After a long and hopefully fun weekend, the first Community LAN event has come to a close.
The winners of our tournaments were:
- Team Coolermaster (Golden Tournament champions, 1000E)
- yoyomix (GT 2nd, 600E)
- Coolmix / Team Fruit (GT 3rd/4th, 250E)
- Team Fruit / Coolmix (GT 3rd/4th, 250E)
- rockit like neXt (Silver Tournament champions, Steelseries hardware)
- Fakkelbrigade (ST 2nd, no prize)
Congratulations to all of those teams! Prize money will be awarded ASAP, please contact me (TCM|dunc #thecommunity) if you haven’t already.
In addition, I’d like to give out some special awards for players at the event.
- Player of the tournament - FADER fisk - for his immense backstabbing skills in the relegation playoffs, to secure FADER a place in the Silver Tournament
- Biggest drunk - FADER skoberget - because seriously, I only saw you drunk off your face or looking incredibly ill (the day after :D)
- Biggest retard - TCM|aves - for not being able to specify which side of the base the intel is coming out of on turbine and getting pissed off when I asked “which side is base?”, and consistently replying “BASE FFS!”
- Best rager - [FB] Exfane - with his rather pathetic whiney rage
- Best caller - TCM|dunc - for coolmix whilst speccing the semi finals
- Biggest cock - coolmix seppo - take that one whichever way you want it
So in summary, the FADER reunion are actually the overall champions, mostly because they’re fucking epic 
Thanks to everyone that attended - I had a hectic but fun time at the event and hopefully it’s given me the confidence to get another organised 
We got some nice external STVs for you:
Server #1 - 81.173.123.97:27020
Server #2 - 81.173.123.97:27021
Server #3 - 81.173.123.97:27022
We’re a little behind schedule at the moment, but we will fix that a.s.a.p.! Enjoy!
The Spare time block at the Saturday afternoon can be used to play PCWs if the tournament is on schedule. If we have some delay, the spare time will be used to get back on schedule.
The Spare time on the Saturday evening is purely indicative. Our aim is to play the first semi finals as soon as possible, to make sure you are not playing official matches too late on the evening.
An image tells more than a thousand words.
As some of you already heard, because they booked a room at the Logica hotel, there was a complete double booking on the Friday night. There was a huge communication error between the hotel and the WZZRD crew, resulting in false communication from the TCL crew to our audience. For that we offer you our sincere apologies.
edit: don’t worry - if I haven’t contacted you by now, you are NOT affected by this issue. All of the people contacted have already made alternative arrangements.
To be clear; everyone who booked at room for Friday night at the Logica hotel (the “comfort accommodation”), has been offered to get all their money back from WZZRD. As replacement you could stay at one of the 15-persons huts, or book another hotel in or around Enschede. We remind you that all communication about this issue should be with WZZRD (nick@wzzrd.nl). Communicating through the TCL crew will only slow things down in this case.
Since WZZRD feel they have to compensate they will organize a completely free BBQ for everyone attending the event! This means nobody has to pay even a cent to enjoy hot fresh meat from the grill with everyone at the LAN venue. Later today we will post a detailed timeschedule for the whole event. Please stay tuned.
We need to know exactly how many people would like to enjoy the barbecue, so please comment on this post if your team would like to BBQ and with how many players. If you’re a visitor - please reply and state you are a visitor!
Deadline: Thursday 2nd of July - 16.30 CET - we need at least 40 people!
PS. Or make a post here!
On Saturday evening we will organize a grand BBQ for all teams participating in our tournaments. In the early hours of the evening, between the Golden Tournament group stage and the Silver Tournament relegation (more information below), we will take a break to enjoy a BBQ in the sun outside!
Together with butcher “Wim Tubbergen”, who is an experienced BBQ organizer, we can offer you a complete BBQ for only 2 euro per person! This works only for the players in our tournaments, so that is anyone who bought a TUP ticket. Visitors can enjoy the BBQ for a mere 7 euro per person.
Silver Tournament relegation
We had to make some room for the BBQ, because the time-schedule is very tight. Thus we have altered the structure of the ST a little bit. The bottom 3 teams from both groups will no longer face each-other in another group stage. Instead, the teams ranked 3rd will get immediate placement for the ST playoffs, while the bottom teams face each-other in a relegation match. The number 5 of Group A will play the number 6 of Group B and vice versa. The winners advance to the ST playoffs, the losers drop from the tournament.
These teams will play one map less than in the older structure, in exchange for a grand BBQ. We hope you agree with us that this is definitely worth it!
We need to know exactly how many people would like to enjoy the barbeque, so please comment on this post if your team would like to BBQ and with how many players. If you’re a visitor - please reply and state you are a visitor!
Deadline: Thursday 2nd of July - 16.30 CET - we need at least 40 people!
