The BIGGEST Event of the Year! #Helpful Post

live right now real live right now what

are we doing we're doing an LTI Xtreme

we're talking about LTI X coz LTX

tickets are on sale right now we

actually went on sale an hour ago so in

typical linus media group fashion we are

fashionably late yeah we are they tell

you guys that tickets are on sale so

there's some really good news but

there's also a little bit of news that

might be somewhat disappointing to some

of you so I'll let you go through your

first your first bit I mean my first

bits just talking about TX case you know

l TX is Linus tech Expo tickets are on

sale right now it's an event that we're

hosting here in Vancouver with Dreamhack

it's gonna be on July 27 28 I am so

excited for this okay that last bit that

he said okay there's actually two of

those last bits okay so one of them was

Dreamhack did that register I just want

to make sure yeah and the other one was

July 27th and 28th - did that register

it is a two-day event and there's no

break Wow

so Dreamhack is helping us out with both

a BYOC and free Playland gaming set up

there and the vancouver convention

center somehow that's where it's gonna

be we are stepping up like we're going

big league this time we're not at like

an ice rink or whatever like we did the

first year what yeah it seemed like a

strong idea I'm trying

it's just everyone chill okay I'm sore

at the Vancouver conventions that are

somehow Dreamhack has been like actually

amazing to partner with so far here they

talked them into keeping it open all

night

so people with b-y-o-see tickets you

guys are hanging out at LTX for the day

you are gaming all night and then you

are walking around like a zombie the

next day because yeah and just to be

clear the BYOC you can be in it during

while LTX is oh yeah so the LTX hours

are gonna be 11:00 to 6:00 that's for

both days and any time during LTX or

overnight between the two days you can

go chill to BYOC if you get a ticket

their in-game and I think quite a few of

us will be here I'll be there like it'll

be buy a ticket no did you buy one no

yeah you got one dude yeah you can go

you should stream

I don't even care I'm just got I'm just

gonna bring like a card table house put

my laptop side it like you know what you

know what yeah kick me out go for

tyranny security some guy won't know who

you are who but get out of here you

don't have a ticket like You Know Who I

am this is my event no I don't yeah oh

man this is praveen hack turf perfect

perfect okay so what else you got

I mean I was just gonna talk about LTX

yeah cool no I mean so it started with a

dream a dream of seeing that pax made a

lot of money

and thinking gee maybe we could do the

same thing actually you know it's funny

it actually did start with us trying to

make it a profitable event and then so

the first year we were like okay let's

like let's like try and break even and

then the next year we'll make a profit

and did we break even the first year I

don't I think we were close though yeah

sure so we were like okay you know what

that was really fun and we didn't lose

much money so we should be able to be

profitable next year let's do it again

so the second year we we actually had a

bigger venue we we spent more on the

prep and once again if I recall

correctly we lost a little bit of money

right yeah but it was a lot of fun so

you're number three okay that's what

we're on this year we threw out the goal

of making money cuz we were just like

the reason we keep doing this is because

it's a total blast cuz clearly the

making money part is not working so

let's just blow all the money so our

budget for LTX this year is somewhere in

the neighborhood of about a quarter

million dollars and you know what if we

make it back spectacular but if we don't

the idea is that what LTX has kind of

become whether by on purpose or by

accident is just like a giant

get-together for not just Linus tech tip

staff and fans but last year was the

year that it really like changed and it

became oh well hold on a second well now

there's other like tech personalities

there Steve from gamers Nexus showed up

James $0.02 showed up

showed up Barney Cleese showed up Bob

and rod from BS mods showed up all of a

sudden we had like this

Barney of way yeah there's a crew that

was there and it was really cool not

just for us because some of the other

like influencers and tech personalities

that they showed up they were like I was

blown away by how many people at L you

know the else for Linus I guess at LTX

we're like here to see me

and just like swarming me so we're like

okay okay no no this is this is good

this is different so this year it's all

about just throwing a gigantic bash with

cool stuff to do great stuff to see

hopefully a lot of cool influencers are

showing up is there anyone that has

confirmed to the point where we can say

they'll be there I mean I was just gonna

kind of go through the list of people

that we've like actively reached out to

I don't think like people have you know

all of these people who expressed

interest in coming we don't have people

hundred percent booked the last thing we

