Myself and ozfortress/AsiaFortress have tried a few times to organise cross-region activity between NA and APAC, however there are not many teams actually interested due to the ping. If there was new interest in it, I'd be happy to work with others to organise a cup.

There is an Asian bookable service called Matcha that has server regions all over Asia, which could offer decent ping.

Guam used to exist as a region, however after thorough testing it was found that only a small group of players were getting better ping compared to other regions, so it has since been deactivated.

First time watching LAN Downunder? Here's everything you need to know.

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

First time watching LAN Downunder? Here's everything you need to know.

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

Got pretty lucky! One of our operations staff used to do journalism for Japanese Overwatch. They're goats and sent out 50 mousepads to give away as prizes.

Unironically would love to see some sort of international rep in the future. The venue down here is pretty special and I think teams will enjoy a holiday down under ;)

In Sidular's defence, following his post about his Father, his Mother also passed away not long after that post. I think we need to give some leeway here.

Don't get me wrong, I think there are some really ambitious ideas that might need to be reassessed, but Sidular is obviously passionate and I think with some adjustments, there is definitely a space for him to run something.

LANs are really tough to pull off, especially first-time events with all the complexity of international teams and venue constraints. The Fireside team did an amazing job making this tournament happen. The format worked great, and despite some production hiccups (which were pretty much unforeseeable), the LAN was a huge success. Props to everyone who made it work!

Australia/New Zealand
ozfortress still thriving with ~40 6v6 teams, 21 HL. LAN Downunder 2025 will be held in Melbourne July 19-20th, with tickets almost sold out.

Asia
AsiaFortress are almost wrapped up with their preliminary qualifier period, with a smaller ~16 team league about to start. A lot of players now play in ozfortress though.

I think instead of looking into a Promod, we could use this opportunity to propose/code some community changes, with the hopes Valve may push it into the game at some point. Valve don't seem to mind pushing community fixes as long as they don't have to do it themselves.

Think big! We could push our proposals for fixing Competitive matchmaking, weapon buffs/nerfs, other balance changes. I know from a production/casting point of view, there's some changes I'd love to see in the spectator client, especially things like adding smooth lerp commands like the CS:GO build had to make those nice cinematics.

We attempted to, found that routing for Australia was dogwater. We will probably try a new method later in the year for an inter-league event. I'd love to get an NA, AU, ASIA tournament going but we need teams interested in playing different timezones

Here's the team of OCE TF2 experts bringing you action this Saturday!

https://i.imgur.com/MkLkMcE.png

corbt was online at the start of the month so he's probably just busy with life, it has been raised in the comp.tf discord though

https://i.imgur.com/3vang8o.png

https://twitch.tv/cappingtv/clip/DelightfulPunchyHippoNinjaGrumpy-gqbw4VZTmOuUynkZ

Hey!

For those who don't know me, I'm mitch from CappingTV. I've been running the LAN Downunder since 2018 as well as various other things at TFTV and elsewhere.

After a thrilling five map Grand Finals at the LAN Downunder 2024, we wanted to reach out to the wider community and get some feedback from those who watched. If you missed it, you can check it out on our YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW_aRefzcd4

We value your feedback and would love to hear your thoughts on our event. Regardless of whether you were competing in person, spectating in the Alienware Arena or watching at home on Twitch:

• What did you enjoy the most?
  
• What could we improve for next time?
  
• Would you be interested in more international involvement?

Your insights are crucial in helping us make future events even better. Please leave your feedback in this thread. We appreciate your support and look forward to seeing you again next year!

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

Dropping this hot one by Uil

im getting deja vu

What sorts of changes do you want from RGL that they aren't already providing?

Because to be quite frank, the amount of work required to start a new league wouldn't be worth it, and would take a very long time to reach the success that RGL has had starting from the ground up.

You have to consider:

• The staffing
  
• The platform
  
• The rulesets
  
• The public relations (social media, casting)
  
• The MONEY and investors/sponsors
  
• LAN events
  
• Anticheat

These might seem rudimentary to some of you but the amount of blood, sweat and tears put into the organization of these things shouldn't be undermined.