Apparently not if you disagree with that statement. HRG could get anyone they want to play medic. There are lots of better choices than indust.

Mackey and ww are the most fun to watch.

Blaze probably the all around best. Relic, Harb, and Tagg are also very good.

If that was an autocorrect that was amazing

I honestly don't understand why everyone sucks industs dick so much. He's a decent medic, but I honestly don't see why he gets all the praise he does. I didn't know he was such an asshole until reading some of these posts. If HRG needed a medic I don't know why they picked him up. There are lots of good medics out there. Isn't Marxist looking?

HRG Marxist

$35 for the razer carcharias headset is actually a REALLY good buy. Solid headset with good sound/mic. Very comfortable. I have one (altho as soon as I finish my AD700 mod ill be retiring it). If you need a good headset and are on a budget, or if you have an expensive set of cans that you don't want to bring to a LAN... pick these up.

I picked up an "open box" Toshiba Qosmio (their gaming line) on newegg. By "open box" it really meant that the original box was damaged in shipping and it had to be reboxed. 120hz laptop for $1200, awesome purchase. Look into the Qosmio line. It's cheaper than the asus or Alienware ones, and they are very good.

Yeah ill update the main posts with the newly confirmed and "maybe" people, and rides and all that good stuff.

Go will!

Yup, also the draft tournament ill be doing Friday night is going to be a good way to meet other players and make teams for the official tournament on Saturday.

that depends on the sponsors we get for the event. we could also maybe do a donation drive for prize money.

ETS is big, and popular, but correct me if I'm wrong (I haven't been to ETS yet) but isn't the TF2 event there an unofficial one? Also, do we even have someone with connections to the heads of ETS?

I just suggested GXL since they are big, constantly have TF2 as a pro-series tournament, and we personally know the guy who runs it. From what I hear ETS is pretty awesome too so I'm not putting them down, we should look at all possibilities

The "biggest" LANs in NA I guess would technically be the intel backed "LANfest" ones, but they don't really cater to competitive gaming. GXL is very supportive of competitive gaming, it's east coast (40 mins from Philadelphia International Airport). Close enough to some of the major east coast landmarks that people may want to visit while they are here (Philly, NYC, Washington DC, etc...)

At previous GXL LANs we have had lots of top players fly in to compete. I'm sure for a major event like this could potentially be that a ton of teams would attend.

There are also a lot of comp players local to this area who I'm sure would help people get around and stuff.

I'm really gonna start working on this.

I've been suggesting an international LAN here in NA since before i46. It doesn't have to be one of the Multiplay LANs...

TheFragile and I both work with the GXL, which has been around for a long time. It is one of the most successful NA LANs. They have the venue, they have all the networking gear, servers, tables, chairs... Almost everything we would need. We would need to get PCs for people to compete on, since traveling from another country WITH your rig isn't gonna happen, but there are ways we can get the PCs.

Now I'm obviously not suggesting that this go down in October at the next GXL, this would require a LOT of planning. Ill talk to the main guy tho this weekend and run it by him.

PAX is also another option. PAX is a huge convention that hosts a big LAN. We could try to work something out with them as well and make a huge spectacle out of it. That one is a long shot, but the GXL is very, very possible.

Also, just to be clear... By suggesting we do a LAN here I'm in no way saying we shouldn't continue to do the euro LANs. I'm saying we do this in addition to the euro LANs.

While I actually don't mind gpit, I can understand why some people want it gone. If it goes I won't lose sleep over it, but lets calm down with the gullywash thing. Gully is a great map. Yes, last can be stalematey at times, but so can most maps. QF is banned... Everyone take a deep breath and calm down.

If we are looking at maps to add to the rotation, why don't we look at some older maps we used to play, and maybe update them to "pro" versions to fix the problems that led to them being removed in the first place. While this may not be an option for S15, maybe it could be for S16?

Some that come to mind:

cp_well
Remove the gates, open up 2nd a bit, redesign last a little

cp_freight
Basically just use one of the older versions before it became an official map

cp_yukon
shrink the mid, redesign last.

Keep them the same.