want to do is say so and so I was gonna

be there then they're not there yeah

these are super busy people their

schedules can change absolutely at the

last possible minute and we totally get

it but there's the list that I have do

we want do we want to say who is who has

expressed interest at the very least or

who we've actively like start Odin

let's put it that way these are people

that we have talked to about Cummings

yep we're not gonna put any words in

their mouths they're gonna be like what

all right so Jake Jays two cents Steve

gamers Nexus Barnack Lee's a postbox I'm

sorry I don't know how to pronounce aqua

CooCoo

how do I pronounce your YouTube channel

I'm sorry I'm probably Ruta lysing that

tech deals hardware connects low spec

gamer Staci Roy I just seen Wendell

level one Tech's Austin Evans Kyle from

bit Lal I don't know if we've Rebecca I

don't know worries anyway anyway also if

there's anybody else that you guys want

to see it LTX make sure to hit them up

on Twitter Facebook wherever and get

them to contact us and they should they

should come hang out cuz it's gonna be

it see me a lot of fun so as part of the

whole just like you know what it's gonna

be expensive but who cares we're just

throwing like a party

we have agreed for a lot of like

influencers and personalities to help

what I'm not gonna say okay I will say

this not everyone is necessarily getting

exactly the same offer like if there's

someone that has like 50 million

subscribers like if PewDiePie was like

yeah I want to show up at LTX like dude

flight hotel you want to bring a crew

like like well we'll do what we can to

make it happen you're inviting PewDiePie

what we if PewDiePie showed up I'd be

pretty stupid

yeah yeah I'd love to meet him

not a huge fan of the content

necessarily but I that's fine yeah I'd

be PewDiePie right anyway so the point

is like we are we're doing we're not

gonna pay people to show up people are

only gonna come to LTX

if they like want to be there but we're

definitely trying to help people out to

make it possible for them to be here

especially some of the smaller channels

that the I like paying for a flight in a

hotel is just not you know feasible on

top of taking three to four days out of

their busy schedule to come to an event

like this so we are we are we are we are

like dumping dumping moolah into making

this thing as awesome as we can make it

yeah we're really trying to bring the

community together we're trying to get

everybody to experience tech hardware

like firsthand obviously we got the

Dreamhack partnership which is which is

huge ice gaming PC gaming you know

what's really I I have actually had like

so I used to be somewhat involved in the

Vancouver like LAN gaming scene you know

I used to go to the old Kaplan's that

were just in like a student utility room

at half college yeah

Vancouver I went to a couple of those

Lower Mainland was like I think that was

like an effort to rejuvenate it or maybe

land Coover was the effort to rejuvenate

it Lower Mainland was the old one

I don't remember anyway like I used to

attend these things and the whole scene

just kind of died it fizzled out no one

had the passion to bring land gaming to

Vancouver and no event ever really got

the kind of momentum that

PDX land or like Fraga Palooza over in

edmonton god and and we just kind of

gave up and you know what's really cool

is that i've been out of the scene for

like eight or nine years at this point

like i haven't attended a land party in

that long but there's still guys that

are still doing like small grassroots

tile lands and over the last couple of

months since we announced LTX whiffle

and party people like hey partner with

dreamhack people have been crawling out

of the woodwork that i haven't talked to

in nearly a decade like man this is

great

you guys were perfectly positioned to do

this I was just waiting for you guys to

pull the freaking trigger and the

partnership with Dreamhack unreal match

made in heaven so stoked imma be there

thanks Dreamhack and like these are

people that like to put it in to put it

in perspective these guys are like on my

Steam friends list or whatever which I

literally haven't looked at in years

because they've got filled with like

span invites and stuff and I was just I

got forget it so I like never sign into

it but these are people that I was like

buddies with before I ever uploaded a

YouTube video like these are just people

who like og holy crap

hey dude you know haven't talked to him

forever but like guess I'm coming to

your event like haha famous guy like

they're just like like buds like there's

one guy that I just hung around in like

the they converted their garage it's

like they they insulated it ran some

power over there and converted into like

a gaming no seems like that's what I was

in school like I'm so exciting to just

see the Vancouver land community again

and of course there's gonna be a lot of

people coming from as far as all over

North America and even overseas we've

had people show up from literally the

other side of the globe at previous LT

X's so yeah we're gonna be offering a

