I messaged OP with greaver's e-mail, but I guess #12 is the answer to that question.

Hopefully andkenneth can pick it up.

I'm always down to cast demos after the fact but live is out of the question for me because of work.

8pm cst, isn't a bad time to start casting, but if the events running 8 hours ... O_o

10am Saturday Singapore time would be 6pm Friday on the West Coast.

How long is this eXpected to run? 8-10 hours?

I'll be cooking dinner for customers during this and unavailable. Other eXtv casters might be available but it'd be a pretty late cast for them... Greaver still remains your best bet, I haven't talked to him in a while though and don't know what he's up to.

An update on the rules:

The tournament will be held in a double elimination format with the Grand Finals being a best of 3. The Upper Bracket winners will pick the 1st and 3rd maps to be played while the team from the Lower Bracket will pick the 2nd map.

The map list is Granary, Badlands, Gullywash, Snakewater, and Process.

The servers will also have Sunshine, Intermodel, WarmerFront (tell the map maker how much you hate it in person!), Viaduct_Pro, MGE maps, and several Ultiduo maps (stock ultiduo, baloo, badlands, granary, and SkyPlatform - a map FITES admin Shoctor put together a while back. I think it's fun, he stopped working on it though and it prolly could use some tweaks).

Servers should be all modded up with SoapDM, Logs.tf with eXtra stats, and sizzling stats.

We are indeed using the ESEA whitelist from Season 15.

An update on the rules:

The tournament will be held in a double elimination format with the Grand Finals being a best of 3. The Upper Bracket winners will pick the 1st and 3rd maps to be played while the team from the Lower Bracket will pick the 2nd map.

The map list is Granary, Badlands, Gullywash, Snakewater, and Process.

The servers will also have Sunshine, Intermodel, WarmerFront (tell the map maker how much you hate it in person!), Viaduct_Pro, MGE maps, and several Ultiduo maps (stock ultiduo, baloo, badlands, granary, and SkyPlatform - a map FITES admin Shoctor put together a while back. I think it's fun, he stopped working on it though and it prolly could use some tweaks).

Servers should be all modded up with SoapDM, Logs.tf with eXtra stats, and sizzling stats.

We are indeed using the ESEA whitelist from Season 15.

Ah yea, as a restaurant man myself, I know how bewildering it can be a large 30 person group randomly walks in the door.

There are several such corporate chain places nearby. I've never been to a Bob Evans, that shit good? Looked at the menu and sounds tasty enough for me.

Megawac's coming?? awesome!

Looking forward to seeing the conch and buff in play and see how it might swing the soldier meta around. Saddest ban to me personally is the widowmaker, just cause its one of my favorite weapons and I like the risk/reward it offers.

Hopefully Valve will tweak the quick fix a little more and we can see it return to 6v6 at some point. It's almost there, and it would be fantastic to have the rock-paper-scissors dynamic with medi-guns.

We should also figure out somewhere to go Sunday for Lunch after the LAN before everyone heads out of Mechanicsburg.

Have the results of the WhiteList Poll been publicly posted somewhere? I'm not registered for a team so I couldn't take a look at the results as they came in.

Watched it at The International 3, was pretty omg amazing. Besides having a fantastic camera crew traveling the world getting great shots, great insight into Dendi and the struggles players face, they also have some pretty awesome SFM shots. O_o

Don't go that route Thrasher, you should roll in. We're gonna have a good time for sure.

Someone hit up #6. Could call yourselves KeekerDC-United

what does remiCs have to do with it Thrasher? you need a ride from somewhere?

^ How could teams vote on item bans if registration were still open?

Sorry to bring up ESEA transgressions, but I always thought it was a mistake for them to ban that weapon mid-season.

In my opinion the Battalions Backup being whipped out on Koth_Viaduct week was one of the most significant moments of meta innovation we've seen in TF2. A weapon that no one was touching all of a sudden became a must run and not because of balance changes by Valve... However, "No Exceptions" ESEA flipped the script and banned it half way through the map week, even though it was eXtremely doubtful that teams would have been running it on a 5-cp map.

It's a powerful strategy for KOTH, but should an item really be banned because it's very useful on one map?