Plan: We will meet on the big stairs of the south entrance at 6:45PM/ 7:00PM and walk over to the restaurant. Please be on time since the reservation is for 07:30PM. Meet me there or come to the restaurant yourself at that time.
Bring money as no one will pay for you and we want to avoid troubles. Enjoy the night. Reservation is booked for 75 but the restaurant is informed that there will be more people coming most likely and they told me its not a problen. I don't have a "check-list" so whoever comes first.. gets a seat. See you there.
I have good news and I have bad news. First of all the Café Especial doesn't accept my reservation, because they already have a reservation booked for that evening so... they don't want to accept a reservation for 75 people. I asked HasuObs if he knew others places where we could go to and suggested the Restaurant Oasis ( http://www.restaurantoasis.de/weg.htm )
I called and usually they close at 11:30PM CET but I asked if its possible to close later and he told me that even 1 PM or a bit later should be no problem. The gamescom does close at 6PM CET so I asked for reservation at 7:30PM CET ( 8/17/2012) ... so everything is settled. This place is a bit more expensive but the variation of food is also a lot bigger... to sum it up
Reservation is booked! Time: Friday 8/17/2012 7:30PM CET Persons: 75 Adress: Restaurant OASIS Kennedy Ufer 1 50679 Köln Tel.0221/814441
once again we are approaching the gamescom which comes with an amazing Starcraft 2 main tournament and probably a few smaller invite tournaments as well. At least thats what we got to see last year with the HomerJ tournament and XMG's Cup-Final.
It might be a bit early to start the thread, but the sooner I have a list of people that would like to attend or an actualy confirmed number, the sooner I can take a reservation for a restaurant / bar. Past two years have shown that the following place
Café Especial (http://www.cafe-especial.com/)
is very close to the location and everyone had great fun there. 2010 we still had minor problems with sharing the bill and a few guys already left, thats why we decided that everyone will pay for their own stuff immediatly after serving and I think everything went pretty well in 2011.
After the party friends and me were there again to grab some drinks before the ESL players party and I did talk to the restaurant manager and he was pretty happy about what he got out of the reservation and also the Teamliquidians behaviour. I asked him if I could possibly get the whole place for the next year and besides he obviously couldn't accept it right away, he didn't disagree in the first place.
For this year, I plan on actually doing it. Last years reservation was 80-100 persons and it was packed. We actually had to open up another room which we used as the 'progamer / caster / close friends' area. This was by no means to get distance between players and fans, but just to guarantee the progamers can have good talk because obviously its rare that you have so many progamers/friends in one place.
By no means anyone was denied to enter that room / talk to players or commentators etc. Most of us were standing outside smoking or drinking cocktails anyways, so please don't take it as a negative thing.
As I said, I'm planning on booking the whole place if needed, but obviously if we get 'just' 80-100 persons, I'd do the same reservation as before.
Obviously if someone isn't satisfied with that place or isn't satisfied with me organizing this meetup for Teamliquid, please let me know .. but I guess everyone was pretty okay and satisfied last time.
For now, I'll leave you with two polls and the chance to leave comments, feel free to shoot me a PM. As I do not know if the players party will be on friday or saturday, I'll have more than just two polls actually , haha.
Please note, if the outcome of the MeetUp poll does create a 'conflict' with the ESL players party, we'll have the meetup on the other day, as usually all casters and progamers want to attend the players party and the meetup and I don't want to split up people.
I will talk to Take / ESL and try to get my hands on information when the player party will take place, but as for now, we'll have those polls. I will make a list of people that are interested, and another list of people that will attend 100%, this ofcourse will not start right now, but a bit later when we got more / better information!
Not sure if I'm gonna make it this year as I don't know if I will be in Germany at the time, but if I'm there I'll edit it in here and be coming 100% The last two meet-ups were awesome, always so nice people there, even the pro-gamers are very approachable and the food is awesome (I can recommend the spare-ribs ^^)
Edit: In case you're making the list, I'm 100% attending, and maybeee bring 1-2 friends.
Oh, man. I really want to go again, that was so much fun. My son is going to be born about a week before that, though; I'm not sure if my wife will let me go spend an evening out right then. Maybe it will work out though!
Man wish I could join again this year, it was awesome, definitly recommending anyone from TL at Gamescom to take this fantastic opportunity to meet with fellow TL'ers, known faces, and more
I was there last time but sadly not for very long because I took some non-starcraft people with me and they wanted to go.