reward I think I think we're gonna do

like just random Awards like little like

little things on the main stage and

it'll be like whoever has flown out here

from the car that about to get surprised

oh I just ruined the surprise

there'll be there will be something to

be lots of stuff like that there will be

some weird prizes and one of them will

probably be whoever

has proof of address for the location

that is farthest according to Google

Maps from the Vancouver Convention

Center I'm expecting it to be like it's

literally draw a line through the center

of the earth and like something's right

there yeah yeah yeah hundred percent

yeah

yeah no it's gonna be sick

so Dreamhack I'm just gonna go over kind

of what Dreamhack is doing with us so

obviously as we've mentioned multiple

times we're parting with Dreamhack so

we're gonna be offering a 500 PC BYOC

100 PC free play area and an indie zone

so those who will be those who purchase

would be yoc ticket will be sent an

email for you to choose your seats at

like a later time so if you buy your

ticket now don't worry like oh like me

and a friend bought a ticket do we get

to sit next to each other like they will

send an email oh and you guys can select

your seats so BYOC ticket holders will

be provided with a table space chair

Ethernet port and two power sockets you

must provide everything else for the PC

setup so tower monitor peripherals

cables no speakers allowed so just

headphones obviously big crowded space

you got your boombox LAN party at your

yeah yeah exactly

um as we've already mentioned the BYOC

be open all night between the Saturday

and Sunday so you won't be kicked out

that's so cool they'll be hosting get

casual gaming casual tournaments for

small prizes and trophies games are TBA

obviously like as we get close to the

damn sure we'll figure that out or even

at the event it might just be yeah this

might end up being kind of ran I haven't

been to a dreamhack DLC so I'm pretty

stoked me neither yeah like I am super

stoked you can't sleep at the venue

don't don't sleep at the venue okay

please guys you can stay there in game

oh yeah just like pass out yeah you

can't just like yeah hold on this is a

you can take a nap on your keyboard

really you just can't lay on the floor

chair so you give us like prop yourself

up at your gaming station you'll be okay

Wow yeah hold on a sec side yeah you

could get like what like a bag you know

and you just unplug your keyboard so

it's not gonna like mash it but you just

you push your monitor back a little bit

you take that thing you put it right on

your desk and you just go like this boom

you just everyone's just we should kind

of defeats the purpose

we should make that product the land

sleeper the landslide the land sleeper

it's just a beanbag small beanbag and

you just you just face you just yeah

office workers plane I'd use that in the

plane screw the neck pillow try the neck

pillow sucks sucks is terrible no no

okay geez item safety yeah yeah okay so

the BYOC will be badge restricted so

obviously have to have a PFC badge to

get in yeah

Dreamhack won't be registering your

equipment so keep an eye on your own

stuff make friends of your neighbor keep

an eye on their stuff yeah

they have never had a tower stolen only

small things like wallets and phones so

just don't leave small stuff out

obviously if you're walking away if you

want to go to LTX for a bit you want to

leave come back just grab all your small

stuff and go and then come back so heck

yeah

all right free play free play so that

will be the free play area will have a

hundred pcs with all peripherals

included so you can just walk up in-game

each will have a steam account with

about 50 games installed sit down play

whatever you want for 45 minutes at a

time when your time is up you can jump

right back in line as many times as you

want so that's just to keep the things

moving in case it fills up and people

are waiting constantly they're also

gonna be running a stream zone so eight

powerful PC stations set up so you can

stream directly from the show floor

applications will be released next week

actually I think you can actually sign

up the applications are in the video

description okay preference given to

people who have like larger presences on

Twitch for example for these streams

though I think yes I don't know exactly

how they do it but I don't know exactly

how they do it but like you know I would

assume so I wonder if all I want to save

a spot for me Cal tain you stations will

be a few stations will be reserved for

walk up learn how to stream sessions so

that's really cool so if you've always

been interested in learning how to

stream there will be a few stations for

you to walk up and somebody will be

there to actually teach you how to set

up and do a stream which is really cool

so because I find streaming can be hard

to get into if you've never done

anything like it Thomas says me and my

friends are all bought and ready to come

out to us from New York yeah yeah and I

guess the biggest thing that'd be while

seeing like we obviously can't guarantee

this because we'll be working all day

