Trell — Ignoring the cheesy title of this article (YOU ARE NOT PREPARED! – hey @ wow players), it is now just 5 days until the UK’s largest ever LAN festival (officially now, with 2157 places booked at the time of writing), Insomnia 43, begins.
Running from the 26th – 29th August, this Summer sees the Multiplay festival moved from its usual home of Newbury to the North, and the Telford International Centre. The new location holds a lot more people, and the finals stage looks sensational, with an epic setup.
But you’re not reading this article to hear the advertising blurb, you want to know about TF2 related stuff, right? Great. Continue reading for more info on the TF2 delights (may or may not include hats).
With a prize pool up to 13,500 GBP, and a minimum of 5,000 GBP, the TF2 tournament is one of the larger games at i43.
Match times
The TF2 tournament was originaly meant to begin at around 3pm on the Friday, but thanks to Damage working his Jedi-like skills (huge thanks to Greg and Tapley too), the group stages will now begin at 7pm UK time, to give the Europeans time to get setup before the tournament starts.
Moving on to the Saturday, the Double Elimination portion of the TF2 tournament starts at 11am, with the Grand Final held on Sunday at 12:30.
VanillaTV Staff Attending
Comedian (Streaming/Casting) Cube (Technical/Content) BoneS (Video) Admirable (Casting) Trell, flushy, Greg, Byte, ArX, Shox and Shrike are all attending as well, but will be playing, and as such aren’t officially going as part of the VTV i43 team.
Confirmed Teams attending
| Epsilon eSports | F2, Extremer, KnOxXx, stefan, GeaR, quad Epsilon have pretty much their standard lineup - with Quad mercing in place of the apparently lan shy wltrs. | |
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| TCM-Gaming | Byte, ANTY, flisko, pena, Coinz, skinnie TCM Gaming, led by Byte, will be looking to push to the final with their standard team. | |
| Dignitas | mafu, dajackal, Darn, Haza, hymzi, Rebeli After being dropped by Power, the Finnish guys have looked unbeatable. With Darn jumping in to help on the LAN side, this should certainly be a team to watch. | |
| Team Infused | numlocked, flushy, boomeh, Mike, Greg, Qun With a slightly reworked team at this LAN, Infused will be looking to park yet another bus and cause major upsets. | |
| Dropped | nvc, crzy, sonix, plumb3d, hurr, ? Some of the ex Infused players formed a team, and got a couple of other players in. | |
| Rawr | arx, beta, drjustice, ghent, Tsu, PlaPla AcidRenix and Beta will be looking to run as far as possible with this team of well know players. | |
| Grandchildren of Poop | Poop, Gubbins, Anderson, oronoc, wndr, Si^ | |
| A Clockwork Purple | skeej, Dauk, Nmx, Blind, Kaidus, Rubikon Rubikon graces us with his prescence in this mix team - will Kaidus be able to help the team to victory @ lan? | |
| NORDIC-eSports.PENTIA | Dunc, ShoX, fluffy, zappis, Salmon, xzr Our very own SirShox and the indomitable Dunc team up with some fearsome finns in this Pentia team fresh from Assembly. | |
| Elemental Violence | Ace, E-thug, Head Hunter, Shrike410, Sylosin, WAR | |
| pubHeroes | Trell, Screweh, Garner, Security, Reaper, backb0ne_uk | |
| UKCS | ApacheFlame, MittinsKittens, I Blame My Mother, 13th, The Monk, The_Pope | |
| Who Dares... Grins? | Burnalot, Captain Valentine, DeadlyAvenger, DodgyEmu, LtMama, mode_seven, Power Tommy the Cat | |
| Team Vertex | CanFo, d2m, Ipz Säm, Sonny Black, ThePledge. The reform of Team Vertex .. yay! | |
| re# | irregular, Pie, Knifewish, Evil_Fridge, Sunshine, ListerOFSMEG Rehash Gaming are coming with a full English team, none of their players from outside of the UK can make it. | |
| The Moon Dinosaurs | fishy, Irish, JustMoose, sick-lizard, Spark, T0m | |
| SWIMP | BoneS, Colt, Colt, Enef, Mortal, Scratchii, XO | |
| DAKKA//OCD | Coco, Califax, Buttnose, MuG, Fester, and Nik | |
| DAKKA//next | Mr. G – String, TURb0, DarkSlayer, Heffron, Ramown, lolage | |
| Continuity | Zethzio, Datenshi, Turbomonkey, Bellsprout, Dis, Sami | |
| Lagtastic | Hildreth, CrashSite, Lord Benjamin, Rinta, Pikachu, Mould | |
| 9men | SnowiE, Sarah, Stko, CGS, Turkey, Shambler | |
| i <3 | Saartje, Wai, Namu, Mark, Walker, Maggles |
If you have any more information on teams attending, feel free to let us know in the comments!
CU@LAN
Originally published on VanillaTV (vanillatf2.org) on 2011-08-20 by Trell.
Recovered from the Internet Archive (archived copy) as part of tf2esports.com's preservation of VanillaTV's TF2 coverage. The original site is no longer online. All rights remain with the original author; reposted for historical reference.