PS. Or make a post here!
Since our event is no longer big enough to keep WZZRD Enschede just for ourselves, anyone can enter the venue for free. This means that anyone who enjoys Team Fortress 2 or just wants to be part of the greatest TF2 event in history is hereby invited to visit us this weekend in Enschede - for free!
Now there are several visitors who already paid for their ticket before this weekend (which is highly appreciated). These visitors will be granted access to game PC’s all day on the days they bought a ticket for. Do keep in mind that this does not allow them to participate in the tournaments.
After a week of intense discussions, loads of conversations, several negotiations with the venue and a lot of ups and downs we are hereby confirming that The Community LAN ‘09 has received the green light and will definitely take place. This is 100% sure, there are no more doubts.
At this point in time we have 10 teams confirmed and paid (although a few teams need 1 more player to pay - sort that out asap!). The venue and the organization agreed that although the size of the tournaments has to be decreased, there are still so many reasons to do this event - and thus we will!
Keep a close eye on this page (really!) the following days for information on what you should bring to the event, a more specific timetable, together with a tournament structure description and some surprises.
Friday 3rd - Sunday 5th @ WZZRD Enschede, The Netherlands: The Community LAN ‘09
Saturday the original payment period we set for you all passed. Unfortunately there was a simply mind blowing low amount of 3 teams paying for their players. While there are some other teams that have paid for a part of their players, this is a very bad result. It seems there were several teams and leaders that did not know of this deadline and some MGOs struggled because of the UKeSA LAN event this weekend. Therefor we are extending the payment period with some days, until Friday June 26th, 23.59 CET.
In addition to this we have heard that several teams are still uncertain about their attendance, due to several reasons. We ask you, team leaders, to communicate this with the organization, in order that we know exactly what we are up to. If the amount of participating teams drops down to less than 14, we will have some financial issues to solve. Team leaders: communicate your issues, doubts or problems with us, we are very willing to help you if we can or support you in any possible way.
Thirdly there is the issue of individual players willing to attend the LAN. We heard that there are quite enough individual players to form more than one team, but people are unwilling to believe this is the case. Please do post your case on the mix page we made for this. Work together and discuss this at #thecommunity and let’s get one or two more teams to play! It would be a great shame if people are going to miss this event because they believe there is nobody to play with, while actually there are many people like them.
Last but not least this is a message for everyone that wants to come over and visit the event to spectate the games and have a great time. Please buy a visitor ticket through our PayPal account, because we really need to know how many people we should expect and how much money we can make through visitors. If you can’t pay right now or even in time, let us know so we at least know we can expect you!
Let me be very clear on one thing in particular. If we haven’t got enough income (this obviously depends on the made payments, FULLY paid teams and visitors) this Thursday, we will have to make drastic changes to the event set-up. I can’t express how sad this would be, but it is simply impossible to do the event without enough teams and payments. Remember this is a COMMUNITY event and that if we have got no back-up from the community (in this case back-up through paid teams) we can’t do this.
Just so everyone knows, we will use ETF2L’s current rules. This means we will use the standard rules and scores will be based on map results. There were alternatives but we don’t really believe it’s time to start experimenting at a 2-day LAN event!
The map pool for the Golden Tournament is: Granary, Badlands, Gravelpit, Freight and Turbine.
The map pool for the Silver Tournament is: Granary, Badlands, Gravelpit, Freight, Turbine, Badwater and Dustbowl.
Volunteer admins
We could really do with some kind, helpful volunteer admins for running the vent. Your task will be to coordinate the tournaments (Golden or Silver) together with a co-admin. There’ll probably only be a couple of spaces, but if you’re interested and think you fit the criteria, please contact Fruit`Amonsilas or TCM|dunc on IRC in #thecommunity.
We have agreed upon a timetable with WZZRD for the complete event. Although I will not show you the detailed version (according to dunc it’s too complicated for a normal human being), I can give you some rough outlines of what will happen at which day / time:
- Friday, 20.00 CET: at least one player from each team confirms participation
- Friday, 20.00 - late hours: room for practice games and fun tournaments
- Saturday, 11.00: Golden Tournament Group stage start
- Sunday, 11.00: play-offs start
- Sunday, 16.00: prize ceremony
As you can figure out we will use the Saturday to play all group stage matches for both the Golden and the Silver tournament. We will also play the Golden Tournament relegation matches on the Saturday evening. On Sunday there will be 12 teams left to play, 8 in the Golden tournament and 4 in the Silver tournament. These teams will then face eachother in the quarter- and semi-finals and try to make their way to the grand finals. The prize ceremony will start at 16.00. We would like to clearly state that although there are no official tournament matches on the Friday evening, each team will need at least one player at the event at Friday 20.00 CET to confirm their participation.
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