during the day and all day the day after

but I know me myself I'm gonna be the

BYOC and I'm sure lots of other element

so we get to hang out with

as well so Daniels fishing says in the

10-year live stream you and Yvonne

explained why you can't just like

constantly do meetups says made sense to

him so the trip tailed TX is booked he's

coming to the official need up good

stuff tickets bought excitements real

nice what's the picture with his

daughter sure I mean that is what it's

all about

like I I don't plan to hide away in fact

LTX has been like the most exhausting

day of the year for the last two years

in a row like in a really fun like

fulfilling amazing way but like really

tiring it's I'm lucky if I managed to

find time to take a couple bites of food

which it's a two day event this year so

I might allow myself to take a lunch

break but we have more time we're being

a lot more organized - yeah setup and

stuff so I think you'll mean a lot

better so I want to be I want to be out

there like I've had people walk up to me

adults he acts like hey do you mind if I

take a picture like yeah dog get your

phone out do it do it like oh my gosh

he's just like he is in the videos yes I

was expecting this yeah I mean that's

the whole point of the event right yes

and I think that's one thing that we did

better in 2018 but we need to improve on

is having more volunteers to help out

with the booths themselves so the lmg

folk can hang out mingle and like play

games so like if you're not much of a

Linus fan cuz he's like a jerk to his

staff or whatever hang out with Steve

hang out with Alex or whatever get a

picture get them signed stuff like it's

cool yeah do we want to talk about some

of the booths that we're gonna have

there we can talk about some of the

booths yep okay do you want to do our

booths first or do you want to do I

didn't write down all the booths

actually well I had brands that we've

same thing as the creator list brands

that we reached out to who are

interested in coming to have been

hundred percent confirmed so I'm just

gonna run through the list apologies

everybody's watching and I miss your

name okay you can just send me an email

and yell at me later okay so MSI

verdaguer razer gigabyte logitech Leon

Lee LG g.skill Sennheiser iBUYPOWER

alpha cool rock at so tech Mossback

madrenas mass drop and I'm sure there's

more than we're missing I can already

think of a couple seriously I didn't

like half of these yeah I mean these are

people that were in talks with and who

are interested

helping with the event in some way

doesn't mean that they're necessary have

a booth but they are interested in

partnering with us for part of the event

so it should be cool so some of these

though will just be to help us set up

our own booth so some of them are gonna

be things like the CPU D Living booth

where you can learn how to delete a CPU

that was way more popular last year than

we thought the VR booth Alex super

stoked on the VR booth so last year we

had I think three headsets yeah this

year the goal is a dozen if I think it

dozen but then we also have other VR

experiences too so I know right now you

guys are working on the VR RC car thing

yes we're trying to do and we're also

partnering with escape VR so we're gonna

be doing like a six person yeah our

escape room which is pretty cool if you

come with your friends or if you meet

people at the show or whatever you want

to go try and do a VR escape room

together we're gonna have that there

that's that's gonna be free for people

to do right yeah yeah to be clear some

stuff is gonna cost money like merch or

whatever else but we want the

experiences to be things that once you

got your ticket you're in you're doing

stuff because the tickets honestly

aren't that cheap this was an

extraordinarily expensive event to put

on between the much larger venue trying

to get creators there we actually are

we're not doing like like an elementary

school science fair style approach to

our booth design this year no we're not

we got a real company to help us this

age no I don't think it's been like a

hundred percent okay alright we're still

twice and also like productions to the

main stage we're actually gonna have two

big screens and a few remote viewing

screens for people if they're like

interested in what's going on on the

main stage while you're walking through

the LTX event so that'll be a lot better

I know in the past the stage has been

very just a little stage oops that's a

good term yeah I'll take that I'll take

that but yeah we're going legit like

we've had fun with it

but the technical details could have

been a lot yeah and then another thing

that we're doing is if you can't make it

so just to be clear this is millage it

if you can make it make it but if you

can't we will be live-streaming parts of

the event we haven't figured out exactly

what the schedule is going to be yeah

but we will be live-streaming a

floatplane so if you're a floatplane

member

don't know what to call it yeah cuz we

were gonna call it Virtual Ticket there

was some discussion about this virtual

ticket includes like oh yeah you've got

