Update: I had a meeting today with assembly organisers and it seems there will be no tf2 games at winter assembly. I keep you updated if theres some changes.
M0re — Winter assembly needs you. I’ve been in contact with the admins about the possibility to have TF2 at WASM. I’ve been told that theres less than 10% chance for it after horrible summer assembly. Hardly got enough teams to join the tournament and teams were honestly low-mid mixes. I’m now early to have chance to get TF2 a spot in and I need teams to confirm their attendance for me to have a finished list of at least 8 teams to present for assembly admins. Also I’ve been talking with 
Comedian about two casters to attend the event, if it happens, to get some streams going on for you fans out there.
Teams interested should contact CKRAS|M0re as soon as possible over on Quakenet or Steam.
Confirmed teams:
- CKRAS Gaming
Epsilon eSports
Infused.Tt- Team Dignitas
- relic
So there’s still place for your team – remember, it’s invite tournament so eight best teams will be hand picked by admins.
Winter assembly details:
- Dates: Friday, February 24th – Sunday, February 26th
- Location: Kaapelitehdas (cable factory) in Helsinki (same place as last year)
- Tickets: Probably €50 per player to attend (not confirmed)
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TweetWhat the fuck. With just those 5 teams this already shapes up to be one of the best LANs TF2 has had. Will a couple of finnish mid teams not suffice for the last 3, or must it be recognised teams that can compete (or at least come close to) with those 5?
I’m afraid it’s not the teams, I’m quite sure we can get 8 teams. I’m afraid there isnt time for tf2 in wasm, becouse of HON. But i’ll try to get tf2 in with the quality of the teams and when we are this early it might make it easier for admins to make working schedules. I’ve a backup plan to get tf2 only event but I’ll wait and see what the wasm admins can do for us.
- # - nice! +5Get broder there pls.
:3
- Finnish div1/prem mix.
- C’mon broder
- Another decent finnish team
Anyway with those 5 teams I think it could be the best TF2 lan ever? correct me If I’m wrong.
‘most competitive TF2 LAN’ but not the best :D
- # - nice! +5Gogo Broder!
- # - nice! +4Apparently the organisers only think in numbers, so for people with no TF2 knowlege only a tournament with like 10 teams is a “good” tournament
- # - nice! +2Broder? You are all scandis anyway.
Yoyotech?
russian teams maybe? un .de? finland isn’t too far for you guys? :D
xzr and the usual finnish crowd make a mix?
- # - nice! +7I made a haiku:
I could merc medic,
But LTG cannot go.
Them poor and Irish :(
But yeah, could merc. In case anyone gonna make another “low-mid mix”, of course! :D
- # - nice! +3rinta, have you met karhunen?
MIPC is probably going if we manage to get a new medic before end of the year.
- # - nice! +4karhunen, have you met rinta?
make it happen euros
M0re, I think I will bring some russian mix-team 3rd time in a row!
And of course we need to play vs. MIPC in the same group as always! :-)
- # - nice! +3chaotech and Galant confirmed, that makes 7 already. Would love to have more than 8 teams willing to come, that would be more comforting for the admins to pick us and not be afraid about drop outs before the event.
- # - nice! +1I still havent had confirmation from the epsilon, but randa said they would be 100%. Would love to hear from Slick tho.. :) read your emails man!
- # - nice! +4I WANT TO GO! knoxx needs a kiss.
Slick told me 2 weeks ago that they weren’t attending because the prize isn’t big enough and they wanted to play in a french lan on April.
I hope he changes his mind :p
- # - nice! +3Can merc, div2 sol
Can also drive people around Helsinki if I go.
- # - nice! +3ok guys, we’ve a dedicated drunk driver. We really need to get this thing going.
If that isn’t inspiration for MGOs I don’t know what is…
- # - nice! +1Haha was thinking more in the line of airport-hotel-venue, but I guess I could take one for the team :D
- # - nice! +0Div 1*
- # - nice! +1Good luck ! Stupid I can’t do more to help !
;)
- # - nice! +1Can mixmerc!
This actually looks like the most competitive lan tournament I’ve seen :o
- # - nice! +4“after horrible summer assembly”
If I remember correctly they said that they weren’t making a TF2 tournament, but they changed their mind like 1 month before the event when valve announced the F2P.
if you remember correctly it was after my major whine for the admins to get us in :)
- # - nice! +3If we don’t get winter assembly we know who to blame then!
F2P!!!
- # - nice! +0Me and Dr. Leon are in talks about creating a good enough+ mixteam for wasm but I am currently enjoying my christmas holidays and therefore can’t promise anything until beginning of january. can’t go to steam or irc, just throwing this out here.
- # - nice! +3Anyone in need of a player, preferly a somewhat good team ill go to WASM
- # - nice! +4Im up for it THEN YOU SEE I AINT CHEETAH
Give it up Tviq we all know you toggle.
- # - nice! +7The man is a pure gaming machina.
- # - nice! +0Me also.
- # - nice! +1If someone needs a crappy, drunk and incredably cute medic i’m available.
- # - nice! +1gonna be there to see people and have fun. :)
SEEYOUATLAN
- # - nice! +5I had a meeting today with assembly organisers and it seems there will be no tf2 games at winter assembly. I keep you updated if theres some changes.
- # - nice! +3Any reasons other than no time? I don’t understand why they have HoN tho, I thought it was kinda dead cause of Dota 2 and LoL.
- # - nice! +0iirc, HoN is now Free-to-Play to try and combat their player base moving over to LoL.
Still, it’s a shame to hear this m0re. TF2 always producing some great finals at LANs both on the screen with some amazing play and the ever vocal Finnish crowd. :D
- # - nice! +0With this sick attention of top teams?! Sad, that is what it is…
- # - nice! +0:/
- # - nice! +0out of interest, if WASM goes ahead, are diggy going to pay your flights from spain?
