Console's RGB 2 Shoutouts

This is gonna be long, appologies for the text wall so large Trump would be impressed.

First and foremost thank you to TheFragile for putting up what is essentially the premiere TF2 LAN for the east coast, the fact that this event exists and I was able to attend has done tons for me. My relationship with my dad is very rocky and this event helped him see why I have put 6 years of watching and 4 of playing into this game despite other eSports having significantly better payouts, as well as seeing how beautiful the community is and that the personalities i talk about from behind the screen are just as interesting and vibrant in person. Without this event I would have not gotten to meet all of the great people I did in person, and wouldn't be able to have one of the best experiences of my life.
[spoiler]thank mr mike meyers[/spoiler]

Thank you to DubThink for providing a fun trip home in the car, unfortunately didn't do much playing or talking with you until sunday but you were awesome to chill with for a few hours. Now knowing that you live 1 1/2 hour from me might have to hang out more often! You made a great happy ending to an amazing weekend, thank you Ben! :)

Thank you chompa- for holding shit down on our team, the fact that you were even able to find enough people within the last hour of reg for the tournament and keep relatively cool considering the stress i know you were going through. Beel having to fill in for another team and me stepping off to go do production, combined with Yari oversleeping and giving you basically a panic attack should have rendered our team dead but you pulled it together, found players miraculously last minute and made it work. You also basically made my LAN experience, riding to Wawa at 4 AM high and playing the few hours of hella video games that I did with you were some of the biggest highlights of my LAN experience and you are truely an amazing young woman. Sorry for making you put up with my depressed ass sunday night, my new meds are actually insane in the worst way.

Thank you to drshadowpuppet for the crazy amount of work he did for the TF2 tournament, both in terms of making the production operable and working crazy hard to run the servers. In a matter of 30 minutes, he was able to set up what I can only decribe as the craziest combination of casting plugins I've yet seen. We went from using a default install of Team Fortress 2 to having rayshud after he pointed out it was available for open use, and rewriting configs for CastingEssentials and StatusSpec on the fly to try and troubleshoot our observing setup. He was also such a bro in terms of holding down the cast, filling in when the previous planned casters frootloops and chompa had to go play the lower bracket and holding down the snakewater cast solo when my voice basically died until I was able to sprint to take a bathroom break and chug some water. Growing up watching TF2 you are one of the few names I always remembered seeing on production, and getting to not only meet and hang with you, but [i]also[/i] work with you on production was a real treat. You're one of the people who inspired me to think about applying for production, and without your work at lan the stream wouldn't have come even as close to a good production as it did. Keep in mind you did all of this while running back and forth across the expo hall from stream booth to admin computers to run the servers for every TF2 match played on LAN, which truely baffles me as to how you even pulled it off.

Thank you so much to Emily, AKA emkateultra for being the glue that held together the entire volunteer push, and for being such a nice person. Really glad to have worked with you, and the short conversation you had with my dad went miles in helping him understand what being at the event and running production really means to me. You were super flexible in letting my production time count as my volunteer hours, and allowing that to count for ticket reimbursement literally put me in tears. I can't thank you enough for what you do to help the event, and for being a real inspiration for me to continue pursuing my dream as a stream producer. Will be looking forward to seeing you again at RGB3, will definitely try to fit a volunteer session in before or after the TF2 stream for sure. You've made a big impact on my current life and I thank you so much for helping me.

Thank you to beelthazus for being such a baller both before and during the event. Being able to talk to you and having you as part of my support network has helped me a lot, and you were such a pleasure to talk to at lan. I basically see you as a mini second dad and helping me figure out some rather difficult things in my personal life pertaining to TF2. You did a fantastic job of stepping in as a color caster for the last few matches and did a banger of a job, especially in the grand finals cast. Honestly you're one of the smartest people I've gotten to talk to yet when it comes to TF2, and in general you're just a real smarty. you've basicaly been a role model for me and a fucking great caster and I can't thank you enough.

Thanks to Hedgehog Hero for being such an awesome person to talk to. Wish there was someone else at the event with green-colored hair, having an RGB pic with the hair colors would have been hilarious! Such a nice/gentle person and one of my favorite people i've ever played on a team with. You're one of the first ESEA players I really got a chance to make friends with, funnily enough met you by subbing for papiyisus's HL team in gold forever ago. Can't wait to see you again at RGB3, you're super neat!

Shoutouts to playmo for being a super cool dude to sit next to at LAN despite the really wierd seating issue on saturday morning. You were super chill about it and seemed surprisingly calm for walking into the lan center to see your PC missing, even if it was just moved to another seat on accident.

Yari you also basically made my LAN experience the best it could be so thank you a ton! You chompa- and I (and MurkScribe saturday evening as well) were an awesome squad to chill with and driving us around in the Yarimobile at the most random times in the middle of the night was great. Thank you also for putting up with my depression bullshit, it means a lot. You gave us quite the scare saturday morning when you didnt show initially, but you eventualy woke up and found us and helped chompa- calm down a lot and you were super chill the whole time.