behind the scenes this and you've got

that and you've got every single panel

and every honestly where we're doing our

best but we think it's very unlikely

we're gonna be organized enough to put

together like a gigantic package like

that so it's gonna include some key

panels it'll include

if we can pull off like a wireless

streaming thing it'll include like a

walkthrough of the floor you know just

kind of some-some men in the crowd or

lady in the crowd is it were just like

watching things going on but it's not

gonna be the whole experience but it's

also not gonna cost that much it's gonna

be included for anyone who has a

floatplane subscription so a floatplane

subscription will probably by that time

be five dollars a month it's three right

now so if you're into saving two dollars

a month and you care at all about early

access to Linus tech tips content and

that's cool I haven't talked to Luke

about the technical nitty-gritty of

getting this working but I would love

for it to be available to anyone who is

subscribed to any creator on floatplane

who is there

so there's already someone that we're in

talks with about being there Kyle who is

on flow plane also tech deals actually

for that matter so the idea is that

while it's not going to be a

full-fledged Virtual Ticket experience

it will be something and it will be a

lot cheaper than getting in a plane and

going to LTX so there you go that says

that's as firm as we have it the good

news though is like guys even though

there's a lot of stuff that's still

moving parts right now we are still four

months away from this event and we

actually have time to to get the stuff

together like honestly four months from

the event we were still at the lake I

think we hadn't even and I think the

first year and we have announced the

event what booths are we gonna have you

had no idea whereas we actually have for

better for worse you know concept art of

all of the booths in fact we have some

renders now don't we

I don't have any renders that I can

share right now okay and they're like

not they're not great renders we're

gonna get real renders and pay for plans

and stuff like that so that'll be good

so there's gonna be lots more details

coming but what I would

is that okay you know what I'll let you

talk about the urgency of buying tickets

you're just you didn't want me to say

certain stuff so I'm just gonna check

what urgency if I okay if you are coming

LTX just buy your ticket right now so we

are doing tiered ticket pricing this

year so that means if you don't buy your

ticket now and you wait like I'm there

I'll be tears if you wait six weeks I

think tears yeah they'll be tears yeah

like exactly it will be more expensive

yeah essentially assuming that are we so

are we holding in reserve some tickets

for the future cuz I know some stuff is

outright sold out already yes like VIP

is possibly VIPs out VIPs VIP sold out

my two minutes it's done yeah yeah but

sorry about that anyone who was waiting

for the stream instead of where did we

even announce the tickets we're going on

so how did that social fast social we

did all the social yeah great okay so

basically tickets will be more expensive

the longer you wait okay that's all we

can save there you go

yes essentially you're coming oh my god

ticket also another thing too is that we

need volunteers for the event so if

you're interested in volunteering

there's a forum down in the video

description as well so fill that out

we'll probably be going through it

through it in March so we will follow up

and yeah we need definitely need a lot

more volunteers this year to make this

happen okay so on both the LTX and

Dreamhack side so okay yeah cool wasn't

me sick is that it I mean that's all

there is to say I mean we can get into

like the nitty-gritty like details like

like the exact booths and stuff but I

think it's changing quite a bit I mean

okay ten years of PCs that's gonna be

pretty cool display that we're gonna

have mainstage I mean we're gonna be

doing LAN show we're gonna push the win

show to a Saturday so if people want to

see what the windshields like IRL I

wonder if we'll be late I wonder if we

schedule for five it will probably be

late yeah exactly

we've done when show IRL once before

haven't we we did it the first meetup I

think that's right I'm just like four

years ago that was the week that I got

hired that's like the whole thing with

out with LTX is like I got hired in

August of 2015

I think and it was the day we moved to

this new office and I remember you guys

be like here we have a little Meetup and

then the Friday came I started on the

Monday at the Friday came I think 500

people show up in the people yeah the

parking lot people see like my name on a

nametag we were like can I get your

signature I was like you don't know who

I am they're like I don't care it was

really cool though it was awesome to see

everybody here so I mean that's kind of

where it started I guess there's just no

way we know ever do it here again no

like and this was around the time that

Ellen G moved in so our neighbors were

like parking lots just full of people

