[TLN NEWS] A Long Incredible Run Indeed

[heuer89]

Discuss this article (http://thelannetwork.com/news/article/75) here.

I would personally like to thank all of you for being a part of this community. Also a thank you to all the pro players and coaches who made these LANs entertaining to watch. And most of all, a thank you to the Pennachio family. Since the site's inception I have loved every minute of it and for the last year you have made my experience with MLG something I will never forget. You have been an inspiration to me and I only wish there was I way I would show my thanks for everything you have done.

--Heuer

[Itz McFluffy]

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[whatnow1227]

wooooow no I lovE TLN

[Araneatrox]

So long and thanks for all the Fish. I guess i will move on from Halo now. Nothing else keeping me in the scene when Reach is such an unmitigated disaster.

[Hylian]

Sad to hear, but it was great while it lasted.
Thanks Mr. P and your family for everything!

[Cyren]

I guess all those bashing the MLG forums have to come back...awkward.

[Itz McFluffy]

WEll aparently they are getting rid of bloom. so who knows what will happen with Reach. Starcraft and Lol anyone?

[ShuTDowNizHyped]

Sad, Sad day. That's some real disappointing news.
It was a great run and was something truly awesome.
Thanks P's.

[WiFFXI]

Fuck well i guess this isn't a good time to announce I'm back in the community. This was the best site ever and I want to thank everyone involved as well as the community for the awesome time spent here.

And I know Mr. P doesn't announce things often, but if there was only one thing he could announce, don't you think this would be it?

[Araneatrox]

WEll aparently they are getting rid of bloom. so who knows what will happen with Reach. Starcraft and Lol anyone?

Indeed, i still play Sc2 and LoL. I think everyone here has my Details so they can get in contact if they want

[Borracho400]

Thank you very much TLN, Mr P, Mrs P, Totz, and everyone involved with TLN. Without you all all of the fun LANs wouldn't have been possible nor the PvJ's. Also, without you I wouldn't even have been able to attend one yet alone meet all of you and create some very fond memories. Thank you once again and I wish you the best of luck in whatever you desire to do in the future. The community can not thank you enough!

[TechSlayer]

T_T adios to the awesome peeps I met on here and kept coming back. <3 Thanks for everything, it was fun while it lasted. :'[

[itwuzmagik]

If i could fund this site i really would i will miss this place so much you all have no idea i love this site and the community it harbors. Thanks for all the memories and good times and all the friends that i have made from this site i'll never forget it. Its been an awesome time and i hate seeing it go. Thanks for giving me the chance to write for your site Mr.P you really have no clue how much you've done for the MLG community and I wish they realized that. I wish the best of luck to you and your family and especially Totz at all his future events.
With Love, Magik

P.S. I think i almost cried over this :(

[shrEd Gein]

This is very unfortunate. But it has been a fun ride for sure. Met tons of great people through this site. Had a blast out in Chicago at the Gaming House. If anything this site set the bar for future streams and team/gaming houses to come. Hopefully everything can come full circle and I will see you guys in ToTz's stream while he practices with his squad, and just like the old days we can all chat about how awesome it is we get a glimpse into the pro players lives. Huge shout out to the entire P family.

Love you guys,
--<3 Brian

[MidKnight]

First off, this site got me sorta "noticed" made good friends, people came up to me at events, and got to know a whole lot of you guys! From Bring The Rain to me joining Team 5K, it has been such an adventure! This is a place where people like Shelly, Coby2Fast, Magik, ect got their shine! Some of my good friends went to TLN for PvJ such as coby & distopia. Sucks that its all ending tomorrow but id like to say thanks for all your support, and it means alot! I'll miss all of you guys, and it was such a great rollercoaster ride! ADD ME ON XBL! Hopefully we can all still play together as a community and keep in touch with everyone! Thankyou Mr.P for making this site we love so much possible! Sad to see it go, hope all teams get great practice hopefully someplace else, hopefully a TLN v2 if thats possible! Thanks Totz and the P Family for helping all these pros perform well and get great practice at the LAN! <3

PeaceLove&TLN
- MidKNIGHT

Twitter.com/DerickSyA
XBL : MLDKNLGHT

[Phrackture]

Goodbye TLN, this was a long time coming IMO (the site not being profitable and what not).