Shiny and FrickmyNick, was super cool to meet you guys in person as you're always hilarious to be in mumble with. Was sad that Scream/melsas/saslem/smurdrums aka my boy Alex the meme master was not able to round out arguably the best comedy trio in IM. Triple crossing my fingers he can make it to RGB3 or RGB4, he is a vital member of the Frick eSports organization. In all seriousness though, you guys were as funny and cool in person as online.

Thank you frootloops for also helping keep the stream together, without you would have had to solocast for half of the upper bracket. You were really fun to hang out with and I appologize for my shitty backup pc i brought for you not having dual link DVI, so not being able to do above 60hz. I hope letting you play on my PC for 144hz for a few matches made up for it. Hoping to see you again at RGB3 for sure.

Thanks to irrandom for being a G and buying my old Corsair Strafe, been trying to get rid of it for a while and i'm glad its going to someone who will probably put it to good use.

Thanks to ArmedGamer, the social media guru for RGB, for making a stream possible at all. Originally was going to do a casual cast on my personal stream, but inquired with you after seeing that there was going to an official RGB stream and hearing it mentioned that TF2 was planned for it. Thank you for letting us use the RGB stream to run the tf2 production, offering the already set up streaming booth, and allowing us to do whatever we needed in order to run a successful LAN stream production. Will be in contact soon to try and plan ahead for next RGB's production, at least for TF2. You seriously gave us the hookup we needed and it would otherwise be on my small personal stream and would have not covered the first 3 upper bracket games as I would have been playing pocket on my team. Looking forward to improving next year's TF2 stream.

Thank you to boxcar for [s]punching me in the face[/s] being yet another cool gamer girl I got to meet at LAN. Was a little sad to not be able to have the Console-boxcar power duo cast for a match or 2, but was very pleased to meet you and hang out with you (and the rest of the TF2 players sans-sparkle gang and a few others) at Cheeburger Cheeburger. Will be editing the post with the pictures I got from there once I buy a new USB type C charger as I either lost or forgot my type C wall-wart and my type C male to type A male connector for charging. Will be looking forward to seeing you at RGB3 UwU

Murkscribe. [b]THE Murkscribe.[/b] Legends have been written about what his rockets would do to this world on LAN... You were honestly one of the quirkiest, interesting personalities I met in all of LAN, and chilling with you at Bdubs was sweet. Also, considering the circumstanced you kicked [b]ALL OF THE ASS[/b] at casting grand finals. The first time you ever casted was then, and you really knocked it out of the park. You and beel played off each other really well, and you were really good at staying coherent and keeping the cast really interesting and entertaining. Hoping that me you and beel get to do more casts in the future, be it online or at LAN again, you guys actually made a solid as hell casting duo. (Like apply to tftv or essentials my dudes, will be cutting up VODs for some feedback for you two asap). You and beel really stepped up and pulled the production to the finish line with the grand final, a perfect ending to an overall great tournament cast.

Thanks to everyone who showed up at Cheeburger Cheeburger and signed my mousepad, many of you have already been mentioned and a pic will be uploaded/edited in later. The Cheeburger meetup was a really memorable way to end the event and I'm pretty sure we filled like half the restaraunt. Hope to get even more gamers to sign it at next RGB and other upcoming lans (looking at you, i63 and UberJam).

Shoutouts to TFCrew (went under sparkle gang for lan), Hooligans for Hire, BLANC eSports, and mr_popo_lan for having been able to bring out the cores of their main rosters to play. It feels awesome to know that a lot of up and coming IM and low-mid invite talent was able to attend. It's really fortunate that you guys are geographically and financially able to attend a LAN with most of your core rosters, seems like a cool way to meet some of the teams you play online at LAN and build even further synnergy with your friends and teammates. You guys put on some fantastic performances and the grand final was such a good/close game. I think it says a lot about our community that we're able to have so many mostly pre-existing teams attend. Also shoutouts to BeTtEr ThAn YoU eSpOrTs, salty seamen, and Froot Loops for being mixteams/friend teams and playing. I know pretty much everyone on these 3 and they are chill as hell. Overall the 7 teams that participated were all really cool and put on an amazing performance in the tournament.

Shoutouts to Cronjington "Bear" Magoo for dropping [url=https://www.logs.tf/1973542]33 kills on gullywash fulltime pyro.[/url] Dude was actually nuts in this tournament and was super cool to talk to for the brief time I got to.

Shoutouts to the shittiest winter storm I've seen in years doubling my travel time to lan and cancelling others lan plans :( was hoping to see people like kurt or msh, but there's always RGB3 so i'm still hopeful.

Shoutouts to jaguarfiend for his cool headband and being a chill guy to hang with. Sorry for not getting  LAN passtime pugs started, was wiped after the production at 10 :/ did lots of talking about it though, so maybe you'll see an increase in players?

Shoutouts to John Milter for being a cool dude and hosting some litt parties. Did not personally attend, but heard good things.

[spoiler]Also shoutout to all the players who I got high with outside, my dad drove by as i was smoking with yall and was literally too blind to see lol[/spoiler]

If I missed anyone it wasnt on purpose, this took me like 2 hours to write. Everyone was cool to meet and hang out with at lan, and I am looking forward to more RGB in the future.