2/3rds of the 2nd best team in the world.

I know y'all wanted to see b4nny get third, sorry.

Starkie's scout clip was really good, and so were Alle + AMS, but all three of those clips featured quite a bit more teamwork involved in the frags. I thought there was a fairly clear distinction between what we put towards the bottom and towards the top, but it definitely was hazy up there.

Starkie's spy play was the hugest play of the LAN in terms of spectator eXperience, but it literally had zero impact on the match so I didn't think it deserved the top spot.

b4nny's play was from the Grand Finals and won them a round.

These lists will never satisfy everyone, but we try our best <3

Definitely one of our hardest to rank, we're always trying to fine tune the criteria and figure it out.

We didn't include Freestate's possibly championship winning back cap attempt, I didn't even think about that until after commentary :(

Thanks again to Beater. We always enjoy the help from anyone, if you're serious about helping us track league/tourney clips and help with rankings, hit Luke up.

Sounds good. Hats off to everyone willing to accept new things. Let's keep eXperimenting on the side in the mean time. Cya in MyM.

Format wise if we had a bit more time I'd like to see the following at the neXt ESA or major LAN:

Computers all ready to go Friday-mid day. Open tournament players eXpected to start playing a few matches Friday night, Invite players settle in. Open goes as long as the numbers dictate in order to hit the timing needed to sync them up with Invite. Streaming during this would iron out kinks, help highlight the open teams, and give chances for other people to cast if not everyone is present.

Round Robin starts Saturday Morning for Invite. Open resumes and is scheduled to finish by the time the Round Robin concludes. We then switch into an 8-team double elim bracket with the top 2 open teams coming in as the 7th and 8th seeds. It'd create a few more matches, but a lot of those can be played simultaneously. There's definitely a big skill difference between our 8th seed and our 1st seed right now, but that gives the broadcast a chance to show 4th seed vs 5th seed. In the future I can definitely see the teams that were in the Open Grand Finals challenging the 5th and 6th seeds in the Invite tournament.

It seems like there were definitely plenty of people wanting to get some game on throughout different parts of the tournament, it'd be fun to run some side tournaments like MGE scout, Solly, 2v2 MGE, Bball, and Ultiduo, late Saturday Night or early Sunday.

People always want more TF2, so thats a good thing.

I def have some production thoughts, but I realize all that stuff ties into ESA needing another hand or two around, or myself needing to take better ownership.

to Yyyyaaoooo and type gl hf dont h8 at the start of games

eXecutive signing in the wall is insane corruption. He's gonna spend a lot of money on something that is literally pretty pointless and has a lot of serious logistical impediments. the only way possible that he could actually get MeXico to pay for it is through war. The idea of economic tarrifs to pay for it is stupidity, they'd just try to equal it out however they can and take their business elsewhere.

mmmm sounds fun

Yeaaahhhhh!!!! Great work running the camera Tino!

too soon for me I think and not enough cash is my assessment, but I'll look into it. Would be hella fun, GL kick ass.

J