[Jewjitsu]

definitely a sad day for die hard halo fans. the lans were great for pros and the community, and they will surely be missed. good luck to the P family, and thanks for the great times.

[aX goes ham]

R.i.p tln

[TheOutlaw]

Its been a lot of fun. Thank you everyone especially Mr. P, Totz, and the rest of the Pennachio family.

[rasha fasha]

I'm sure going to miss the days of Lansnow and all the hours I spent watching the stream all the way from Instinct w/ Neighbor to 60-6, Towey Juggling the list goes on and on. I wish the best to everyone I met on the site and hope we all find eachother on the other streams because I met some pretty sick people in my year and a half on this site.

Add me on xbl anyone, Life is Rafa

Rasha

[Gazro]

This is sad to see. It's been a dream of mine for awhile to go to a PvJ.

[D Moralize]

I know I am not alone when I say I'm sad to see this go, I would like to thank the Pennachio family for pouring so much time and resources into the site we all loved for so long, hopefully you will look back on TLN with fondness like we will and not with regret. I would also like to personally thank all of the others who invested our time into this site like and helped ease the burden off of the P's. Not seeing the Lans before events will take getting used to, but like it has been said a million times before everyone and their mom streams now, so that is not what I think I will miss most, What I will miss most is you guys. As we lose our most common connection to each other it is inevitable that the majority of us will fall out of contact, so to you guys out playing Sc2 or Lol, or Street Fighter or Marvel, or the ones who will stick it out with Halo, thank you too, in my eyes you were all a piece of what made this site special and If I don't talk to you again I wish you all the best of luck in the real world.

[DeeLuv]

I was a fairly late joiner to the party here, and regret not ever being able to get up to Chicago to attend a Pros vs. Joes. Quite frankly I wanted to get my skill level to the point where I could legitimately contribute to whatever pro picked me up and not be an anchor. Simply put, I wanted to impress when I did get up there. I guess I ran out of time. :(

I guess the writing was on the wall here, with the site not being updated for a while - the July 24-27 LAN was still being promoted - and people asking left and right to drop their memberships. I never did, and never was going to, as I wanted to do whatever I could to promote the site on Twitter, word of mouth, or any other medium. This was a good thing, and an incredible venture by Mr. P done out of love for Halo and his son's professional career in that game. So many pros started streaming on Justin.tv and Twitch.tv that it made TLN lose its biggest draw, the ability to watch pro players play live outside of MLG tournaments. Now, you can watch many pros play for free on their stream every single night. Once that started happening it made TLN a hard sell unfortunately, as much as I encouraged people I knew to check it out.

So sad this is going away, but Totz is still very much involved on the pro circuit, will be putting up his own stream, and this by no means is the end of the "P"s in the Halo scene. Long live Halo and The Lan Network!

[religiousTerrorism]

It was a fun time,and it's sad too see such a great site go im gonna miss this site.
Thank you Mrs.P and Mr.P for the great time.<3

If anyone wants too play some Starcraft here is my Email.

[email protected]

Im gonna miss all you guy's.<3

I think im gonna cry.

[shrEd Gein]

*waiting for BradSears's to write his epic tribute to TLN....* Yeah thats right buddy, I'm putting you on the spot lol.

[Toomuchmooin]

I'm sad to see this go I really liked this community a lot. Thanks to the P's and I'm still always gonna root for Totz. If a new good community comes up please tell me, and maybe if you want to game, but I'm usually gaming with other friends. GT- Toomuchmooin

[Americ4n Psych0]

R.i.p. Tln

[Vox]

Sad day...The Pennacchio family is amazing...PvJ was a fantastic experience...thank you and God bless...