But this time I'll be there ALONE and have a beer or two, so I can actually talk to people without the urge to kill myself because my english doesn't work infront of pros (I'm so sry Moonglade XD). =) I'll also get myself a better cam because the cam from last year fucked up 80% of the photos.
Is it confirmed that ESL will host a sc2\esports tournament there? Have tried googleing\asked a friend who works for ESL but no confirmation yet.
That being said, I met my current girlfriend (who I am now living together with in germany) at last years team liquid meetup : D Really hoping we can make it to this years meet up, but not certain we will be able to
On April 25 2012 04:20 Earll wrote: Is it confirmed that ESL will host a sc2\esports tournament there? Have tried googleing\asked a friend who works for ESL but no confirmation yet.
That being said, I met my current girlfriend (who I am now living together with in germany) at last years team liquid meetup : D Really hoping we can make it to this years meet up, but not certain we will be able to
haha dude thats awesome!!
I dont see ESL not doing a big SC2 tourney at gamescom any time soon I cant find any official sites / announcements anywhere but I talked to rotterdam in hannover and yes theres gonna be SC2 and LoL in cologne with equally big stages.
On April 25 2012 04:20 Earll wrote: Is it confirmed that ESL will host a sc2\esports tournament there? Have tried googleing\asked a friend who works for ESL but no confirmation yet.
That being said, I met my current girlfriend (who I am now living together with in germany) at last years team liquid meetup : D Really hoping we can make it to this years meet up, but not certain we will be able to
They will have an event there, and if you look at how SC2 has done at IEM last year, it's really unlikely for it not to be there. I think we can safely assume IEM isn't going to let us plan a meetup for nothing anyway. Carmac even shared some beers with the visitors of this party!
anyone knows how long in advance you have to book the tickets? I'd love to go, but only get my exam results end of june, is that time enough to book tickets still then or already sold out normally? :s
I'll bump this for once, because without a good list, I can't make any calls / reservation. ;; And the later we get that list, the less likely to get a reservation for 80-100 people or even the whole place!
I was thinking about attending the Expo... don't know for sure now if I find something to sleep or if I drive back home for 3h... But IF I am in the area I sure would check out this party!
I don't know yet. I'm not even sure if I can make it at all, but I still would like to "host" it doing reservations etc. Problem is, time is running a bit short for a reservation of 80-100 persons... so please Teamliquid, don't let me down. If we don't have 50 people listed by 07/10/2012 I guess there will be either a very small reservation or none at all...
On June 29 2012 18:00 Type|NarutO wrote: I don't know yet. I'm not even sure if I can make it at all, but I still would like to "host" it doing reservations etc. Problem is, time is running a bit short for a reservation of 80-100 persons... so please Teamliquid, don't let me down. If we don't have 50 people listed by 07/10/2012 I guess there will be either a very small reservation or none at all...
So how much are we right now? The 40 people from the poll or do you have another list?
On June 29 2012 18:00 Type|NarutO wrote: I don't know yet. I'm not even sure if I can make it at all, but I still would like to "host" it doing reservations etc. Problem is, time is running a bit short for a reservation of 80-100 persons... so please Teamliquid, don't let me down. If we don't have 50 people listed by 07/10/2012 I guess there will be either a very small reservation or none at all...
So how much are we right now? The 40 people from the poll or do you have another list?
With not even 3 pages... I guess we don't even have 20. I didn't create a list yet but I could do so in 5 minutes going through this thread. Votes from the poll don't mean anything, if I don't have the actual persons going... everyone can vote and it doesn't matter if they make it or not. You can check the threads last year and we easily had a big list very fast.
On July 10 2012 04:08 altlenny wrote: I have exams during Gamescom this year. It's a shame I can't attend because of that. Oh the memorys that come up when thinking of last year.
funny how much that varies, ill be finished with exams after this week yeaah
p.s.: still plenty of time to rally people. Last years thread was started in July only. People start thinking about GamesCom closer to the event. Plus ask a caster at IEM to announce the meetup and the bar will be full.
On July 10 2012 06:06 toemess wrote: p.s.: still plenty of time to rally people. Last years thread was started in July only. People start thinking about GamesCom closer to the event. Plus ask a caster at IEM to announce the meetup and the bar will be full.
