Yao.

I think that there are a couple people who have paid for tickets, and have missed the refund window. If you do not have a ticket yet, please consider buying one of these individuals tickets and have them transfer to you.

x3
Thrasher
disengage/tagg
br0nze (eXtv should have told him to refund the ticket because he won the 2v2 MGE tournament.
You'd be saving eXtv money if you buy his ticket. If it's not purchased by someone eXtv will reimburse him his money so that he does attend for free.)

You have our condolences x3, definitely an understandable decision.

We're taking care of pharaoh.

don't blink - dB or O_o

Thanks Fog.

Kick me South American league demos and I'll cast the shit out of em ( eXtine@eXtelevision.com ). If you guys want to produce your own content and kick it my way I'd also love to post it on the eXtv YouTube channel.

Match commentary in Portuguese maybe is best for another channel, but I'd love to help you guys out however I can.

I don't really want to get too involved in these threads (getting ready for FITES, working almost every day up till then, etc.), but I wanna point at a few things briefly.

CEVO's problems were mainly with Admins and battling community apathy. CEVO TF2 died out in large part because the community ditched it for ESEA. When it was trying to be restarted, the admin in charge screwed things up because people were looking for a short HL tournament, it was announced as such, then he turned it into a Ladder and everyone lost interest. There is no way to prove that CEVO will be better than ESEA so asking for such proof is kind of ridiculous.

I believe we can do better (whether it's CEVO or someone else) than ESEA, but that's just my opinion.

ESEA's problems however, are at it's very top. There's been issues with admins, which happens in every league, but one of ESEA's co-owners not only was involved in criminal activity but he also was a complete dick handling the PR afterwards. LPKane's customer "service" is atrocious and has added to the feelings of discontent.

Nope, but the bitcoin scandal is a prettty big deal. Besides the impact it's had on established players not wanting to continue with ESEA, the scandal has completely trashed ESEA's reputation among the general TF2 community. Threads promoting ESEA LAN on reddit were met with disdain because of the scandal. Where are the threads on reddit promoting this season's registration? I just looked and don't see anything posted by ESEA or anyone else for that matter.

ESEA threatening to close shop doesn't really help em much in my mind either. I understand business is business but if you are losing customers, you don't respond to that by threats, you respond to it by fiXing the problem and staying positive. If I recall correctly, last time they threatened to close up shop if there wasn't ____ number of teams in open, they eXacerbated the problem by eXpanding IM and not counting the teams they moved up. It struck me as dishonest...

TF2 is the only game ESEA has actually succesfully used to bring non cs-players in. Their LOL and Starcraft efforts fizzled fast. If they want to continue to have a presence outside of CounterStrike then TF2 is still their best option.

Customers left because ESEA were being dickish. Continuing to be dickish and threatening to pull the plug (even if it is the smart business decision for them), will not solve how they are viewed by most of the TF2 community.

If they don't get the numbers they need for this neXt season, I hope they make adjustments and continue for at least one more season to try and prove to the community that they are moving forward with honesty and dignity. If they do so, then perhaps the following season there will be many more people willing to sign up for their league.

I checked with Shoctor, my admin buddy over at FITES, but he's powerless in this situation since they're paired up with Intel.. the ball is in their court. The policy on the website says they refund up to a week before hand (-$2 in administration fees), if you submitted your ticket before then you should be good to go. You can still transfer tickets, maybe someone is still looking to buy?

ah bummer ww, woulda been good to see ya again.

cheers.

- Pharaoh, I just messaged br0nze bout the tickets. don't worry we got you.

I'm bringing a little bit of Oregon with me.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5894323/IMAG0417_1.jpg

YYyyaaooo.

Outside chance here, but does anyone have a camera and a tripod they could bring for the eXtv crew to use for our cast production? We have a webcam and I'm bringing my green screen setup, but a real camera would be preferred over a webcam.

Also,I believe everyone should be able to start registering teams on http://intranet.fites.net/tournaments.php?id=29 We are gonna move ahead with the Season15 ESEA whitelist (was tempted to go w/ CEVO's more up to date list, but I think allowing QF would hurt the newer players more than help them). Barring a final discussion with Shoctor regarding our timeframe for the tournament, I think we're leaning towards a single elim tourney with every round being bo3 30 min maps. Always love to hear opinions.

We're getting pretty stoked bout this event. Gonna be amazing.

Shit, this is starting to blow up isn't it?

I'm not sure if I can afford to skip the work, alongside the gas money... but I would really love to go. I've been talking shit about making it to a Sacramento LANFest for like... 3 years?

*fingers crossed*

Awesome to hear that x3 is on his way, will be great to see him again.

NeXt year I'm probably going to FITES again, but hopefully I could go to both like I did last year. Was so amazing to do both and see so many wonderful TF2ers. Montreal is a blast.

Dashner is eXtremely stoked to cast the shit outta Cevo. I am as well, but yknow, schedule shit... I probably won't be able to sit in on many casts, but eXtv will be there!

come to FITES x3