[Morgan]

I had a great time here at TLN. So many great memories. Thanks to the Pennacchio family for EVERYTHING. I love you guys and everyone I met here!!

Add me on xbl if you want! <3 you guys :D
My gt is: i Morgxn

[TLN Darkside]

I blame the Bloom in Reach for this. LOL J/K Anyway, thanks for all that Mr. P and his family have done for the MLG Community. You will be missed. Now time to play some LoL.

[Briimstone]

So sad to see it go...thank you Mr. P for everything you have done for this wonderful community. I will miss every experience I've ever had here. Soo...EVERYONE ADD ME ON XBOX.

GT: Briimstone

Much love
<3

[Haced]

Blown. Good run TLN. Hope to see your return!

[H3NRI3]

Thanks TLN for everything <3 the P's you guys rock!

[bradsears]

I took this one in the heart. I'll have to recover a little before addressing this.
*waiting for BradSears's to write his epic tribute to TLN....* Yeah thats right buddy, I'm putting you on the spot lol.

[Panda]

This is a sad day indeed ): It was really fun while it lasted. This has been the only forum I have felt the need to stick with. Goodbye everyone ):

[DaMuSiCFiEnD]

There's no easy way to put this. But I will miss everyone and loved the community. Happy I was able to make it to a P v J. Thanks to the whole P family for every thing.

[Antidote]

It's been an honor and a pleasure to meet you fine folk, and trolls. See you online and around other forums....or whatever the hell I've added you all on already.

P.S. Not going back to the MLG forums.

It's like transitioning from a card board box to a 5 Star Hotel. I'm not going back to the dung heap that is those forums. So if anyone wishes to keep in contact, well you've already done so.

[SullyVan]

It was an honor meeting you all! anyone wanna add me to keep in touch please do so GT: SuLLyy Van i will not be joining the MLG Forums not again lol. ill lurk but u wont see me posting much. hopefully TLN comes back one day

[HavkinKnight]

wow... this cant be happening...

Well... TLN this has been an pure and awesome run full of amazing moments and joy... to the Whole P family thank you deeply from the bottom of my heart you have provided a lifetime of memories and friendships i can never forget... im very sad to see this go and im deeply bummed that it cant work out. i wish the best you guys.

to the TLN family and TLNC. Thank you for everything you are wonderful people with a great range of epicness i wish the best in all that you guys do and hope to cross paths with you in the coming years. lets go out with our heads held high and with pride! we were the best around!

GOODBYE TLN you will be missed everyday

-HavkinKnight

[Phoenix]

let me just say i saw this coming! no offense to anyone at TLN but the people that ran everything made some very bad business decisions in the past! i dident think the people that paid for memberships were getting treated unfairly! dont get me wrong i supported TLN when they first started when everyone else was saying how terrible it was! Everything was amazing about it at first....then its allmost like they got lazy! peace TLN....good times..goodtimes

[N!TRO]

Goodbye TLN! if anyone wants to send me a f/r its in the sig

peace out

[DYNASTYBLUE2]

this sucks tln is no more im really gonna miss it alot big sad face

[MichaelMongrel]

I don't know what to say. I guess no more gaming related forums for me. MLG forums went to the dumps, and now this one is disappearing.

[Solidities]

If it's money issues which I didn't see described here but which I've heard, Mr. P. should have tried to find sponsors and people to try and subsidize the costs. It's a pretty unique experience that a decent amount of people were into but I think with maybe a little better identity and marketing with sponsors and such it could have been structured better. Unfortunate end but something similar will probably sprout up eventually. Learn from mistakes. Good job good community.

[Waterboy7]

I will miss all the Lans and everything TLN stood for.

Good-Bye TLN

much love UNSC Waterboy aka dahwaterb0y

[KRILLIN]

Sad day indeed. Thanks for everything Mr. P.

[Gweedo888]

Agreed it was a great run and meet alot of great people good luck in everything Mr. P hope you have an amazing successful life and to my friends see yall on xbl