I dont think not getting it full was ever the problem
On July 10 2012 06:06 toemess wrote: p.s.: still plenty of time to rally people. Last years thread was started in July only. People start thinking about GamesCom closer to the event. Plus ask a caster at IEM to announce the meetup and the bar will be full.
No reservation, no place to go. No list beforehand, no reservation. A list with too little time before the event, no reservation as well. :/
Silvanoooooooooo :D I'll most certainly be there to see you again :-)
Presuming ESL Players' Party will be Saturday night again as it has been the last two years running.
Don't think we should announce the TL meetup to the masses as last time it was too busy anyway... So as much as it is awesome to have loads of people, having the bar completely overcrowded and impossible to order anything is not so nice :-)
I spoke to the restaurant just now to book a reservation on friday 8/17/2012. I asked for about 75 persons because I guess there will be a few more coming than on that list. He already has a reservation on friday for about 35 persons and he asked me to call him back in 15 minutes.
If I can get the reservation for 75 persons, I'll book it for 8PM CET.
They don't accept reservation ... because they already got another big reservation of 35 persons (lol).... So I will need to find another place I guess-_- if someone from Cologne wants to help me out there, would be great.
++++++++++++++++UPDATE, please check the OP!+++++++++++++++++
i will be there with + 1 if that is still alright to say... and i don't come from that area at all, so i am afraid that i can't help you with that. but thank you so much for organizing it!
Just found this thread.. I know you have mentioned that you have booked the place for only 75 people, is that a very strict number? Becuase me and a friend will be at gamescom for the full 4 days and would love to come down and hang out )
Well if we get a lot more people I'll call them again and try to get 100. Should not be that fixed... but I'm not sure. Its not a bar this time, its a restaurant.
If they are smart, they surely wont turn down business... I hope it will be okay, would really like to come down and hang out with everyone for the evening )
Finally got everything planned for gamescom this year. So I'll be there with a friend for sure. :D Last year was great, let's see what the new location is like. Thanks for organising this again, Silvano
The ESL party was announced and will be happening Saturday ! https://thepartythatmatters.eventbrite.com/ (for people interested) means there is not gonna be any conflict really looking forward to this =)
On August 08 2012 01:45 Clamev wrote: The ESL party was announced and will be happening Saturday ! https://thepartythatmatters.eventbrite.com/ (for people interested) means there is not gonna be any conflict really looking forward to this =)
oh so you can buy tickets this time.. thx for post
It has a big outside area, maybe some people didn't want to be recorded on google streetview or the restaurant itself doesn't allow it. Don't be afraid, I'm not going to kidnap and kill everyone. I will post information on where to meet up actually.. with time etc. I hope you can access internet tomorrow still!
I might be there too. If there's anyone from the Netherlands that could use a ride, send me a PM and I'll surely go. Leaving from Culemborg on Friday and probably going back the same day, assuming someone comes along. If no one does, I might not go.
Plan: We will meet on the big stairs of the south entrance at 6:45PM/ 7:00PM and walk over to the restaurant. Please be on time since the reservation is for 07:30PM. Meet me there or come to the restaurant yourself at that time.
Bring money as no one will pay for you and we want to avoid troubles. Enjoy the night. Reservation is booked for 75 but the restaurant is informed that there will be more people coming most likely and they told me its not a problen. I don't have a "check-list" so whoever comes first.. gets a seat. See you there.
On August 15 2012 09:08 Liquid`Nazgul wrote: Sadly enough I am in New York till MLG Raleigh. Really sucks to miss this one, but you will have plenty of fun without me!
1 last bump so people know! See you in the evening. I already talked to some guys or was approached by some. Russian/Ukrainian squad is coming which will be great since they are always very fun to talk and hang around with. I still remember Strelok and his cool walking style from Cologne 2011 :D!
Kas will be there as I was told. Tarson will come... and also some other famous people ! I hope we will have a good time, but I got no doubt. Too bad Nazgul won't be there this time
On August 15 2012 09:08 Liquid`Nazgul wrote: Sadly enough I am in New York till MLG Raleigh. Really sucks to miss this one, but you will have plenty of fun without me!
Hey to all! I was the American at the dinner. Nice meeting everyone especially... that one guy who pronounced his name in good american English that I can't remember, and then Pholon!
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