- # - nice! +1yes
- # - nice! +2This is definitly a blow. However, at the risk of offending the dedicated finnish TF2 gamers – this isn’t really that big of a deal. Finland is not the gourmet TF2 talent it was in 2009. As far as I can tell, the UK is where anything hot and happening is currently spawning from so anyone who was otherwise considering WASM as their only early 2012 venture should just head their train to i45. Speaking as a summer assembly 2011 attendee, I can say it was an utterly anti-clamatic experience. The event was awesome purely because it was a gaming event in which TF2 had a significant showing, and given the TF2 community being what it is – it’s attendance is all an event needs to be a blinding success for me. As far as I can tell, the UK is now the centre of TF2 talent and any stake finland or scandinavia had in that departed with the success of the old dignitas. Ever since they ceased to be the undisputed champions of TF2, as did finland, and in accordance with this the assembly events ceased to be anything other than a convenience for locally situated teams and this has been demonstrated in the utter demise of attendance of the most recent assembly events. Consider the abundance of french LANs that TF2 has experienced since the dawn of the scene. They were always apparent, but never adored in a simlar manner to the assembly events simply because the french scene was not considered to be as talented. Sorry to anyone this may offend, but the fact of the matter is that beyond a legacy that is purely historically based (that is, holds no baring within the current semblence of the TF2 scene) there is nothing greater lost in the abandoning of Assembly that there is/was in the loss of these common french lans; Finland simply does not hold the majority of TF2 talent anymore.
Again, I will stress that any cesation of TF2 competition at any event is a severe blow to our scene. I’m simply offering some perspective to prevent this most recent demise from being blown out of proportion. Be honest – the most recent assembly prizepot, attendance and showcasing was fucking appauling. A year ago I’d of said it was a great loss, but now it is simply just something that has been a long time coming finally brought into reality that only those who love Tf2 but lack the funding to get the UK will dwell upon. i45 is there, i46 will be fucking spectacular, and at the end of the day the total people severely put out by the cancellation of WASM are the handful of finnish attendees who lack the sponsorship to get to iseries.
That is, if we get our shit together. If we do not get our shit together, then i45 will be the same mediocre experience as every other spring iseries and TF2 will suck signficant bollocks for a long time as a consequence. The fact is that with no winter LAN for top teams to attend, i45 becomes the obvious choice and should asuch become an awesome event that it otherwise could not have been with the limited resources the top 8 (or so) teams have being diverted to what is essentially an utterly underwhelming experience at WASM.
- # - nice! +2It is also sad news for russian scene, kaidus. WASM is the only opportunity to get the whole russian team to play on EU LAN with EU opponents. It is incredible hard and expensive to go to UK for russian players…
- # - nice! +4Tell that to rubikon!
However, that’s true. Don’t get me wrong, I’m by no means trying to brush away the benefit WASM gave to our scene. I’m just trying to acknowledge the fact that 90% of the benefits reaped from it had absolutely nothing to do with the inherent value of the event itself, and that the excitement and anticipation caused by it stems from a historical success sparked from talented players local to Finland. Since there’s no longer a majority talent in Finland, the excitement from assembly is born only of it’s historical merits. I definitely overlooked the benefits to the Russian scene, but this still seems like a limited source of mourning since only 1 group of 6 players would (and if ASM ever achieved the success that it’s propagators hoped, ‘COULD’) ever attend. Again I underline the fact that the cancellation of ANY TF2 event is a loss to the scene if it means that those who could otherwise take part in TF2 lan events no longer can; I’m just trying to disperse the idea that there was anything about the Assembly events other than a historical legacy that made them more important to the TF2 scene than any other event could have been.
- # - nice! +1Tbh kaidus. The way you are putting asm and i-series against each other seems like a basic US way of thinking.
- # - nice! +7“For me I-series is better = asm must be bad.”
stupid.
Also the LANS are completely different, asm is where the top clans compete against each other where I-series is where every shitty div3 clan can join in and have fun but missing some top clans always. In my mind we need both. The LANS going only to UK means that there really isn’t anything for the nordics, russians, eastern europeans, pretty much anyone except UK and maybe French to look forward to.
Kinda sad :(
In France we have Insalan in February (10-12/02), Anjougame in March (9-11/03) and Gamer’s Assembly in April (7-9/04) and prolly lot of other events before the end of 2012. 16 slots each, can be expended if euro community is interested. Every euro team is welcome ;)
Problem is that few lans are “euro oriented” because of localisation or capacity (that’s sad, GA could be a huge event if they could receive more than 1000 players).
And we have Gameonlive (gamonlive.com/) wich aim to euro community (big cash, good localisation ) but despite the cashprize french community chose to focus on insalan which is the best lan we have in France in terms of quality, not enough guarantee on gameonlive atm. Still if you’re interrested, let it be known.
- # - nice! +1what a pissed of nerd
- # - nice! +4Keyboard too nice I couldn’t stop myself god help me
- # - nice! +1Fun fact #72:
Out of all Season 11′s premiership players, 48% come from Finland or Sweden.*
*(assuming no teams fold/change players)
- # - nice! +5“Tell that to rubikon!”
Read carefully: “to get the whole russian team on EU LAN”, not “to get one armenian with EU mix on EU LAN”.
When team is going – the whole community can follow and cheer for this team. When Rubikon has visited i-Series – yes, we did interview with him during our cast, but it isn’t so big part…
- # - nice! +1The whole post is pretty retarded in retrospect, but “Tell that to rubikon” was a joke :p
- # - nice! +1