because we couldn't let them all into

the building for obvious security

reasons like it was such a hot day it

was very very poorly organized it was it

was and that's why this is gonna be a

lot better in four years so learned a

lot there we go exactly but I'm just

gonna see if there's any any like

questions in the chat yeah for sure if

you guys have any questions feel free

maybe even a tweet us if you go at Linus

tech I'm talking what's up

Oh tours are also so that's another

thing to the office to wrist thing I

know that's it's actually completely

separate from LTX but every year that we

have LTX people like oh man can I like

come by the office and like have a tour

and it's like we're not really equipped

for that so this is the one time of year

where if you have an office to her

ticket somebody is going to be here

they're going to guide you through the

office it'll be very organized we can

get more people through the building

without crowding things up and hopefully

completely dismantling all the videos

and stuff that I'm sure we'll need to do

but everyone will be here so if you do

have a ticket you'll get to see kind of

the whole shebang so and hopefully the

Landsteiner will be done by then so you

can take a look at the land center I've

been really cool it'll be done yeah the

Lanson will be done by then oh yeah

well we're just waiting on CPUs right

now basically there we go cool so people

are asking about volunteers how does

that work do they get a free ticket or

what so we're still trying to figure out

the compensation things there's some

like legality things that we're trying

to figure out for volunteers here in

Canada but you will get something so

that will be predetermined it's not like

you'll volunteer and then we'll figure

it out that is part of when I it'll

probably be me follow up with the

volunteers that fill out the form below

we will figure that

before anything so yeah the volunteer

form is restricted at the moment

oh it's restricted that's cool I wish I

could fix that right now Matthew Denton

asks how are we receiving shirts and

lanyards shirts and lanyards yes that'll

be out there that'll be out the event

yeah so there will be a check in there

will be a check-in where you'll go and

you'll pick up your bag I'll be very

clearly marked to flow when you come

into the event of where to go to pick up

the different things so right I was

gonna check Twitter ok tronic asks is

there an ultra membership for full plane

where I can watch all the channels there

no sorry no I can explain in more detail

some other time actually flow plane is

getting pretty close to having like a

launch video like this I mean I

shouldn't say pretty close Luke's gonna

freak out if I use that word but it will

happen eventually and we will explain

how flow plane works everyone's just

inviting pewdiepie Delta XS all their

Twitter feed is right now lots of

questions about volunteers guys guys

will will fix that right after this if

you're interested in it go fill out the

form which will fix right after the

stream and then we will get you guys all

the details perfect

all right cool oh yeah how much your

tickets right now how much your tickets

tickets are did you did you do do do I

just want to make sure I'm actually

correct here okay so for a Saturday one

day pass is thirty bucks that's us

Sunday past 30 bucks two day pass is $50

a b-y-o-see pass which includes a two

day admission LTX is $80 and then the

these are lower than they're gonna be

where's the merch where's the merch one

oh it's an add-on

I think the merch pack is $30 don't

quote like 90% sure on that so you get a

shirt with that you get a lanyard in a

pin I believe so dynami asks will there

be an option for people with VR to join

in with a VR stream I don't want to

promise anything like that right now

interesting yeah we'll see yeah

mr. Pokemon says just bought a

floatplane subscription sweet Adam says

VIPs tickets hold on to minutes yeah we

know like yeah it's one of those things

we're like honestly the only way for us

to keep VI pick VIP tickets from selling

out in a couple of minutes because it's

happened every time would be to charge

like five thousand dollars for them but

that's that stupid seems like then we're

just Skrillex

yeah cuz part of the thing is like this

is all we can do

yeah and we don't want to open up more

tickets because then you're not VIP yes

then you're just at the event in a big

group yeah exactly

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discourse sorry I have one more question

yeah what's up

if tickets sell out yes in this wave yes

is it gonna show like sold out or is it

gonna say come back later it'll show

that it'll show sold out like all the

tours already say sold out so yeah okay

so you're good but then if people see

sold out in like a week or two from now

yeah they shouldn't panic they should

just wait for the next wave essentially

yes okay okay well we just will we just

open up the next wave early what's

Johnno saying over there well okay yeah

and the number of tickets yeah we will

cross that bridge when we get there okay

all right okay bye guys bye bye